weaksauce12 Posted December 9, 2007 Author Share Posted December 9, 2007 ... amazing. I'm more than jealous... I'm in the process of making a frankintosh, but nothing compared to this beast.I had a Santa Rosa-based MacBook Pro as well as an older Mini. Since I don't require portability anymore, I sold the MBP for a decent price and decided to build this. Originally I wanted to upgrade my Mini (I'm big into upgrading Minis), but the 2.33ghz T7600 processor is still almost $700 everywhere, so I looked at Mac Pros. Too bad the Mac Pros start at $2,500 standard; even if you cut down the config it only goes to $2,200. Enter the Hackintosh - $1300 and it's even better than the $5,000 configuration! Haha. I got a good price on an 8800 GTS used, so I'm going to recycle the 7300 & 7900 into a couple other Hackintosh projects (7300 in a Gigabyte/C2D build I'm doing this week). This stuff is so great...my machine is absolutely flawless. Zero problems. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. I couldn't be happier! I just tested OS X's Software RAID using two WD 500gb 7200rpm SATA drives. Mirroring seems very slow...I copied over my XP VM and launched it, the first time it froze up my entire system and the second time it just went dog slow and hardly responded to my mouse clicks. Although it was fine copying stuff over. I just set them up in a Striped and it's much faster. I would say 99% as fast as the primary boot disks...it seems just a tiny tad itty bit slow when running the VM, hardly noticeable, and it seems to go full speed once you get into it. I'd say if you want to use Mirroring, just use it for file storage/backup/Time Machine rather than actually running stuff off of like a VMware virtual machine. Just from my quickie test. It seems like the only thing that doesn't work with Hackintosh is Boot Camp. However, since you're on an actual PC you can just dual boot or install XP/Vista on a separate drive and boot from there by choosing the drive in the BIOS. I'm not sure if you could read a "real" partition using a VM app like Fusion or Parallels though, which may be an issue if you want to do virtual plus dual boot. There are some NTFS readers like MacFuse or Paragon's software. I'm also trying to figure out the best way to clone the internal boot drive. I like the concept of Time Machine, but if my boot drive bites the dust I don't want to have to sit there and install Leopard/Brazil for like 2 hours again, then restore the Time Machine backup. I wonder if CarbonCopyCloner could restore a file clone using Kalyway or something... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/73542-help-me-build-a-quad-core-hackintosh/page/2/#findComment-533541 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mesasone Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 Did you end up getting thet BLK or BOX board? You linked to two different models on New Egg and zip zoom. EDIT: I guess the BLK stands for bulk and comes with a few less items in box or something. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/73542-help-me-build-a-quad-core-hackintosh/page/2/#findComment-544098 Share on other sites More sharing options...
weaksauce12 Posted December 31, 2007 Author Share Posted December 31, 2007 Did you end up getting thet BLK or BOX board? You linked to two different models on New Egg and zip zoom. EDIT: I guess the BLK stands for bulk and comes with a few less items in box or something. Yup one comes with the Box & accessories and the other is OEM. There are 2 models available right now, the non-KR and the KR edition. The only difference is that the KR edition supports CrossFire, which OS X doesn't support anyway. You will need a different IONetworkingFamily.kext for the non-KR edition as well, check out my software thread for the Bad Axe 2 over here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=76014 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/73542-help-me-build-a-quad-core-hackintosh/page/2/#findComment-559686 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrjoe Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 After reading this, I've decided my next computer will not be an OEM or Apple. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/73542-help-me-build-a-quad-core-hackintosh/page/2/#findComment-561664 Share on other sites More sharing options...
msantoso Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 how to make Quad Core Q6600 recognised in leopard? i saw the screenshot from BJMoose recognised as Intel Core TM 2 Quad but it's 2.66GHz and saw a few others also recognised thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/73542-help-me-build-a-quad-core-hackintosh/page/2/#findComment-563684 Share on other sites More sharing options...
karaakeha1 Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 how to make Quad Core Q6600 recognised in leopard? i saw the screenshot from BJMoose recognised as Intel Core TM 2 Quad but it's 2.66GHz and saw a few others also recognised thanks Its not recognized by defaut in about this mac , he edited some file you can see in his post But iATKOS install this is recognized in System profiler Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/73542-help-me-build-a-quad-core-hackintosh/page/2/#findComment-563713 Share on other sites More sharing options...
msantoso Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 ah i see, thanks well in system profile, it does recognise has 4 cores Number Of Processors: 1 Total Number Of Cores: 4 L2 Cache: 8Mb Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/73542-help-me-build-a-quad-core-hackintosh/page/2/#findComment-563745 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kNewton Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 Weaksauce12, looks like you built the machine i was aiming for. Any changes you would make looking back? i'm really new to osx86 and am wondering what changes would be needed for dual monitors? Did you ever run this system run 10.4? I have an office full of 10.4.11 imacs and i think i want to stay there for as long as possible. thanks, kNewton Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/73542-help-me-build-a-quad-core-hackintosh/page/2/#findComment-775472 Share on other sites More sharing options...
decypheri Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 Why use a Bad AXE, that board is really outdated, you may aswell use the 845 chipset . Use a P35 board - WAY better support with OSX86 - you can get full sata/ide + lan + audio out/mic in/spdif out also!!! I have built two machines with the ASUS P5ke-Wifi, fantastic board, built in wifi works with OSx86, runs leopard awesome, overclocks, optical audio out, 1333mhz cache support, and firewire. It truly pwns! Another choice would be the Gigabyte P35 DS4, that board is just as well supported, sept it doesn't have wifi. Graphics card choice would definitely be 8800gts for power, reliability, and ease of setup (+ dual monitor support with dual DVI). Built a machine last weekend with a 8800gt and had a fair bit of trouble getting it to work. how does the 8GB of ram go? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/73542-help-me-build-a-quad-core-hackintosh/page/2/#findComment-776399 Share on other sites More sharing options...
weaksauce12 Posted June 15, 2008 Author Share Posted June 15, 2008 Weaksauce12, looks like you built the machine i was aiming for. Any changes you would make looking back? i'm really new to osx86 and am wondering what changes would be needed for dual monitors? Did you ever run this system run 10.4? I have an office full of 10.4.11 imacs and i think i want to stay there for as long as possible. thanks, kNewton I would not use the Bad Axe 2 board again. It is a very solid board, but it has some strange boot code issues that I haven't really been able to resolve, plus other boards give you full support like 100% audio. Right now I would recommend the Gigabyte P35 DS3L, which is supposed to be 100% compatible and also supports 45nm processors. I'll find out in a week or so Also, I've never used Tiger on my Hackintosh, just Leopard, but I've heard the xXx 10.4.11 release is good! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/73542-help-me-build-a-quad-core-hackintosh/page/2/#findComment-784372 Share on other sites More sharing options...
djyvr Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 WeakSauce: did you have to do anything special to get it to boot off of raid0? I'm running an Asus p5k-e with a Q6600 and 2x500Gig SATA drives. I've set the on-board controller to AHCI and used the Disk Utility on the disk to Raid0 the drives. It installs, but won't boot. I tried installing it JBOD style and it boots fine, but I would like the performance boost of the stripe. Hints? Thanks, dj Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/73542-help-me-build-a-quad-core-hackintosh/page/2/#findComment-788660 Share on other sites More sharing options...
in00b Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 anyonw knows about motherborads that are supported by snow leopard and quad core Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/73542-help-me-build-a-quad-core-hackintosh/page/2/#findComment-1406784 Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingturtle Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 anyonw knows about motherborads that are supported by snow leopard and quad core You might want to ask in the Buying Thoughts, Reviews, and Recommendations forum to get more responses. Most Gigabyte boards that support the i5 750 or i7 920 will work. The new i-series of Intel chips are currently not supported natively by MacOS. I built a i5 750 quad core and it runs Snow Leopard. If you want to use older tech, google "lifehacker and hackintosh" and there's a guide to build the Q9550 with a Gigabyte motherboard, but it might be a little out of date now. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/73542-help-me-build-a-quad-core-hackintosh/page/2/#findComment-1406900 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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