Gigabyte z77 ds3h - HD swap question

[jlfilms]

So basically Im looking to upgrade my pc/hackintosh for better gaming/editing.

 

Looking @

 

i7 3770k

16gb corsair ram

gtx 780 3gb

Gigabyte SLI comp/osx comp motherboard

 

If i got a Z77 sli board that will support i7 can i just keep my old drive with osx on it and not have to reinstall osx for the new system or?

 

thanks for any advice, this is my current hackintosh

 

gigabyte z77 ds3h

gtx 650 ti 1gb

8gb corsair ram

i5 3570k

Clover Bootloader

500gb Sata HD OSX 10.8.5

250gb hd Windows 7.

 

 

[Gringo Vermelho]

Yes, it'll work. OS X doesn't wrap itself around your hardware nearly as tightly as Windows does. Swapping motherboard on a Windows install never ends well, at best it will run like someone resurrected from the dead.

 

I transplanted my former Lion install from a Core 2 Duo E8500 on P45/ICH10R to an i5 3570K on Z77 without much effort. I had to change the model identifier and of course remove the DSDT from the old mobo, not much else. It ran fine afterwards and even better once I was done with smbios.plist, power managment, DSDT and drivers for the new hardware.

Boot with UseKernelCache=n at first boot on the new mobo...or trash the caches before shutting the old one down for the last time, maybe do a full run with Mavericks Cache Cleaner, tick all the boxes to clean out all the caches. Note that it may appear to be frozen or not doing anything, just wait for it to do its thing and it'll ask you to reboot (you should shut down) once it's done. This should be the last thing you do, because if you boot again the caches will start to rebuild.

I'm not familiar with Clover (yet) but if it saves NVRAM to a file like Chameleon does, trash that as well.

 

Yours should be a lot less work than mine was, at least the model identifier can stay. I don't know if changing the serial number is necessary. I had to because I was going from MacPro3,1 to iMac13,1.

 

If you have software that ties itself to your Hardware UUID during registration you'll have to re-register it. Likewise any software that stores preferences using the Hardware UUID will reset to default settings.

 

If I think of anything else I'll add it here.

[jlfilms]

yeah, hmmm sounds like it might be same if not easier to jus do fresh install of osx and windows again on seperate drive, since it was super eeasy with my z77 ds3h board, I just need a good Sli board that i can run OSX 10.8.5 & Windows 64bit.