I've been meaning to get a MacBook for a while now, said fuck it and decided to just run a hackintosh, both for the challenge and for the novelty of an OSX on my PC. The build is as below, and it works perfectly fine with the below hardware.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks
| Type | Item | Price |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor | $109.99 @ Amazon |
| Motherboard | ASRock 970 EXTREME4 ATX AM3+ Motherboard | $99.99 @ Amazon |
| Memory | Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory | $77.99 @ Newegg |
| Storage | Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive | $84.98 @ Outlet PC (Actually got this for $60 + shipping from my friends at /r/hardwareswap. Thanks walrus4lyfe! :D) |
| Video Card | Gigabyte GeForce GTX 660 2GB Video Card | $193.98 @ Newegg |
| Wireless Network Adapter | Rosewill RNX-N250PCe 802.11b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter | $19.95 @ Amazon |
| Case | Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case | $53.98 @ Newegg |
| Power Supply | XFX 550W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply | $45.99 @ NCIX US |
| Operating System | Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) | $89.98 @ Outlet PC |
| Monitor | Asus VS247H-P 23.6" Monitor | $149.98 @ Outlet PC |
| Total | ||
| Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available. | $914.81 | |
| Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-07-27 00:17 EDT-0400 |
- Downloaded Niresh's 10.9 Maverick .dmg on my native Windows 8.
- Burned the .dmg to a 16GB flash drive using Win32DiskImager.
- Turned off PC, unplugged SSD.
- Booted into BIOS, turned on AHCI and HPET 64-bit.
- Restarted, booted from the .dmg burned flash drive.
- At this point, Niresh's .dmg took care of it all. The loadup took a little bit than expected, then again it's an installer.
- I used Disk Utility before installation to wipe my current 1TB drive, formatted to MacOSX (Journaled).
- Then the installation took roughly 20 minutes. I restarted after this.
- I then was able to boot with
PCIRootUID=1 npci=0x3000
You may need to boot with
GraphicsEnabler=no
in order to get the initial boot, or a
-x
in order to get the initial configs.
Ethernet, sound, video, Steelseries Sensei mouse, Steelseries Siberia v2 USB Headset works as well. One final restart took care of anything, and I just now boot with Niresh's leftover bootloader with those flags enabled.
Pretty surprised it was this easy, people warned me of AMD CPUs and mobos, but I got it to work.
Cheers.
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