stubbz said:
... I would have preferred your motherboard! seems like enabling sound and ethernet is way easier with the asus! too bad I am stuck with the super micro for now...
Macs are now more than ever PCs. Apple has gone the extra mile to ensure that you can run Mac OSX and Windows on the same machine, i.e., they've gone a long way toward
choosing hardware that works in both environments. To build a Hack is to first build a PC. To build the fastest Hack, build the fastest PC first as your primary goal, but do so buy using components that to the maximum extent possible you could place in a Mac
and in a PC
without compatibility issues. Think like Apple, not different from them in this regard.
Just get PCI-e cards/USB attachment for audio [ low end:
http://www.atguys.com/store/index.php?m ... ucts_id=84 ; mid end [
http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywor ... 4gv18tdo_b {
http://www.head-fi.org/t/545471/usb-sou ... d-usb-work ]]; high end [ check out a music co. like
http://www.zzounds.com/cat--Audio-Interfaces--2418 ] , ethernet [
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Sonnet%2 ... GE1000LAE/ ] and any other function that you want to have (such as, but not limited to, USB 3 [
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Lacie/130977/ ], SATA 6 [
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Sonnet%2 ... ATA6PROE4/ ], PCI-e based SSDs [
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/PCIe ... lsior/RAID ], etc.) where the same card/USB attachment works both on Mac and on Windows machines. Sonnetech has ethernet cards that you can buy from OWC. OWC, or a similar Mac peripheral vender, may have an audio (or other seemingly missing feature) card that solves your problem and works on both types of machines. It'll save you time and headaches, and may even outperform what you got as stock.