Gigabyte EX38-DS4... is this worth working with?

[LazarX]

As the title says, I've got this unit with 3 SATA drives and a HD5750 Radeon graphics card. Is this a viable working unit for a Hackintosh setup? It's a Socket 755 system with Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz installed. I'd like a recommendation on which OS I should try with. I've just ordered a copy of System 10.6.3 from the Apple Store and I do have an Emac running 10.5 to work with.

DMI BIOS
vendor Award Software International, Inc.
version F6C AHCI ROM
date 04/24/2009

DMI System Information
manufacturer Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
product EX38-DS4

Display adapter 0
Name Radeon HD 5770
Codename RV840
Technology 40 nm
Memory size 1024 MB
PCI device bus 1 (0x1), device 0 (0x0), function 0 (0x0)
Vendor ID 0x1002 (0x1682)
Model ID 0x68B8 (0x2990)
Performance Level 0
Core clock 400.0 MHz
Memory clock 900.0 MHz

 

[Jamesbond007]

As the title says, I've got this unit with 3 SATA drives and a HD5750 Radeon graphics card. Is this a viable working unit for a Hackintosh setup? It's a Socket 755 system with Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz installed. I'd like a recommendation on which OS I should try with. I've just ordered a copy of System 10.6.3 from the Apple Store and I do have an Emac running 10.5 to work with.

DMI BIOS
vendor Award Software International, Inc.
version F6C AHCI ROM
date 04/24/2009

DMI System Information
manufacturer Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
product EX38-DS4

Display adapter 0
Name Radeon HD 5770
Codename RV840
Technology 40 nm
Memory size 1024 MB
PCI device bus 1 (0x1), device 0 (0x0), function 0 (0x0)
Vendor ID 0x1002 (0x1682)
Model ID 0x68B8 (0x2990)
Performance Level 0
Core clock 400.0 MHz
Memory clock 900.0 MHz

I believe it can work with Snow Leopard. Download iBoot from the download section and burn the iso file to a CD using any CD burning program (e.g. ImgBurn in Windows). Then use that CD to install Snow Leopard onto a blank hard disk on your computer. Check the 10.6 guide on this site for details.

When I first venture into the hackintosh world I used a Gigabyte EP45-UD3L motherboard with a Core 2 Duo E8400 and it worked fine. I subsequently also installed Lion on that computer and it also worked fine. I believe Mountain Lion and Mavericks will probably also work.