Hackintosh tutorials and various other tech stuff
I bought myself one of these Sapphire Radeon HD 6870s a couple weeks ago for my new hackintosh. When I first booted it using the “GraphicsEnabler”=”Yes” flag in Chameleon, it booted fine and recognized the card as a 6870 in System Profiler but only one monitor worked. I disabled GraphicsEnabler and rebooted, and surprisingly it [...] Read more »
Apple released the 10.6.8 update today. I’ve got it running on my P5Q Pro turbo, but SleepEnabler is broken as usual. If a new one is released by tomorrow afternoon, I’ll try to update this post with a link but if not it will be about a week before I have time to mess with [...] Read more »
Last weekend I replaced my stock Intel heatsink with the Corsair H50. I wasn’t happy with the temperatures I was getting with the stock Intel fan, and it was starting to get noisy (which would have been okay if it could pick a speed and stick with it). The H50 wasn’t too hard to install, [...] Read more »
Ambient lighting is a good way to help reduce eye strain caused by your computer screen when working in dimly lit rooms. Having lights behind your monitor lights up the area around it which can make the screen be less blinding. In my opinion, it looks pretty cool too. One option is the IKEA Dioder. [...] Read more »
Introduction: This is how I got Snow Leopard working on my computer. Just like the other guide, if you somehow break your computer while trying to install OS X, it’s not my fault. Unlike the last one, I’ll post links to the KEXT files because you’ll need specific KEXTS to get some features working completely. [...] Read more »
I replaced the P5KPL-AM SE with the P5Q Pro Turbo. I will post a review and a how to for installing OS X. I will get around to the reviews I said I would soon, I’ve just been busy with school and haven’t had much time. Anyways, heres the video: Tweet Read more »
Windows 7 has got many new features, and here are some of the more obvious ones: The Taskbar: The taskbar has been redone, and is now like the dock in Mac OS 10.6. All the icons for running or bookmarked programs are there, and it shows what windows are open and preview of them on [...] Read more »
I don’t have this board anymore. I’ll do my best to help you with any problems you have, but the last time I installed OS X using this board was September 2009. Introduction: This worked for me, but I was upgrading a 10.5.7 Leopard installation. I would think this would work the same for a [...] Read more »
I was going to use screenshots as a guide, but its so easy to do that I’m not even going to bother. Heres how to do it: 1. Go to http://blackra1n.com/ and click either the Windows logo if you’re using Windows or the Apple logo if you’re on a mac. 2. Run the application after [...] Read more »
I built this computer a few weeks ago, so I figured now would be a good time to review it since I’ve been using it for a while. The computer was pretty easy to assemble, the processor came with thermal paste already on it, everything fits perfectly in this case. I recommend building a computer [...] Read more »