This is my first computer build, and it took me over a year to complete it. I am in school for animation and needed something stronger than my macbook pro for rendering out animations and editing video. I was going to go the traditional route of most hackintoshers but I watched an episode of The Tek last March that mentioned a Kickstarter campaign for QUO, which claimed to have produced a motherboard that could run any OS. Against TheTek's advice, I grabbed one of their boards. I didnt think my first build was quite difficult enough, so I decided to hack up an old Powermac G5 to place my build in. These are the results.
Components
Intel i7 3770K
QUO mATX AOS Motherboard
16gbs of Corsair Vengeance 1600 memory
Corsair H80i Liquid CPU cooler
Corsair Neutron GTX SSD at 120gb
WD Blue 1TB Hard Disk Drive
TP-Link wireless card (plug and play compatibility)
I plan to add the Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition in the near future.
Case
Powermac G5
The Laser Hive mATX back plate and Motherboard tray
Power supply rehousing
Working front Power button USB ect.
I'll work on the cable management some other time....
After some research I found that, though the motherboard was not plug and play out of the box, all it took was a simple flash into a custom BIOS from Hermitcrab Labs and Mavericks loaded like a charm. No Multibeast, no third party loaders. I am still without sound, but I am working to correct that. I moderately overclocked the CPU to 4.3Ghz and produced a 14485 Geekbench score without a graphics card. More than twice the score of my laptop. Im pretty happy with that.
If anyone has any suggestions for the sound problem, I'm happy to hear it. Also, I'm looking for a solid hardrive cage that would fit in my case, preferably made out of plexi or something similar. Thanks!
ColorfullyVulgar