can you please recommend me an am2 motherboard

[hellonwheels]

hey guys,

(first of all i hope my english is good enaugh :) )
so thats my prolem;
a few dasy ago my old s939 mainboard broke , and now i would like to buy a new one that is highly compatibe .. or in other words will work out of the box , with zaphyre 1.5.2 release. i would like to stay at AMD , and in relation to that i was searching the last days to find such an motherboard , but wasnt able to find one.

i would like to use it with an 4800+ , 2 gig of ram , and an ati x550 (or onboard graphics) ...

it would be realy great if you could give my some advice for buying an new motherboard !

so hope to read your answers soon!

best regards

hell

Admin notice: Please do not post in the News section. Topic moved

[hellonwheels]

ohh im sorry ! i didnt want to , sorry again.

but btw are there any boards you can recommend me ?

[DoiX]

http://www.infinitemac.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=1183 read this if you haven't :)

[flip360]

hello, i have the MSI K9N Platinum and all works except the dual net :) hope this helps

[hellonwheels]

hey thank you very much for your replys !

@ DoiX hey that sounds good ! going to look after this one!

@flip360

can you please post your exact board name , and the osx version you installed , would be realy nice!

and my other questions are ; did it work out of the box ? and is this " dual net " thing important ?

would be realy nice if you can answer all my questons :)

hell

[R0GUE]

I've got an MSI K9N SLI board. All works quite well, though Audio and network required workarounds. The NFORCE chipset is a bit of a bug bear at times. Currently I can only run with 1 core for maximum stability. Personally I wouldn't buy an AMD board, I'd go for an Intel set up.

[hellonwheels]

yes you are right , intel seems to be the better choice , but its realy expensive !

my problem is that i dont exactly know which intel CPU is fast enaugh for osx ! i m not going to play hd games with my computer , so can you recommend me an cpu that is fast enaugh for "normal" use (maximum watching hdtv ) but not that expensive ?

for intel the Gigabyte GA-EP35C-DS3R, P35 (dual PC2-6400U DDR2/dual PC3-8500U DDR3) (as some of you wrote it should work out of the box) seems to be the best one , and it would cost me around 90 € . and i realy would like to buy this one , but sadly im having this problem with choosing the right CPU ,,,so it would be realy cool if you can help me with that :)


hell

[R0GUE]

Depending on your budget, pretty much any Core2Duo CPU will be fast enough for general purpose computing, though obviously the faster the clock speed the better -- the E6xx series is a good place to start. OS X is very GPU dependent, so make sure you have a good 'compatible' graphics card with plenty of vram.

[DoiX]

@hellonwheels: thats the mobo im getting on my future machine, a friend of mine has it on his hackintosh let me quote him "this mobo is so d*** cool" reguarding the cpu e4600, e7200(if overclocked it beats the e8400) or e8600

[hellonwheels]

ok thank you bothe for your answers !

ok im going to look how much this CPUs will cost me and than post the ones i would choose here.

@DoiX sorry , but were you now talking about the amd or the intel board ? sorry im a little bit confused :D


best regards hell

- btw this board rocks ! nice users around here !

[DoiX]

lol in the first post you said you want to stick to amd, but in the follwoing post you started talking about intel :) i guess you forgot what you wanted. As a former OS X AMD and future Intel user i recommend you get an intel processor, comparing an AMD with an Intel procesor: AMD is good for gaming and normal pc experience | Intel is good for processing power and games but less than AMD. Intel is the best choice for OS X not only because Apple uses Intel chips in the new Mac but because OS X is designed for processing power and for normal users.

[hellonwheels]

yes i know :D

the problem was that i was not shure which one i should prefer .. but i think i will buy the asus amd board and keep most of my components ... for the first time .. if this will not work for me i will buy an intel board.

so im back at amd :D

[LawlessPPC]

mine works a charm you need to build the install tho but its easy if you do it on usb first. click on my username for specs

[naquaada]

He already bought the Premium board.

[flip360]

well hellonwheels, sorry for my late reply i was off for a few days :)
my board is Nvidia 570 Ultra Chipset and everything works except the dual net thingy which is not useable with the forcedeth driver, so i had to by myself a cheap realtek card :) The name of the board is MSI k9N Platinum. I have zephyroths 10.5.1 installed and updated to 10.5.4 with ASU and modbin kernel 9.4.0 :)

hope this helps :)

[milanca]

Gigabyte boards are great for Intel based macs but also for AMD/am2. I have GA-MA-790X DS4 and i'm very satisfied with it.

[LawlessPPC]

I would thoroughly recommend an ironing board but not much use for OSx but the stratup times are phenomenal

[^fire^]

i have an "ASRock ALiveNF5-eSATA2+ R3.o" (Bios Rev. 2.00a)
its very fast and stable, very suggestable in my opinion!
in german that board is about 39euro!!!
Onboard Lan and Audio works OOTB