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- Aug 25, 2011
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- Motherboard
- Sandy Bridge Hackintosh
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- i5-2500k
- Graphics
- HD3000
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
This has to have been the easiest thing ever. I had waaaaaay more issues when I built a Win7 MCE box two years ago. This took about 3 hours going at a very leisurely pace as I was chatting with my grandad the whole time!
From this:
Untitled by ShadowTD, on Flickr
Gigabyte GA-H67MA-USB3-B3
Intel Core i5 2500K 3.3GHz
Corsair 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1333MHz
Corsair 120GB Force 3 SSD
LiteOn iHAS124-19 24x DVD±RW
Powercool Modular 550W PSU
D-Link DBT120
To this:
Untitled by ShadowTD, on Flickr
With a minimum of fuss. I updated the BIOS to F4 straight from a USB stick, rebooted with my Sandisk Cruzer 8GB Unibeast (10.7.2, downloaded on my 10.6 MBP). Shortly after the 'choose your volume' screen I was getting a beep and a reboot which was fixed with npci=0x2000 and PCIRootUID=1. Straight in to the installer, format, install (about 4 minutes!), reboot, MultiBeast (very similar options to the Mini, except no SATA kexts, just IOBlockStorageInjector), reboot, new audio kexts from tmx86 and BANG ON. Sleep works fine from the apple menu, but it won't do it itself - no real problem. Even with the new audio kexts, there's still a bit of a pop if you've not been using audio for a while but it's fine for music. External HDD's are forcibly unmounted waking from sleep but I guess that's just one of those things.
Apart from that, this thing is stable and FAST. I've never seen iMovie or iPhoto run like this - if you're considering an SSD at all with current HDD prices, for the love of god do it! Total cost of build: £508. Me: Delighted! Cinebench CPU is 5.18, and a 6870 is on the cards in a couple of months time. The D-Link bluetooth dongle I've had kicking around the cupboard since I had my G4 Cube, and it's got the Mac FW with the wake-from-sleep functionality
Oh, and I donated as well. If you've used Unibeast, you sort of should...
From this:
Untitled by ShadowTD, on Flickr
Gigabyte GA-H67MA-USB3-B3
Intel Core i5 2500K 3.3GHz
Corsair 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1333MHz
Corsair 120GB Force 3 SSD
LiteOn iHAS124-19 24x DVD±RW
Powercool Modular 550W PSU
D-Link DBT120
To this:
Untitled by ShadowTD, on Flickr
With a minimum of fuss. I updated the BIOS to F4 straight from a USB stick, rebooted with my Sandisk Cruzer 8GB Unibeast (10.7.2, downloaded on my 10.6 MBP). Shortly after the 'choose your volume' screen I was getting a beep and a reboot which was fixed with npci=0x2000 and PCIRootUID=1. Straight in to the installer, format, install (about 4 minutes!), reboot, MultiBeast (very similar options to the Mini, except no SATA kexts, just IOBlockStorageInjector), reboot, new audio kexts from tmx86 and BANG ON. Sleep works fine from the apple menu, but it won't do it itself - no real problem. Even with the new audio kexts, there's still a bit of a pop if you've not been using audio for a while but it's fine for music. External HDD's are forcibly unmounted waking from sleep but I guess that's just one of those things.
Apart from that, this thing is stable and FAST. I've never seen iMovie or iPhoto run like this - if you're considering an SSD at all with current HDD prices, for the love of god do it! Total cost of build: £508. Me: Delighted! Cinebench CPU is 5.18, and a 6870 is on the cards in a couple of months time. The D-Link bluetooth dongle I've had kicking around the cupboard since I had my G4 Cube, and it's got the Mac FW with the wake-from-sleep functionality
Oh, and I donated as well. If you've used Unibeast, you sort of should...