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#1 2009-10-21 9:51 am
- shmotzy
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Need a hachintosh buddy!
Hi everyone! I am new to this forum and I am looking to conversate with someone who has successfully built a hackintosh with a vanilla install of Leopard or Snow Leopard! What hardware did you choose and what issues do I need to be aware of? Thanks! If I did not post this in the right place, please let me know, Thanks! --jOe 
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#2 2009-10-22 2:01 am
Re: Need a hachintosh buddy!
I have one with a Core 2 Quad and a Gigabyte P35 motherboard with Radeon 4870 graphics. Basically, it's quite easy to do as long as you buy hardware to carefully match a real Mac.
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#3 2009-10-24 12:35 pm
- Mr. T
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Re: Need a hachintosh buddy!
I have a Core i7 920 on a Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 motherboard with 8800GT SLI graphics. My dad has a similar setup with a GTX 285. Running Snow Leopard on both systems with no issues to speak of. As with real Macs, SLI isn't supported by OS X, but single-GPU acceleration still works fine.
There's a great vanilla install guide for the GA-EX58-UD5 on insanelymac. The installation requires two drives-- We'll call them Drive A and Drive B. The basic runthrough is as follows:
Install OS X to drive A (a non-vanilla distro will suffice), and boot up in OS X.
Pop in your store-bought Snow Leopard DVD.
Run a special installation script. The script will automatically performa a vanilla installation of OS X on Drive B.
You now have a vanilla installation of Snow Leopard on Drive B.
You no longer need drive A. I just pulled mine out of my machine and keep it around for maintenance purposes.
Take a look at my threads, Introduction to Hackintosh and Hack Pro i7 (G5 case mod)
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