My Hackintosh Home Theater

Hey Everyone!

I set this HTPC hackintosh up a while back. It works great, currently running Mavericks.

Full Sleep working, 1080p via dvi/vga, and Full Dolby Digital & DTS via optical out to my receiver & XBMC (also full 7.2 surround sound, second sub is a yamaha small one, hidden behind the couch). Also works great with my Harmony remote. I pre-wired the room with two USB ports, One near the entryway, and one behind the couch that are plugged into the rear usb ports of the Hackintosh ( i ordered the 50 ft USB cables from ebay, came from china).

Also, I have a surveillance system which this Hackintosh can easily view and control.


These are my parts, some i had around, and some i purchased, I am late on this post, as i've had this built for a while, but only now finished the room (crown mouldings, baseboards, painting etc).

Corsair Vengeance Lp Performance Memory Modules 16 GB 2X8 GB DDR3 1600Mhz

Corsair Enthusiast TX650M ATX12V

AMD Radeon HD 6850 2GB video Card

Bitfenix Prodigy

GA-Z77N-WIFI

Sandisk extreme 120 Gb SSD

Core i3 - Haswell Processor

Belkin F8T017 Bluetooth

Infrared sensor - info taken from this post - http://www.tonymacx86.com/customization/8180-apple-ir-usb-header.html


Thanks for these amazing forums & the people on it, for helping me build this great Hackintosh!!

That's awesome! I have something somewhat similar in concept (sans surveillance stuff).

Right now I only have the HTPC itself and the specs are as follow:

Case and 400W PSU: A random crappy case that I got from my neighbor

CPU: Intel Core i5-2500k 3.3 GHz (running at stock)

GPU: ASUS NVidia GT 210 1 GB (kind of low end, sure... but it's an HTPC.. it doesn't need much)

RAM: 8GB of G.SKill RipJaw

Mobo: MSI P67 C43-b3

Storage: I have random drives I got from friends and ones that I've repurposed, ranging from 320 GB all the way up to 1TB.

OS: Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks

I run this HTPC Hackintosh as my MythTV backend system coupled with a Silicon Dust HDHomeRun Prime (along with a cable card and cable TV of course). I've used MythTV with OTA antennae before, but I kept getting annoying reception reflections/interference, so I decided to pay for cable for a direct line for all my recordings. To learn more about MythTV head on over to http://www.mythtv.org, and once you're ready to commit check out the binary-based MacPorts installer here: https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythTV_on_Mac_OS_X. The great thing about MythTV is that since it's network-based, any computer/device on your network can access the content, be it recorded or live. I really like that.

Once I have the money and the right space to use I want to get an HDTV to output to.

I'd post pics, but it's really just the computer itself as this point, but once I do make some sort of setup I'll post some. Cheers!