Except for the SSD, the HDDs are canabalised from the Mac Pro 3,1. Kingston Digital 120GB SSDNow V300 Is My Startup Diskįour 7200RPM Seagate Mechanical HDDs, and One SSD with Sandforce controller to the job just fine. Setting it up as a wireless extender is superbly easy. Post which I directly connected the router to the machine via the ethernet port. I got an Edimax BR-6228NS V3, and set that up as an extender. It worked, but because of the cheap build quality the reception was bad. There are OS X drivers that support this dongle. For some time I was using EDUP’s 802.11n USB Wifi dongle. The internal NIC works fine, OOTB with the kexts from Multibeast installed. Wifi/Network:įor some time I was using the EDUP EP-N8508 I had some issues with the mouse being “laggy” when both Apple’s Wireless keyboard, and Mouse were connected together using the dongle. They do work out of the box, but need the NVidia drivers. I had issues along the way with the GT120s. Two with two GT120s, and one with the HD4600 integrated GPU. Each screen having it’s own GPU to work with. But at the time of writing this post, I have 3 screens up, and running. A lot of them said, it may not be possible. I wanted the two discrete GPUs to work with Intel’s HD4600 integrated GPU. Most said they should work, some said they wouldn’t. I got mixed replies to various posts on various hackintosh forums, and channels about these working OOTB. The two I have, were cannibalised from the Mac Pro 3,1 ( Read more about that here). Two NVidia GT 120s, each with 512MB VRAM - Mine were from MacVidCards, so they look a little different. I went directly for the 1000w unit because I was thinking of future proofing the entire system. Provides ample enough power to put in whatever else I can think of putting in the case. Power Supply Unit:Ĭorsair RM Series 1000 Watt ATX/EPS 80PLUS Gold-Certified Power SupplyĪ modular power supply unit, with 10 years of warranty. Later, I am going to upgrade the ram to 32GB. None the less, this too gets the job done. I realized much later in the game, when benchmark scoring the build that the difference if not noticeable, is still there. To save some dough I chose Kingston Fury X over Corsair’s Vengeance Pro series. None the less, works out of the box, and the bus speed is downgraded to 1600Mhz. Yea I got to the part where the Gigabyte motherboard I have only supports a bus speed of 1600Mz, much later. RAM:Ī single stick of 8GB Kingston HyperX FURY 1866MHz DDR3 CL10 DIMM - Blue It’s a big change from the two quad core Xeons with four cores each, but this gets the job done none the less. If required can be “turbo” boosted to 3.4Ghz - again I don’t think I will require that with my current usage. It’s a 4th generation Haswell Refresh processor with HD4600 integrated graphics support. Intel’s Core i5 4460 3.2Ghz Quad Core LGA 1150Ī nice mid range processor. The motherboard has had been used before successfully, for setting up a working hackintosh. I chose the H97M-D3H over the Z97M-D3H because for my needs I don’t require overclocking, and the form factor was perfect for now. And although the list for the 9 series motherboards said that all the listed 9 series motherboards have native sleep/wake functionality, I wasn’t able to test this completely - more on this below. This 9 series motherboard does not require a pre-patched DSDT. Gigabyte, because of it UEFI Dual boot option is one of the best brand of motherboards compatible with Mac OS X. I had many options with respect to compatible motherboards. Gigabyte's H97M-D3H for LGA 1150 for 4th, and 5th Generation processors The part list was made with the compatible part recommendations post, over at. The below is the part list that runs Yosemite OS X 10.10.4 … Compatible Parts List For This Hackintosh Build The total cost of ownership was ~750-800USD. This was my first assembly after a very, very long time. Once the cabinet arrived, the assembly got done within the span of the first four hours. What Went Into The Hackintosh Build & The Issues I Facedīuying, and assembling compatible parts was the easy part. The Completed Hackintosh Build - Awesome, and Comfortably Stable The only changed since this picture was taken is the addition of the Wifi range extender, and the bluetooth mini adapter. The Completed Hackintosh Build - Comfortably Stable The Mac Pro 3,1 is now replaced by a better, faster, and maintainable machine built from PC parts. It’s been two weeks of finding compatibility issues, and trying to make the hackintosh as stable as possible.
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