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Yes I used NVinject and it froze.. I tried iPC and got everything working but grafx.
When i built my hac it took me about 3 hours to get it all under control and running perfectly. Now that i know my hardware and osx86 a bit better it takes me about 20 minutes to install and 10 minutes to get the hardware back in working order.
wow 3 hours!?!? it took me a good 1 week with around 30 reinstalls and 5 reformats!
Is there any good resource where you can find the most compatible parts for hackintosh. On IM, there are many how to guides, but it's often unclear if the hardware works well with OS X or just takes a lot of hacking and work. I basically want a high end computer that is very combustible and easy to put OS X on.
Imo, the best thing to do is read people's sigs. They often post their hardware and what is working/not working there.
PM me if you want some help. Just built my second hackintosh today with an Intel Q9400. The only mod I have to do is for my graphics card which is a 9600 GT.
Just rebuilt my hackintosh/Windows 7 box today that had a C2D E4500 with a new motherboard and a Q9400. Holy crap, OS X really flies on a C2Q. 
Since Apple decided to charge 600 bucks for the Mini I've decided to take my old PC parts out of retirement to build an HTPC Hackint0sh. Parts concerned will be:
AMD 3800X2 CPU
DFI Lan Party Expert nForce4 motherboard
ASUS ATI Radeon x1800 GPU
Seasonic S12 600 PSU
HTPC case: TBD. I'll order that within 24 hours after some hasty research. I'll also need to buy a quiet CPU cooler and GPU cooler, as the previous iteration of that computer was watercooled and I have neither the time nor the inclination to try to cram a watercooling loop in an HTPC case, nor am I going to overclock the thing.
All I want is to be able to run plex and play any piece of media I have, on my 46" Panny LCDTV....in style.... and with one of those fancy remote apps that work on the iPod Touch.
With the current pricing scheme I predict the hack community will grow by leaps and bounds.
AMD 3800X2 CPU
DFI Lan Party Expert nForce4 motherboard
ASUS ATI Radeon x1800 GPU
Seasonic S12 600 PSU
HTPC case: TBD. I'll order that within 24 hours after some hasty research. I'll also need to buy a quiet CPU cooler and GPU cooler, as the previous iteration of that computer was watercooled and I have neither the time nor the inclination to try to cram a watercooling loop in an HTPC case, nor am I going to overclock the thing.
All I want is to be able to run plex and play any piece of media I have, on my 46" Panny LCDTV....in style.... and with one of those fancy remote apps that work on the iPod Touch.
With the current pricing scheme I predict the hack community will grow by leaps and bounds.
Just rebuilt my hackintosh/Windows 7 box today that had a C2D E4500 with a new motherboard and a Q9400. Holy crap, OS X really flies on a C2Q.
What kind of difference have you seen going from C2D to C2Q? Fast enough to justify the price bump?
i call bs....mainly since any hiccup requires another install and those take a good amt of time. so unless you had your system kexts perfect which didnt cause a boot kernel panic or anything then your statement is very hard to believe. very hard
I did quite a bit of research before i even bought the parts, so i knew what i was getting into. Theres also a great guide for my mobo on IM (ga-p35-ds3l) that got my audio, sata, ide, and all the other junk working. Other than that i just had my gfx card which took a few tries to get right because everyone felt like making their own nvidia driver and i had to go through each one before i found one that worked right. I went Intel so the vanilla kernel worked which saved me many headaches. I think it was a total of 3 installs before i got it right. I think it was the kalyway 10.5.2 disc that i used, which is a great disc, but seems way outdated compared to iPC 10.5.6.
Keep in mind that i started using osx86 with the JaS discs. In fact, i just cleaned out my cd collection and threw away a 10.4.4 dvd. I installed that on an old dell optiplex gx240. Everything worked great except the audio. An old AC'97 audio setup. The fact that i couldnt get audio working is was persuaded me to build my current rig. The old AC'97 audio is near impossible to get working, everything played too high for me, no matter what i did. I edited a few plists in the kext and got the audio close, but not perfect. It played fast enough to be exactly one semitone high, which was like torture to my ears (i play guitar/bass/mandolin, so i suppose i am more sensitive to it than some people, idk).
But i digress...
Im getting a new comp to hac in the near future, ill time myself and see how fast i can get a stable setup. The hardware works, so i bet i can get it done with one install. Yes, i accept your challenge! I will do it in one install!
Forgive me, its been a long day and im pooped.
Poll numbers
Well, here we are. The No way would I build a hackintosh is at an all-time low of 27%, while the I'm considering it right now is at an all-time high of 32%. This 5% spread is also the largest it's been. Interesting, verrrry interesting...
Well, here we are. The No way would I build a hackintosh is at an all-time low of 27%, while the I'm considering it right now is at an all-time high of 32%. This 5% spread is also the largest it's been. Interesting, verrrry interesting...
Looks like I got my new build working. Used iPC 10.5.6. Gotta get lan working, using a USB wifi stick for now. Too bad the LAN on this pc won't even work in Vista. There seems like there is absolutely no driver for it at all.
I've done most of my homework, I think, and wanted to just run this build by you guys to see if there are any glaring errors.
MOBO: GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P
CPU: Intel Q9550
HDD: SAMSUNG Spinpoint F1 1TB SATA 3 GB/s
GPU: eVGA 9500GTX+ 512MB
RAM: G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
ODD: LG 22X DVD±R DVD Burner Black SATA
PSU: 600 Watt Rosewill RP600V2-S
Should be good to go, right?
MOBO: GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P
CPU: Intel Q9550
HDD: SAMSUNG Spinpoint F1 1TB SATA 3 GB/s
GPU: eVGA 9500GTX+ 512MB
RAM: G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
ODD: LG 22X DVD±R DVD Burner Black SATA
PSU: 600 Watt Rosewill RP600V2-S
Should be good to go, right?
For me, I do alot of 1080P stuff on the Windows side and that involves alot of reencoding sometimes so it was definitely worth it there. On the Mac side everything is so much more responsive and quick to load plus I feel like I don't bog it down like I used to with the C2D.
Microcenter has the Q9400 for 179 right now, so price wise it was good upgrade IMO.
All depends on the hardware you have. Everything in my build is supported right out of the box except for my 9600GT. For that, all I have to do is update to 10.5.6 which has the drivers, and use OSX86Tools to add the EFI strings, reboot, and I have full QE/CI. No messing with kexts or any other crap.
The one thing that confuses me about that board is that it takes DDR2 1333 RAM, but when I searched newegg they don't have that kind of ram. What am I missing.
Edit: Which MoBo do you think would be better, the
•GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P
•GIGABYTE GA-EP45T-UD3P
thanks
Peoples signatures at Insanelymac, there is a Database too, but people tend to -not- use it. As a rule of thumb: Use a Intel Core2 Processor, SATA drives Gigabyte board with P35/P45 chipset.
Some HW that works well (from my sig at IM)...
Hack Pro Light
HAL2008 - MoBo:Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS4 / Proc: Q9450 @ 2.80GHz / RAM: MDT 4x2048MB PC6400 DDR2 @ 800MHz / Gfx: Sapphire Radeon 3870 / DeLock PCIe Firewire 800 / OSX Leopard 10.5.6 Retail + Some Kext's
How to install? Look here. Installing is a piece of cake.
I've actually had good success with AMD machines. Never owned an Intel machine so I wouldn't know...
integrated graphics + dedicated?
i cant get my desktop hackintosh to recognise the integrated graphics that is on my motherboard (i think it is the X3100??)
it can recognise my 8500 perfectly but it wont work in OSX, the window side recognises both in extended desktop mode and mirrored mode. are there any drivers of the sort out there? i have googles the problem with no results, all things return back as laptop questions!
my mobo is the Intel Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L
i cant get my desktop hackintosh to recognise the integrated graphics that is on my motherboard (i think it is the X3100??)
it can recognise my 8500 perfectly but it wont work in OSX, the window side recognises both in extended desktop mode and mirrored mode. are there any drivers of the sort out there? i have googles the problem with no results, all things return back as laptop questions!
my mobo is the Intel Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L
If what i learned some time ago is still true then...
You can not use a retail DVD for installs and have to rely on hacked install CD's
Can not use a "vanilla" kernel, and have to wait for a new custom kernel or hacked security upgrade (or edit the install script yourself) everytime you want to upgrade.
As i like to keep my system up to date it is easier (and more secure) for me to go with hardware that matches Apple's offerings to a certain degree. That is why i say - If you want a Hackintosh go Intel.
Installing OSX on something you have lying around will probably bring you hours of researching, then having a partly usable system and after that quitting your Hackintosh project because of to much problems. Just my 0.2 cent meant as a good advise.