Harrry Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Here are my computer specifications: System Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. System Model: GA-880GM-UD2H BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG Processor: AMD Phenom II X6 1055T Processor (6 CPUs), ~2.8GHz Memory: 8192MB RAM Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/273949-is-my-pc-achievable-for-mac-osx/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
osteneightysix Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Yes, with those specs I'm pretty sure you will be able to. However, Snow Leopard is as high as you can go because no legacy kernel yet exists for Lion. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/273949-is-my-pc-achievable-for-mac-osx/#findComment-1781670 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harrry Posted December 28, 2011 Author Share Posted December 28, 2011 So I should be perfectly fine to even attempt it? Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/273949-is-my-pc-achievable-for-mac-osx/#findComment-1781698 Share on other sites More sharing options...
osteneightysix Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 It will be fine**, but know that this isn't something that will be able to accomplished overnight. I would definitely have a separate hard drive dedicated to hackintosh if you try. Here's a guide that looks promising for your motherboard: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=225717. I researched your graphics card some more and it doesn't look like it will work with Snow Leopard. Since AMD processors are not yet compatible with Lion, it looks like you are out of luck. You can probably still get Snow Leopard working; however, you won't have working quartz extreme or core image (basically the graphics driver in Mac OS X). You will get a low unchangeable screen resolution and a lot of graphics lag. Your graphics card however is compatible with Lion. If I were you I would just wait until Nawcom releases a Lion-compatible kernel for AMD on his blog, http://blog.nawcom.com/. Unless you have another graphics card you are willing to throw in, I would just wait it out. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/273949-is-my-pc-achievable-for-mac-osx/#findComment-1781760 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harrry Posted January 2, 2012 Author Share Posted January 2, 2012 Do I have any chance in working a Hackintoshon my system? Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/273949-is-my-pc-achievable-for-mac-osx/#findComment-1782923 Share on other sites More sharing options...
slapstick82 Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Do I have any chance in working a Hackintoshon my system? Yes, he said you could get it working up to 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) but that if you got the graphics working, it wouldn't be accelerated and you would be stuck at something like 1024x768 resolution. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/273949-is-my-pc-achievable-for-mac-osx/#findComment-1783238 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Do not offer money in exchange for help. Does anybody ever read the rules? As to your card: http://www.osx86.net...efi_string.html Which works only with Lion, so I guess you are out of luck. (Honestly, luck has nothing to do with it. I have built 5 (five!) desktops all with OS X compatibility in mind). Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/273949-is-my-pc-achievable-for-mac-osx/#findComment-1783428 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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