Hackintosh Project: Building a Hackintosh Pro (#1)
401- Hackintosh Series:: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL50DC4C5A8CA947CA
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This Hack Pro (2011) series includes building a Sandy Bridge i7 Quad-Core Hackintosh tower from start to finish. Please check out all parts, plus see the Hackintosh playlist for additional videos. Early segments discuss the project, demonstrates the system up and running, then goes in-depth on the hardware build, Mac OS X Lion install, setting up BIOS, over clocking, and then general tuning. The Hackintosh offers greater expandability, customization, and upgradability over an Apple computer. With a little work, this Hackintosh is not only stable and functional, but outperforms similarly configured Apple Macs. Total cost of the system was about $1200, although prices change daily and could be build for a little more or a little less. Final overclocked Geekbench scores were over 16,000.
Hackintosh Playlist
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL50DC4C5A8CA947CA&feature=view_all
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Part 1: The Hackintosh Project: Building a Hackintosh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGL-fZWq8h0
Part 2: It's Alive! - OS X Lion Hack Pro (2011) is up and running
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZRjwVLxaXs
Part 3: Hack Pro (2011) Hardware Build - i7 2600K/Sandy Bridge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE4mrQx-c9U
Part 4: Setup and Install OS X Lion on Hack Pro (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV9kKDDxTn4
Part 5: Noctua NH-D14 CPU Chiller + Overclocking on Hack Pro (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A664icW4aw
Part 6: Hack Pro (2011) CPU, GPU, and SSD Benchmarks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSXH_SLFkqg
Part 7: Extra Functions: Bluetooth, Firewire, Ethernet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXpeeWDQVCs
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