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Hey ColdCross, I am running a similar build as wildwillow's except the Radeon R9 280X 3GB reverted back to OS X 10.9.5. Also tried El Cap on another fresh SSD. (I skipped Yosemite altogether knowing whatever comes after will be a more refined OS X (think Leopard>Snow Leopard, Lion> Mountain...

Please know I very much appreciate the effort you and MacMan are putting into this together. Thank you very much :D

Is your R9 290x working without a hitch? OOB? From my experience (HD5770 & HD6870), if you managed to find a compatible AMD/ATi Radeon graphics card, it tends to work without a hitch.

Hello, welcome :) Your components list looks alright. What kind of computer case are you after? I notice you mentioned you are on a fairly tight budget, will you consider one of those beige generic case as a temporary home to your new hackintosh? Those ones could be had at a very reasonable...

It is worth investigating into multiple display support with some of the nVidia cards, it looks like the some there are other hack1nt0sh users are having problems connecting additional displays or getting them to work according to their desired specs. From experience, if you managed to land...

Good news, these parts are compatible ;) Not so sure about the blu ray situation on the OS X platform, afaik, there hasn't been official support for blu-ray media?! All the best with your surprise :)

Congrads OP! Good to learn everything's running alright now. If you don't mind me asking, how did you guys managed to OC the chip beyond 4.3GHz and still boot into OS X? I'm on the same chip + Z87XOC. No luck as soon as I clock it 4.3GHz+ :\ The chip itself get do 4.8GHz

depends on usage, there probably won't be any noticeable difference when used as boot drive Just a tip off, the Fusion Drive will stutter if you are streaming media off it. For example, your recording footage will stutter you decide to copy & paste to another drive (another access) My Fusion...

Congrads with your new build! You're not alone being stuck @4.3GHz I managed to boot into mavericks @4.4GHz and get KP'd 4.5GHz+ is a no-go, verbose mode reports memory allocation problem

Thanks ATB It is good to know there is no need to patch and/or replace any system files to have the 4GB version working.

Hi, I am wondering if the GeForce GTX770 4GB is compatible without additional DSDT/.kext editing? The nVidia GeForce GTX770 comes with 2GB graphics memory by default. I noticed some factories also offer GTX770 with 4GB graphics memory. For example, this EVGA GTX770 4GB...

Thanks and Cheers to toleda!!!

Yes it will, but are you sure you are definitely committed to the Z68 chipset motherboard? You may want to look at a 7-series motherboard ;)

Wouldn't recommend an ITX built necessarily unless saving space is high on the list of factors and concerns. ITX boards usually have reduced number of SATA sockets (4 only, 5 if you count the eSATA and manage to get it to work). But since your daughter were asking for a Mac Pro in the first...

I recently built a Hackintosh using the same CPU and motherboard so I think I may be able to offer a little bit of my experience. to start with, what are your specs? and BIOS config like?