Cheap $63 MacOS Sonoma Hackintosh with Dedicated GPU 

You can definitely get a PC with similar specs on Ebay UK for the same or less money. Just avoid the fixed price listings and follow the auctions. Here are a few that ended recently. www.ebay.co.uk/itm/404480723543 - sold for £8.99 www.ebay.co.uk/itm/404357824697 - Sold for £8.99 www.ebay.co.uk/itm/134742207812 - sold for £12.50 www.ebay.co.uk/itm/145239309982 - Sold for £12.90 www.ebay.co.uk/itm/404446821648 - Sold for £14.50 www.ebay.co.uk/itm/134742207339 - Sold for £15.00 Any of these could run macOS. MacOS Ventura and Sonoma need AVX2, which your i7-3770 doesn't have, and also macOS doesn't support Nvidia GPU's, only AMD. But you could still put together a similar build to this for £50-£60 or thereabouts that would run Sonoma and edit video very well.

@@BartechTV Thank you very much for your effort and your time to reply me. I appreciate it. I will have a look to the list above.

Were you able to get yours working? If so did you just make the same EFI or was It different cause i7?

@@Itsraminstech Yes, it is working.

@@deamonsnake1985 thanks. Did you do anything different to the video?

​@Itsraminstech ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GGy3V3YT6tI.htmlsi=FstJbDOkvs5BlRO6 I did follow this video. Only after install, with one of the OCC, I corrected the Audio ALC ID, and using some boot mount tool, copied the EFI folder from USB Installer to hidden folder(partition) on the HDD which has Ventura. (Copied all thr folders where boot info is loaded on the hard drive partition, thus then it would boot without USB drive uninstalled). BTW, I added thr Fenvi wifi card later and it works without any issues. No configuration was needed. And Ram was upgraded to 32GB as well. Some tips, make sure that computer is connected to internet via Ethernet/Wired. Also I had mine windows drive completely disconnected physically.

@@deamonsnake1985 thanks!

Yes, it'll work, you'll just need to use OpenCore Legacy Patcher to get graphics acceleration working after installation since Sonoma doesn't support HD 4xxx series.

Thanks, really appreciate replying 😄 May I know which SMbois would you use without the dgpu?

@@BartechTV I'm curious how well OpenCore Legacy Patcher actually works on Hackintosh machines as so far I've only heard of it being used on real Macs. I have a Dell OptiPlex 9020 currently running MacOS 12.7 I'll have to try it on.

@@drahrekot683I’ve patched my Sonoma (beta) Haswell T1700 with OCLP, and accelerated graphics still doesn’t work. This is a good question.

Elite Class. Why would people pay 1000$ for iphone , when they can use chinese phone for 100$. Just look at US colleges 99% use Mac.

@@sundayevening161 they only use Mac for the software, the hardware of Macs is overhyped and not worth the money. That’s why hackintoshes are a great budget option

@@thepapnmapn6733 THIS. However hackintoshes are not widely known and most people think they have to do it themselves, they could pay someone else to install it.

Yes it will

Yes it’s definitely possible. In fact my first hackintosh all the way back in 2015 was a mini ITX build based on a Gigabyte H81 board and 4th gen i5.

it can run upto Monterey, Nick

You can run Monterey. Ventura dropped support for HD 4400. Your NVidia graphics won't work at all, you'll have to either disable it in the BIOS or by adding the "-wegnoegpu" boot flag. It's not possible for me to make a video showing how to install it on your laptop because I don't own a Z50-70 and every laptop is different. The easiest way for you to try would be to find an existing EFI from someone with the same laptop model like this one - github.com/thedeadfish59/lenovo_z50-70_hackintosh

30-35 watts under low usage eg. web browsing, editing documents in Pages, etc. 105w under full load eg. benchmarking the GPU or exporting video from FCP. I pay €0.12/kWh so running costs are about €1/month if used for 8 hours a day, 7 days a week.

HP, Dell, Lenovo - all are hackintoshable. The only reason I chose this Fujitsu was that it happened to be cheap at the time I was looking on Ebay. There's nothing special about it that makes it more hackintoshable than any other brand, so just pick whatever PC is cheapest. The only drawback with the SFF PC's is the inability to add a graphics card, which I why I tend to prefer the mini tower systems.

@@BartechTV How about this one? HP Elitedesk PC - Intel Core i5-4570 CPU 4x 3,4Ghz - 8GB RAM - 6x USB 2.0, 4x USB 3.0 - 2x DisplayPort; 1xVGA

That'll work fine.

@@mariah7945 The number and kind of USB ports and Display ports is not so much important to decide if it is possible to use for a Hackintosh. Regarding Upgrades: Can you install a dedicated Graphics Card as seen in this video? Can you change the CPU? Can you install a better CPU Cooler and Fan? Is there room enough in the Mini Tower or Tower for an additional fan to further reduce heat inside and to get a faster Hackintosh? etc. etc.

To get working AirDrop you'll need a WiFi/Bluetooth card that uses the same Broadcom chipset that's used in real Macs. People most commonly use the Fenvi T919, which you can find on Amazon or Ebay, but any BCM94360-based card should work out of the box in Ventura. Apple dropped support for the Broadcom card in Sonoma, so if you install Sonoma you'll have to run OpenCore Legacy Patcher after installation to get WiFi/Bluetooth back.

No, I had never heard of Zorin until now. I must give it a try.

Zorin OS version 16 is a well working Operating System and free. The paid Pro Version adds an even more Apple Mac feeling and some other features.

4th Gen or higher CPU, 4GB of RAM, and a compatible graphics card or iGPU (Kaby Lake or newer). If you have an unsupported iGPU (like the HD 4600 in this PC) you can still get it to work by running OpenCore Legacy Patcher after installation.

MSI RX 560 Low Profile 4GB

Sonoma needs AVX2, so it won’t work on a CPU older than Haswell. It needs 4th gen or newer.

RadeonSensor is a pair of kexts and an app for monitoring GPU temperatures in your status bar. If you don't need it just remove RadeonSensor.kext and SMCRadeonGPU.kext from your kexts folder and your config.plist.

The PCI slot and BIOS will support anything. PCIe 4 cards will still work in PCIe 3 and PCIe 2 slots. You could put a 4090 in there if you wanted to. The problem is that premade desktops like this have a proprietary, low wattage power supply with no GPU power connectors. You can't even replace the PSU with an ATX one since they don't follow the ATX standard - the motherboard power connectors are proprietary. I was able to use a SATA to 6-pin adapter in this case, and it worked because the RX 460 card only pulls a very small amount of power from the 6-pin connector. But power hungry cards wouldn't work unless you powered them separately, perhaps by using a separate PSU outside the case.

RTX isn’t supported natively in the vanilla OS.

The 1660 TDP is 120w. So, with a maximum 75w from the PCIe slot and 54w from the SATA connector you’d be pushing it right to the limit. It may work but I definitely wouldn’t expect it to be stable for long gaming sessions.

@@BartechTV Thanks! I’m thinking about getting an atx PSU and an adapter. Quite expensive though.

@@BartechTV Do you know how I can fit a 600w PSU in there? I got the GTX 1660 but now I’ve got to get the right psu.

selling hackintoshes is illegal

​@@stanleyhoptroffyes but people still do it

@@stanleyhoptroff This has never stopped anyone ever. Most pcs you see for sale have pirated windows as well.

Can you use Ryzen CPU’s for this. As I have a spare 1600 and 2600 currently. Just not sure since Apple used to use intel chips.

@@definitelynotchadfish no

@@definitelynotchadfish check ryzen open core builds

⁠@@jj-icejoe6642stop spreading misinformation, ryzen processors work fine

@@thepapnmapn6733 Oh yeah then good luck...

For a budget build - Gigabyte B760M-DS3H-D4 - €110 32GB of Kingston Fury DDR4 - €80 WD SN770 1TB NVMe SSD - €50 + a used Radeon RX 570 - €50-€60.

@@BartechTV thanks man ...

Which country do you live in?

Indonesia 🤭

​@@andrejagalhah😂 mentok cari aja banyak bang orang yg i5 6500 build up pc se set aja 1jt yg berarti sekitar 65$ cmiiw

RX 460 is the cheapest GPU that is natively supported in Sonoma. These GPU's work in Sonoma:- RX 460 / 470 / 480 RX 560 / 570 / 580 / 590 RX Vega 56 / 64 / VII RX 5500 / 5600 / 5700 / XT RX 6600 / 6800 / 6900 / XT

@@BartechTV So AMD card only, noted. Prolly started with ventura dedicated gpu. Thank you for the reply. I wish i found your channel earlier. :D

as there is problem with space on those kind of pc which low profile you recommend? @@BartechTV

@@BartechTV i find it a bit challenging to find a LP gpu with a good price,i spotted an RX460,do you think this is going to be futureproof or i will need to change the GPU at some point.

Dual channel RAM will increase scores by 20% approx. But will be amazing for using the web and other daily tasks

​@@znatnodobre it's already running in dual channel. You can see 2 sticks at 3:20. The difference would be as he emphasized at the end for larger projects.

Is your BIOS set to UEFI with secure boot off? Is your EFI exactly the same structure on the USB and desktop partition? Are you able to boot to the boot picker?

@@zeroturn7091 I have solve this problem using Bootx64.efi and register the efi ssd to the bios, and It is appear on the boot picker

No, MacOS has no Nvidia support, only AMD.

well you can edit the smbios to support sonoma install, then after you install it on your dell, use opecore legacy patcher to patch that nvidia so it will somehow be usable

Yes.

Make sure that you have Opencore's NVME driver - "NvmExpressDxe.efi" in your EFI/OC/Drivers folder.

Thanks! Ok with driver I'm a step forward. I have Sonoma on the NVME. I have also a EFI Partition on the NVME. But it's only boot from the stick. The BIOS will not see the EFI Start System on the NVME card in the start sequence.. @@BartechTV

You need to use OpenCore Auxiliary Tools to mount both EFI partitions - the one from your USB drive and the one from your NVME drive - and copy the EFI folder from the USB EFI partition onto your NVME EFI partition. Then you will see the NVME drive as a boot option in the OpenCore picker.

I do all things. But the motherboard BIOS give not the opportunity to start from NVME. I tested also two other PCIe adapter and the possibility to use the NVME Disk as bootable for Windows. Nothing works. All works good with the workaround over an bootable USB Stick with opencore. To install sonoma i choose as model: iMac20,1 Intel Core i5-10500 @ 3.10 GHz. I must not patch the GPU. I choose a MSI model. Now i search for a stick for WiFi and Bluetooth. Have you a reference for me? @@BartechTV

You don't have to change the SMBIOS to iMac Pro. You could leave the iGPU enabled in the BIOS, use a regular iMac SMBIOS, and change the device-id for the iGPU to a "headless" one. If you do this, macOS will use the dedicated RX 560 for the display and use the iGPU for Quicksync video decoding, just like a real iMac. Or, you can disable the iGPU completely and use an iMac Pro or Mac Pro SMBIOS in which case MacOS uses the DGPU for everything, like on a real iMac Pro. In this case, you'd delete everything iGPU-related under device properties since there's no iGPU to patch. So, it's up to you which approach you want. I found video encoding / decoding to be faster using the DGPU so I chose the second method.

@@BartechTV I got it. So the RX 560 is plug and play without any other setting that must I do ? I would use the second method, how to delete the iGPU things? Can I use OCAuxiliaryTool ?

Yes. You could make that into a hackintosh that would be a video and photo editing beast. The 5700 XT is about 50% faster than the M3 Pro. One thing I'd change is the SSD. WD drives play better with macOS than Samsung. Swap out the 970 EVO for an SN770 or SN850X and you have a killer hackintosh build.

Yes they work the same as on a real Mac.

On Ebay Germany, mostly. Look for auctions and ignore the fixed price listings.

@@BartechTV I have actually found a p420 e85+ for 28.49 GBP and it has an i3, 8gb of ram and a Samsung 256gb ssd

Yes Trim is working fine. Boots in about 10 seconds.

i seen on reddit that someone made the 550 worked, the title was, Making the radeon RX 550 4GB DDR5 to work on hackintosh

Tou a viver em Portugal mas não sou tuga. Eu sou inglês.

@@BartechTV ok obrigado

No it's surprisingly quiet, you don't even hear it.

Only a Fujitsu power supply will work, because they use a special 16-pin PSU with 11v standby instead of a normal ATX PSU. You can buy an adapter on Ebay for ATX PSU's, although it's a bit expensive.

can you give me links for them?@@BartechTV

if i change the motherboard can i change psu?@@BartechTV

That's a 2nd gen Intel CPU. Ventura and Sonoma need AVX2 so they won't run on the 2011 iMac.

@@BartechTV mine does

The 6500 would be 5 to 7% faster than the 4570. Likely not enough to even be noticeable.

@@BartechTV ok thank you very much, i really appreciate it 🙏, and do you think i5 8400 is sufficient for budget build ?

Yes for sure. The i5 8400 will be significantly faster than either the 4570 or the 6500 thanks to the extra cores.

perhaps you have wrong bios settings or bad EFI

Boa tarde. Não sei falar ou escrever espanhol, mas vou responder em português. O BIOS dos computadores antigos não reconhecem SSD NVMe, então é necessário ter OpenCore instalado num SSD SATA ou um USB, junto com o driver NVMe do OpenCore "NvmExpressDxe.efi", dentro da pasta EFI/OC/Drivers. Assim, o computador inicializar desde o USB ou SSD SATA, e OpenCore carrega seus próprios drivers nvme, permitindo que você selecione a unidade nvme no instalador do Windows ou macOS.

Muchas gracias lo probaré así gracias por tu tiempo

Yes. Most will run macOS Sonoma. For Intel it needs to be from 7th gen to 10th gen for the graphics to work, or for Ryzen you need an AMD APU with integrated Vega graphics and NootedRed kext.

You can install macOS Monterey or earlier but not Ventura or Sonoma since they require AVX2 instructions which were only introduced with Intel 4th Gen.

any tutorial of your on mac Monterey installation? @@BartechTV

@@BartechTV can I run MacOS Sonoma on core i3 10th gen without a gpu Nvidia driver

macOS doesn't work with Nvidia cards, only AMD.

Yes, it works using NootedRed kext

Native Apple broadcom card with a PCIe adapter, or a Fenvi T919, along with OpenCore Legacy Patcher.

@@BartechTV really I thought t1919 airdrop isn’t supported on Sonoma

Yes that’s why you need OCLP. It re-adds support for the Broadcom chipset used on the Fenvi cards.

www.ebay.ie/itm/126431913327 - sold for 25,57€ (with i5 & 16GB RAM) www.ebay.ie/itm/305493789610 - sold for 25,90€ www.ebay.ie/itm/404858650390 - sold for 19,50€ www.ebay.ie/itm/404827472652 - sold for 21,50€ www.ebay.ie/itm/395227450238 - sold for 12,50€ www.ebay.ie/itm/404795035032 - sold for 20,48€ (with i5)

I hope they never do that

No, only AMD cards work in macOS.

A maneira mais fácil de adicionar Wi-Fi e Bluetooth seria com uma placa PCIe, por exemplo o Fenvi T919. Ou, alternativamente, podes usar um adaptador USB.