DrNomis_44's Hackintosh Build

[DrNomis_44]

How lucky are you Doc to find a working motherboard lol. Maybe you should buy a lottery ticket this week too. Well looks like Kels and Emily will be a great source of information in your Hackintosh build. Have fun.

Yep...lol, I still can't believe I managed to get the Motherboard to boot-up first time I tried it out, part of me is wondering why the previous owner threw it out in the first place.

[keloooe]

Its a pretty nice board, especially when new...

[DrNomis_44]

Its a pretty nice board, especially when new...

It looks like a fairly modern board to me, there's an integrated HDMI port on it where all the integrated USB ports are, also it supports DDR3 2800+ Ram Sticks, what's really good is that there's a website where I can download the user manual and other stuff on it, not only that, the onboard sound supports THX, there's a total of 4 Ram slots on the board, I'm pretty happy with what I scored for practically nothing except my time and effort walking down 1 flight of stairs, to the rubbish bins, and back again.

[kimball492]

Hey Doc, Let's just hope all your ports work and then you'll have a hackintosh up n running in no time. The only time I've thrown motherboards out is when there's port issues or overheating. But some guys that want the latest boards just swap em out and get rid of the old board,let's hope yours is the latter. All good news so far that it boots up. I'd plugin a hard drive in some memory fans maybe load win 7-8 connect things to Usbs ports etc and let it run for 24 hours. If all is ok then proceed with your hackintosh build.

[DrNomis_44]

Hey Doc, Let's just hope all your ports work and then you'll have a hackintosh up n running in no time. The only time I've thrown motherboards out is when there's port issues or overheating. But some guys that want the latest boards just swap em out and get rid of the old board,let's hope yours is the latter. All good news so far that it boots up. I'd plugin a hard drive in some memory fans maybe load win 7-8 connect things to Usbs ports etc and let it run for 24 hours. If all is ok then proceed with your hackintosh build.

As it just so happens, I have a Genuine set of Microsoft Windows 7 DVDs which I could install on my Hackintosh PC just to confirm that the board is good as per your suggestion, another way I could test the USB ports to see if they all work, that I can think of, is to boot the motherboard up into the BIOS screen and see if I can enable the USB ports, if I can it'd be a reasonably safe bet that they're working, if not then that could indicate that they don't work.

But yeah, I do appreciate the importance of making sure I start with a good motherboard that works as it's supposed to.

[kimball492]

Emma and Kels will tell you how long the installation of the hackintosh hacks take if its a short time then go straight to the hackintosh setup. I think my El Capitan took about 20- 30 mins install that's on a Mac no hacks of course. Good luck

[DrNomis_44]

Emma and Kels will tell you how long the installation of the hackintosh hacks take if its a short time then go straight to the hackintosh setup. I think my El Capitan took about 20- 30 mins install that's on a Mac no hacks of course. Good luck

So I'm guessing that I'll probably have to buy something like a Mac OS X El Capitain Installation DVD before I do anything else, I think I know where I can buy one, possibly JB Hi-Fi in Casuarina since they do sell Intel Macs.

[Dedman]

excuse my ignorance, but what's the advantage of installing a Mac OS on Windows hardware?

[DrNomis_44]

excuse my ignorance, but what's the advantage of installing a Mac OS on Windows hardware?

From what I've read online, PC hardware can cost less than equivalent Mac hardware, so the advantage is that it's cheaper.

Also, Apple have tightened things up with their hardware so that there's less upgrade options than PC hardware because the Apple hardware is proprietary, if you want to add more USB, or Firewire ports to a PC it's relatively easy to do compared to Apple hardware, yes you could plug in a hub with extra ports on a Mac.

[Dedman]

Can't argue with that. A friend used to bag me for running Windows for my graphics a few years back because he ran Mac in studio and Mac was king in his mind!. His studio is now all PC LOL. I was lucky last year when the dollar was at $1.25 US I built a new box with all US sourced components except the case and power supply, saved close to $800 against local prices and it kicks arse