Will my hardware support a hackintosh?

[peterallenn]

Hey,

So I have just discovered hackintosh and it looks really cool! Although I dont know if my hardware will support it

M/B: ASUS P8P67-M Pro
PSU: Corsair CX600 - 600w
CPU: Intel Core i5-2400 CPU 3.10GHz
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 6950 2GB
RAM: 12GB RAM
HDD: 1TB + 500GB

Also, can I dual boot with mac osx? I would still like to keep a copy of my windows 7.

thanks!

 

[Jamesbond007]

Hey,

So I have just discovered hackintosh and it looks really cool! Although I dont know if my hardware will support it

M/B: ASUS P8P67-M Pro
PSU: Corsair CX600 - 600w
CPU: Intel Core i5-2400 CPU 3.10GHz
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 6950 2GB
RAM: 12GB RAM
HDD: 1TB + 500GB

Also, can I dual boot with mac osx? I would still like to keep a copy of my windows 7.

thanks!

6950 video card is not supported under Mac OSX. No experience with Asus motherboards but I think it could work (may be with more effort than Gigabyte motherboards).

 

[jester969]

The board will work but the gfx card will NOT.

 

[peterallenn]

damn!

Well just out of curiosity, what is the best graphics card hackintosh supports?

 

[jester969]

damn!

Well just out of curiosity, what is the best graphics card hackintosh supports?

We have a list of them here...

http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/search/label/CustoMac

Cheap gfx card GT 210 512mb.

 

[peterallenn]

ahh ok, well what does james mean by my motherboard will be more effort than a gigabyte motherboard?

also, if I was to get the graphics card, would it be possible to dual boot mac + windows?

thanks to all the help so far!

 

[jester969]

You would have to use a modded BIOS rom or use speedstepper from MB.

Asus mobos require an extra step inorder to install and get it working.

Yes, it will be able to dual boot Windows + OS X.

I believe they are a few success builds in the user build section.

 

[pwalth21]

Also as far as the graphics card. Depending on what you're using OS X for you could just run onboard graphics with your i5 and use your graphics card on the windows side.

 

[peterallenn]

that sounds like an option as I would prefer not to buy a graphics card just for this but how would I actually do that?

 

[Scuba]

the i5-2400 uses Intel HD 2000, which is also unsupported in OSX. You will still need another graphics card, I believe.