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Just about to purchase the board, but I've got a couple questions. Is it a relatively hands-free installation, as-in does pretty much everything work out of the box?

  • Sound? (In/Out Etc?)
  • USB?
  • Sleep? (100%?)
  • SATA (II)?
  • GMA950? (QE/CI?)
  • Internet?

Much appreciated. Just a general question too, performance-wise what would a C2D 6300 OSX86 be comparable to? G5 Dual Core 2.0Ghz?

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Just about to purchase the board, but I've got a couple questions. Is it a relatively hands-free installation, as-in does pretty much everything work out of the box?
  • Sound? (In/Out Etc?)
  • USB?
  • Sleep? (100%?)
  • SATA (II)?
  • GMA950? (QE/CI?)
  • Internet?

Much appreciated. Just a general question too, performance-wise what would a C2D 6300 OSX86 be comparable to? G5 Dual Core 2.0Ghz?

 

 

[*]Sound? (In/Out Etc?) Sound out work, haven't test in, but most likely not work.

[*]USB? working great.

[*]Sleep? (100%?) accorking to TopazBar, it works. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=27451

[*]SATA (II)? works

[*]GMA950? (QE/CI?) QE/CI works, no patch required, at least for my case.

Much appreciated. Just a general question too, performance-wise what would a C2D 6300 OSX86 be comparable to? G5 Dual Core 2.0Ghz? Xbench is about ~ 140, so i guess it should be pretty good.

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My bad. sorry, the benchmark was base on my machine. :(

 

And the NIC (8168-PCIe is not working at this moment), so you need to throw in a cheap compatible one such as realtek 8139 or 8169, I had try a few different brand and they all works without issue.

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Unfortunately, I'm not too optimistic - I just did some digging (coming from the Mac side, I don't usually see this stuff), but there's 768 MB of potential space lost - or unreachable - due to PCI, PCIe, ACPI, etc.. , mapping that the BIOS/Chipset does. There's all kinds of ways around it, but they reserve that for "high-end" chipsets.

 

Looks like I'll get - at most - 3.2 GB of usable memory out of my 4 GB that I buy. The other thing is that I'm planning on using on-board graphics - up to 192 MB - which I'm guessing further comes out of that 3.2 GB. Looks like I'll have a 3 GB Hackintosh for a while...

 

-Dan

 

32 bits systems or OSes can only reach 3.2gb, leopard will reach more GBs of ram.

 

BTW my Conroe works perfectly on my new Gigabyte ga-945p-s3 mobo, not oc yet (have a zalman CPU9500 cooler and actual temps are 25c), can anyone describe the basic oc steps? i havent done it before but i really im well versed in computers. I want to know if theres a rule like FSB PCIe and RAM speeds...

 

Thanks!

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32 bits systems or OSes can only reach 3.2gb, leopard will reach more GBs of ram.

 

BTW my Conroe works perfectly on my new Gigabyte ga-945p-s3 mobo, not oc yet (have a zalman CPU9500 cooler and actual temps are 25c), can anyone describe the basic oc steps? i havent done it before but i really im well versed in computers. I want to know if theres a rule like FSB PCIe and RAM speeds...

 

Thanks!

 

 

OK...

Set your PCI-E to a FSB of 117Mhz and your RAM to your speed of ram! Then you can go up with your CPU FSB... step by step not at one time to the max ;-) tomorrow my Pentium D 805 and the Motherboard should arrive. I will let ya know what the max. CPU speed is... :D (I hope I will get more than 2 x 4Ghz!)

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G'day.

 

Well, thanks to the help of a few forum members here I've got my ASrock 954g-DVI (Conroe 6600, 1GB generic 667 ram, 250 GB seagate SATA II, Realtek NIC) system up and running without too much bother. I had trouble with the install (Jas10.4.7) where the GUI for the setup process was seriously messed up. It seems that the culprit was the ATI drivers. I had selected them (as I imagine I'll be getting a seperate graphics card when that gets sorted) along with the GMA 900 drivers, but a reinstall without having them selected fixed that. The machine is frigging fast and though I haven't done any real serious testing (digital audio is my game) first impressions are that it's gonna bury my dual 1.8 G5.

 

I did get a fright when I was trying to migrate user stuff from my G5 via firewire (cheap VIA based 3 port card). Shortly after plugging the firewire cable in I heard a loud pop and one of the capacitors on the card had exploded. I freaked and shut everything down, removed the card and restarted both the G5 and hackintosh. No harm done it seems, and the same PCI slot works fine with the NIC in it so I'm guessing it wasn't to do with the motherboard. It was sitting right next to the AUD$500 Conroe though which was a bit of a worry.

 

Has anyone seen this happen before? I'm concerned because I really need firewire with this machine and I'll be plugging an expensive audio interface (M/H ULN-2) into it. I don't want it going up in smoke with another exploding card. Should I be worried? Perhaps I should be looking at something other than a generic FW card? Any suggestions?

 

Cheers.

 

Bill.

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mmm really strange your card explosion, no idea here, i use a cheap firewire card and everything is working perfectly, and now i have xbench after my first OC, wich is 330 FSB, i havent messed with voltages yet, and it looks pretty stable

 

Results 156.06

System Info

Xbench Version 1.3

System Version 10.4.7 (8J2135a)

Physical RAM 2048 MB

Model ADP2,1

Drive Type WDC WD3200KS-00PFB0

CPU Test 129.93

GCD Loop 311.33 16.41 Mops/sec

Floating Point Basic 149.98 3.56 Gflop/sec

vecLib FFT 92.88 3.06 Gflop/sec

Floating Point Library 98.62 17.17 Mops/sec

Thread Test 262.31

Computation 242.34 4.91 Mops/sec, 4 threads

Lock Contention 285.88 12.30 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads

Memory Test 168.48

System 165.00

Allocate 127.67 468.85 Kalloc/sec

Fill 194.97 9479.79 MB/sec

Copy 191.58 3957.02 MB/sec

Stream 172.10

Copy 160.75 3320.17 MB/sec

Scale 164.30 3394.48 MB/sec

Add 184.71 3934.77 MB/sec

Triad 181.11 3874.42 MB/sec

Quartz Graphics Test 194.56

Line 162.24 10.80 Klines/sec [50% alpha]

Rectangle 202.98 60.60 Krects/sec [50% alpha]

Circle 197.05 16.06 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]

Bezier 179.59 4.53 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]

Text 252.14 15.77 Kchars/sec

OpenGL Graphics Test 203.76

Spinning Squares 203.76 258.49 frames/sec

User Interface Test 525.37

Elements 525.37 2.41 Krefresh/sec

Disk Test 64.68

Sequential 82.17

Uncached Write 88.41 54.28 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 82.43 46.64 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 84.36 24.69 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 74.72 37.55 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Random 53.33

Uncached Write 20.78 2.20 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 130.71 41.84 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 97.26 0.69 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 111.69 20.72 MB/sec [256K blocks]

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NO! Do not reinstall! try this:

sudo -s
chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAzaliaAudio.kext
chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAzaliaAudio.kext

 

This should work at last!

 

Finally YES!!!! :( it did it! Sounds output it's now enable!!!!

 

Thank You very much for the help! Really apreciated

 

Ps: If i have to reinstall, should i back up the azalia.kext?

 

See soon!

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Fellow ASRockers,

My Pentium D 805 is running @ about 47 C and mobo is @ about low 40ish. Fan is at slow speed (quiet fan is enabled and target temp of 55 C). It never reaches the target temp at full load.

 

Is it too high? Right now it is so quiet that my silent thinking is louder - exaggeration :(.

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by the way guys, b 4 u update the bios, change your fsb back to default, i do not want to see your board in my hand with dead bios. :)

 

anyway, from the info, looks like just patched to work with 7950GX2, so not really needed if you are not using that video card.

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Could anyone measure the height of the ADD2 DVI card to the top of the PCB (not the metal thingy on the back)? I'm thinking about this board for a system in a Lian Li PC-C35 which has no room for expansion slots without some modifications. Thanks.

I would, but it is in use right now. So next best thing is post picture of it. You can get good feel for it because the metal part is standard size so...calculate (hope this help).

dvicardda9.th.png

 

BTW, the case looks like a real nice for OSX home theater project (replacement iTV).

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Fellow ASRockers,

My Pentium D 805 is running @ about 47 C and mobo is @ about low 40ish. Fan is at slow speed (quiet fan is enabled and target temp of 55 C). It never reaches the target temp at full load.

 

Is it too high? Right now it is so quiet that my silent thinking is louder - exaggeration ;).

 

47° with a pentium D is a good temperature, with a conroe it would have been too high but for a Pentium 4 D, it's less than a lot of configs i've seen.

 

Aberracus > What is exactly the chip on your Firewire card?

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My xBench!

 

Results 79.92

 

System Info

Xbench Version 1.3

System Version 10.4.7 (8J2135)

Physical RAM 1024 MB

Model ADP2,1

Drive Type Maxtor 6V250F0

CPU Test 60.51

GCD Loop 89.88 4.74 Mops/sec

Floating Point Basic 64.83 1.54 Gflop/sec

vecLib FFT 42.03 1.39 Gflop/sec

Floating Point Library 63.43 11.04 Mops/sec

Thread Test 92.73

Computation 74.98 1.52 Mops/sec, 4 threads

Lock Contention 121.50 5.23 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads

Memory Test 97.79

System 76.20

Allocate 50.86 186.78 Kalloc/sec

Fill 113.24 5506.09 MB/sec

Copy 91.91 1898.41 MB/sec

Stream 136.44

Copy 139.70 2885.53 MB/sec

Scale 139.23 2876.38 MB/sec

Add 133.99 2854.24 MB/sec

Triad 133.12 2847.66 MB/sec

Quartz Graphics Test 88.45

Line 89.45 5.96 Klines/sec [50% alpha]

Rectangle 89.58 26.74 Krects/sec [50% alpha]

Circle 86.18 7.02 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]

Bezier 90.30 2.28 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]

Text 86.90 5.44 Kchars/sec

OpenGL Graphics Test 186.39

Spinning Squares 186.39 236.45 frames/sec

User Interface Test 114.95

Elements 114.95 527.54 refresh/sec

Disk Test 104.39

Sequential 125.24

Uncached Write 152.71 93.76 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 129.55 73.30 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 100.26 29.34 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 129.89 65.28 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Random 89.49

Uncached Write 74.00 7.83 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 81.02 25.94 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 91.11 0.65 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 127.16 23.60 MB/sec [256K blocks]

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Hi everybody!

I got my new hardware yesterday. So I'm now writing a review...

 

First - my specs:

ASRock Conroe945G-DVI

Intel Pentium D 805

Sapphire Radeon X1600 512MB (with ATINDRV)

Samsung 250GB SataII HDD

WriteMaster Sata DVD-Burner

1GB DDRII RAM (I don't know the vendor)

Innovatek Basic LC - Water cooling system (with VGA cooler)

 

Second - OCing:

I tried to overclock the CPU several times, but theres no simple way to get over 144Mhz of FSB. I will try to increase the VCore (a hardware mod). That should solve the problem.

 

Third - First boot in OS X:

The boot went OK. Everything was fine, expect the audio, so I changed the deviceID setted the permissions and rebooted - now all was good... Great, board so far!

 

Fourth - xBench:

Now it was time to test the new computer... I let xBench run and what do my eyes see?! A xBench of 93.82 with the CPU @ 2,88Ghz!!! That was a great result, I think.

 

Fifth - temperature:

Hm, the temp was OK. The idle-t was at 36°C and I don't know the max temp because I don't tested it :D

 

 

If you have any question, ask me... :angel:

NeoPheus_xBench.txt

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Hi everyone, great thread! It seems that this board is probably the best low cost mac os x friendly board. I just have a couple of stupid questions that I'm hoping you guys can help with:

 

1) Infamous talked about when PCIe is set to async and even at 117mhz, other buses like PCI, ICH7, USC are NOT overclocked. Can you tell us where you found this information? This is crucial because I don't want to fry or even have corrupted HD. You can replaced a fried MB, but the data is important!

 

2) What is QE/CI ?

 

3) Do both IDE and SATA work flawlessly?

 

Thanks!

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Hi everyone, great thread! It seems that this board is probably the best low cost mac os x friendly board. I just have a couple of stupid questions that I'm hoping you guys can help with:
Yep, I took chance on this board, but it turned out to be great value.
2) What is QE/CI ?
Quartz Extreme and Core Image, the software modules that takes advantage of hardware graphics card.
3) Do both IDE and SATA work flawlessly?

 

Thanks!

I have IDE hdd, SATA hdd, and IDE(atapi) DVD drive. They all work great.

 

Hi everybody!

I got my new hardware yesterday. So I'm now writing a review...

Hi NeoPheus, Nice setup and Xbench number, welcome to the club.

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