Which Q77 board with DP/DVI/HDMI for 10.8.2

[Muiterz]

Hi,

I wanna upgrade to the Chaintech GA-Q77M-D2H. A Q77 chipset. I want this chipset because of the VT-D virtualisation possibilitys and the vPro and so.

I also want Dp/DVI/HDMI onboard output. So the only board is the chaintech GA-Q77M-D2H. I will use the I7 3770 processor. (not k!) and 16 gb ram, and 2 SSD (1 for hackintosh and for windows 8) and 2 tb seagate for data (both win/hackintosh)

a few questions:

- Can I enable both Radeon 6850 and the onboard IGP Intel 4000 videocard WITH DP/DVI/HDMI (so no vga, because i need the digital ports for my triple monitor setup).
- Can I run triple screen? (with the IGP AND/OR the Radeon 6850)?
- Can I use both card, lets say 2 ports of the IGP 4000 and 1 port (or even more) from the Radeon 6850? Or can I even use 6 monitor outputs?
- I used to have a Q6600 Nvidia 650 board with snow leopard, where i could use triple screen (radeon 6850). There was a lot of information about this board. The chaintech board is different, I can't find a lot of information, this sucks. Can this be a problem in the future?
- Is there a better solution for me? Other board orso?
- Does everything work with this setup? I never got sleep working for example with my old setup, but that's fixed now, what about the other options?
- Can I use parallels extreme with VT-D to emulate windows 8 native (with pass-through radeon 6850)?
- Does Digital out works for the sound?
- Same for HDMI sound (i read somewhere that it works, but after fix)

advanced questions:

- Can I use virtualisation tools like ESXi/XEN for a real hackintosh virtual VT-D setup? So let's say 1 for windows 8 with the HD 4000 card and 1 for the hackintosh setup with the radeon 6850 card. Both covering 3/3 monitor output? And 8 GB both?

Ok thats it for now. Lot of questions, hopefully I get the answers

Thanks a lot!

 

[DBP]

I wanna upgrade to the Chaintech GA-Q77M-D2H.

"Chaintech"? You mean Gigabyte? That's a Gigabyte part number.

A Q77 chipset. I want this chipset because of the VT-D virtualisation possibilitys and the vPro and so.

These things are in the CPU, not the chipset. An i7-3770 in a Z77 board would give you this (like several other people here I have VT-d working on a Z77 board - nothing motherboard-specific about it). PJALM uses it to run Windows games inside an emulator with direct GPU access.

- Can I use both card, lets say 2 ports of the IGP 4000 and 1 port (or even more) from the Radeon 6850? Or can I even use 6 monitor outputs?

Have you seen this thread?
http://www.tonymacx86.com/graphics/...d3000-hd4000-amd-nvidia-working-together.html

 

[Bimmer325Ci]

An i7-3770 in a Z77 board would give you this (like several other people here I have VT-d working on a Z77 board - nothing motherboard-specific about it).

DBP,

Are you using AppleACPIPlatform.kext from 10.8.1 to get VT-d to work under 10.8.2 with the i7-3770??? I can't use the one from 10.8.2, it kernel panics with VT-d enabled.

 

[DBP]

Are you using AppleACPIPlatform.kext from 10.8.1 to get VT-d to work under 10.8.2 with the i7-3770??? I can't use the one from 10.8.2, it kernel panics with VT-d enabled.

Yep.

Hopefully it will be cleaner with 10.8.3.

 

[Muiterz]

"Chaintech"? You mean Gigabyte? That's a Gigabyte part number.


These things are in the CPU, not the chipset. An i7-3770 in a Z77 board would give you this (like several other people here I have VT-d working on a Z77 board - nothing motherboard-specific about it). PJALM uses it to run Windows games inside an emulator with direct GPU access.


Have you seen this thread?
http://www.tonymacx86.com/graphics/...d3000-hd4000-amd-nvidia-working-together.html

You're absolutely right, too much time @pc The Gigabyte off course. VT-D is chipset dependent. It's true that it works sometimes with a Z77 board, but not all the functions work properly (VT-D will work half sometimes and so). But I orded the whole setup, yeah!

 

[DBP]

VT-D is chipset dependent.

This distinction may have got a bit blurrier in recent years with some of the chipset functions ("northbridge") being subsumed into the CPU die.

It's true that it works sometimes with a Z77 board, but not all the functions work properly (VT-D will work half sometimes and so).

The BIOS having an Enabled/Disabled switch for it should be a decent indicator, and even some Intel Z77 boards are listed as supporting it. Have you got any references to instances where some part of it fails?

 

[Bimmer325Ci]

This distinction may have got a bit blurrier in recent years with some of the chipset functions ("northbridge") being subsumed into the CPU die.


The BIOS having an Enabled/Disabled switch for it should be a decent indicator, and even some Intel Z77 boards are listed as supporting it. Have you got any references to instances where some part of it fails?

DBP,

Now that i have VT-d enabled, come to find out, the virtualization apps (VMware Fusion/Parallels Desktop) do not support VT-d, only VT-x. There are no options in either app to use it. You need to use VMWare ESXi to get VT-d. So, it looks like we don't need VT-d, there is no OS X apps that use it, unless you know one??

 

[DBP]

Now that i have VT-d enabled, come to find out, the virtualization apps (VMware Fusion/Parallels Desktop) do not support VT-d, only VT-x. There are no options in either app to use it. You need to use VMWare ESXi to get VT-d. So, it looks like we don't need VT-d, there is no OS X apps that use it, unless you know one??

It's enabled on two of my systems (including my MacBook Pro), but I haven't found a use for it yet (so far I only use it with non-OSX systems on other machines: XenServer and VMware ESXi). But user PJALM here says he uses it within OSX: I guess we need to ask how.

 

[Bimmer325Ci]

It's enabled on two of my systems (including my MacBook Pro), but I haven't found a use for it yet (so far I only use it with non-OSX systems on other machines: XenServer and VMware ESXi). But user PJALM here says he uses it within OSX: I guess we need to ask how.

I agree, we need to ask how and what App he is using. I have it enabled, but no use for it, like you said. I use ESXi at work everyday.

 

[Muiterz]

Parallels extreme does support vT-D, it's a different version.