[MacOS] Comprehensive Gigabyte Hardware Specification List

With the advent of Snow Leopard many users have issues installing it onto PC based hardware. Well this is not very curious, since a PC is no Mac. Anyway as Gigabyte motherboards proved to be very close to the original Apple Intel specifications many people decided to buy those boards.

With the release of Snow Leopard DSDT patching seems to have become a must. Installation attempts will most likely fail without it. The intention of this list is to provide comprehensive information on the most used Gigabyte motherboards.

The original idea for this list was by a guy called ximekon (find original list here on InsanelyMac forums ^[1]).

Model	North- bridge	South- bridge	LAN	Fire- Wire	Audio	BIOS Link	Last Check
P35
P35-DS3L	P35	ICH9	Gigabit	-,-	ALC888	F9 [2]	08/29/2009
P35-DS3	P35	ICH9	Gigabit	-,-	ALC889a	F14 [3]	08/28/2009
P35-DS3R	P35	ICH9	Gigabit	-,-	ALC889a	F13 [4]	08/28/2009
EP35
EP35-DS3	P35	ICH9	RTL8111B	-,-	ALC889a	F4 [5]	08/28/2009
EP35-DS3R	P35	ICH9R	RTL8111B	-,-	ALC889a	F4 [6]	08/28/2009
EP35-DS3P	P35	ICH9R	Gigabit	Yes	ALC889a	F6 [7]	08/28/2009
EP35-DS3L	P35	ICH9	Gigabit	-,-	ALC888	F6 [8]	08/28/2009
EP35-DS4	P35	ICH9R	RTL8111B	-,-	ALC889a	F6 [9]	08/28/2009
EP45
EP45-DS3	P45	ICH10	2 x RTL8111C	-,-	ALC889a	F9 [10]	08/28/2009
EP45-DS3R	P45	ICH10R	2 x RTL8111C	yes	ALC889a	F11c [11]	08/28/2009
EP45-DS3P	P45	ICH10R	2 x RTL8111C	yes	ALC889a	F8 [12]	08/28/2009
EP45-DS3L	P45	ICH10	RTL8111C	-,-	ALC888	F10 [13]	08/28/2009
EP45-DS3LR	P45	ICH10R	RTL8111C	-,-	ALC888	F2 [14]	08/28/2009
EP45-UD3	P45	ICH10	RTL8111C	yes	ALC889a	F8 [15]	08/28/2009
EP45-UD3P	P45	ICH10R	RTL8111C	yes	ALC889a	F9 [16]	08/28/2009
EP45-UD3L	P45	ICH10	RTL8111C	-,-	ALC888	F5c [17]	08/28/2009
EP45-UD3LR	P45	ICH10R	RTL8111C	-,-	ALC888	F5 [18]	08/28/2009
EP45-UD3R	P45	ICH10R	RTL8111C	yes	ALC889a	F9 [19]	08/28/2009

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The Golden Gigabyte Model Rules

• if last character of the model name is a “number” or a “P” (i.e. EP35-DS3 or EP45-DS3P etc.) it means ALC889a audio chipset
• if last or penultimate character of the model name is an “L” (i.e. EP35-DS3L or EP45-DS3LR) it means ALC888 audio chipset
• if last character of the model name is an “R” (i.e. P35-DS3R or EP45-UD3LR) it means SATA Raid controllers
• The P35 or P45 strings in the beginning are fairly self explaining I suppose (P35 always with ICH9 and P45 always with ICH10)

Your Help is Wanted

Weather these rules nor the list above might be 100% accurate. It is only what I found on the net and summarized from the list above.

• If you derived a DSDT.aml clean from a BIOS (like using Koalala’s DSDT patcher) and you fixed it for OSX86, you may post it in the comment’s section – don’t forget to tell how much RAM you had while compiling the DSDT.aml (Don’t add individual graphic or wi-fi strings. Just add onboard-devices like onboard-audio and onboard-ethernet.)
• If your board is not on the list check Gigabyte’s pages and post the specifications in the comments section below.
• If your board is listed but details above are wrong: please post it in the comments section below.
• If you know the LAN chipset of the board and it is not listed precisely above (saying Gigabit) please post it in the comments section.

Please always crosscheck with the official Gigabyte specification page for your model (links to your model are included in the BIOS column) before adding a dsdt.aml or anything that could burn your BIOS.