Hi Hackintosh friends, it’s Teresa here from morgonaut.cloud
As I promised, I’m reviewing first Hackintosh build from my new video series about Hackintosh
setups.
This one is cheap.
The idea of this video series is to make life of Hackintosh builders even more easier and
if you want such a machine and have it quickly and 100% working and without any knowledge
how to tweak things, all you have to do is just buy those components listed in video
description, install macOS using my tutorial and download whole already prepared Clover
folder for this build and replace it in EFI partition on your boot disk.
That’s all.
I guarantee that it will work for you the same as you will see later in this video.
As mainboard I choose MSI Z270 Gaming Plus, which is quite cheap these days and offers
still good value for future upgrades.
I chose for GPU AMD Radeon RX 560, which is highly compatible with macOS and all applications
will benefit of it.
As a CPU I chose Pentium G4560, which is incredibly cheap and underrated CPU.
In games it’s starting bottlenecking the GTX 1070.
All less powerful GPUs will benefit from this CPU.
Now let’s have a look into About This Mac.
System is latest High Sierra, this Pentium G4560 is recognised as Intel Core i5, 8GB
DDR4 RAM and RX 560.
One CPU with 2 cores, 4 hyper threading cores.
Onboard audio is recognised and working, Intel ethernet is also working great, RX 560 supported
for Metal API and OpenCL is working too.
Memory just 2 sticks from 4 slots available, Kingston SATA disk (you can always activate
Trim if you want, but these days it’s not necessary, USB 3 flash drive recognised and
working.
It’s this one on the Desktop.
All CPU sensors working, GPU and motherboard readings too.
Sleep and wake is working too without any problem.
Let’s fire up some benchmarks and see how it performs.
So who is this build for?
For people on a budget, who wants cheap Hackintosh build easy and fast way.
You can always in future upgrade the CPU up to Core i7-7700k or up to 64 GB of RAM.
It is not a rendering beast machine, but for common tasks like surfing the internet, checking
email, even some light video editing it is far enough and for cheap.
So as I said in introduction of this video, just buy those components listed in this video description,
install macOS using my tutorial and download whole already prepared Clover folder for this
build and replace it in EFI partition on your boot disk.
That’s all.
You will then have 100% working Hackintosh and you will not have to tweak anything.
But if you are still interested on Hackintosh building and want to understand more what’s
going on under the hood, just watch my other videos and tutorials.
If you want more builds like this then support me on my Patreon page, link is in the video description.
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Thank you for watching a see you next time.