Turning a custom built PC into a Hackintosh

Hi all,

First, I'm very new to Hackintosh and this site. Apologies is this post was inappropriate.
I've been trying to find the ways to build a powerful computer (well, I've eventually reached to the conclusion that I want MacOS on it).
But I have never built one by myself and I'm afraid that I might be too clumsy to build one.
So, I was wondering if I could have it assembled by some shop where they offer assembling service and install MacOS later.

Right now, the build I'm thinking of consists of the following parts:
- Intel Core i7 7700K 4x 4.20GHz So.1151 WOF
- 8GB Palit GeForce GTX 1080 Dual OC Aktive PCIe 3.0 x16 (Retail)
- Asus BC-12D2HT Blu-ray Combo SATA intern
- 1000GB WD Blue WD10EZEX 64MB 3.5" (8.9cm) SATA 6Gb/s
- 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX schwarz DDR4-
- be quiet! Shadow Rock LP Top blow Cooler
- 600 Watt be quiet! Pure Power 10 CM Modular 80+ Silver
- MSI Z270I Gaming Pro Carbon AC Intel Z270
- 250GB Samsung 960 Evo M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 32Gb/s 3D-NAND TLC Toggle (MZ-V6E250BW)
- case
- wifi?
- bluetooth?

I've read that it's usually the graphic cards that might make the machine incompatible but is there anything else that may not work?
Does anyone have any thoughts/experiences on this?

Cheers

stevedavid said:

I have never built one by myself and I'm afraid that I might be too clumsy to build one.

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It's not rocket science, if you can make stuff with Lego you can build a PC.

So, I was wondering if I could have it assembled by some shop where they offer assembling service and install MacOS later.

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That approach is acceptable. As mentioned previously, it's not extremely difficult and is a valuable learning experience to build it yourself and saves you some cash too. If you don't want to do the build it's not mandatory. You have to do the install of the software yourself of course. No one else can do that for you.

trs96 said:

That approach is acceptable. As mentioned previously, it's not extremely difficult and is a valuable learning experience to build it yourself and saves you some cash too. If you don't want to do the build it's not mandatory. You have to do the install of the software yourself of course. No one else can do that for you.

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Yeah that's what I was thinking to do. I'm thinking it might be good to get it assembled since I don't have any tools (I may need them when I disassemble/change parts but I'll worry about it when I need to do those things). But I wanted to know if the components are OK and if that seems doable.

stevedavid said:

Yeah that's what I was thinking to do. I'm thinking it might be good to get it assembled since I don't have any tools (I may need them when I disassemble/change parts but I'll worry about it when I need to do those things). But I wanted to know if the components are OK and if that seems doable.

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Search for a User Build that uses the same CPU and motherboard and read through that. It will give you the best sense of how compatible your choices are.

trs96 said:

Search for a User Build that uses the same CPU and motherboard and read through that. It will give you the best sense of how compatible your choices are.

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Cheers, I've been looking into that and figured that 7700k is probably incompatible (ref: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/build-advice-for-my-first-hackintosh.216310/). It seems like if I get something like
- Core i7 6700k
- NVIDIA GTX 1080
- GA-H170N-WIFI Mini ITX
But I'm struggling to find if I could swap the motherboard for something else. Like, I'm wondering if GA-Z270N works but the information on this seems scarce.

The 7700K now has support in 10.12.6, just released. So you can use that with the GA-Z270N motherboard. There will be more guides as that is a very popular build, mini-itx. It should be no problem to get it to work once Multibeast 9.2.0 is released.