My first Hackintosh Build, building off of "PovoMac"

[bangarang]

Hello all!

 

I am beginning my journey into building my first Hackintosh, more so out of boredom and curiosity than an real need. Want, yes - need, no

 

I have been doing my fair share of research and found the tonymacx86 (yeah, yeah, I know he's not everyone's favorite person in this commnity...) "povomac" build and it look simple and cheap enough (PovoMac Build Here) to build.

 

I already had a couple of old computers at my disposal to get a case, power supply and DVD drive from:

• Gateway e4100 (no DVD drive, but liked the compact case)
  
• Gateway e4300 (has DVD drive, same case as above)
  
• Gateway e6100 (larger case)
  

In my research of the cases above (seeing if I could get lucky and source a chipset, ram, etc) and I did get lucky and saw that someone had already done a hackintosh using the Gateway e4300 using a Celeron D processor. (Here is the e4300 build)

 

 

The one that I can source has a Pentium 4 HT processor, but I know that the hyper threading can be turned off in the BIOS.

 

What does it look like to you guys? Does it look like the e4300 can make a go of it? If not, its ok, I'll just use the case, HD, power supply and ram, and find another chipset, etc from the list. I'm only asking because I am a new

 

Here is the "povomac" build list that I sourced from tonymacx86 in a Google Doc so I can break down what I have and don't have a little better.

 

With the build already done on the e4300 above, it only has OS X 10.4.8, I really want 10.5.8 (seems doable) at a minimum so I can sync my iPhone 4, and ideally 10.7 (wouldn't work with just the e4300 b/c it doesn't have a C2D) so I can utilize iCloud.

 

Any one have thoughts?

[eep357]

not sure on the hardware, but check the case's front panel connector for audio, power and reset as they will sometimes use a ribbon cable or some other special connecter that will not be easy to hook up to a off the shelf motherboard

[bangarang]

I think I'm going to leave the building for another day, I'll work on getting the 4300 Mac'd up first, then go from there.