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When COVID hit, I moved an older desktop to our projector in the basement for the kids. It had an i3, which was a bit slow, so I swapped the i5 from my writing station hackintosh over to speed things up. That worked, but now I'm finding my hack a bit slow and debating between an i5 and i7...

A few years back I helped a buddy build a hack and it's been running High Sierra well since. With the system running well, he chose to use it as is without updates/upgrades. This weekend, he tried to update Garageband and made the mistake of allowing an OS upgrade to occur, probably to Mojave...

After struggling to get a working install using the clean Mojave installs, I tried trs96's guides for Sierra > High Sierra and then upgraded to Mojave with some additional steps using Tonymac's upgrade guides to include a few kext files as recommended. Lo and behold, everything worked and the...

If I understand correctly from my research, my old GTX650 will run Metal under Mojave with native support. But I'm not as clear on the CPU requirements if there are any. From what I've read, it appears there may not be any issue. My original Hack has an old i3-2105, which is surprisingly capable...

I've been reading comments about the T2 chips and how they might be used to kill Hackintosh, but wonder if there isn't a parallel to custom orders without cameras and microphones for highly secure locations (national intelligence locations, for example). Having read about companies ordering...

Trying to find clarification on how the outputs on an AMD natively supported card work/don't work. I picked up an RX560 by suggestion and currently have it working, but with only one monitor. I don't have a displayport, so I'm attempting dual output via the DVI and HDMI ports and can only get...

I have an older Hack that's still running great (the one in my signature) with a GTX 650. With both my birthday and the holidays approaching, I often get one piece of tech and am thinking about a graphics card upgrade with a plan to switch the 650 to a used Win10 box my daughter uses for...

I'm struggling to find any leads on this issue. 9/10 times, my hack goes to sleep and wakes just fine. No issues, just shake the mouse, enter the password and it works. For most of this year, I do that only to have it wake to white screens. Digging through the boards has only turned up...

I decided to replace my horrid Windows writing station with a Hack built from an HP 8300 Elite (Core i5-3450 Ivy Bridge) and am trying to cut down on as much heat as possible since my office heats up pretty quick. I have a GT-430 fan-cooled card to use for the interim, but would like to find...

I ordered an HP 8300 to test as a Hack since they get great reviews. It arrives next Thursday and I'll only have two weeks to test before my window to return it closes. The launch date for HS isn't know, but a scan of Apple oriented sites are forecasting the following week (likely the 19th) as...

I've been watching used cpu prices on Ebay and the Ivy Bridge quad-core i5s are now under $100 so I'm considering upgrading from the i3-2105 the system was built around. I ran across a strange comment that z68 motherboards like mine don't like "7 series" processors, by which I believe they meant...

I had a chance to test one of the Inateck USB 3.0 hubs with built in gigabit ethernet. If anyone has any issues with their networking in Sierra, these are $20 on Amazon and worked OOTB in Sierra. I tested speeds and latency and found no differences from the built in ethernet in my mainboard...

Hoping someone can help save me some time. With both the holidays and our second child coming up, I decided to install the latest El Cap update when rebooting and it made my Hack unbootable. Just keeps restarting. I tried several fixes and even reinstalled El Cap using my Macbook Pro, which...

I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I've been running El Cap for about a month with no issues. In fact, it's been great. I was running a build with Chameleon and sometimes had to boot without caches if it locked up, but Clover has been very consistent. I was using my Hack...

I have a Hack running Mavericks and have been waiting to upgrade to El Cap when I picked up a SSD for the OS drive. Now that I've picked one up, I've been researching how to move my RAID array. I'm running a mirrored array for archival content and Time Machine backups and want to migrate it, but...

Here's a question about preventative maintenance: besides Time Machine or other backups, what is the best way to protect your Hackintosh from failing to restart? My situation: I've been running a Lion Hackintosh for about 2 years with almost no problems. Once I got it set up and running, the...

I've installed Mavericks 7-8 time before I managed to get it working perfectly. Everything was fine until a reboot this morning when I found files in the Trash that wouldn't delete and didn't appear as part of the drive usage (0kb, but Finder showed 130GB iPhoto library copy I wanted to delete)...

I know I can't use the SVGA port on my main board to power an older monitor. But, can I install a video card with SVGA output and use that to render to an older monitor? I have an old 15" I can rotate 90 degrees that would be perfect for running email/GTD software in and would free up my main...