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Do all these parts look ok? Please let me know . Looking forward to building my first hackintosh (Have a Macbook Pro right now)

 

Motherboard

GIGABYTE GA-Z68X-UD5-B3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

 

CPU

Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor BX80623I72600K

 

RAM

CORSAIR XMS3 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 Desktop Memory Model CMX16GX3M4A1333C9

 

Graphics Card

EVGA 02G-P3-1559-KR GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Fermi) 2GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

 

Harddrive

Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

 

Optical Drive

Sony Optiarc CD/DVD Burner 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM Black SATA Model AD-7260S-0B - OEM

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I'd recommend following this guide. Tonymac is the main place I turn to these days for setting up new systems, and so far I've always found good guides for the boards I use.

 

I would check and double check the graphic card, and avoid any card with known issues. These days, newer graphic cards seem to be more trouble than the motherboards or any other part of the system. I've run into the issue with some nVidia cards (4xx, 5xx) that cause random lock-ups unless a low res QT movie is always running in the background- in my book, unacceptable. Meanwhile, other models seem to work with no issues.

 

Do your research on the graphic card before jumping in. I would check the osx86 wiki component lists carefully and really check into the card models and setup methods used.

 

I also still recommend having one of these on hand in case you run into flaky audio issues. Much of the time, life is too short to deal with hassles of onboard audio, whereas the USB audio just works OOB and even sounds better in most cases.

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