InfiniteMac OSx86 - View Single Post - Socket 939: Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe / Asus A8N-SLI Premium

naquaada · 06-10-2008, 10:57 AM

I have this board, it woks without problems with Leo4All V3 and the 10.5.3 Update, using an Athlon 64 3700+. At installation use the old nForce chipset driver and the forcedeth-v network driver. skge.kext ist not neccessary, it doesn't support the 2nd Marvell network connector. If you want to update to 10.5.3 with Zephyroth's Updater, backup the 10.5.2 kexts because mostly graphic cards won't work with the 10.5.3 drivers.

BTW: If you don't have the board yet, I wouldn't recommend it. It has a 9 seconds boot pause every time and the overclocking features are rather bad. If you want to have a real good Socket 939 board, buy the Asus A8N-SLI Premium. This board is also fully compatible, to OS X, I installed a 10.5.3 system on the Premium and ported it to the A8N-32SLI and this worked. Try to get board revision 1.04G, it can be better overclocked than the older version 1.02. If you need a smaller board, try the Asus A8N-E FM/S. It's a well-equipped microATX board with 2x IDE, 4x SATA2, 6x USB 2.0, 2x Firewire, PCI-E 16x and 3x PCI. It's the only nForce 4 microATX-board what I found (at least from Asus). The LAN chip is the Realtek 8201CL from which many people say it doesn't work, but it's fully working here.