Ultra Cheap $300 Hackintosh Build for Ventura in 2023 

agreed. its also an interesting start for making a hackintosh :D

4C/8T 10gen powerfull CPU you are kidding?

@@kevinyoliveira68 bro it's powerful enough for some relaxed gaming

@@kevinyoliveira68 we don't all share a bed with our graphics cards.

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Thanks Ricardo, I'm glad you found the video useful.

I'd say the opencore documentation is perfectly concise. What did you have trouble with?

did you manage to get a hackintosh?? did you watch the 2023 indian dude top result video? ... im a bit scared from all the steps,, was it pretty simple for you to get it?

Hello, I am still using the USB in order to run Ventura. I tried to find the EFI folder in the USB, but the only thing I found is the Ventura Installer. Can you help me? Thanks :)

hi, which video card do you use?

can you guide me how i can make my hp envy i5 11gen laptop to the one how this video creator makes like i didnt get which file to download hackintosh mac os or genuine apple mac os? and other thing how to make bootable usb drive of mac os from my windows laptop do i really need macbook for creating the bootable disk?

lmao bro gave an ssd spec but not a gpu spec

No worries!

Why not just buy a mac mini for 600$?

@@c1bersnake want to dual boot with windows for gaming

​ @Cristian Barcaru Because newer models using Apple Silicon and with Apple Silicon (without Parallels etc) some tasks (especially gaming) aren't that great for price/performance expect.

Thants nice for you.........

does iMessage work on it?

the OS installation and maintenance really is, but it's much better than it used to be back in the old days.

1. Yes. 2. Yes, as long as you don't go crazy with overlaying multiple layers and effects - it is only a UHD 630 iGPU, after all. If you get a dedicated GPU then it is obviously a lot more powerful.

Yes, HDMI audio, front audio ports and rear audio ports all work.

I've already upgraded from Ventura 13 to 13.1. I updated OpenCore, and updated the kexts to the latest versions. Then downloaded the update from the app store and did the update like a real Mac.

@@BartechTV sounds good. Would be great to have follow up video showing how to do this. Thank you 🙏

@@asd382 I agree. As someone who purchases real Mac's, but would like to not have to..... ;)

Thanks. Upgrading the CPU or RAM wouldn’t require anything else to be done.

I'm glad you found the video useful. macOS runs remarkably well even on lower end hardware like a Core i3. I also missed not having bluetooth, in a previous build I was using an Asus Bluetooth dongle which allowed me to connect an Apple magic keyboard and magic mouse. It's possible to get an internal USB hub, which plugs into the motherboard 9-pin USB header and gives you multiple 9-pin headers. For example the AC-IUSBH-M3 from NZXT or the CC-9310002-WW from Corsair. Yes, I moved to Portugal several years ago, I live in the north near Porto. It's a beautiful country.

Thanks for sharing that tip on the USB hub. Got one ordered and should be here by Friday. @@BartechTV

The EFI partition is invisible until you mount it. You can mount the EFI partition using Opencore Auxiliary Tools or Opencore Configurator. Both are linked in the description.

Thanks. Unfortunately, the R7 360 isn't supported in macOS so you wouldn't be able to use it to install Ventura. Ventura supports Polaris cards (RX 560/570/580/590), RX 5500/5600/5700/XT and RX 6600/6800/6900/XT.

Hi, Mac applications are distributed as universal binaries, so they run on both Intel and ARM. Intel machines still count for more than half of the Macs in daily use so it's unlikely that a company would release programs that only run on ARM for at least a few more years. The keyboard is a Redragon K617-RGB - you can find it on Amazon.

This motherboard has no Bluetooth or WiFi, only Ethernet, which works. You can add a PCIe BT/WiFi board like the Fenvi T919 or a BCM94360CD from a real Mac with a PCIe adapter to get native WiFi and Bluetooth with full handoff / continuity support.

@@BartechTV I don't have the pc build but I followed all the steps and I was able to get the Hackintosh to work. However I don't have an option for wifi even though my laptop has a wireless wifi receiver. What should I do? I don't want to use ethernet. Thanks for the guide though, would not have been able to get Hackintosh without you. also im not sure if it makes any difference but when I was choosing the model of the Mac I noticed it said 3ghz cpu when my cpu is 1.6 ghz. not sure if that's a problem also my trackpad isn't working for some reason (they keyboard is)

You just need to copy the contents of the EFI partition from the USB to the EFI partition on your SSD, as shown at 11:12 in the video. Then you can remove the USB and boot straight from your SSD.

@@BartechTV Oh man, I totally missed that...! Thank you, I'll give that a try.

There's no need to change anything. So long as you're using a supported GPU, it should just work. WhateverGreen kext will handle configuration.

Yes the motherboard I used is discontinued now. Basically any H410 board will work fine.

I'm making a video showing the full steps, but the basic process is... 1. Install macOS as shown in this video. 2. Remove the macOS drive from the PC. 3. Boot from a Windows 11 installer USB and install Windows to a second drive. 4. Replace the macOS drive, and set it as the first boot device in BIOS. 5. Boot the computer. OpenCore will automatically find the Windows drive and allow you to select which drive you want to boot from so you can boot into macOS or Windows.

@@BartechTV thanks so much! Also I read that GPU support is a bit flaky, my gtx 1060 being supported by high Sierra only?

Yes, High Sierra using Nvidia's Web drivers. Apple hasn't made a Mac with Nvidia graphics for a decade. AMD Polaris / RX 5xxx / 6xxx / XT cards work out of the box.

@@BartechTV thanks for your replies. Again, awesome video 👍🏻👍🏻

Obrigado!

i7-10700 or i7-10700K will work without changes. It scores 1656 single-core and 8032 multi-core in Geekbench 6. The i5 -10600K gets 1662 single-core and 7140 multi-core, so the i7 is about 15% faster.

It's a Redragon K617 60% mechanical keyboard.

Yes, but you'll need a dedicated GPU as the Intel UHD 7xx of Intel's 11th/12th/13th gen CPU's aren't supported in macOS.

Couldn’t tell you how it would change the install process but those specs would work relatively the same

The opencore source code is freely available. Anybody can download it, examine every line of code, and build it themselves from source.

You need to open your config.plist in OpenCore Auxiliary Tools or Opencore Configurator, then go to the NVRAM section (as shown at 8:40 in the video). Select the third hexadecimal number down on the left, and in the boot args section add agdpmod=pikera next to boot-args. Then save and you should be good to go. You'll have hardware acceleration straight away using the native drivers in macOS.

@@BartechTV Thank you so much for the detailed explanation!

Slept over it and figured out that I should use the opencoreconfigurator to mount it... Solved! 🙂. Many thanks!

1. You can just use a PC. Download the MacOS install disk image from Apple and write it to your USB drive using Balena Etcher (www.balena.io/etcher) Mount the EFI partition using command line, by doing the following... - Open command prompt - type "diskpart" - type "list disk" and look for your USB drive - type "select disk x" (where x=your USB drive] - type "list partition" and look for your EFI partition - type "select partition x" (where x=your EFI partition) - type "assign letter = E:" - mounts the EFI partition on your PC and assigns it the drive letter E, so you can open it, and copy your EFI folder / edit the plist etc. The config.plist is just a text file, so you can edit it using any plist editor for Windows or in notepad. 2. On the Olarila site, download the right EFI for the CPU architecture you're using - ie. Comet Lake for 10th gen, Rocket Lake for 11th gen, Alder Lake for 12th or 13th gen. If your CPU is 11th, 12th or 13th gen then you need to use a fake CPU id, which the Olarila EFI will take care of. You'll still have to ascertain what audio chipset you have and use the right audio layout. You can see a list of supported codecs and the layout id to use at github.com/acidanthera/AppleALC/wiki/Supported-codecs. Determine which Ethernet controller your motherboard has and delete whatever kexts you don't need from the kexts folder and from the config.plist. Don't get an eGPU if you're making a hackintosh. Just plug the GPU directly into a PCIe X16 slot on the motherboard. MacOS Ventura has drivers for RX 560, RX 570, RX 5700 XT, RX 6600, RX 6600 XT, RX 6800 XT, RX 6900 XT so they'll work out of the box. Just make sure you have Lilu and Whatevergreen kexts up to date.

@@BartechTV Hey dude, just wanted to say that I really appreciate you helping everyone out in the comments with extra info to make things work for them. It's a rare thing to see nowadays!

hey! usually the difference is cores and threads. Check your programs and see if they benefit from more cores and threads (usually professional programs do such as video editing, adobe apps etc) however, the price to performance increase may not be worth it so i encourage you to look into it a little bit. Also, if you’re thinking of going up to i7 but down a generation (i.e. 7700k), i don’t recommend it.

Yes, for Ventura you can use any CPU from 7th gen up to current, 13th gen. You'll need a dedicated AMD graphics card though, as Intel 700 series iGPU's aren't supported in macOS.

@@BartechTV yeah, luckily i have an rx580 somewhere 😅 are you making an tutorial on alder lake also in the near future?

Thanks. When choosing an SMBIOS I would go with iMac13,1, since that iMac also used the 3rd Gen Intel CPUs. In theory you could install macOS up to Monterey on your i7 3770, but not Ventura, as Ventura dropped support for Ivy Bridge. However I would stick to Catalina, since that was the last version that officially supported the Ivy Bridge iMac. Your RX 570 should work fine, you just need Lilu and WhateverGreen kexts. For your i3-2350m I would stick to Mojave.

@@BartechTV ok thanks again +1 suscriber

They are called SATA SSD. SATA is an older interface we used to use before NVMe was invented. They were not include din the cost, I just had them laying around.

but then you wouldn't be able to add a GPU

He made EFI partion google it how

Yes, iCloud and iMessages work great. I can answer calls to my iPhone right from the hackintosh, respond to messages etc. It wakes from sleep with igfxonln=1 boot arg, without it I would get black screen after boot or after sleep. If you get an Apple Wi-Fi / BT card and adapter to slot into an m.2 or PCIe slot then handoff and continuity work too.

Yes. The same.

Same here...