Hackintosh anyone?

[Zissou]

With the price of core i7 macs being so rediculous, yet Macs so favored for workflow, has anyone here used/built or worked on a Hackintosh?

im considering building an X58/core i7 930 system, and running Snow Leopard 10.6 x64 as well as Windows 7 x64. for a little over $2500, one could build an absolutely killer machine.

right now i have a 2.4Ghz Q6600 quad core machine with 8 gigs of RAM and twin HD5770 cards, and 4 TB of storage in a RAID configuration (8TB total), i built it in late 2006, and overhauled it about a month ago; but id rather build a new one.

i edit on windows machines mostly, but i also have a macbook pro with what i believe to be a dead motherboard. until i save up for a nice quad core mac, i was thinking of tossing together something along the lines of the below list...

twin 64gb SSD drives; one for boot, one for scratch disk
twin 1.5 TB storage drives.
core i7 quad core 2.8Ghz and overclock it to 3.2
liquid cooling
12GB 1066 RAM
Quadro FX 4800 1.5GB

anyone have any experience building or using a hackintosh?

 

[Batutta]

FYI, the mods usually frown on these kind of threads. They feel it veers too close to pirating software and usually shut them down.

 

[Zissou]

FYI, the mods usually frown on these kind of threads. They feel it veers too close to pirating software and usually shut them down.

i figured something similar, but its mostly idle speculation on my part. im not much of an apple fan, but we edit on both systems. i like building computers, and tinkering with bits, overclocking, etc.

your comment duly noted, however.

 

[VictorS]

Your system would scream if you can get it to work. (Find the kexts before you buy the parts) I couldn't get Snow Leopard to boot in 64bit, so I'm still using 10.5 on my 2.6Ghz quad.