Comments for Matt Brandenburg

Comment on Build Your Own i7 Hackintosh System For $862 That Will Run With Apple’s New $2,499 Mac Pro by ghibli303

ghibli303 — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 03:02:22 +0000

Hey Matt,

I got it to boot up properly when I re-installed using a “proper” copy of Snow Leopard…but I also run PC and want to use SLI for that with the 9800GT. I know Mac’s don’t support it so I’m gonna run into some issues, but any way to get it to just run ONE of the cards at least?

I can’t seem to find any info on this card. What would happen if i popped a 2nd 9800GT in it?

-sk

Comment on Build Your Own i7 Hackintosh System For $862 That Will Run With Apple’s New $2,499 Mac Pro by KyleF

KyleF — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 07:32:02 +0000

Hey Matt,

Did you update to 10.6.6?

Anything I should look out for?

Comment on Build Your Own i7 Hackintosh System For $862 That Will Run With Apple’s New $2,499 Mac Pro by Miguel

Miguel — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 15:57:20 +0000

Nice. Does it run smooth, or is there anything that wont work?
Could you share that setup with us, along with te correct drivers to make it work?

Thanks

Comment on Build Your Own i7 Hackintosh System For $862 That Will Run With Apple’s New $2,499 Mac Pro by Matt Brandenburg

Matt Brandenburg — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 03:44:01 +0000

I’ve built both and prefer 1366 however it does cost a little more and I was going for least expensive build here with best performance, I personally run a 1366 980 i7 with 6 gb triple channel memory and SSD’s with a ATI 5770 GPU… it’s insanely fast.

Comment on Build Your Own i7 Hackintosh System For $862 That Will Run With Apple’s New $2,499 Mac Pro by Matt Brandenburg

Matt Brandenburg — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 03:42:56 +0000

I’m not sure what the wireless issue is, I’ve had issues where some just do not work and others are fine, I would say exchange it for a dlink wireless usb or pci

Comment on Build Your Own i7 Hackintosh System For $862 That Will Run With Apple’s New $2,499 Mac Pro by Miguel

Miguel — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 03:40:43 +0000

Hi Matt,

Any reason you went for a system based on socket 1156 instead of 1366? I read that the later is better and provides support for the upcomming i9…

Thanks

Comment on Build Your Own i7 Hackintosh System For $862 That Will Run With Apple’s New $2,499 Mac Pro by ghibli303

ghibli303 — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 05:38:36 +0000

Hey Matt – I seem to be having an issue,

I just built the above rig with a couple added hardware pieces.

The 9800GT is a different brand, but same exact hardware specs, and I have a Rosewill Wireless adaptor, and a Sig III Firewire 800 card. Both are MAC compatible and have drivers for OS X. The firewire card works like a charm with no drivers needed, but the Rosewill wireless USB adaptor does not and after installing the drivers included on the DVD, it still does not pop up or show up in network preferences.

I cannot seem to properly get OS X to work though. First off the bootloader does not work (it begins loading and partially into the loading screen with the spinning circle thing, it gives a kernel panic error), and I have to use iBoot to get into my OS X install. Also, my hardware does not seem to register properly in the OS. For instance it says I only have 4gb of memory when i have 8gb of the G Skill ram you suggested. It also says 2.8ghz Unknown and thinks I have an iMac.

I used the DSDT file you provided as well as installed the Update combo. Am i missing something…I’m getting a little discouraged here as my hardware looks sad

Thanks again for all your assistance…anybody else is totally welcome to chime in with any pointers.

-saman

Comment on Build Your Own i7 Hackintosh System For $862 That Will Run With Apple’s New $2,499 Mac Pro by xanthus86

xanthus86 — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 19:42:22 +0000

Could you tell me the mobo you have?? I was looking at the ASUS Sabertooth but it only had firewire 400…

Comment on Build Your Own i7 Hackintosh System For $862 That Will Run With Apple’s New $2,499 Mac Pro by allenda

allenda — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 03:37:13 +0000

my other big concern is the video card. newegg updated and said they have an estimated arrival of Dec 14th.

what i want to do eventually is to run my dual monitors and also be able to run a third monitor as a 46″ LCD tv for movies and tv shows.

so this means that i need to be able to connect 3 monitors. i don’t have any problem with splitting the output from my 2nd monitor to run a TV as a mirror, but i dont know if this will be weird with the different screen resolutions and stuff. I just want to be able to have three total screens with atleast 2 screens of information.

Is there a compatible graphics card for this build that will do that? can i use two of the graphics cards listed in this build to accomplish my goal, or can you not run two to have four outputs?

Thanks for all of your help, i am looking to spend some Xmas money here pretty soon and this is what i want to use it on!!!

Great tutorial, i have been searching for a few months not and this is one of the best i have seen.

if this thing gets running, a donation will surely be coming your way!

Comment on Build Your Own i7 Hackintosh System For $862 That Will Run With Apple’s New $2,499 Mac Pro by allenda

allenda — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 02:19:53 +0000

hey,

i was just about to go buy exactly what you have in your newegg list and there is a problem…

some of the stuff that you have listed is not for sale anymore…

the video card is not available and the cpu isn’t sold anymore.

would you be able to tell me ones that i can replace these with? im really close to executing this build, just need to be sure i will be able to make it work

Thanks!