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Will these parts work as a Hackintosh?

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June 28, 2014 11:11:56 AM

I have a PC running Windows 7 that I would like to change to Mac OS X Snow Leopard and upgrade to Mavericks. Does anyone know if these parts will work?

12GB DDR3 RAM
HIS Radeon R7 250 (2GB) graphics card
ECS Elitegroup X77H2-A3 motherboard
Intel Celeron G645 at 2.90 Ghz
Windows 7 64-bit
1TB HDD

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June 28, 2014 12:16:39 PM

According to this site
http://www.macbreaker.com/2012/06/hackintosh-graphics-c...
Unfortunately no, Apple went back to Nvidia for sole providing video cards so the newer AMD's are not compatible

Edit - May work, read a little closer and found this
"The Radeon R9 200 series is largely just a rebranding of the Radeon 7000 series, so most R9 200 series cards are supported in OS X Mavericks (and possibly Mountain Lion). However, you will probably have to perform the same workarounds during the installation process-- while some models in the R9 series now work out of the box, most of them still have the same problems that the 7000 series had. Meanwhile, most of the cards in the Radeon R7 200 series don't really work in Mac OS X-- as usual, OS X hasn't provided particularly good support for AMD's lower-end models."
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June 29, 2014 3:30:07 AM

SU11YBEAR said:
According to this site
http://www.macbreaker.com/2012/06/hackintosh-graphics-c...
Unfortunately no, Apple went back to Nvidia for sole providing video cards so the newer AMD's are not compatible

Edit - May work, read a little closer and found this
"The Radeon R9 200 series is largely just a rebranding of the Radeon 7000 series, so most R9 200 series cards are supported in OS X Mavericks (and possibly Mountain Lion). However, you will probably have to perform the same workarounds during the installation process-- while some models in the R9 series now work out of the box, most of them still have the same problems that the 7000 series had. Meanwhile, most of the cards in the Radeon R7 200 series don't really work in Mac OS X-- as usual, OS X hasn't provided particularly good support for AMD's lower-end models."


So it would just be the graphics card that might not work?

Edit: I have an R7, is that different from an R9? Here's a link to the product page: http://www.hisdigital.com/us/product2-766.shtml

Edit 2: I found a thread that says this:
Can someone revise the original post and mention that all of the AMD R7 R8 and R9 cards except the 290 and 290x work completely out of box since they are just re-named versions of the older 7xxx series cards. No die shrink or anything like that just new names on the box. said:
Can someone revise the original post and mention that all of the AMD R7 R8 and R9 cards except the 290 and 290x work completely out of box since they are just re-named versions of the older 7xxx series cards. No die shrink or anything like that just new names on the box.
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June 29, 2014 5:10:09 AM

Yeah as long as you are using an intel chip the only issue is the GPU, so since the 250x = 7770
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-radeon-r7-250x,259...
So the 7770 is supported so you "should" be alright, never any guarantee unfortunately unless someone has posted the same build

Also it is recommended to use gigabyte motherboards for Hackintosh builds since you do not need to make any changes to the bios to have them work
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