going to change

Samsung 850 EVO Series 500GB mSATA Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-M5E500BW

to

Samsung 850 EVO 500GB 2.5" 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-75E500B/AM

people are using this drive as a replacement in real MAC's

 

Hey! I'm just about to build something similar.
Have you thought about a case to keep the beast as quiet as possible?

 

I suggest to keep the OS on different drives. But you can have both on the same drive like i did before getting the SSD. And then moved the OSX partition with Carbon Copy Drive.

 

Hello Gentlemen

wanted to update you on my progress
,,,,,,,,,,Parts
Intel Core i7-4790K Quad-Core Processor

GIGABYTE GA-Z97-HD3

Corsair Dominator Platinum 16 Gb

1,,,,Samsung 850 EVO 500 GB 2.5

2,,,,,,,Seagate NAS 2TB 3.5" SATA3 64MB


TP-LINK N900 TL-WDN4800, 450Mbps Wireless N Dual Band PCI Express Adapter

550 watt power suppy

old tower case I had will be in a sound proof box I built with
industrial vinyl sound damper and acoustic foam

just need a little help finding a good copy of Yosemite

bought a copy of Mountain Lion a couple of years ago when

I was messing around a little bit hackintoshing

but I think the apple store will only let me download
El Capitan

Maybe someone could PM me and point me in the right direction

once again THANKS for all your help

eating lots of macaroni

Korgrog

 

I'm not sure why you would choose this type of drive for a studio computer. Its designed for NAS use and is rather slow, 5900 rpm, fine for raid use but not optimized for audio use.

I use WD Black SATA Desktop Hard Drive's, fast, quiet and a 5 yr warranty. Yes, as always, slightly more expensive than the seacrate but i'd rather have a smaller sized WD black than a larger, slower seacrate.

There is a review of the seacrate nas drives here, http://www.storagereview.com/seagate_nas_hdd_review

and a review of a WD black here, http://www.storagereview.com/wd_black_4tb_desktop_hard_drive_review_wd4003fzex

Time to find a cheaper macaroni supplier

 

Cases do need airflow, if you 'just' put it in a soundproofing box, temperatures inside will get very high - you will fry your new hardware if you block in- and outlets on the case. I personally got a passivly cooled GPU, Big ass Thermaltake CPU cooler with slow blowing fans and a silent PSU. Hardly don't hear my build, guess my external USB drives make more noise..

Hardware: you've chosen almost 5 year old hardware, maybe to be on the safe side for a Hackintosh build? I'm gonna upgrade myself soon, but will go with Skylake/Z170 &DDR-4 RAM, now on the market for half a year, and more and more success stories, like here: http://www.tonymacx86.com/el-capitan-desktop-guides/
If I'm spending money on a new build, I wanna be as future proof as possible..

More links:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=skylake+hackintosh (and more on the right).
http://www.tonymacx86.com/el-capitan-desktop-guides/179221-skylake-starter-guide.html
(with 5 SSDT files for 'working' Mobo's)

 

Well Guys finally put the computer together

Windows 7 works great

Mackintosh works great also took a while to try and find

Yosemite ,,,,could not find one to buy,,even at the apple store

or a downloadable one to work in unibeast ,,,

,finally had to use Yosemite Niresh's

version but it will not let me update it so I am at 10.10.1

if anyone could point me in the right direction

or sell me a Install OS X Yosemite.app

one I could use to make an unibeast boot loader

I would appreciate it

THANKS for all your help

Korgrog

 

Download and install this :

https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1832?locale=fr_FR

 

Is still possible update Niresh release, just google "update niresh"

 

I used to run a hackintosh with Niresh's distro. I used the hacked AMD kernel one, so that added extra layers of fun :/

Once you have a version of the OS that works & does everything you want it to do, I suggest you take a snapshot of it (I used Paragon; pop in the boot USB stick and you're off). You'll never know when the next OS update breaks your system, and troubleshooting hackintoshes are a pain in the ass.

Good luck!

 

Thanks Guys

Update to 10.10.5 with downloaded

OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 Combo Update

this worked when the software update did not

rebooted held my breath and everything super great,,,, only took 3 days ,,,many hours of why did this not work

now it looks and acts like a fully functioning Mac,, I have swappable main drives,,so swap in windows I have

Windows 7,,,swap in mac I have Yosemite

Going to Make a backup now ,,,cannot remember every step along the way but to get it to load properly

I had to pull the video card and one stick of ram ,,use the onboard video dvi output

The boot options I used are :

GraphicsEnabler=No maxmem=4096 npci=0x2000

two much memory caused it to hang
usually they set
GraphicsEnabler to yes but this did not work
I always find it funny that it takes all kind of messing around to get these things
to work but once you get it work it stops fighting you and off it goes
he drivers I just downloaded the mac drivers for internet, video card etc
installed them and away it went

font size changed hit a windows key that means something different on a Mac
guess I should get a Mac keyboard

All Work Great Now