According to DigiTimes, AMD will introduce six 45nm AM3 CPUs in February 2009. The list of processors is as follows:

The quad-core Phenom II X4 925 and 910 with 6MB L3 Cache, the quad-core Phenom II X4 810 and 805 with 4MB L3 Cache, and the triple-core Phenom II X3 720 and 710 with 6MB L3 Cache, according to sources at motherboard makers.

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hey everyone. im new to this forum. i have successfully built a hackintosh in the past using an ASUS P4P800 Deluxe mobo with a 2.8ghz P4 CPU. I gave that mac to my sister and now I need one for myself. I don't want to spend a lot, i know that might be a problem but I great at finding bargains. the only thing i am having a hard time deciding is the motherboard. yes i did search and yes i looked at the 10.5.2 compatibility list on wiki but that doesn't help me narrow stuff down. i really dont wanna patch anything (even tho i know i might need too). i think i am gonna stick with Asus just because i believe they are designed well and i have some experience with them. does anyone have any recommendations for microatx motherboards that are Asus? i was looking at this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131288

its an ASUS P5KPL-CM LGA 775 Intel G31 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

what got me was the bus speed and the price. i pretty much know all the parts im gonna get except maybe the graphics card. i used a ATI radeon 9600xt on my old hackintosh and till this day i still cant get QE/CI enabled. i have given up (if you know a fix please point me the right direction). Anyway, im gonna get a Core2Duo to insure EFI support. Proly a 1 TB hd, dvd burner, 2 gig ram and proly an Nvidia card. i know the mobo is the crucial part of the hackintosh but i would like something cheap and that has as little patching as possible. something that works OOB would be ideal! i plan to run iAtkos on it, never really liked kalyway. anyway, any help would be appreciated.

Hi,

I have a MBP I bought in July '07, and it worked great until recently. Using it one day under normal circumstances, the screen went all fuzzy and the colors were messed up. I turned it off to reboot it, but it never make it passed the gray screen with the spinner and the apple logo. The spinner would stop, then a darker gray bar would come down from the top of the screen, then eventually it would tell me to reboot it.

I took it in to the Apple Store, and the geniuses couldn't figure out what was wrong with it. I was suggesting it was the well documented problem of the 8600GT graphics card being screwed up, but an isolated video test apparently showed that wasn't the problem. They gave up and sent it away for a flat repair fee of $310 to fix anything and everything.

They replace the motherboard, and repair the graphics card, according to my invoice. I get it back today, it worked fine in the Apple Store, I bring it home, and during the first few minutes it crashes twice. It then works fine for an hour or two, but then won't start up just like the old problem a little bit later after a restart. I leave it off for an hour or two then come back and it starts up fine (I'm typing this on it).

I'm not sure what could still be wrong with it, its a brand new motherboard, hard drive is fine (I was always able to boot the hard drive in target mode), and the graphics card has been repaired (although why did it have to be repaired if "that's not the problem"?).

I have a 90 day warranty period on the computer now because of the repair so I want to take advantage of that to get a stable running computer, as I want to keep this thing for another few years. I can't be sure whether this is going to be a recurring problem or if I should worry about it or what. I would take it back to the Apple Store but it probably would behave when they tested it knowing my luck.

Any suggestions?

Also, has anybody heard of somebody getting one of the new MBP as a replacement for an older aluminum one? That would be amazing.

Thanks in advance!

Stuart

P.S. Only upside is that they gave me a new battery with the repair. It was at 19% capacity before!

Hi all

I finally ordered a new MBP and have been reading these forums until it gets here. I have seen the laptop coolers that are basically a laptop stand with fans. Do these actually work?

Are there any laptop coolers that use something more powerful? Like liquid cooling for example? Since the new MBPs are a giant heat sink, this would probably keep it nice and cold. My concern is condensation and it may affect the battery. Also, does aluminum contract under low temperatures?

My current computer has a motherboard which has a heat sink and fan on its northbridge chip. I have noticed that during the winter, it makes noise when it starts up but gradually goes away.

This post is more about curiosity though.
Thanks

having some problems with my QX9650 setup, i have even updated the bios and still nothing, in the motherboard bios its showing 1333 fsb, and 2,99 Ghz but when i use cpuz its showing me this and have had other unusual problems with it wont display speeds correctly




motherboard is MSI P7N Platinum 750i, is this really running at 2.00 Ghz?