Need advice before buying a Hackkintosh

Hey there,

I'm planning on buying a Hackintosh to someone, butt I have two major questions:

- there's only 8 Go of RAM, so, can I take the RAM from my iMac and put it in the Hackintosh?
- the Wi-Fi card installed is not compatible with the Hackintosh. It's this card:
https://www.trendnet.com/langfr/products/proddetail?prod=165_TEW-643PI
https://www.trendnet.com/langfr/products/proddetail?prod=165_TEW-643PI

So I was thinking about changing the card, but, when I look at the most recommanded one

https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B007GMPZ0A/?tag=tonymacx8607-21

I can clearly see that the part that connect to the motherboard is really different. So I'm wondering if the motherboard can accept this type of card?

Another solution would be too use a Wi-Fi dongle, but I really don't know how it is regarding the performances? I mean, would a dongle like this work and could it give me a good internet connection?
https://www.amazon.fr/CSL-Bouton-Éd...31?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1475269659&sr=1-31
https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B01CEN5BZY/?tag=tonymacx8607-21

Thanks for your answers!

NicoNico78 said:

Hey there,

I'm planning on buying a Hackintosh to someone, butt I have two major questions:

- there's only 8 Go of RAM, so, can I take the RAM from my iMac and put it in the Hackintosh?
- the Wi-Fi card installed is not compatible with the Hackintosh. It's this card:
https://www.trendnet.com/langfr/products/proddetail?prod=165_TEW-643PI

So I was thinking about changing the card, but, when I look at the most recommanded one

https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B007GMPZ0A/?tag=tonymacx8607-21

I can clearly see that the part that connect to the motherboard is really different. So I'm wondering if the motherboard can accept this type of card?

Another solution would be too use a Wi-Fi dongle, but I really don't know how it is regarding the performances? I mean, would a dongle like this work and could it give me a good internet connection?
https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B01CEN5BZY/?tag=tonymacx8607-21

Thanks for your answers!

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We need to know the full specs of the machine you're thinking about buying before we can answer any of your questions; i.e. motherboard make & model, CPU model, graphics card, etc.

Ok, some things I know, some I don't^^

The computer is seen as an iMac 27" late 2013 (I believe it has to do with the serial the guy entered when he made the computer?)
The CPU is an Intel Core i7 3,4 GHz but I don't have the exact ref for it.
The RAM is 2x4Go of 1600 MHz DDR3
There's two HD: one 120Go SSD and one standard 1To
The GPU is an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 2Go
The computer runs on El Capitan

Ive asked the guy for the motherboard, he should be able to tell me soon.

Thanks again!

NicoNico78 said:

Ok, some things I know, some I don't^^

The computer is seen as an iMac 27" late 2013 (I believe it has to do with the serial the guy entered when he made the computer?)
The CPU is an Intel Core i7 3,4 GHz but I don't have the exact ref for it.
The RAM is 2x4Go of 1600 MHz DDR3
There's two HD: one 120Go SSD and one standard 1To
The GPU is an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 2Go
The computer runs on El Capitan

Ive asked the guy for the motherboard, he should be able to tell me soon.

Thanks again!

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The Wifi card that you linked to that is currently in the machine (the TrendNet TEW-643PI) is a PCI card and probably won't work with OS X. The recommended Wifi card that you linked to (the TP-Link TL-WDN4800) will probably work, provided the motherboard has a free PCIe (PCI Express) slot, which it probably does. I don't recommend a USB Wifi dongle, they can be difficult to get working and don't provide very good performance.

What model is your iMac? Once we have that information and the model number of your motherboard, we can answer the remainder of your questions.

My iMac is a 27" i7 QuadCore 2,8GHz late 2009 with 12Go DDR3 RAM.
There are two 4Go memory sticks that are seen as 1067MHz, but they are 1333MHz. It's just that the iMac can't see these as 1333MHz^^

You probably won't be able to use the RAM from your iMac in the Hackintosh, because the iMac has SODIMM slots (204-pin, or "notebook RAM"), and the motherboard in the Hackintosh most likely has DDR3 DIMM (240-pin) slots, so the RAM is incompatible.

NicoNico78 said:

Hey there,

I'm planning on buying a Hackintosh to someone, butt I have two major questions:

- there's only 8 Go of RAM, so, can I take the RAM from my iMac and put it in the Hackintosh?
- the Wi-Fi card installed is not compatible with the Hackintosh. It's this card:
https://www.trendnet.com/langfr/products/proddetail?prod=165_TEW-643PI

So I was thinking about changing the card, but, when I look at the most recommanded one

https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B007GMPZ0A/?tag=tonymacx8607-21

I can clearly see that the part that connect to the motherboard is really different. So I'm wondering if the motherboard can accept this type of card?

Another solution would be too use a Wi-Fi dongle, but I really don't know how it is regarding the performances? I mean, would a dongle like this work and could it give me a good internet connection?
https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B01CEN5BZY/?tag=tonymacx8607-21

Thanks for your answers!

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You might be able to take out the ram from your iMac, watch some youtube videos or have apple do it... The safer option would be to just buy 8 more gigabytes of ram. I would use an ethernet cable if possible. I used a wifi card, which works fine for the most part, but it struggles to download large files quickly.

Hello,

so, the guy is taking is time to answer my questions and, as I need to change my rig pretty quickly, I looked for another one^^
I ended up finding this one:

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770K CPU 3.50GHz
Motherboard: gigabytes Z87M D3H
RAM: 16,0Go corsaire vengeance
GPU: HP Nvidia quadro K2000 2,0Go
Wi-Fi: Atheros AR 938
HDD: Samsung 840 EVO 120Gb

I think it's a pretty cool one, and the price is fairly cheap BUT, as nothing is perfect, the guy who sells it decided to install Win10 on it and get rid of Mac OS, I really don't know why, but, ok.
The thing is that he told me he has no way of re-installing Mac OS, so I have to do it.

Not a big deal considering there's a very good tutorial on this site

But, my only grip is that I heard that the Quadro K2000 can cause some troubles with Mac OS.

So, my question is: is the GPU perfectly compatible with Mac OS or will I end up pulling my hairs out trying to make it work?

Once again, thanks for you answers!