can you please recommend me an am2 motherboard

hellonwheels · #1 07-04-2008, 09:29 AM

hey guys,

(first of all i hope my english is good enaugh

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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

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hellonwheels · #2 07-04-2008, 10:03 AM

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

but btw are there any boards you can recommend me ?

DoiX · #3 07-04-2008, 11:21 AM

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

flip360 · #4 07-04-2008, 11:39 AM

hello, i have the MSI K9N Platinum and all works except the dual net

hope this helps

hellonwheels · #5 07-04-2008, 11:45 AM

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 · #6 07-04-2008, 11:57 AM

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 · #7 07-04-2008, 12:08 PM

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 · #8 07-04-2008, 12:16 PM

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 · #9 07-04-2008, 12:22 PM

@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 · #10 07-04-2008, 12:32 PM

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

best regards hell

- btw this board rocks ! nice users around here !