Stigy Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 My grandpa was throwing out his old computer in place of a laptop, and I figured I would ask if its possibly to Hackintosh it before I get rid of it. I searched the forums for the motherboard, but found posts from about two years ago and haven't played around with this stuff for a while so I am a bit out of the loop. Please excuse my noob-ness and as always, your help is greatly appreciated. So as far as I can tell, my dad built this PC for my grandpa a few years back and these are the specs I was able to find: Mobo: Intel D915GEV Memory: 512MB RAM Processor: Intel Celeron D326 (2.53GHz w/ EM64T) Graphics: Onboard ( Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900) Is there a way to tell what the max version of OSX this can run is? Also which one would I be best running? Thanks in advance for all your help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277080-old-computer-turned-hackintosh/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
KHIT Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 I don't know about the motherboard, but your CPU would be compatible with 10.5.x, but I don't know about graphics. I know that if it had a Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 945 it would have worked out of the box. But even real macs perform like {censored} on 512MB RAM in 10.5. You might be able to run 10.4.x on it, but I don't know. I have tried doing it on a OEM-machine with almost the same CPU, and I only managed to get Kalkeway 10.5.2 working, and it was very unstable Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277080-old-computer-turned-hackintosh/#findComment-1805797 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stigy Posted March 14, 2012 Author Share Posted March 14, 2012 I don't know about the motherboard, but your CPU would be compatible with 10.5.x, but I don't know about graphics. I know that if it had a Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 945 it would have worked out of the box. But even real macs perform like {censored} on 512MB RAM in 10.5. You might be able to run 10.4.x on it, but I don't know. I have tried doing it on a OEM-machine with almost the same CPU, and I only managed to get Kalkeway 10.5.2 working, and it was very unstable Thanks for the quick reply. So buying RAM and a video card might be the best way for me to go. Let's say I pick up 2GB of RAM from Newegg for this thing then a compatible video card I might be in better shape? My pain purpose for doing this is developing iOS applications in XCode so I guess I would prefereably like to get up to running 10.6.x but not sure if thats possible with my current processor. I currently have OSX running in a VM on my Windows machine, but its quite slow, and I don't want to go through the hassle of dual booting, so this is where I ended up. Any inexpensive video cards that work right out of the box that you know off the top of your head? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277080-old-computer-turned-hackintosh/#findComment-1805803 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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