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Apple really let me down. Need to build a Hackintosh.


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I purchased a great new iMac 27inch fully loaded that came to little over 4k. First iMac sent to me had a screw flaw with the display glowing bright white in the bottom corners. So they sent me a 2nd one new. Well it had the same issue. I have concluded that there is a flaw in the design so instead of buying a Mac Pro, I think I am going to attempt to build a killer PC that will let me run OSX. I need to use Logic Pro for music, but boot into windows for Games and 3D Rendering with Vray/Maya combo.

 

I went to IBUYPOWER to spec out a system, and for 6,000 I can get exactly what I need for the windows, side. But I was hoping someone here could consult a little with the specs I placed.

 

Level 10 Case ( Thermaltake Level 10 Full Tower Gaming Case - Black )Processor ( Intel® Core™ i7 980X Processor Extreme Edition (6x 3.33GHz/12MB L3 Cache) )Processor Cooling ( Liquid CPU Cooling System [sOCKET-1366] - Enermax Dual Silent High Performance Fan Upgrade (Push-Pull Airflow) )Memory ( 12 GB [2 GB X6] DDR3-1866 - Corsair or Major Brand )Video Card ( NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 - 1.5GB - EVGA Superclocked - 3-Way SLI Mode (Triple Cards) )Video Card Brand ( Major Brand Powered by ATI or NVIDIA )Motherboard ( [3-Way SLI] ASUS P6T )Motherboard USB / SATA Interface ( Motherboard default USB / SATA Interface )Power Supply ( 1200 Watt -- Corsair CMPSU-1200AX Power Supply - Quad SLI Ready )Primary Hard Drive ( 256 GB Kingston SSDNow V+ Series MLC SSD - Single Drive )Data Hard Drive ( 2 TB HARD DRIVE -- 64M Cache, 7200 RPM, 6.0Gb/s - Single Drive )Optical Drive ( [10X Blu-Ray] LG BLU-RAY Re-Writer, DVD±R/±RW Burner Combo Drive - Black )Sound Card ( 3D Premium Surround Sound Onboard )Network Card ( Killer 2100 Gaming Network Card )Operating System ( None- Pre-formatted Hard Drive Only )Keyboard ( Razer Lycosa Gaming Keyboard )$6,196.00

 

I realize the Graphics card will not run in OSX, so I was wondering if I am able to squeeze a 4th card in the machine to run OSX, and if so, which card do you recommend? Will I have problems getting the ram to show up?

 

Thanks for any help.

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