thinking about a hackintosh

JewishBacon · April 22, 2014

so ive recently been thinking about getting into a hackintosh. Ive ALWAYS been a pc guy, and never really used a mac before for more than things like fixing someones wifi issues on one lol. anyway, ive got a z87 MSI GD 65 on the 1150 socket, as well as a sapphire non reference r9 280x. I know that the Gigabyte boards are supposed to be really good at this, does this mean that msi wont work really well? also, since ive got an AMD gpu, will the OS X not recognize it? I know mac typically uses the green team. I have a dual bios on my motherboard so i would be able to flip a switch when i want to change between mac and pc. I was also going to throw in a second hard drive for the mac partition. does anyone have any suggestions or tips for me? im pretty good on PC and can 9 times out of 10, troubleshoot and fix my own issues.

TheNinjaNextDor · April 22, 2014

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/142422-os-x-mavericks-installation-guide-and-dual-booting-from-experience/

Look into this

JewishBacon · April 22, 2014

thanks @TheNinjaNextDor

jezza39 · April 22, 2014

I would really, really, really recommend grabbing a Gigabyte mobo. For a first time it will make everything far more frustrating. I also recommend going to tonymacx86.com and looking through the forums for people who have used the same hardware. You may find that a DSDT for your board does not exist and you won't have audio.

You could use the dual bios switch to change between the two on boot by having a different boot priority among other things.

If you want to hackintosh I would follow the Tonymac guide