Let me explain that title a little more - I currently use both a Macbook Pro and a PC and I'm thinking of building a Hackintosh but would like to use as much of my current PC as possible (if compatible).
So here's the deal: Long time Mac user, typically use my mid-2011 Macbook Pro at home in a dock with all external peripherals.
For anything more demanding (video editing etc) I have a pretty powerful Windows PC that I built (primarily for gaming!) back in like 2012. Annoyingly I don't think the motherboard is compatible but some of the other hardware may well be:
- Gigabyte Z77X-D3H motherboard (pretty sure this isn't on any lists...?)
- ATI Radeon R7850 2GB GPU (again, can't see it listed but not sure how stringent the naming conventions are...)
- Intel I5 3570K CPU (does CPU compatibility even matter?)
- 8GB RAM, 120GB SSD for OS, 4TB of assorted HDDs etc
The Macbook Pro (whilst I love it) is starting to show signs of slowing down, even just with normal day-to-day activities (like watching YouTube videos online, browsing my iTunes library etc). I'd love something that was as blindingly fast as my Windows machine but capable of running Mac OS X for my day-to-day use (and something that would let me edit video, photos etc. under Mac OS too, so using CUDA acceleration is a must!).
What do people think? Would I be able to use any of these components or would I be better off just buying a completely new system?
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