Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3P, i5 3570k, 8gb Corsiar Vengeance RAM

citrus226's Build: Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3P - i5-3570k - HD4000​

Components


Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3P
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007R21JJ0/

Intel i5-3570K
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007SZ0E1K/

8GB Corsiar Vengeance RAM
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004QBUL1C/

OCZ 60GB Vertex Plus R2 SSD
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0085U6TBQ/

WD 1TB Caviar Blue
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0088PUEPK/

Cooler Master 500 WATT PSU
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001G0WPLK/

Cooler Master Elite 430 Mid-Tower Case
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003O8J11E/


Comments

Before the build the only knowledge of hackintosh I had was what I read on this website. I thought it would be a very cost effective way to own a "Mac" computer, plus it would be fun. Basically all I did was read the 2012 customac section of the tonymac website. I chose my motherboard, processor, and ram according to the website. All the other components I chose because I thought they were quality components for the price. The overall cost of my build was just over $600.

Installation of Mountain Lion:

What is nice about this build is that I didn't have to use the old method of installing Snow Leopard. I just was able to install Mountain Lion right away. By this time you should have made your unibeast thumb drive of Mountain Lion. Then I followed the step by step instructions for installing Mountain Lion from this guide. Make sure when you are changing the peripherals from IDE to AHCI that you keep pressing down to see more peripherals in the BIOS. There are two sections in the peripherals when you need to change IDE to AHCI so if you just did one you need to scroll down further to see the second one. After I got the operating system installed I just ran multibeast and selected the proper components. For this motherboard I selected the drivers shown on the picture






After that I just restarted my computer and everything worked fine. My mac recognizes the HD4000 graphics offered from my i5 processor and it picks up all my hard drives and RAM.

All-in-all it went pretty smoothly and it was pretty easy. If you have any questions just let me know.

do you have sound working out of the HDMI port?

Hey I have made a similar build and I can't seem to get it to boot properly. I install the chimera bootloader from multibeast, but when i reboot and choose to boot from my OS X drive, it shows an apple screen and seems to be loading. From there it goes nowhere. When i install from unibeast and boot from unibeast there is no problem. I would just like to be able to boot without my usb stick...

bwolmer,
Telepathy is not one of our attributes. Please list your system components, in particular, your motherboard, processor and graphics card/method. As per the tonymacx86 Rules and Policies, please include your three components in your signature block. By doing so, you help us help you better.

No I do not...I was looking at the guides and I just figured it wasn't worth the hassle because I have a nice set of speakers running out of the normal audio port.

bwolmer said:

Hey I have made a similar build and I can't seem to get it to boot properly. I install the chimera bootloader from multibeast, but when i reboot and choose to boot from my OS X drive, it shows an apple screen and seems to be loading. From there it goes nowhere. When i install from unibeast and boot from unibeast there is no problem. I would just like to be able to boot without my usb stick...

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Ya man you gotta tell us what you are working with. Please put up every component you are using and I will be more than willing to help.

okay well if you get a chance to try it out let me know. i want to have hdmi audio in case i wanna hook it up to my TV in the living room.

Hi

I am looking at doing a very similar build and was wondering if the 2 sata III ports on the marvell controller work in OS X?

If not I'll have to go with the B75M-D3H.

Cheers

griff02 said:

Hi

I am looking at doing a very similar build and was wondering if the 2 sata III ports on the marvell controller work in OS X?

If not I'll have to go with the B75M-D3H.

Cheers

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Yes they do. Tested with my OSX backup non-SSD SATA drive and I could boot from it. Even if it did not work, I would still have had the OSX SSD on the Intel Controller port and the Windows SSD on one of the Marvell controller ports. Chimera/Chameleon detects both anyway. But OSX seems to pick up the Marvell based ports just fine.

Screenshot showing the 2 Marvell ports detected. Interestingly enough, the Intel SATA II ports & the Intel SATAIII port show as Unknown, but are the main SATA ports. They work nontheless.

bwolmer said:

Hey I have made a similar build and I can't seem to get it to boot properly. I install the chimera bootloader from multibeast, but when i reboot and choose to boot from my OS X drive, it shows an apple screen and seems to be loading. From there it goes nowhere. When i install from unibeast and boot from unibeast there is no problem. I would just like to be able to boot without my usb stick...

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We are having the same issue using Multibeast 5.1.3

I am going to try it again with Multibeast 5.0.2

Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3P, i3 3225, 8gb Corsiar

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Did not try Multibeast 5.0.2

We had the monitor plugged into the VGA port. Switched to DVI and it works fine.