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Can I turn my PC into a hackintosh?

first off, for all of you anti apple people out there, this is so I can sell my pc for over hardware cost to someone who needs a mac for content creation, and rebuild my unbalanced build to a true gaming PC. 

 

now that we got that out of the way, hi everyone. so My PC has served me well with windows 8.1, but i need to try and turn it into a hackintosh to sell it. so Im wondering if I can do it with my specs, because i thought it only really worked with reference GPUS but I Dont know much so. 

 

specs:

I5-3570K cooled with a hyper 212

gigbyte z77-ds3h

asus DCU II 7950

8 gigs of corsair ram 

1 tb wd green drive (would be replaced with samsung SSD)

 

the only things that would effect this would be the MOBO and GPU right?

 

and would i still be able to overclock the components? 

thanks for any help!

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first off, for all of you anti apple people out there, this is so I can sell my pc for over hardware cost to someone who needs a mac for content creation, and rebuild my unbalanced build to a true gaming PC. 

 

now that we got that out of the way, hi everyone. so My PC has served me well with windows 8.1, but i need to try and turn it into a hackintosh to sell it. so Im wondering if I can do it with my specs, because i thought it only really worked with reference GPUS but I Dont know much so. 

 

specs:

I5-3570K cooled with a hyper 212

gigbyte z77-ds3h

asus DCU II 7950

8 gigs of corsair ram 

1 tb wd green drive (would be replaced with samsung SSD)

 

the only things that would effect this would be the MOBO and GPU right?

 

and would i still be able to overclock the components? 

thanks for any help!

You have a gigabyte motherboard so that's good to start with, amd gpu's can be a little difficult but it should work just search some hackintosch forums.





 
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You have a gigabyte motherboard so that's good to start with, amd gpu's can be a little difficult but it should work just search some hackintosch forums.

7950 works natively in Mavericks. It was the previous versions that had issues getting it up and running.

"Rawr XD"

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7950 works natively in Mavericks. It was the previous versions that had issues getting it up and running.

thats what i thought because they sell a 7950 for mac pros. but will it being non-refrence effect it?

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thats what i thought because they sell a 7950 for mac pros. but will it being non-refrence effect it?

Nope

"Rawr XD"

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There are many tutorials with that motherboard on YouTube. I would stick with Mavericks. Yosemite is having trouble with hackintosh systems right now.

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There are many tutorials with that motherboard on YouTube. I would stick with Mavericks. Yosemite is having trouble with hackintosh systems right now.

really? is this one of those things you just need to wait for people to fix everything to work properly?

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All part all compatible 

you can find 7950 kexts easily on hackintosh forums

http://www.macbreaker.com/2013/03/radeon-7000-hackintosh.html

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For some reason Kyuubixchidori i can't quote lol. But yes they are still working on those bugs. I tried installing it on my Z77-D3H board. no luck

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A lot of issues were fixed on 10.10.1 so Yosemite works great or even better - been able to overclock higher my cpu in Yosemite then on Maverics.

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