#NOVABENCH FOR MAC OS LION HOW TO#

Tonymacx86 insists that you use a graphic card matching the manufacturer's (AMD) specs. I picked Vapor X version of the Radeon in case I succed to overclock it as well. No need to buy such a huge cooler if you don't intend to overclock your CPU. You can keep any other CPU as long as it matches your GIGABYTE motherboard. Check your motherboard compatibility here : DSDT database tonymacx86. You might use other motherboard brands or models.

USB Flash drive (if you need to flash your BIOS).

Sapphire Vapor X AMD Radeon HD 6870 1 Go DDR5.

Motherboard GIGABYTE GA-Z68X-UD3P-B3 rev.1 (chipset Intel Z68).

In order to assemble this Customac or Hackintosh you'll need the following equipment: I'll follow the genuine guide written by Tonymacx86 with a few adjustments to comply with the following hardware specifications.

Once installation is done (10.6.8), you'll be able to buy Lion Update (10.7.1) from the Apple Store. You need to have specific hardware (motherboard, graphic card, chipset, cpu). You'll see that you cannot install OS X on any PC.

#NOVABENCH FOR MAC OS LION HOW TO#

In this article I will explain how to install Mac OS X on a (specific) PC. So click here now and follow Unibeast Tutorial immediately. Since I did it myself and I found nothing to add to this tutorial, there's no need to rewrite it for my current build. Using this method is way much easier, saves you time, does not require to limit memory to 4Go and works period. I strongly recommend that - if you have a running Mac OS X build with Lion - you use TonyMac's tutorial named UniBeast.

Novabench for mac os lion