Hello everybody.

I want to build a new Hackintosh. Scince I have some experience with OSX86 I thought it would be better to ask before I go out there and buy something

First of all, what I want:

• reliability and stability
• Intel Core2Quad (all cores have to work)
• vanilla kernel
• installation with retail-DVD
• SATA with AHCI
• 2 PATA drives (HDD, DVD-Ram) (of course DMA should work)
• USB, FireWire, Sound (patches are OK here), PCIE
• PCEFI or similar
• vanilla Apple Software Updates would be nice too
• no shutdown/reboot glitches
• hibernate/sleep

My questions:

• Can anybody here say anything about the things in the list above?
• Is the GA-P35-DS4 really a zero-hassle OSX86 mobo (except from the sound)?
• Will I be able to benefit from the TPM-chip in the EP45 board?
• I am not really a hardcore gamer and I don't want to use Windows on that machine. Should I buy the EP45-DS5 because it has PCIE 2.0?

Thanks to eveybody who takes the time to give me any hints.

- mcsmart