Comments on: DIY Hackintosh Tutorial: Build a Mac Pro for Cheap

By: jj

jj — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:28:55 +0000

I have the original macpro n cant find this even close to that. Maybe bit faster for gaming.

By: jj

jj — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:27:18 +0000

compare this to a macpro??? ur nuts.

By: friend adder

friend adder — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:50:06 +0000

Hi, this is a great site, and very well thought out and well written.

By: Crash

Crash — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:57:02 +0000

Will It Support A 2 TB HDD ?

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By: Flurben

Flurben — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:05:07 +0000

That’s too funny. I actually was watching cosby show re-runs with my sister hours before this. I actually thought this article was a prank just for me.

It’s slightly less illegal to use an EFI USB Dongle rather than the patched OS.

By: Rui Lima

Rui Lima — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:47:36 +0000

To see page number 2, go to

http://macapper.com/2008/01/19/diy-hackintosh-tutorial-build-a-mac-pro-for-cheap/2/

page 3

http://macapper.com/2008/01/19/diy-hackintosh-tutorial-build-a-mac-pro-for-cheap/3/

so on….

By: MacHacksterWannabee

MacHacksterWannabee — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:04:00 +0000

I can’t figure out how to see the complete article. It ends right after listing the parts. fitzy’s suggestion to change page numbers in the URL doesn’t work for me. Can somebody help? Thanks!

By: MAcmaster

MAcmaster — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:08:17 +0000

For all those that are truly concerned with the eula buy a cheap ipod and it comes with two apple stickers (or just buy the stickers) place them on the machine and viola you have the required apple logo’d machine that is required by the eula make sure to purchase your software tho to make the whole thing legal

By: Rui Lima

Rui Lima — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:50:24 +0000

fitzy on August 23rd, 2009 3:42 am

Thanks! Works perfectly.

By: fitzy

fitzy — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:42:21 +0000

if u people want to get to the next page
go to the URL bar and near the end
there is a page number(3) change it to 1,2,3etc
there u go:D
ive made a hackintosh and they r the best!!!!

By: bigpoppa

bigpoppa — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:20:26 +0000

Tony, yes I am using Xeons and they work perfectly!

By: Rui Lima

Rui Lima — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:53:44 +0000

TOny on July 17th, 2009 8:48 pm

Take a look at this:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=102288

By: elamre

elamre — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:46:53 +0000

well, how to read further?
it only sais: Next let’s take a look at some of the costs involved…

By: TOny

TOny — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:48:51 +0000

has anyone ever tried using xeons to build an hackintosh? I am wanting to build one with xeons because I am a designer that cant afford a $6000 mac pro.

By: bigpoppa

bigpoppa — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:53:07 +0000

Dust…are you sure? A Mac Pro can start off with a single Core 2 Quad chip, 4 gigs RAM, etc. What you are describing is a high end machine. Best wait til Snow Leopard is out anyway to see whaat board is going to be most compatible.

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By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:22:31 +0000

I have all of the screws required to build the mac pro.
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By: Marcowww

Marcowww — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:44:10 +0000

SirToby if you knew how much i agree with you!!!!!!!!!! MacBook Pro…. brought in twice still under warranty. 6 months ago the logic board decided not to charge the battery anymore. I’ve been told it’ll be more then £500 to fix it. A new,homemade mac it’ll be the same price…. but a quad core!!!

By: SirToby

SirToby — Sat, 23 May 2009 01:14:57 +0000

@Rui

Sorry to tell you but I’ve seen plenty of hardwareproblems with Macs. Faulty powersupplies fo iMacs, leaking coolant in older G5 Power Macs and so on. If you have a look at some Mac user forums, there is a plethora of problems with Apple’s hardware.

I’m not saying that Apple hardware is crap, on the contrary but saying Macs don’t break is bulldust. Macs don’t break as often as other computers, but considering the price, that’s the least one can expect. Quite frankly, Apple hardware isn’t as good as the price tag would suggest. If you haven’t had any problems so far, good for you. Be happy about it. But don’t expect it to be true for everybody else.

By: SirToby

SirToby — Sat, 23 May 2009 01:01:53 +0000

I guess the “Mac Pro” inthe headline refers to the fact, that the system is much more flexible and upgradeable than an iMac for example.

Also, don’t forget that the article was written quite a while ago, where iMacs and Mac Pros were alsoless “grunty” as they are today.

When I built my Hackintosh over a year ago, there was no DDR3 RAM in the Pros but the hellish expensive FB DDR2 ECC server RAM. Also, the older single CPU quad core Xeons in the last generation Pros were much more comparable to a C2Q than the newer Nehalems are. True, my slightly dated Q6600 isn’t the fastest chip out there anymore but it stillis a very powerful processor and in combination with the by now 8GB RAM inthe box, myHack doesn’t have to hide behind a comparable Mac Pro in terms of performance.

While the 32GB maximum of a real Mac Pro is pretty impressive, the 16GB limit of my board isn’t that bad either and in reality, machines with more than 8GB are rather rare and besides some special cases are a bit of an overkill. With the 8GB in my machine, I can run VMs with 3GB and still have plenty of RAM for anything I’m doing with the machine, so there is no need to slap more RAM into the box. If you don’t intend to run VMs or only VMs with smaller amounts of RAM, 4GB really is sufficient and in most cases already too much.

As for the performance, benchmarks are not everything. It is the everyday performance that counts and I guarantee you, that the difference between a quad core C2Q and a dual quad core Nehalem is felt way less than benchmarks indicate. Of course if you require the grunt, you’ll be able to tell but really, who actually needs the immense performance of 8 processor cores and 32GB of RAM? Most home users certainly don’t and professionals requiring such power will get a real Mac Pro anyway.

I’ve enjoyed my Hack for over a year now and I don’t doubt that I will keep enjoying it for quite a while longer.

By: dust

dust — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:14:09 +0000

the misunderstanding is about the title.. “Build a Mac PRO”
actually this spec are more like an imac(1 years ago) just without monitor..
if you want build a mac pro, u need a server like mobo at least, that can handle up to 32gb ddr3 and double quad cpu..or i7, plus an high end video card,
of course you gonna spend less than if you buy it from apple, like 40% discount if you count the sw..so is still a big deal.
i suggest to w8 for snow leopard to make a monster machine with i7, cuz they promise that the new OS will unleash the power out of i7 cpu, and finally start to use also gpu with openCL.
aniway also a normal hackintosh have a great performance, mine hack boot in about 10sec on a core duo, usually p5k series and intel cpus are the best to make an osx86

By: Rui

Rui — Sun, 10 May 2009 04:16:05 +0000

breaks down as much as anything???? I’m real Apple hardware owner and this is new to me.

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 09 May 2009 16:29:00 +0000

I, for one, am really happy to see stuff like this. I realize that it must be upsetting for lil apple fan bois but really, apple’s hardware is much more expensive and breaks down as much as anything. The ability to choose our hardware is a new thing for us mac freaks, and I’m stoked to see it.

By: Rui

Rui — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:16:19 +0000

Hi Guys! Here are P5W BIOS configuration for hackintosh. I got when this article was complete.

[Main]

Legacy Diskette : [Disabled] (se não for usar diskette, se for ajustar para 1,4 Mb)

[IDE Configuration]
Configure SATA As [AHCI]
ALPE ans ASP [Disabled]
IDE Detect Timeout (Sec) [35] (se for usar HD ATA, se não for ajustar para zero)

[Advanced]

[Jumper Free Configuration]
AI Overclocking [Manual]
CPU Frequency [333]
DRAM Frequency [DDR2-667Mhz]

[CPU Configuration]
Note: the top part of this section is grayed out.
Modify Ratio Support [Disabled]
Microcode Updation [Enabled]
Max CPUID Value Limit [Disabled]
Execute Disable Function [Enabled]
Enhance C1 Control [Auto]
CPU Internal Thermal Control [Auto]
Virtualization Technology [Disabled]
Intel(R) SpeedStep(tm) tech. [Disabled]

[Chipset]
Configure DRAM Timing by SPD [Enabled]
DRAM ECC Mode [Disabled]
Hyper Path 3 [Auto]
DRAM Throttling Threshold [Auto]
Memory Remap Feature [Enabled]

[Onboard Devices Configuration]
HD Audio Controller [Enabled]
HD Audio Mode [Non-Vista]
Front Panel Support Type [AC97]
Onboard 1394 Controller [Enabled]
Onboard PCIE GbE LAN_1 [Enabled]
Onboard PCIE GbE LAN_2 [Disabled]
LAN Option ROM [Disabled]
JMicron SATA/PATA Controller [Enabled]
JMicron Controller Mode [AHCI]
JMicron SATA/RAID BOOTROM [Disabled]

[PCI/PnP]
Plug And Play O/S [Yes]

[Power]
Suspend Mode [S3 Only]
Repost Video on S3 Resume [No]
ACPI 2.0 Support [Yes]
ACPI APIC support [Enabled]

[Hardware Monitor]
AI Quiet [Disabled]

[Boot]
[Boot Device Priority]
1st Boot Device [CDROM/DVD ROM]
2nd Boot Debice [HDD]
3rd Boot Device [Disabled]

By: Jonas

Jonas — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:54:42 +0000

Somewhat appropriately, to get to the rest of the article I had to hack around a little.

If you add a number 2,3,4 or 5 to the end of the url you can see the rest of the pages:

http://macapper.com/2008/01/19/diy-hackintosh-tutorial-build-a-mac-pro-for-cheap/2/

Good reading!!

By: cameronboy

cameronboy — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:29:12 +0000

built mine around a p5w dh
curently 2gb of gskill 6400hz
q6600
will upgrading the ram cause problems with osx 10.5.6 and this board.

I would like to replace the 2gb with 4gb or even 8gb but will the osx use the extra ram???
or do hackintosh run in 32 mode not 64bit how can you tell???
do i need to remap the memory ? if i upgrade