Black/White G4 Haswell Workstation

[makrja]

Succes! Hi, about half a year ago i got a Powermac G4 Graphite in terrible condition. So i got i painted in the mainstream stormtrooper look, and put a Haswell chip in it. Here are the specs, as well as a ton of pictures.

Specs:

Intel i5 4670 3.6 Ghz.
GA H87N Wifi Mini-ITX.
Corsair Vengeance LP White 8 gb 1600 mhz RAM.
Corsair CX750m PSU 80+ Bronze.
Powermac G4 Graphite.
Samsung 840 SSD 120 gb.
Toshiba 500 gb 7200rpm HDD.

Before the pictures, here are some of the things that are working, and a few that are not working.

WORKING:
10.8.5 Mountain lion is running just fine, booting in around 10-12 seconds from my 840 SSD. I also have full graphics support from the HD4600 integrated graphics. Sleep/wake are also working fine.

NOT WORKING:
Sound and wifi.

Temps:
I went to a LAN, and had the system running for 2 days on load, and it never went above 50 degrees.




If you have any questions regarding the process of fitting the components, or how i got 10.8.5 on the machine, please ask. Else, feel free to comment on how i did, and if so, what i can improve.

- Mathias

 

[pietrr]

nice

 

[makrja]

Thanks

- Mathias

 

[jmpa]

Looks great!

 

[tom.humphrey]

Hi,

Beautiful work. But could you please detail how you managed to get 10.8.5 onto this board?

I'm trying to set up the same mobo but with an i7-4770s and finding it a nightmare. I can get it to boot and install, but after running multibeast I can only get it to run in safe mode.

Any advice (BIOS settings etc.) would be very appreciated.

running -v it looks like it is something to do with FakeSMC but i'm really not sure (using the one in the latest MB)

Thanks,

Tom

 

[Strik9]

I have this mobo and have not any problem.
I don't have time now to correct my post but i will soon : http://www.tonymacx86.com/user-builds/111060-success-ga-h87n-wifi-4770-hd4600.html

 

[z0lt4n]

A beautiful Hackintosh, this is. Be proud of your craftmanship.
This is encouraging to do something similar.

 

[Solidww]

Wow, that is a gorgeous build!

 

[Teun2]

I've got the same board and ran into some issues as well. I had to disable VT-d to get the computer to reliably boot.

The day before yesterday my pc wouldn't power off properly, it would just reboot after shutdown. I fixed that with disabling wake on lan.

In Multibeast, select the ALC 892 and sound should be working fine. For networking I selected the Atheros and Intel kexts and those network ports also work fine after that.

I also switched the wifi mini PCIe for an OSX compatible one out of a laptop i had and wifi works (but no bluetooth ofc). You should be able to find a compatible PCIe card for less than €10 on ebay.

I currently am using triple monitors on the HD4600 and it all works just fine.

 

[derFunkenstein]

Oh wow. That is gorgeous. Absolutely awesome job on the case.