KING_OF_SAND
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As we all know Apple likes to keep things VERY exclusive to its OS’s. Anyone who is a techie will know there is no such thing as VERY exclusive, just slightly exclusive 
Over the course of a few days my brother and me were doing research on my current build:
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H (100% operational in OSX)
CPU: i5 2500k (100% operational in OSX)
RAM: Corsair dominator platinum 1866 (100% operational in OSX)
GPU: GTX680 (100% operational in OSX but has performance issues)
HDD: WD Blue 320gb (YOU MUST GET A SEPARATE HDD!!!)
After a few days of research via Tonymacx86.com we found that every part was compatible, and some only with a few edits via a program called multibeast. (Later explained)
Before I go further in depth, here is a photo of my “About This Mac.”
As you can see everything is showing up, including the correct speeds of the RAM and CPU. But the CPU did not just work right away. In fact neither did the GTX680. In order to get every part of my motherboard working I went to (http://www.tonymacx86.com/user-buil...h-16gb-ram-2133mhz-gt-640-a-4.html#post456037) This gentleman had about the same rig I did in fact the majority of Hackintosh users have a VERY similar rig. This is because Gigabyte out of all the motherboards is the MOST preferred partly because it requires no BIOS modding and my Motherboard in particular has a BIOS switch, one for Windows the other for MAC (it is not recommend you dual boot unless you have a profile saved for Windows in the BIOS).
As for the video card I did mention that it does have performance issues and that is because the GTX680 is not a supported video card by Apple. BUT there are two methods to get it working at its appropriate clock as well as get pretty decent frames in all the games that are on Windows that are also on MAC; for example Borderlands 2 is playable at 60+FPS, Batman city 60+FPS, L4D2 60+FPS all maxed out. One way is to use the driver that is used on the mobile 680mx, which is an Apple only mobile 680 chip. And the other is to use this (http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-macosx-256.02.25f01-driver.html) Yup even though it is not on the supported list it works just as well as the MX chip does, and this is what I used. Before I go on the process here are some bench scores:
Geek Bench: (http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/1639789)
Unigine:
As you can see I am running this is DX10 (DX11 does not work in Unigine MAC) and everything is MAXED out at 1080p. Not as high as you would see in Windows but pretty good considering the condition.
Cinebench:
HWmonitor:
This is 2500k at 3.4ghz max frequency. (I will be overclocking soon)
Over the course of a few days my brother and me were doing research on my current build:
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H (100% operational in OSX)
CPU: i5 2500k (100% operational in OSX)
RAM: Corsair dominator platinum 1866 (100% operational in OSX)
GPU: GTX680 (100% operational in OSX but has performance issues)
HDD: WD Blue 320gb (YOU MUST GET A SEPARATE HDD!!!)
After a few days of research via Tonymacx86.com we found that every part was compatible, and some only with a few edits via a program called multibeast. (Later explained)
Before I go further in depth, here is a photo of my “About This Mac.”
As you can see everything is showing up, including the correct speeds of the RAM and CPU. But the CPU did not just work right away. In fact neither did the GTX680. In order to get every part of my motherboard working I went to (http://www.tonymacx86.com/user-buil...h-16gb-ram-2133mhz-gt-640-a-4.html#post456037) This gentleman had about the same rig I did in fact the majority of Hackintosh users have a VERY similar rig. This is because Gigabyte out of all the motherboards is the MOST preferred partly because it requires no BIOS modding and my Motherboard in particular has a BIOS switch, one for Windows the other for MAC (it is not recommend you dual boot unless you have a profile saved for Windows in the BIOS).
As for the video card I did mention that it does have performance issues and that is because the GTX680 is not a supported video card by Apple. BUT there are two methods to get it working at its appropriate clock as well as get pretty decent frames in all the games that are on Windows that are also on MAC; for example Borderlands 2 is playable at 60+FPS, Batman city 60+FPS, L4D2 60+FPS all maxed out. One way is to use the driver that is used on the mobile 680mx, which is an Apple only mobile 680 chip. And the other is to use this (http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-macosx-256.02.25f01-driver.html) Yup even though it is not on the supported list it works just as well as the MX chip does, and this is what I used. Before I go on the process here are some bench scores:
Geek Bench: (http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/1639789)
Unigine:
As you can see I am running this is DX10 (DX11 does not work in Unigine MAC) and everything is MAXED out at 1080p. Not as high as you would see in Windows but pretty good considering the condition.
Cinebench:
HWmonitor:
This is 2500k at 3.4ghz max frequency. (I will be overclocking soon)
