Im going to try building a new AMD platform osx86 and got a really good deal on a XFX GeForce 8200 motherboard (nForce® 8200) (MI-A78S-8209). Has anyone had any experiences working with these? I have not been able to find anything with extensive searching. I have built a few intel system without issue using specific parts found in some of this boards discussions. Hope someone can shed some light. Here is the mother board http://www.xfxforce.com/en-us/products/motherboards/geforce%20amdseries/GeForce%208200.aspx

Hm, difficult to say, it seems to be rather new. Onboard gfx is in the most cases not very good supported. I must say, I never heard from this manufacturer ever. The specifications aren't very well described on the web page, these are a bit better.

I actually found that it has a nForce 780A chipset, Audio is Realtek ALC 888. I'll search for more infos.

There are some Phenom threads in here, take a look there too.

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2 Opteron systems: OSx86 10.5.8, Andy's 9.8.0 kernel, Asus A8N-SLI Premium, Opteron 185 o'clocked @ 2 x 2,95 GHz (2nd system 2.6 GHz), ATI Radeon HD2600XT 256MB Dual-Monitor 2x HP L2035, 4 GB RAM, Griffin FireWave as main audio device, Marvell + nForce LAN, Asus U3S6 USB3/SATA6 card, 5,5 TB harddisk, Firewire 800 card, Apple Remote + eHome IR receiver, 2x Wacom serial graphics tablet, Canon Pixma iP4700, Logitech Internet Navigator wireless keyboard/mouse combination.

My Audio stuff: M-Audio Transit USB (default audio), M-Audio ProFire 610, M-Audio ProFire Lightbridge (34 channels) using Creamware A16 ADAT converter • MIDI: M-Audio Midiman 4x MIDI interface • Behringer Audio Mixers: Xenyx 1002, Xenyx 1002FX, Xenyx 1202FX, Eurorack UB1002FX, Eurorack MX1804FX, Eurorack MX262A • FX devices: Lexicon MPX100 DSP, Behringer DSP-1000 Virtualizer, Behringer MiniFEX 800 DSP, Behringer Multicom Pro MDX4400 compressor • RETRO: MSSIAH midi/sequencer/synthesizer cardridge for the C64 (Dual-SID), Steinberg M.S.I. MIDI Interface for C64

i have had a few XFX products and been quite pleased with them, seems like this would be a great board to couple with a black edition and run dual bios.Thanks for the help naquaada.