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A little annoyance with Buyer's Guide and its OS X installation Support

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I believe there are a lot of people out there especially beginners who would follow the Buyer's Guide on the front page when it comes to buying hardware for their first Hackintosh build. However, I don't see any walk-through or guides specifically designed for some of their recommended builds. e.g. CustoMac Socket 2011 (E-ATX).

Maybe I'm just whining here. But come on, if you see some hardware they want you to buy on the front page, you would normally expect to see their own software installation instructions there also right? or at least lots of related posts in forum. Nonetheless, I kept searching and still couldn't find posts that can solve my problems so far.

Anyway, when I eventually figure this out, I would write a step by step walk-through for installing the latest OS X for CustoMac Socket 2011 (E-ATX) from Buyer's Guide.

To be continued.
 
For any TMx86 supported configuration, the only difference from set of hardware to another is really what you end up picking in multi beast(for the most part). But it would be nice to have a "notes" page for each part, linked to in the buyers guild. Such a page could have a multi beast screen shot attached for mobos and other relevant parts. Also, I think there should be some kind of "all time buyers guide", which features parts which have been discontinued, but would still be great for a hack, that way I wouldn't have to go digging though each months guilds to see if some old part is supported
 
http://www.tonymacx86.com/mavericks...igabyte-x79-up4-3930k-gtx-690-ocz-vertex.html

http://www.tonymacx86.com/mountain-lion-desktop-guides/100560-guide-gigabyte-ga-x79-up4.html

http://www.tonymacx86.com/mavericks...tel-3930k-dual-gtx-770-samsung-ssd-256gb.html

Here are three with the same motherboard, there are user submitted guides we supply a general guide and the tools to install, not everybody is going to get the same hardware and each install is a tad different then others. If you search out the hardware you choose to use there are others here that have the same, so perhaps a comment on their thread to find out the proper steps are better suited.

You don't have to get a Gigabyte board, you can easily get an Asus set up as well. The buyer's guide is most of the stuff that has been tested and known to work in OSX with minimal effort but still needs proper understanding of what your doing to work.
 
http://www.tonymacx86.com/mavericks...igabyte-x79-up4-3930k-gtx-690-ocz-vertex.html

http://www.tonymacx86.com/mountain-lion-desktop-guides/100560-guide-gigabyte-ga-x79-up4.html

http://www.tonymacx86.com/mavericks...tel-3930k-dual-gtx-770-samsung-ssd-256gb.html

Here are three with the same motherboard, there are user submitted guides we supply a general guide and the tools to install, not everybody is going to get the same hardware and each install is a tad different then others. If you search out the hardware you choose to use there are others here that have the same, so perhaps a comment on their thread to find out the proper steps are better suited.

You don't have to get a Gigabyte board, you can easily get an Asus set up as well. The buyer's guide is most of the stuff that has been tested and known to work in OSX with minimal effort but still needs proper understanding of what your doing to work.

Thank you! I looked at those before. I'll ask my questions there.
 
http://www.tonymacx86.com/mavericks...igabyte-x79-up4-3930k-gtx-690-ocz-vertex.html

http://www.tonymacx86.com/mountain-lion-desktop-guides/100560-guide-gigabyte-ga-x79-up4.html

http://www.tonymacx86.com/mavericks...tel-3930k-dual-gtx-770-samsung-ssd-256gb.html


You don't have to get a Gigabyte board, you can easily get an Asus set up as well. The buyer's guide is most of the stuff that has been tested and known to work in OSX with minimal effort but still needs proper understanding of what your doing to work.

Hi, unfortunately these guides didn't solve my problems. Now I'm starting to think it's not my motherboard that's messing with my installation, it's my i7 4820k cpu instead... People in these guides all seem to install mavericks using Unibeast without any choppiness. My problem is that my system is very choppy. The choppiness started during the Mavericks Installation setup(Partitioning and choosing where to install on my SDD), it stayed after the installation, so basically my UI is always laggy.
 
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