Ultra Budget Hackintosh

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

DISCLAIMER I WILL NOT BE DISCLOSING HOW I MADE A HACKINTOSH AS THAT'S AGAINST FORUM COMMUNITY STANDARDS

 

Now, to get this under way- I built a Hackintosh, as I've always wanted a Mac but didn't wanna spend Mac money and it works beautifully!

 

The specs:

• Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550
• Cooler Master Geminii II S524
• Intel DG41RQ Motherboard
• 2x2GB's DDR2 800Mhz RAM
• MSI GTX 750 1GB GPU
• 240GB Kingston V300 SSD
• Corsair 350D Case
• 400W EVGA 80+ PSU

The total cost of this build was about $100 of parts I had to buy, the rest was stuff that I had laying around from previous builds.

 

And it looks amazing!

 

And everything works perfectly in the OS!

 

The build experience was pretty good and I'm rather pleased with the outcome.

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

if you're going to use an old processor would it be easier to just buy a second hand mac? I scored a mac mini with broken fan & dvd drive really cheap, now i just have to figure out how to cool it

[captain_to_fire]

Good luck with kernel panic error messages ??

[Guest]

Pretty sure posting about Hackintosh is against community standards... but nice build anyways!

[LienusLateTips]

3 minutes ago, Abyss Gaming said:

Pretty sure posting about Hackintosh is against community standards... but nice build anyways!

But he only talks about how he did it. He did not explain.

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

33 minutes ago, SCHISCHKA said:

if you're going to use an old processor would it be easier to just buy a second hand mac? I scored a mac mini with broken fan & dvd drive really cheap, now i just have to figure out how to cool it

No good iGPU's in the Mac mini's in my budget, plus this is more funny / dynamic.

 

26 minutes ago, hey_yo_ said:

Good luck with kernel panic error messages ??

Haven't had a single error actually- everything went smooth as could be.

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

11 hours ago, Jacktastic-Mofo said:

No good iGPU's in the Mac mini's in my budget, plus this is more funny / dynamic.

mines got a 9400m which is kinda shit, pretty sure it wont play CSGO. I was hoping it would be upgradeable but i think its embedded into the mainboard. For iOS development I can see the temptation for a hack because the current Apple hardware is crap, theyre practically asking for it

11 hours ago, Abyss Gaming said:

Pretty sure posting about Hackintosh is against community standards... but nice build anyways!

he could have taken the word hackintosh out and called it a non-windows POSIX compliant OS. I dont know why people are not more strategic with their communications