thesimaoli Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 Hi guys, I want to buy a configuration for my new hackintosh. I need it for Photoshop and some games, but not to much expensive because I've already a great laptop (HP ENVY 17, i7 Ivy Bridge, AMD 7850). The things I need are: stability, full working, App Store (like a real mac). I know Gigabyte motherboard are better than others, it's right? I need a configuration least than ATX. Thank you so much, wait your replies! Have a nice day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kvonlinee Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 Look for what game you want to play from the window side, pick a cpu above that level a step, i5, or i7 .... If you go with Haswell it have to be from i3 and above. Second one is the graphics card, I see the used of Nvidia on the 6 series is easy and the 7 series have to be from the 760 and above, those one easy to get HDMI audio with voodooHDA compare to the AMD Radeon. Ram is not a hard choice, for Photoshop regular rpm hard drive is a bottle neck so i think invest the SSD here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 search here: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesimaoli Posted July 11, 2014 Author Share Posted July 11, 2014 Look for what game you want to play from the window side, pick a cpu above that level a step, i5, or i7 .... If you go with Haswell it have to be from i3 and above. Second one is the graphics card, I see the used of Nvidia on the 6 series is easy and the 7 series have to be from the 760 and above, those one easy to get HDMI audio with voodooHDA compare to the AMD Radeon. Ram is not a hard choice, for Photoshop regular rpm hard drive is a bottle neck so i think invest the SSD here Yes, but an i3 haswell costs about 120$ and an i5 about 150$, then for the little difference I would buy an i5. i7 is too expensive, I don't think I need it. For graphics, I would buy an GTX with GDDR5 vram, it must be economic, have you a suggestions for models? SSD is the future, but prices are very high, 120gb for 80-90$ wow, with same money I can buy an 500-750gb hdd. search here: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Thank you for the link, but I just know it, I would some informations for a correct and stable configuration. I've thought that: Gigabyte Z87 LGA 1150 2 Way SLI mATX Motherboard (GA-Z87MX-D3H) Intel Core i5-4570 / 4440 EVGA GT 740 Superclocked 2GB GeForce GDDR5/PCI Express x16 Graphics Card What do you think about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 not found anyone that uses this video. I recommend this one: GTX 780 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kvonlinee Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 the one i5-4440 has intel HD4600 is good for later with oneboard graphics, i5-4570 just have the intel HD graphics and this one must have a support graphics together. I don't know about graphics card Nvidia 7 series, I have about 4 nvidia 6 series Gigabyte, GT610, 2 GTX 650, GTX 600ti, all of them run great and also has HDMI audio with voodooHDA 2.8.4. I have try the Radeon HD 7870 Gigabyte, but the HDMI audio I can't figure out yet. the SSD is future but you could get the 120 GB around $60 or $70 on-sale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesimaoli Posted July 16, 2014 Author Share Posted July 16, 2014 I understand, so thanks to all for replies, see you soon when I've bought new configuration, have a good dd 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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