I got my original Core i5 2500 machine back, and I have reinstalled Mac OS X 10.8.5 on it, and it is running very nicely.
Will upgrade the Radeon HD 5570 as soon as I can.
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2014, January 5 - 8:44am
#1
Back in Hackintosh-land
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2014, January 5 - 2:45pm
#2
Sorry for your MacPro trouble TMM. Can you maybe hack it to run from a external 1000W psu?
I´m on my T60, 10.6 mostly, as it is "armchair compatible". Snow Leopard is still my favorite.
2014, January 6 - 3:05am
#3
I wasn't able to nail down the cause. Whoever has it now will probably try a new processor off eBay (they are quite inexpensive, the 2.26GHz Quad-Core Xeons), and if that is unsuccessful, try the Power Supply. There are good wiring diagrams on the internet done by others who have ATX'ed their Mac Pros already.
2014, January 6 - 11:51am
#4
Thats the way, I guess. Swapping CPU and psu for a ATX.
The MacPro´s were high end and many will have been beaten down by now.
The same story with all formerly most wanted stuff, VCRs, cars, kids toys...
2014, January 6 - 12:18pm
#5
That's the risk when buying used computers I guess. I don't think even the high end stuff is built to last like the old stuff from the 80s or 90s.
Anyway, It sounds like it's found a new owner now. I'm not sure what the PSUs are like in the Mac Pros but if they're a standard ATX size then ATX-ing one should be relatively simple. I did this with the first G4 I got (then I later got another one for parts). I wasn't able to do it with the MDD because its PSU is an oddball shape. There are ways to shoehorn in a regular ATX PSU but they don't look good.
The fear of something like this happening is why I built a new hackintosh last year instead of paying the same (or more) for a used MP.
2014, January 7 - 4:02am
#6
Yeah, it's a small power supply, roughly ATX size, not the stupid thing under the panel in the bottom of the G5 Power Mac.
Just got confirmation that my replacement graphics card will be a GTX 660, which is pretty darn close to the 7870 in terms of gaming performance, plus with all the added goodness of CUDA/OpenCL and Hackintosh ease of use -- It is a dual-fan design as well, so might overclock it slightly
2014, January 7 - 2:01pm
#7
Nice! I have a 670 here. I'd recommend staying with Mountain Lion for the time being. There's a OpenCL-related bug with Kepler cards that causes them to get stuck running at their highest power state.
It's in Mountain Lion too but OpenCL seems to be more widely used in Mavericks so it's much easier to trigger it.
2014, January 7 - 2:41pm
#8
I would like to put Leopard or Tiger on a ThinkPad X200.
Not the one I have though, there's three operating systems on it already.
2014, January 7 - 3:38pm
#9
If I recall correctly everything between Intel GMA945 and the the early i3/5/7 iGPUs was not worth the effort with OSX. Maybe with the exception of the X3100 which had a 32bit kext at least. (T61)
Going the Hackintosh way with old hardware I would always try Nawcom´s Mod and a retail Snow Leo DVD.
2014, January 8 - 8:03am
#10
@24bit -- but it WILL RUN, that was the coolest thing. You won't be playing Call of Duty on it
2014, January 8 - 10:42am
#11
I ran both leopard and snowleopard on my old atom based netbook and that went pretty well, and that had 945 graphics if i recall correctly
Now i'm running on a Acer aspire E1-571, quad core i7 power 
which apart from the fact i have already had to replace the power socket seems to be very good, Runs mountain lion very nicely (just wish i could run snow leopard on it...)
2014, January 9 - 5:35am
#12
Why not slow leopard max1zzz?
If you use a proper UEFI bootloader (there are some custom Clover builds available), I cannot see any reason why you cannot (except possibly no graphics driver). Some people are using the Lion dp1 graphics drivers under 10.6.8 with success with some newer NVIDIA cards. Actually, I believe the 10.6.8 combo update had some newer graphics cards supported too. The real problem is installing 10.6.4 (last Apple released installer) and updating. You should have 100% success after installing it on another compatible Hackintosh/RealMac, installing the bootloader, and swapping the HDD back into your box. Then it is only a matter of sorting out the kexts/Boot.plist.
Even my Dell XPS 435t (Core i7 920) was supported, and that is a custom motherboard!
2014, January 9 - 6:36am
#13
@Protocol 7 -- I believe the latest Web drivers are incompatible with OpenCL/CUDA anyway (under Mountain Lion). There are patches for OpenCL with 2GB+ VRAM cards (which I will have shortly), which I believe will get them working (whether correctly is another matter entirely).
I will be very happy with added performance, as well as PhysX support, which I have been missing. In gaming, the difference between the 660 and the Radeon HD 7870 is negligible, to the point of it only being a couple of frames per second difference. I fully intend to slightly overclock the 660 to bring it up to an acceptable performance/temperature.
2014, January 9 - 7:00am
#14
I'm hoping that 10.8.5 with latest Web driver + latest CUDA driver will enable OpenCL. There is much success with older 10.8.2 + older CUDA + patch from MultiBeast, to get OpenCL working on 10.8.2, but that won't work with my 10.8.5 install (from memory).
2014, January 9 - 9:53am
#15
Tmm: Because it is a ivy bridge i7, which as far as i could find can't run 10.6.8 properly
It's not the end of the world as i still have the old MBP running 10.6
2014, January 9 - 1:25pm
#16
Kepler cards don't need any patching to enable OpenCL so you should be good to go, even without the nVidia web drivers. My old 460 needed the patch. Although, as I said if you use OpenCL your card won't clock back down when idle.
As for Snow, Sandy Bridge is the end of the road.
2014, January 11 - 8:54am
#17
nice info, thanks all for the input (P7/max).
Card should be here within a week. Turns out it is factory overclocked, so VERY close, if not above the 7870.
2014, January 13 - 9:49am
#18
I received (and promptly installed) my GTX 660 today. WOW!
I have OpenCL/CUDA on Hackintosh (10.8.5) -> LuxMark=501, Galaxies=660.
Working quietly and cool. Really hot day here (36c degrees Celsius/97 degrees Farenheit). Going to give it a thorough testing after dinner.
WEI=7.9 for both Graphics