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Upgraded my Hackintosh - Didn't need to reinstall OS X


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Hey guys,

 

I've recently upgraded my hackintosh to 24GB Ram, and core i7 3.2ghz 960 from 12gb ram and core i7 2.8ghz 920.

 

I arranged everything for a clean new vanilla install, but I accidentaly bootet up the computer. What did I saw? Everything worked perfectly!

 

I didn't even had to change the dsdt from 920 to 960. It just worked.

 

I'm running my hackintosh now since a few days and it's stable like a rock.

 

Is that normal?

 

Rob

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Yes.

 

Upgrading RAM shouldn't be any different than it would be in a real Mac. I can't imagine having to reinstall OSX just because you added RAM to a system, that'd be ridiculous.

 

Upgrading the CPU actually isn't too much different, unless (possibly) you had some custom DSDT fixes for a specific CPU going on.

 

Video cards upgrades often go without a hitch too- at worst just requiring some driver fixing/reinstalling.

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24GB ram?? How do you manage to exploit that?

I have 8GB and they barelly fill when running 3D rendering, all Adobe apps + bunch of small apps.

 

I'm editing red raw files on premiere pro at full 4K resolution and with that amount of ram I can work better because the computer doesn't have to store the caches anywhere.

 

Thanks for the answers!

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