Could I build a hackintosh with the ASRock H97M-ITX/AC Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard?

[Kevin_Earley]

Could I build a hackintosh with the ASRock H97M-ITX/AC Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard? If not, could somebody suggest a similar motherboard that I could build a hackintosh with?

[Hackentosher]

1 minute ago, cocolde said:

Could I build a hackintosh with the ASRock H97M-ITX/AC Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard? If not, could somebody suggest a similar motherboard that I could build a hackintosh with?

Use a gigabyte board unless you want to tear all of your hair out. You could also check by searching for other people who have tried that board on http://www.tonymacx86.com/

[Streetguru]

1 minute ago, cocolde said:

Could I build a hackintosh with the ASRock H97M-ITX/AC Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard? If not, could somebody suggest a similar motherboard that I could build a hackintosh with?

Not worth the time nor effort, any particular reason you'd want OSX?

 

Otherwise I think ASUS boards are generally the best bet

 

or you could do something like this

 

 

[Kevin_Earley]

Is there a way I could make it work though? I'm still gonna look into your suggestions, but theoretically what would be involved? The reason I prefer OS X is primarily that I'm most comfortable in OS X. I've used it most of my life and, though I know the basics of Windows 7-10, I'm not looking to deal with the headaches that go along with that switch right now. I'm familiar with where to find all the settings on OS X (like very advanced settings. terminal stuff too.). I also know what applications do their intended use best on mac and why. I don't ave the time to re-learn all of that information for the windows side of things just yet. I am primarily looking at this motherboard because it has most of the things I want and it's in my restrictive budget.

[Streetguru]

2 minutes ago, cocolde said:

 

So why don't you just use linux, and then you aren't heavily limiting what hardware you can use. You can make it function pretty much identically to OSX, and then it's better, cuz it's not locked down.

[Kevin_Earley]

I guess. I've never worked with linux really. Any tips on doing that?

[Streetguru]

7 minutes ago, cocolde said:

I guess. I've never worked with linux really. Any tips on doing that?

There's like a total conversion thing here someone made

http://www.noobslab.com/2014/04/macbuntu-1404-pack-is-released.html

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-Ubuntu-Linux-look-like-Mac-OS-X/

http://www.howtogeek.com/45817/how-to-make-ubuntu-linux-look-like-mac-os-x/

are you doing any gaming? As you'd still have to either do a GPU passthrough or dual boot windows for that

[Kevin_Earley]

No. I'm trying to set up a budget video editing/graphics editing rig.

[Streetguru]

1 minute ago, cocolde said:

No. I'm trying to set up a budget video editing/graphics editing rig.

Well what budget?

 

and you'd probably still have to use windows for the video editing software, what software were you going to use? if you want to buy something Sony appears to have a fairly solid more budget oriented option, or you can learn how to use blender for video editing under GNU/linux

[Kevin_Earley]

$700, but I'd like to keep it to $500 because my network is overdue for an upgrade as well.

[Kevin_Earley]

I already have something I can use as a makeshift monitor until I can afford something better.

[Streetguru]

6 minutes ago, cocolde said:

$700, but I'd like to keep it to $500 because my network is overdue for an upgrade as well.

You could go even less expensive with like an 8320E build, but probably not worth the performance loss

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/r9sFFT
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/r9sFFT/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1246 V3 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($279.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M-ITX/AC Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($83.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Team Elite Plus 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($51.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($48.97 @ Directron)
Case: Cooler Master Elite 110 Mini ITX Tower Case  ($38.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 350W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($32.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $536.91
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-23 20:10 EDT-0400

Well maybe worth the performance loss for $150 less +/- wireless card it would be micro ATX though

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/WKCn3C
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/WKCn3C/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD FX-8320E 3.2GHz 8-Core Processor  ($125.99 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: ASRock 970M PRO3 Micro ATX AM3+/AM3 Motherboard  ($56.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Team Elite Plus 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($51.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($48.97 @ Directron)
Video Card: XFX Radeon HD 5450 1GB Video Card  ($27.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Rosewill SRM-01 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  ($21.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 350W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($32.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $366.91
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-23 20:12 EDT-0400

[Kevin_Earley]

Ya that's actually a pretty nice build. I could definitely do that. I might throw in a low capacity ssd as well, to run the os, but I like it. What do think about a gpu though? Will the integrated graphics cover it?

[Streetguru]

6 minutes ago, cocolde said:

Ya that's actually a pretty nice build. I could definitely do that. I might throw in a low capacity ssd as well, to run the os, but I like it. What do think about a gpu though? Will the integrated graphics cover it?

It'll be fine, unless you're doing like really heavy stuff, then you might want to just throw in a workstation GPU for some acceleration, or maybe just throw in like a 250 for basic acceleration with openCL

 

$80 GPU

https://pcpartpicker.com/part/xfx-video-card-r7250xcgf4

$150 workstation GPU, dunno if it would really be worth it

https://pcpartpicker.com/part/ati-video-card-100505817

[Kevin_Earley]

alright. thanks! this helps a lot!