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Hello. My current specs: ASUS P8P67 Pro Intel i5 2500K 6 Gb 1333 (2x1 + 2x2) RAM ASUS GTX 560 Ti HDD WD 320 Gb El Capitan I use this computer mostly for editing in Final Cut and After Effects. What should I do first - upgrade RAM (buy 8/16/32 Gb 1600 RAM) or buy SSD (which will replace my...

Hello. My current specs: ASUS P8P67 Pro Intel i5 2500K 6 Gb 1333 (2x1 + 2x2) RAM ASUS GTX 560 Ti HDD WD 320 Gb El Capitan I use this computer mostly for editing in Final Cut and After Effects. What should I do first - upgrade RAM (buy 8/16/32 Gb 1600 RAM) or buy SSD (which will replace my...

Hi guys, first I'm very thanks to you and other hackintosh guys that helping me to successfully install and run Mavericks, Yosemite and now El Capitan on my Acer E1-571G laptop. I'm grateful for your help and tutorials. I'm learning swift / iOS development (Xcode). My laptop for coding in big...

Knowing all the Intel Core 2 Duo are getting cheaper by the second and I need a media system I thought I would love have a Snow Leopard and maybe Tiger capable Hackintosh. I just cant find any compatible components avaliable to buy online.. Most of the links are dead, or the product is...

I am looking to do a Skylake build based on the April 2016 Buyer's Guide but would like to use the G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2666 (PC4 21300) Memory Kit Model F4-2666C15Q-32GRKB (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231825) which is not...

I'm looking into building this Hackintosh: If anyone has done a similar build and has made a post from it, I'd love to follow along through that. I need to make sure that the audio will work as I am a professional audio editor. I also need to make sure the USB3.0 ports will work. Any...

Compatibility questions I have some compatibility quesitons. Do these components work together? Motherboard: Asus Z-97 Deluxe RAM: Crucial Ballistix Elite 16GB mSATA: Samsung 850 EVO 1TB HDD: Seagate Desktop with 64MB Cache 1TB In the buyer`s Guide are only recommended the Crucial Ballistix...

Hi, I'm newbie here. I want to built a hackintosh for Video Editing. I'm gonna use FCPX, Smoke 2015 any other 3D software. Can you suggest what spec to buy? because what I heard from my friend, it needs more than 12 core for rendering on Smoke 2015 or else it will crash on render. i try to...

I hope this is not a silly question. I've been running a hackintosh with 10.8 for a long time, but the softwares I use will have an upgrade (which I need) and they will work only on Yosemite or El Capitan, so I will have to upgrade my machine. The real problem is: importing components to my...

Hey Everyone! My friend is willing to help me build a Hackintosh! Im super stoked, I am about to pull the trigger and get the parts. I want to give it one more week to get some online feedback. I use Final Cut Pro X, Motion 5, PhotoEditing & other apps. I don't play games mostly work. I...

Hey all, I'm new here, looking into building a system to replace my very very old iMac. I'm sure i'll be spending a lot of time around here nutting things out. My situation is this, I work for myself as a web developer/graphic designer. I have absolutely no interest in gaming. Apart from my day...

Hi i'm going to be building a hackintosh in a month or so and i just want to know that it will work with yosemite and what kexts and such i would need if so parts list below also the graphics card will be added at a later date so for now intel 4600 Cpu: 3.5GHz 4690 Quad-Core Processor...

My Built just arrived today you can see it on my profile and I just saw that now El Capitan is out and wanted to ask what you think I should do? Put El Capitan with Clover ( It's my first built so I don't know nothing about Clover ) or Yosemite, I already have my USB prepared to install Yosemite...

Hi there, Although I have built a PC before, its my first time building a Hackintosh and would like some advice on buying parts for the build. My budget is ~$400 and I would like to build the system without fiddling around too much with advanced bios settings, Kernels,etc. and i am planning on...

Hello, It's my first hackintosh and : I would like to be sure having 100% compatible hardware. I do not know what motherboard to choose... I need a very fast storage system, so I think buying: 2x Samsung SM951 M.2 512GB (1x OS (Windows and MacOS), 1x Data) I need a very fast RAM system, so...

Hello guys! I need your help to decide which new motherboard I should buy. I've been using the MSI Z97 Gaming 5 since January and it worked flawlessly, I didn't have any issue at all! But I've recently moved to another country and I had to transport my PC with me by airplane, and unfortunately...

Hi guys- my Z87X-OC/[email protected]/32gb system just rocks but I haven't added video yet, and I'm tired of the low performing HD4600 graphics. I never found the love for Yosemite, so I'm still happily on Mavericks. Was hoping for advice for the best bang-per-buck Nvidia card for this setup. I find...

Hello everyone, first post here so I hope I'm not making any mistakes! Anyway, here's the situation: back in January I found a guy in my town that was throwing away some stuff from his basement, and among that, there was this beautiful Blue and white (the darker blue) PowerMac G4 straight from...

Hi, Even if I been reading the last month about compatibility and a lot about Hackintoshes :crazy: I”m still not 100% sure that my choice will fully run. :oops: So this is the specs I”ve chosen: Intel Xeon E3-1230V3 Haswell, 3.3GHz, 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1150, 80W Quad-Core Server Processor...

Hey people! I'm just starting the process of building my first Hackintosh, eventually I want to use it for rendering in Octane but I'm not quite ready to invest into a super expensive card, like a titan(compatible?) or whatever. I wanna get the build running first. Im basing most of this off...