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Old 01-16-2010, 02:30 AM
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I would focus on the actual chipsets of the motherboards you are browsing. The one you are looking at has the following specs:

Northbridge: 740g
Southbridge: SB700

Audio: VIA VT1708S
Networking: RTL8112

These are what you should focus on. I would do a bit more research, personally I am not up to date on newer AMD hardware but my first step would be to gather a list of motherboards in my price range and write down their chipsets as mentioned above. Then search run searching on Google such as "site:infinitemac.com sb700" or "OSX sb700" Try the model number of your motherboard first but generally you will get more hits using the actual chipsets. Try to get some reference of usability before you buy.

You will most likely need to get a graphics card as the onboard video will probably not fetch QE/ci support.

Snow Leopard 10.6 is a bit of a problem. I have not seen a kernel capable of patching binaries on the fly as the Voodoo kernel did for 10.5. Now I may just be lazy or misinformed but Ive manually patch binaries for application and updates and it is a great deal of work If your interested in 10.5 then you should be good to go.

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