Thanks to this great guide, I installed Sierra on a HP 8300 SFF , i7-3770, 8MB, 500GB with Windows 10 Pro (already upgraded from Windows 7 Pro) which I got for $100 locally. I added the Samsung 850 EVO 250GB for extra I/O performance.
I enabled VT-x and VT-d and can now use this machine for Android and iOS development from Sierra.
I can dual boot into windows for now from slower disk, but may install windows in a VirtualBox VM and repurpose slow disk for extra storage for Sierra.
I am getting GeekBench Score of 13345
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https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/3804490 )
which is slightly faster than the comparable iMac score of 12497.. not bad
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https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/329 )
The SSD disk I/O performance according to BlackMagic Speed Test is pretty close to advertised rates with over 410MB/s (max 520MB/s) for writes (not shown) and over 510MB/s (max 540MB/s) for reads (shown). Again not bad at all. This is well over 10 times faster than the mechanical drive AFAIK. BTW: I am using the on CPU Intel HD4600 GPU so not really that concerned about GPU performance.
This is my first hackintosh. So I would like to especially thank
@trs96 for coming up with this great guide and to everyone in the community who made this possible. I am thrilled!
