Archive for October, 2009

ASUS P6T on 64-bit Snow Leopard 10.6

The ASUS P6T is one of the less expensive LGA 1366 motherboards at the moment. It features some cool overclocking BIOS settings, FireWire, external E-SATA onboard port, and is SLI/CrossFire-capable. SLI/CrossFire is the main difference between the P6T and the P6T SE but you could always cross flash the P6T SE into a P6T to get SLI support. I put a Core i7 920 CPU in it and populated three of the six RAM banks with 2 GB Patriot Viper DDR-3 DIMMs. This baby has OSX86 written all over it, it screams to be run on Snow Leopard :-) Read more »

DSDT DSL/AML for Gigabyte P55-UD3

Here’s the ACPI DSDT (Darwin-style) for the Gigabyte P55-UD3 Intel LGA 1156 socket mainboard revision 1.0, BIOS version F4i. I’m using it with a Lynnfield Core i7-860 CPU. Created using DSDT Patcher 1e so you may need to recompile it shortening the RTC IO block length from 4 to 2 in case you get a BIOS reset when booting into OSX86 SL (once a 10.0.x XNU kernel supporting the new CPU/stepping is out). Read more »