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Need a new i7 Hackintosh to run lion..Advice please :)


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Hi,

 

I currently have about 3 hackintosh's that power our music studios. They work flawlessly and have to say better than the actually mac pro 8 core we have which is a little baffling sometimes!!!!

 

We need a new hackintosh system to run music tasks etc and it will be heavy use aswell. I want to base it off an i7 with as much gigs of Ram as possible etc etc and if possible to install using a retail DVD so i can update it etc.

 

Can anyone offer advice please?

 

The budget will be about £600 - $930

 

Many thanks

Joe

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Hi, my i7 spec is in my signature,

 

If you can find the motherboard you can probably build the whole rig (minus the case, watercooling and 480GTX) for £500, in fact, look here:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/i7-920-DO-ga-ex58-ud5-board-12gb-ram-h50-watercooler-intel-x-25m-ssd-/250965558667?pt=UK_Motherboards_CPUs&hash=item3a6eb6858b#ht_2578wt_998

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Easy, had 10.6.8 installed and booting, created a lion DVD from the Lion GM download, stuck it in and booted from it using my pre-installed chameleon (at that time I was using a late revision of Chameleon 2.0 RC5).

 

With my dsdt patched all I need to install is a patched AppleHDA.kext, ALC8xxHDA.kext, FakeSMC.kext and it boots perfectly.

I use a patched kext for graphics but thats only to enable GL and power management.

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video cards may be the tricky part for you. i have an ATI6870 and was unable to run ableton and use dual monitors at the same time. luckily, i found the fix in snow leopard and now my graphics card is supported natively in lion so its a non issue.. but definitely something you may want to research

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