Will my build work? (Newbie)

[MaxShepley]

Hey everyone, Im new to all of this Hackintosh stuff and am looking to build one. I have a knowledgable friend but was wondering if you guys to proof check the components I am looking at so far. I am on a budget (I'm only 15) but am a keen editor on software such as: Cinema 4d, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Boujou, Adobe Premiere Pro etc.

I am looking at:

Gigabyte SKT-1155 Z77-DS3H Motherboard - £68.93

TP Link TL-WDN4800 Wireless N Dual Band PCI Express Adapter - £31.07 (I might not get this... any help on wether it's worth it?)

Asus Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 - £93.54
OR
Asus GeForce GTX 650 Ti Nvidia Graphics Card - £116.98
(Which one should I get?)

Powercool 750W PSU - £45 I have heard 750W is overkill but this isnt expensive...

SanDisk 64GB 2.5 inch Solid State Drive - £46.77

Seagate Barracuda 3.5 inch 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB 6GB/S Internal SATA Drive - £72.30

Coolermaster Storm Enforcer Mid Tower ATX Case - £69.99

Intel Core i5-3570K CPU - £171.14 - Its overclockable and decent... Not too expensive either as CPU's go?

LiteOn IHAS122-18 22x Internal SATA DVD-RW - £12.50

Zalman CNPS10X-PERFORM​A CPU Cooler - £26.95

Corsair 16GB 1600MHz CL10 DDR3 Memory - £79.99


Any help on compatibilty etc will be greatly appreciated and anything I can reduce the price of and still get good performance will also be gratefully recieved. I am hoping to run Parallels too so I can use Sony Vegas and hopefully play CoD 4...
I have a version of Mac OS X Snow Leopard which I will hopefully install (If it has been used, will it work again?) otherwise I could purchase Mountain Lion or something.

Thanks!

 

[georgeba]

Snow Leopard doesn't work with you video cards but Mountain Lion does. You need the retail disks, not what came with your Mac.

 

[MaxShepley]

okay, so my graphics card wont work with snow leopard but if i use mountain lion, they will be fine?
plus, i bought the disc to upgrade my mac's os

 

[bryonhowley]

As for the GPU I would get the Asus GeForce GTX 650 Ti if you can from what I understand the Ti version's are better but I have not been back with Nvidia for very long so I can't say for sure as I have been with AMD since my 7800GS(AGP) died a few years ago. I just went back with Nvidia for my Hackintosh build as there was no support for my Sapphire HD 7950(maybe with 10.8.3).

I know that my Gigabyte GTX 670 works great with ML even with my 3x Asus 27" monitors. Good choose on the CPU though I really like the way mine turned out I am using the same CPU on a Asus Z77 Sabertooth motherboard though.

 

[MaxShepley]

That sounds cool, it says you have windows 8, how does it compare to windows 7?

 

[Hacknewbie]

I would also go with the 650ti as that is what I used in my build. It all looks good compatibilty wise so you should be good there. However, you said you want to run parallels. I would personally dual boot windows especially if you are going to play cod 4 or any ither game as a virtual machine will not handle it very well. Sony vegas should also work better if you dual boot.

 

[MaxShepley]

Would it really make that much of a difference? because for me it would be really quite inconvenient to have to dual boot every time...

 

[Hacknewbie]

Sorry for such the long delay, and YES! It will be a HUGE difference. I know it is EXTREMELY inconvenient as I do that as well. It is definitely a lot better performance wise as you can get the use of all of your machine. Otherwise you are going to have horrendous input lag for gaming and video editing.

 

[MaxShepley]

Really?okay, ill think about that, thanks!