trs96
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- Gigabyte B460M Aorus Pro
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- i5-10500
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- RX 570
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This is a bit overwhelming at the moment, that's how new it is to me, and I'm not sure what everything is that I am looking at or why it is created.
Learning about how to hackintosh a PC is like learning a foreign language. At first nothing makes any sense, there are hundreds of acronyms and names you've never encountered anywhere. The best thing to do first is to study terminology such as in the glossary (link posted above). Then follow a guide like this Dell Optiplex guide to get some hands on experience. Try to read other guides as well every day and in time things will start clicking for you. This is all about immersion in the subject. When you associate with other people that know more than you, ask them questions and try things out you'll in time learn all that they know. If you want to learn Spanish, you obviously take classes and read books. You don't really "learn it" until you spend much time with other Spanish speaking people who don't speak your native language. This forces you to practice till you get it right, just like hackintoshing. You always get another chance no matter how many times you fail. If you never give up, eventually you'll have success at this and then will be able to give back to others.
When I started this back in Jan. 2012 There were only about 3 Gigabyte motherboard choices. Only legacy booting via Chimera and there was a repository of DSDTs pre-configured for each board. All I did was create a Unibeast installer with Lion, installed and rebooted. Put my Z68MA-D2H-B3 DSDT on the desktop and selected a few things in Multibeast. Rebooted again and had a working system. Here's how beautifully simple the Buyer's Guide mATX build was back then. I used a Crucial M4 SSD boot drive (very expensive then) and that also works great to this day. I used the recommended 2 x 4GB ram kit (for dual channel mode) which also still works fine today. Back then, 8GB was a lot of ram. Today 16 gigs is the starting point. It's also more than twice as expensive for the same amount !
The Z68 mATX system I built 7 years ago works perfectly to this very day. I'm using it right now to create this post. It's completely silent (didn't intend that) never crashes or panics. Sleep and wake work perfectly. I've not got USB 3 working as that is not possible with onboard USB 3. A 20 dollar USB 3 PCIe add in card would work but USB 2 still works fine for what this CustoMac is used for. The performance of this was about 10-20 times faster than my old 2005 Mac Mini I had used previously. Needless to say it's what completely sold me on hackintoshing.
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