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I am starting a project with all used, or low cost parts found on eBay or Kijiji. And I have decided to put 32 GB of RAM in it since the computer is Xeon based and designed to use it, and it is so cheap on eBay. There are two types of RAM that I have found for a really good price, one set is...

Hello everyone! I have made icons for the most common SSD's and HDD's. Here is a very easy tutorial on how to use them. It is a cool way to differentiate between your different drives and personalize your install of OS X. I have made the steps detailed so that the people who are completly new to...

Hello, I have my computer running with the system definition MacPro5,1 and that is what it says and shows in system information. But in finder it shows an image of an iMac, however when I right click the icon and click get info it correctly shows a mac pro. When I am in a different user account...

So I am trying to get El Capitan onto my system (MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition, i7 4790K, GTX 760). It ran yosemite flawless but I was using Chimera. I can't seem to get clover to boot for me. I followed this guide for Bios settings...

I know that nothing is officially confirmed yet, but what are everyone's thoughts on a bigger screen sized phone? I as well as many people really like the size of the iPhone and thought the "giant" androids were ridiculous when they first started coming out. Now they are extremly common...

I have a 1440p Monitor and so far all I have been able to find is HiDPI Mode which cuts my pixels in half giving me the screen real-estate of just 720p. My friend bought a 4K monitor and it automatically gives him the same option as on the retina macbook pro (on his hackintosh) It looks like...

I just bought my hackintosh a refurbished 27 inch 2560 x 1440 monitor from ebay because I do a lot of photo editing and wanted to try working with a screen higher resolution then 1080p. So far I love it, the colour is perfect and it is super clear. I have enabled HiDPI mode and it looks...

I built my new system with the GA-H81M-HD3 because it was a very cheap board and seemed to offer a lot for the price. Now I am finding that i need more than 4 data ports so I am buying a different one. Either the GA-H87M-HD3 or the GA-H87M-D3H. Anyone with either of these boards who have any...

hi everyone, i just bought a new keyboard for my hackintosh which is dual booted with windows 7. in windows my keyboard works perfectly as expected, but in os x mavericks the tab, shift, windows, and alt key do no work at all and the ctrl key works a shift. everything else seems fine. is this...

(Solved) Help with Mac OS X multi monitors? I Just bought a Radeon HD 7770 because I acquired 3 of the same monitor and wanted to set up eyefinity for gaming in windows (which is pretty awesome so far). The crappy part is that I use OS X for most things other then gaming and the only way I can...

My current system is starting to get a bit dated. 5GB DDR2 and a Intel Core 2 Quad. DDR4 RAM is supposed to be hitting the market around september and thats right when I want to be building a new system. How long to you think it will take for DDR4 for to be used in Official Macs? will we have to...

This is my first guide. I hope that someone can find it helpful. It is written with lots of explanation in hopes that it will be easy to follow for anyone. I have attached a PDF that has this same guide with tons of pictures to illustrate it. This guide will show you how to install...

Hello, I am building a computer for someone and I have everything I need to order figured out. My only question is about the Graphics. Is it better to go with the GFX 550 ti or the 650 ti? the 650 ti has better looking specs on everything except the memory is 128-bit where as the 550 ti has...

Hello, I have a hackintosh running lion 10.7.5 and everything works 100% I couldn't be more happy with it and I've been using it for months. However it has always taken about 5 or 6 minutes to boot and it is installed on an SSD. When I boot verbose I noticed it hangs on "waiting for DSMOS" for...

Hi, I am thinking of building a second hackintosh to replace my G5 Power Mac for basically downloading and storing software images. I have put together a list of parts that are $260 with everything. What is everyone's take on it? any advice? Case $30...

Hi, I am thinking of building a second hackintosh to replace my G5 Power Mac for basically downloading and storing software images. I have put together a list of parts that are $260 with everything. What is everyone's take on it? any advice? Case $30...

I have had my hackintosh runing lion no problem for about a year now and I finally decided to update it to Mountain Lion today but when I boot from the unibeast USB stick all it does is make the apple logo pop up and the wheel never comes up and it sits for hours. when I do the lion uni beast...

First off I know there is a few posts about this issue already but none of them seem to be exactly what is happening with my machine, if there is a post somewhere else that might help me please let me know :) I have a core 2 duo 3.17GHz with a GTS 450 graphics card running snow leopard 10.6.8...