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first time builder, will this work? any advice?

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Hi all, im planning on building my first Hackintosh within the next few weeks, heres the parts im planning on using, any advice would be greatly appreciated as i dont have too much of a clue about what im doing just wondering about the haswell CPU and the new motherboard if its all compatable / is this a good first build?. thanks to all.

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD5-TH (when its released)

CPU: Haswell i7-4770k (wil this support mavericks when its released?)

graphics: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670

Memory: Corsair Vengance Low Profile 16GB (2x8)

Cooling: Corsair H100i (240mm)

Storage: 2x sandisk extreme 128GB SSD (windows and mac boot)
1x seagate 2TB HDD barracuda

Power: Fractal Newton R3 800W smart modular

Case: Fractal Design R4
 
Will work just fine. But maybe you'll keep an eye in the forum for the best motherboard.. that will save you some work.
 
Will work just fine. But maybe you'll keep an eye in the forum for the best motherboard.. that will save you some work.

thanks, i noticed your build used the z77x ud5h board, would you recomend using this with 3770k? will it still be compatable with mavericks? was it easy to set up? and whats the performance like?

thanks again
 
...will it still be compatable with mavericks? was it easy to set up?
We haven't seen any news that says it won't be compatible with Mavericks. Apple's Ivy Bridge builds will be supported for Mt Lion, Mavericks, and whatever the next version of OS X if history is any indication. My Batman build (1st gen i3/i5/i7) runs Snow Leopard, Lion and Mountain Lion; and I expect it will run Mavericks, too. So, you'll get many years of OS X upgrades out of an Ivy Bridge system. :thumbup:
 
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