Old gear - Asus P5B, Core 2 Duo and GeForce 8800 GTS

[technosinner]

Hey. I just "found" my old rig, and first Hackintosh in my basement. It's still in great shape, and I'd like to build it back so I can have a PC at my mother's when I go to visit. I had a hard time finding reliable info on such old hardware, but I know it will support at least Lion as it's what I had on there at the time.

My question is, which is the most recent version of OSX I can install on this? I imagine it's not going to be very recent since I don't have UEFI on this bad boy, and I don't even know if the 8800 is compatible with Nvidia web drivers... I just need something good enough to run my basic apps and some extra stuff like maybe some light Photoshop and very light gaming.

Thanks!

 

[trs96]

It should be able to run at least Mavericks or Yosemite. You have to do some testing to find out.
In my experience those older Core 2 Duo systems work best booting with the Chimera bootloader.
That means that Yosemite is about as new as you'll get without trying to use Clover and jumping
through a lot of hoops to make it work with El Capitan or newer editions of macOS.

 

[technosinner]

Thanks! I'll see how complicated going above Yosemite might be, but considering the age and use of this rig I'll probably choose ease over recentcy.