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The case I had prior to this one... those damn thumb screws were too tight when it was fresh out of the box. Screwdriver was a little out of reach, buck knife however was within arms length. 
 
got the first screw loosened, no problem.
 
second screw was a little tougher, so i put some extra oomph into it. And wouldnt you know it... the buck knife folded shut on my left index finger, chopping clean down to the bone. Took 8 stitches to seal it up, 4 internal dissolvable stitches, 4 that I had to pull out a week or 2 later.
 
it was pretty gnarly. Blood everywhere. 
 
 
http://youtu.be/Hsue8KwgAu4
 
Needless to say, the case definitely lived up to it's name
 

I've been trying to get more and more people over to the dark side, and i've succeeded... though sometimes you have to be careful what you wish for.
 
One guy has gotten the itch to upgrade his 7770, so we get to talking and I recommended the 750ti, it had come out the day before. There was also a 7870 that I had a line on for $125 shipped.
So he had those 2 options
He chose option number 3, which was going into the local computer shop and asking for whatever they had in stock. 
A GTX 650... not even ti. for $193.
 
I told him to go get his money back and that he'd been swindled, showed him benchmarks and everything.
You'd assume he'd take the card back that day and be pretty pissed about it as well. 
2 weeks later we get to talking about it and sure as s*** he's still using the 650.
he took it back the next day.
Then he goes and buys a 8350 when he already had an fx 6300, and is still using the 7770.
 
 
Just a lot of facepalming going on there.

Bite me... told him what he did wrong and how to not do it again. I'm more helpful than the 5 people who liked his post without informing him the error of his ways.
 
There's absolutely nothing wrong with being a noob unless you deny it.

What I said had nothing to do with his standing on this site. He made a noob mistake. He deleted his mother's user account when he could have reset the password in under 5 minutes, people like him shouldnt be 'helping' other people with their computers.
 
http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/

In all fairness, you're the noob here. You didn't have to delete her user account at all and a simple google search on your part would have saved this whole story from happening.

BUMP for knowledge

The case I had prior to this one... those damn thumb screws were too tight when it was fresh out of the box. Screwdriver was a little out of reach, buck knife however was within arms length. 
 
got the first screw loosened, no problem.
 
second screw was a little tougher, so i put some extra oomph into it. And wouldnt you know it... the buck knife folded shut on my left index finger, chopping clean down to the bone. Took 8 stitches to seal it up, 4 internal dissolvable stitches, 4 that I had to pull out a week or 2 later.
 
it was pretty gnarly. Blood everywhere. 
 
 
http://youtu.be/Hsue8KwgAu4
 
Needless to say, the case definitely lived up to it's name
 

I've been trying to get more and more people over to the dark side, and i've succeeded... though sometimes you have to be careful what you wish for.
 
One guy has gotten the itch to upgrade his 7770, so we get to talking and I recommended the 750ti, it had come out the day before. There was also a 7870 that I had a line on for $125 shipped.
So he had those 2 options
He chose option number 3, which was going into the local computer shop and asking for whatever they had in stock. 
A GTX 650... not even ti. for $193.
 
I told him to go get his money back and that he'd been swindled, showed him benchmarks and everything.
You'd assume he'd take the card back that day and be pretty pissed about it as well. 
2 weeks later we get to talking about it and sure as s*** he's still using the 650.
he took it back the next day.
Then he goes and buys a 8350 when he already had an fx 6300, and is still using the 7770.
 
 
Just a lot of facepalming going on there.

Bite me... told him what he did wrong and how to not do it again. I'm more helpful than the 5 people who liked his post without informing him the error of his ways.
 
There's absolutely nothing wrong with being a noob unless you deny it.

Adblock is your friend.

Thanks for the mention.
 
Yeah, it can be pretty painless, link to more information is in the sig. Your video card and motherboard may pose an issue, but provided you have recent nvidia that shouldnt be a problem.
 
 
Edit: just looked at your specs and your motherboard checks out. and the video card will work, but I don't think it will be as easy as mine was.

As jaybird said, it could be hardware, software or user error. There's lots of things that can cause an OS to hang. Many times it's not the os's fault. Sleep/Wake issues are in no way exclusive to Mac OS systems.
 
Stop arguing for the sake of argument.

true. but it still happens. I think its linked to hardware issue because I used to get kernal errors occationally then I had to replace my logic board and the kernal errors went away. so you never know. could be hardware, could be software, could be user error. 

Don't ask for help when you're just going to respond that the correct answer is too hard.

I don't know what you'd do with bear bones... but i know somebody who's selling this
 

 
It's a start.

It's your duty to set them up with Ubuntu... go forth and change their life.

This is a good idea until you realize what thermal paste does and why you use it.
 
The thermal paste is there to effectively transfer heat from the die to the heatsink. If you think thermal paste has cooling properties of it's own, take your computer's heatsink off and slather on a bunch of paste and try running it.
 
You just fried your CPU didn't you? 
 
Science!

It's your duty to set them up with Ubuntu... go forth and change their life.

I can tell you from experience, it will seem like a step backward at first.
 
"What? I need to memorize weird commands with arcane flags/parameters? How am I supposed to know what tar -zxvf does? Why isn't there just a button?"
But then you start learning things and realize just how quick and efficient the command line can be. Using a CLI more effectively than a GUI is a wonderful feeling.

It's your duty to set them up with Ubuntu... go forth and change their life.

Yep, Using an FX-6300, GTX 770, and a Ralink USB wifi stick, i've got a fully working hackintosh running Mavericks. 
 
Feels good.
 
 
Ask me anything.... i guess?
 
 
http://puu.sh/85z7v/06dccdd728.png (picture too big to upload)
 
 
Edit: It seems that many of the LinusTechTips users are misinformed when it comes to Hackintosh, claiming it to be impossible to run on AMD CPU's. I'm here to tell you all otherwise. There are no bugs like many would lead you to believe, It's super simple if you have a modicum of computer knowledge and are familiar with installing and configuring operating systems. 
 
This is the hardware i'm running (your mileage may vary, I'm not responsible for lost data)

 
 
If you're starting from scratch; IE. only have windows installed, you will need the following...
For the sake of this I will assume you're using a USB stick and not a Dual Layer DVD, though both will work.
 
 
1. Niresh12495's Mavericks for Intel/AMD

I'm not sure about the legality or CoC for linking directly to it, so you're on your own there. Practice your Google-fu, and you'll find it no problem.
 
 
2. Transmac (comes with a free 15 day trial) 
http://www.acutesystems.com/scrtm.htm
 
3. An 8gb flash drive
 
4. An empty unformatted partition 40gb or larger. (on a separate drive from your windows install)
 
 
That's it.
 
Wait... that can't be it, you say? no.... THAT'S IT!!
 
 
What you will need to do once you have the above requirements.
 
 
Part 1. Preparing your installer USB
 
Install transmac.
Insert your flash drive
Run Transmac as administrator.
Locate your flash drive in the left panel of Transmac.
Right click on it and select the Format as HFS+ option.
Once that's completed, right click that same USB drive again and select "format with disc image" and select your Mavericks image. and let it do it's thing.
 
Part 2. Installing the OS
 
Reboot your computer and set it to boot from USB, and set the drive you intend to install OS X on to AHCI.
It will boot up to a menu of all of your partitions, choose the one that contains the name "niresh" BEFORE PRESSING ENTER TO SELECT YOU MUST ENTER 'amdfx' (MINUS THE QUOTES) 
Once the installer boots up, on the top bar, find the Disk Utility.
Once in the Disk utility find your empty partition and format it as HFS Extended.
When that's completed, in the bottom left of the installer window is a button that says "customize" click that and find the option that allows you to backup your graphics Kexts (I had to do this, you may not, if after installation you're met with a black screen even with the boot flag GraphicsEnabler=Yes, THIS WILL BE YOUR CULPRIT AND YOU'LL HAVE TO REINSTALL TO FIX IT)
Now select your partition that you've formatted as HFS Extended, and let it do it's thing.
 
Part 3. Installing the bootloader
 
You're on your own here. Assuming you haven't changed anything else in your bios, you should be able to reboot into Windows with no fuss. I prefer to have the bootloader remain on a USB drive. 
Alternatively you can select your OS X drive in BIOS to boot into OS X. I find plugging in the USB drive a bit more convenient though.
 
Part 4. Other stuff
 
You'll likely have to begin by entering the boot flag "GraphicsEnabler=Yes"
 
The driver I used for my graphics card. - http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/73628/en-us
Cuda Drivers must be installed separately - http://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-cuda-5.5.47-driver.html
 
 
After I installed my Graphics driver I had to add the bootflag "EnableHDMIAudio=Yes" (note: there is no in system audio control for hdmi, so that's controlled by your tv/receiver.)
 
Take a look here for boot flags that may apply to your particular setup. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/284994-all-the-possible-boot-options-for-chameleon/
 
 
I don't write tutorials, as you can tell from the roughness of this, but I just wanted to clear this up for some people. It's not hard, it's not buggy, and it's most definitely not impossible. 
 
Good Luck.

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/138853-just-got-myself-into-a-fully-working-hackintosh-amd-no-less/


Doxxy in this thread. Says it all.

... no, given his setup if he follows the instructions in my thread he'll have a fully operational system in less than an hour.

it's probably the other way around, like that assassassin guy said, Nvidia dropped them. 

Think of it this way... Forget that cold exists. There is literally no such thing as cold, ask your physics teacher. There is only the absence of heat. If you're covering something with a thick paste, where is that heat going to go? It's going to stay trapped in the metals because heat likes metal more than it likes paste. Sure it'll get rid of some of the heat through passive means, but the majority of the heat will be trapped. 
 
You're right that thermal paste aids in heat transfer, but only between two contacting points. And i'm not even going to touch the topic of Conductive or Capacitive effects on electronic hardware which is the main reason why this is a horrible idea.