would like some feedback on my build

[ihatecheez]

hello friends, i just started college and im planning on building a hackintosh with all the latest and greatest. i am aware that so far there isn't any real support for haswell yet but i can wait a month for apple to release the kernel or whatever to support it. im planning on making a dual boot system (windows 8 and osx 10.8/9). with windows for games and mac for logic, final cut, and using it as my main OS. i chose a micro atx motherboard for the reason that i dont have much room in my office and i just cant fit a whole full tower.

im planing on partitioning both HD in two for each OS but i have heard that this doesn't work well so if i have problems i can add a HD or 2 if i need to.
anyway comment away and i wish you a good day!



i7-4770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor

Corsair H50 57.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler

Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver 3.5g Thermal Paste

Gigabyte GA-Z87MX-D3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard

G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory

A-Data Premier Pro SP600 32GB 2.5" Solid State Disk

Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive

EVGA GeForce GTX 760 2GB Video Card

TP-Link TL-WDN4800 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter

NZXT Vulcan Black MicroATX Mid Tower Case

Cooler Master i600 600W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply

Other firewire 800 pci express x1 card

 

[Adrian B]

Your choices look like they will probably be fine - the two main items the motherboard and CPU should be OK for running OS X. There is still plenty of testing to be done before the official guides recommend Haswell.

Here is a thread that you should check out for your fire wire card : http://www.tonymacx86.com/buying-advice/59767-firewire-800-400-card-own-100-compatibility.html

As you wish to use a Firewire card then there is a good chance that this part of the site might hold some appeal to you : http://www.tonymacx86.com/music/

Keep an eye out for more Haswell support news - we are waiting on Apple releasing proper support via 10.8.5 and then Mavericks. In the mean time we have this : http://www.tonymacx86.com/379-haswellhelper-enhanced-10-8-4-kernel-now-available.html


Adrian B

 

[ihatecheez]

thanks a lot! and thank you for the links!

 

[Adrian B]

You are very welcome.

One thing that I perhaps should have said, I think that you might find that SSD a little small - in 3 months I have about 30GB of apps on my SSD, you might like to consider something a little larger perhaps.


Adrian B