Hackintosh

[Matty2hatty]

I need a £300 Hackintosh. It will be Mini-ITX and preferably an pentium or i3 (one of the newer ones). I was wondering if i should get an integrated CPU? It would save money but the cpu's that you can get are not great. Any suggestions appreciated, oh and the case is the ML06 or another slim mini its case of the sort.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

-Matty2hatty

[Guest]

I would wait for a bigger budget, Hackintosh isn't something you should spend 300 (currency) on, since some parts wont work at all with Hackintosh.

[suchamoneypit]

what is it going to be used for?

[Matty2hatty]

what is it going to be used for?

Oh yeah, just web browsing and youtube.

[Streetguru]

I need a £300 Hackintosh. It will be Mini-ITX and preferably an pentium or i3 (one of the newer ones). I was wondering if i should get an integrated CPU? It would save money but the cpu's that

Never worth it to build a Hackintosh

 

 

Oh yeah, just web browsing and youtube.

Then why do you need a Hackintosh? You could do that with Linux, and then just make Linux look identical to OSX if you really liked OSX for some reason.

[Guest]

Never worth it to build a Hackintosh

 

 

Then why do you need a Hackintosh? You could do that with Linux, and then just make Linux look identical to OSX if you really liked OSX for some reason.

I personally love the looks of OSX and know Linux can do the same thing (I despise Linux btw) but don't want to loose half my steam library 

[Djole123]

I guess something like this:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4130 3.4GHz Dual-Core Processor (£92.98 @ Amazon UK)

Motherboard: MSI H81I Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard (£50.34 @ Amazon UK)

Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£27.99 @ Amazon UK)

Storage: Toshiba 1TB 2.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (£37.96 @ CCL Computers)

Case: Silverstone ML06B HTPC Case (£49.00 @ CCL Computers)

Power Supply: Silverstone 300W 80+ Bronze Certified SFX Power Supply (£43.01 @ CCL Computers)

Total: £301.28

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-12 21:21 GMT+0000

[Streetguru]

I personally love the looks of OSX and know Linux can do the same thing (I despise Linux btw) but don't want to loose half my steam library 

Why do you hate freedom?

 

What do you mean steam library, do you just dual boot windows or something? Although I guess there's a number of games available on OSX

Also for that low of budget you're better off with an APU if you play games, which would mean no OSX, because super strict hardware requirements, if only FM2+ ITX motherboards didn't cost so much

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/DwtxJx

Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/DwtxJx/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD A10-7700K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£83.47 @ Amazon UK)

Motherboard: MSI A88XI AC V2 Mini ITX FM2+ Motherboard  (£74.39 @ Aria PC)

Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Red 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  (£33.96 @ More Computers)

Total: £191.82

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-12 21:40 GMT+0000

[Guest]

Why do you hate freedom?

 

What do you mean steam library, do you just dual boot windows or something? Although I guess there's a number of games available on OSX

Also for that low of budget you're better off with an APU if you play games, which would mean no OSX, because super strict hardware requirements, if only FM2+ ITX motherboards didn't cost so much

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/DwtxJx

Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/DwtxJx/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD A10-7700K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£83.47 @ Amazon UK)

Motherboard: MSI A88XI AC V2 Mini ITX FM2+ Motherboard  (£74.39 @ Aria PC)

Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Red 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  (£33.96 @ More Computers)

Total: £191.82

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-12 21:40 GMT+0000

Nah, I just don't care too much about if Microsoft knows what kind of porn I watch or what music I download

ect ect I use to be really finiky about it but now I'm just w/e

edit:

As for Linux, it has an extremely low amount of game support 

[Streetguru]

Nah, I just don't care too much about if Microsoft knows what kind of porn I watch or what music I download

You could either dual boot windows and have the linux "OSX" or potentially get a dedicated GPU and do a KVM passthrough to a windows VM for full game support, just gotta make sure the motherboard has full support and all that, though that's a bit more of a crazy task.

 

In any case unless you get a broadwell Intel chip, you won't be gaming well on integrated graphics, or did you have a dedicated card for the machine? and I don't think either broadwell or skylake have proper OSX support, not sure on that

Course you could always buy a used Mac Mini or something and not have to worry about compatibility issues