Intel Core i7 Hackintosh

[ajwgeek]

@PJMAN2952 Thanks, just ordered my parts today

[ajwgeek]

@PJMAN2952 No no no, my 24 GB ram is crazy

[iPOwLinda]

any new updates to ur rig? new video card maybe?

[SynesthesianDreamer]

@iPOwLinda YES! I have an HD Radeon 5870 eyefinity card. Can output 6 displays! Run perfect. I was supposed to make a guide, but will put it off until lion comes out!

[gerritbot]

sweet sweet setup...I'm drooling, and now seriously considering building one with an i7 2600K

- your fault! ;)

[Vodje01]

 WWHHYYYYYY TTHIIIISSSS SOOONNGGGGG??????

[santoroma17]

@Vodje01 Dreamscape (Long Edit)

[Vodje01]

@santoroma17 no..... i asked `why` you put this song in the video? did you get money for it or something?

[SynesthesianDreamer]

@Vodje01 Oh no... It was easier to use one of YouTube's songs.. I was too lazy to cut the video with a song.

[donofthekuwait]

Hey Nice wallpaper can i get the link for it ! :D Thanks Subscribed to you !

[paintpro785]

i needd the wallpaper !!!! PLease put link in description!

[hallis1]

Very slick.. I may have to give the old Hackintosh a try again. Haven't done it in ~ 3 years. Only problem is I'm using a Sapphire HD5970 in my i7 rig now. I doubt there will be driver support worth a damn. But this may be cause for me to build another i7 system :). Might play around anyway. Will give me something to do with my 10.6.5 disk i got with my Mac Mini. going to add this to my favorites.

[SynesthesianDreamer]

@hallis1 I havent made a video of my new configuration yet but I am running an AMD Sapphire HD 5870 Eyefinity 6. It takes a bit more to modify the 5970 driver but it is confirmed working :-)

[hallis1]

@SynesthesianDreamer

We may have to compare notes then. And, You know now you are required to post an updated video complete with gaming. :)

[MrLukinhah]

hi man,

i have a hackintosh to, iATKOS 10.6.3 core2due 4gb ham, nvidea 8400 512mb, works fine, but i don't know how i get the apple softwares, like final cut and iLife...

I have to buy the original license or I can download it....

[djpaggio]

I have a pc similar to yours, give me the settings please,

I am using ideben

send me a private message

tanks bye!!!!

[24hyatt]

what method did you use, osx retail and ?????

thanks

[lucidcomposure]

Do you have any advice for me. Wanting to get a X1800XT card working with snow leopard but im not having any luck.

Willing to reward efforts..

[kenspocket]

how do you install the drivers for 8800 gts 512 g92 ?? , and what kext's to remove ? thanks..

[SynesthesianDreamer]

@kenspocket Have you tried using the plist key GraphicsEnabler=Yes? It will automatically detect the G92 and start the NV50HAL driver on boot.

[kenspocket]

@SynesthesianDreamer , hi , no not tried that , will do once home in a few days :) do i have to remove or add any kext to my sys/lib/extensions folder ? , i may have some installed wheere iv been muddling along ? am running latest empire efi bootloader from usb , does this make any difference ? is the HV50HAL a kext ? will add if so .. cheers.

[SynesthesianDreamer]

@kenspocket Just insert that key into the PLIST first and then see what happens. Apple provides the HV50HAL driver already.. It will be loaded if the GraphicsEnabler can inject the correct values for you.

[kenspocket]

@SynesthesianDreamer i dont have the NV50HAL i have the NVDANV40Hal.kext , not sure if this makes any difference , what to do ?? do kexts clash if there in both extensions and extras extensions and cause issues ? , ?? i will try remove duplicates . any ideas ? my networking went down also..after last empire efi or was that 10.6.4 upgrade. nothings making sense here..

[Schiz94]

yo, so i wanna build a hackintosh with a nvidia gtx 460 and a board with USB 3.0. is it possible?

[SynesthesianDreamer]

@Schiz94 USB 3.0 wont function at its intended speed under Mac OSX until they add driver support for it. You can disable the USB 3.0 in the BIOS or use it like normal USB 2.0

[electropl]

good music in background , what is name track?

[ViciousDave4Life]

Why the hell does it say Intel Xeon in About this Mac section? When in your description it says Intel Core i7? That makes no sense.

[SynesthesianDreamer]

@ViciousDave4Life At the time of this video there were no Macs with Core i7's. They only had the intel Xeons. However, since Xeons and Core i7 share the same architecture, its effectively not any different. That description is just a string, I can make it say w/e I want. It now has the correct string that read Core i7.

[SVTFilms]

How did you get the GTS 250 to work?

[SynesthesianDreamer]

@SVTFilms if you use the newest Chameleon RC4 release, there is a plist string you can insert that auto detects the video card and initializes the NVHAL50 kernel extension.

GraphicsEnabler=Yes

I am using the ATI 5770 now :-)

[eldaguinio]

How did you make the graophics card work on snow leo???

[SynesthesianDreamer]

@eldaguinio GraphicsEnabler

[dustonio]

I agree. A step by step guide would be great (like Lifehacker did -- with a complete shopping list). :)

[SynesthesianDreamer]

@dustonio - I will do this when I get some time!!! Be patient :-) 

[PauloDouradoPhoto]

nice! comparable to mine

[danielefb]

I was just wondering about the video card if you have done multiple monitors test or multiple video card test.

is that possible on osx86?

[SynesthesianDreamer]

@danielefb - On my current set up I can have 3 monitors.. 2 DVI 1 HDMI

[TheCrotalian]

I'm thinking about building a hackintosh using your same motherboard. Have you had any compatibility issues with the P6X58D Premium?

Thanks!

[SynesthesianDreamer]

@TheCrotalian Nope! Its a great board and works perfectly!

[JaEValentino]

Your geekbench is definitely a a little low for that system...hopefully you've updated your install method by now...mine is higher, probably shouldn't be

[SynesthesianDreamer]

@JaEValentino - Yea, I think I have something wrong with DSDT or elsewhere.

[SynesthesianDreamer]

@JaEValentino What was your geekbench? Mine is around 13,800

[SynesthesianDreamer]

@TheAnimeLover569

Fake? 32GB? What are you talking about? I have 12GB

[nbrikha]

VMware?

[SynesthesianDreamer]

Nope. This is running natively.

[vilmore05]

so this is using retail version with usb bootable do you think this is superior to the all in one torrents that people burn?

[SynesthesianDreamer]

With the new Boot-132 file, you can load what is called a vanilla install.... Basically it means yo distros u can install it from a bare retail disc. I do not recommend such as iDeneb or iPC. I used a USB instead of a disc, as it has less latency. For my logic board, I needed to add some drivers to the USB also, which is much easier than burning through a stack of DVDs

[townending]

I'm dual booting win7 and leopard and whenever i get some form of 9800GTX driver it won't boot back up

[SynesthesianDreamer]

Are you using the .plist EFI string hex codes? If not, try that!

[daddytech]

Dude that's insane bet it cost a fortune too but it is awesome to watch it all working though.

[SynesthesianDreamer]

$1800 isn't a fortune ;)

[daddytech]

it is when you have 5 kids and a house to worry about instead. that is a REALLY nice set up though, not really good for my use but still nice nonetheless.

[SynesthesianDreamer]

Hahaha touché

[Megamilkz]

just a question i see you have final cut pro on there, I have final cut pro on my hackintosh as well, im using Asus p6t, just curious what you used to install it, and what version of final cut it is. thanks!

[SynesthesianDreamer]

@Megamilkz - Final Cut 7.0. The retail disc image.

[iDeufi]

Amazing.

I'm simply speechless.

[danielefb]

cool Hackintosh that you have there.

was it really hard to put mac os on it.

Could you tell me if the firewire works also on this board ASUS P6X58D thank

[SynesthesianDreamer]

@danielefb - The firewire works fine. I have tested it. What doesn't work up to it's full potential is the USB 3.0 abd SATA 6. Those two new specs are not supported in Mac OSX at this time. They fall back to the legacy modes and work at those lower speeds.

Firewire will pretty much work on any board.

[ElleeLawlieet]

waaaaoooo!!. ( ;  great great .......

[lucianos1990]

specs, method of installing and such would be nice to know :)

[SynesthesianDreamer]

@lucianos1990 - I'll update soon :-)

[MrBCouch]

Excellent work guy! I have almost exactly the same system running Win7. I have 6GB of Corsair Dominator PC3 15000 memory, an EVGA GTX275 graphics card, Pioneer Blu-Ray BDR-205BKS Optical Drive, 2 Seagate 1TB drives, i7-920 CPU and of course the P6X58D.

When I built this a few weeks ago I had no idea that it would be capable of loading osx86..

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[MrBCouch]

I was aware of the fact there was a community of individuals that were making this possible on a mix of various components but hadn't really looked into it until after I built my system.

I also have a Mac G5 but I'm dead ended on OSX updates because it's a PowerPC based system and as we know SL will only run on Intel based Macs. So it'd be great to set my new system up as a dual boot with both Win7 and SL.

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[MrBCouch]

I have almost the identical set of software applications on my Mac that you show in the video.

Anyway I'd love to see a step-by-step guide on how you were able to get this all set up, as I'm sure many others would as well.

I've learned an awful lot just in the last few weeks researching the various forums and experiences but I'm still somewhat confused on some of the finer details and could certainly use some "professional" guidance.

:-)

[SynesthesianDreamer]

Thanks for the comments, and nice system specs you have there!

I was contemplating creating a step by step tutorial to help people with this wonderful logic board and CPU combination. Unfortunately I am swamped at work and with school so I don't really have the extra time to do a community video at the moment. Perhaps in May I will have time to make a 'proper' easy to follow guide.

There are already plenty of guides out there, but each board has it's own nuances that need to be addressed.

[MrBCouch]

Hey I understand completely. This is a busy time of the year for me so I really don't have a lot of time to pursue projects like this either. I'll just slog through here and there and get it figured out eventually.