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I've spent a lot of time researching my parts list. I finally pulled the trigger and ordered most everything. I read the buyers guide and spent hours verifying my parts were compatible. Now that I've ordered everything and its on its way I am getting nervous.I'm hoping someone who knows a little...

Hi everyone! I recently built a pc and wanted to install Mac os on it. I followed the steps and got to the screen that asks you what drive You want to install Mac os high sierra on. I selected my drive that I formatted earlier. It then proceeded to install. It then got about 1/4 of the way...

First off I'm sorry as I'm sure this question gets asked all the time, but I would really appreciate the advice. I'm working on building my first Hackintosh with the aim of having a really solid video editing and colour grading setup which can easily handle 4k footage. The software I use is...

Heya! I'm planning to try to build my first hackintosh this weekend. I read a lot of forums as preparation but I'm still a bit insecure about some items. I'm studying computer science so I'm not a complete noob (I hope) As we speak I created a bootable High sierra USB with the terminal...

I'm thinking of building a hackintosh for the first time. I was wondering, Do all parts on this website work with each other for hackintosh builds or do only certain parts work with each other?

So, I installed El Capitan on my laptop, the system work perfectly, but the drivers not. I own a Toshiba Satellite C55T-C5300, tried to find help everywhere but couldn't find any. It's an i3 5020U Broadwell, with Hd Graphics 5500. Video is working fine, but my problems are Bluetooth, WiFi...

Hi everyone. I am new to this site. I have been long time windows and linux user. I decided to give hackintosh a try. My laptop is lenovo b50-50. Here are the specs: Cpu Intel Core i3 5005U @ 2.00GHz 40 °C Broadwell-U 14nm Technology Ram 4.00GB Single-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz Motherboard LENOVO...

Hi, first of all, I am a newbie, I own a mac mini 2010 2nd hand and running 10.10 on SSD HD setup. I was unable to source a 2012 i7 model at reasonable price for upgrade so I may as well Hackintosh the ready have hardware I've got. To experiment, I have a spare NUC DC3217 brought in a fire sale...

This is a first time build for me. I'm trying to dual boot El Capitan and Windows 10 on separate partitions from the same SSD. Everything goes fine until post installation, typically after I install Nvidia's Web Driver. After doing so, my system will either have a "no" sign, be stuck on the...

Hey guys I am stuck at the moment I am installing 10.10 yosemite on a desktop computer and it boots into clover i do believe its called where I reach a screen with 2 hdd icons then I click the one on the right booting me into yosemite but instead it gets stuck on a black screen with a apple...

Hello Guys, Some background first. I am a print and motion designer from Germany about to quit my job for founding a own marketing agency with a friend. I am used to working on Mac since 5 years, although i am using a custom build windows at home. For my new work i decided to go with a...

Hi, I m going to do hackintosh for first time. The thing why I m going to do him is i want to have on on asus with win 10 FinalCutPro and OS X. And another question is will be the FCP more powerful then MacMini 2011Mid with SSD (AMD Radeon HD 6630M 256MB; 2,5 GHz Intel core i5). My Asus have...

My question is: If I buy the exact parts of the buyers guide and properly follow the install guide will my system just work? I have tried to build a hack before but I always ran into issues post install with my old hardware. My hope is that if I buy exactly whats on the list my system will...

Hi there :D I got interested in building a Hackintosh only a few days ago. I currently own a i5 MacBook Air mid 2013 which runs good but lets me down when it comes to running programs such as Troikatronix Isadora, Ableton Live and Final Cut Pro (the Intel HD 5000 just ain't enough). I...

Hi all. I have just joined this forum hoping to get advice and make new friends :) i want to create a dual booting windows and OS X laptop. i will be purchasing a hp pro book 4540s very soon. It will have the 2nd gen i5 processor, my first question is does it matter which generation...

Case: CM Stormtrooper Motherboard: ASRock Z87 OC Formula CPU: i7 4770k (Not overclocked in anyway) GPU: GTX 780 Ti SC PSU: 1000w Cougar CMX (80 plus BRONZE) HDD: 2 2Tb Seagate (Barracuda 7200 rmp) HDD RAM: 16bg Corsair Vengeance (Blue, cant find the box so im not sure what specifics on RAM)...

Hi everybody, how are you doing? first of all I'd like to say that this site is absolutely amazing. now for the reason I'm starting this thread. my friend is building himself A new PC is giving me his old yet powerful parts so I could build a hackingtosh. motherboard: Intel DX58SO CPU: Intel...

I just bought a HP ENVY 17t-j100 Quad Edition Notebook PC. Here are the specs: • Windows 8.1 64 • 4th generation Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4700MQ Processor • Intel(R) HD Graphics • 17.3-inch diagonal Full HD Anti-glare LED-backlit Display (1920 x 1080) Non touch • 8GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm) •...

Edit: Did a little research and thought to myself why i would want such a overkill build. so here is my new and improved build The primary use will be webdevelopment, coding, some programming and light photoshop editing. HDPlex H1.S & 120W Internal AC-DC+ 150W DC-ATX Fanless PSU...

Hi all, im planning on building my first Hackintosh within the next few weeks, heres the parts im planning on using, any advice would be greatly appreciated as i dont have too much of a clue about what im doing just wondering about the haswell CPU and the new motherboard if its all compatable /...