Cheap Hackintosh for $365

[Mate94]

Hello everybody!

I have to build a Hackintosh for ~$365 (70.000 HUF) and I need some advice with this build.

Motherboard: ASROCK H61M-GS / GIGABYTE GA-H61M-D2-B3
CPU: INTEL Core i3-2100 3.10GHz / INTEL Pentium G620 2.60GHz
RAM: KINGSTON 4096MB DDR3 1333MHz CL9 KVR1333D3N9/4G
PS: FSP FSP350-60APN
HDD: SAMSUNG 250GB 7200rpm 16MB SATA2 HD253GJ
GPU: Zotac GeForce 8400GS 512MB PCIE VGA ZT-84GEM2M-HSL / Zotac GeForce GT240 512MB PCIe (ZT-20403-10L) / or kind of ATI HD5450?
ODD: NEC AD-7260S

I need just these things.

The main goal is that everything working OOB.

Thank you very much!

 

[hacman]

i3 2100 with GA-H67M-D2-B3 and asus 8400gs

 

[MacMan]

ATI HD5450 is not supported.

 

[Mate94]

ATI HD5450 is not supported.

I was just curious, I saw on insanelymac.com that HD5450 had worked on Lion.
But do you think that G620 will work?

 

[Mate94]

i3 2100 with GA-H67M-D2-B3 and asus 8400gs

It will be that the 8400GS will not work after few Lion update? I think its a bit old.

 

[damilchmann]

i3 2100 with GA-H67M-D2-B3 and asus 8400gs

It will be that the 8400GS will not work after few Lion update? I think its a bit old.

what graphic card are your recommendation? cheaply as possible

thx

 

[waffel]

I also bought an HD5450 and it works flawlessly in my LION setup.

At first it didn't work. Using Chimera 1.5.4 it was recognized as a HD5430M and the monitor didn't wake up when the system did.

The only thing I had to do was add

AtiConfig=Duckweed

to my boot.plist file.

My monitor (iiyama) is recognized and also the card is: ATI Radeon HD 5000 1024 MB

Now my monitor does wake up when coming back from sleep. SUPER!

 

[hacman]

HD 6450 out of box in snow leo and lion ( tested model SAPPHIRE HD 6450 2gb )

 

[goober296]

g620 working fine for me. One on Snow one on Lion

 

[kaahl]

buy a i3 2105 and get hd 3000 integrated graphics. cheaper than buying a stand alone graphics card and you can upgrade to a killer graphics card in a year when you are bored / have some money. just make sure you find an h67 or z68 board that allows on chip graphics and use Lion (snow leopard won't work).