Ultra Cheap $300 Hackintosh Build for Ventura in 2023

in this video I'm going to be showing you how to put together an ultra cheap Hackintosh for around 300 or 300 Euros from new parts that can run Mac OS Ventura flawlessly [Music] as Mac prices continue to increase the Hackintosh is by far the cheapest way to get into using Mac OS for around 300 Euros you can build a Hackintosh that will run Mac OS Ventura with performance comparable to a Mac that Apple are selling today on their website for over 1500. in this video I'm going to be showing you the parts I chose for the build the installation process and some performance benchmarks if you're interested in building one yourself links to all of the parts and the programs used will be down in the video description first for the CPU I've gone with an Intel core I3 10105 this 10th gen CPU has four cores and eight threads running at 3.7 gigahertz it's only about two percent faster than the older I3 10 100 but the price difference was only 1 euro 50. 10th Generation Intel CPUs work out of the box in Mac OS Ventura and the integrated UHD 630 Graphics are supported by metal 3. having a CPU with compatible integrated Graphics is essential since the 300 Euros budget doesn't stretch to a dedicated graphics card the power supply shows is a 600 watts evga-w-1 with 80 plus white certification this costs 39 Euros from Amazon I could have gone with a cheap no-name brand PSU for 20 euros but when it comes to psus I prefer to stick with reliable Brands I'm familiar with 600 watts of power means that like another GPU like the RX 6600 at a later date without any power issues the case is an ox Homer zero and pure white with a tempered glass side panel this case was also 39 euros and features a modern clean minimalist design with plenty of space for additional storage and future expansion for the ram I got 16 gigabytes of Kingston Fury Beast ddr4 3200 I could have gone with 8 gigabytes but 16 allows for much better performance in memory intensive apps like Final Cut Pro and Lightroom although its ddr4 3200 it's only going to be running at 266 megahertz in this computer because of the h410 chipset but if I upgrade to a z490 motherboard in the future then I can reuse the RAM and run it at the full 3200 megahertz for the motherboard I went with an MSI h410ma Pro I got this motherboard for 47 Euros because the i o Shield was missing but I got a 3D printed i o Shield to use instead it has one PCI Express time 16 slots so I can add a GPU at a later date four sata 3 ports one M2 slot for an nvme SSD and a second M2 slot for a Wi-Fi card so in future I can use a cheap adapter from Amazon and plug in an original Apple Wi-Fi card for name native Wireless and finally the SSD where I'm going to be installing Mac OS Ventura is a 256 gigabyte Patriot p300 nvme Drive I got this on Amazon for only 19 Euros I already reviewed this drive in another video and was very pleased with the performance considering the price it Peaks at around 2280 megabytes per second for read and 1785 for right to solve those are the parts the total cost came to 307 Euros just a little short of my target of 300. I could have saved around 20 euros by going for a cheaper case another 20 by choosing a cheap PSU and 27 by going with 8 gigabytes of RAM instead of 16. this would have brought the total cost down to around 240 but it would have been a less attractive and less capable machine as a result with the parcel board it's time for the build I've sped this part of the video up for the sake of brevity as you may have noticed I added a couple of patriot SATA ssds that I had laying around one for installing windows and the other to use as an editing drive but these are optional and not needed to build a working Hackintosh with the PC built and posting it's time to install Mac OS Ventura the first step is to use another mic or another working Hackintosh to download Mac OS Venture from the app store if you don't have access to the App Store you can also download it directly from applezone content delivery Network I'll put a link for Ventura down in the video description after downloading take a USB flash drive at least 16 gigabytes in size and format it in Disk Utility select the drive in the pane on the left and click erase choose a name for the drive I'm just going to call my Ventura the format should be Mac OS extended and you can leave the scheme as guid partition map once it's been formatted open a terminal window and use create install media to create a bootable installation drive by typing sudo forward slash applications forward slash install backslash space Mac OS backslash spaceventura.app forward slash contents forward slash resources forward slash create install media hyphen hyphen volume forward slash volumes forward slash and then the name of your USB drive you can find this command on the Apple website which I'll link below so you can just copy and paste it this will take a while to complete depending on the speed of your drive once it's done it's time to create our Fe folder which is where the open core bootloader and all of the tribes and files needed for the Hackintosh to boot are stored for this build I've decided to use a pre-made Fe from olorella.com on the old lorilla website click the link to download the desktop Comet Lake Effie after it's downloaded double-click on the zip file to decompress it and then go into the texts folder under Fe OC texts this Effie comes with several unneeded texts so I'm just going to select the ones I don't need drag them to the trash and then empty it I've kept Apple layout C for audio whatever green for graphics Intel mousey for ethernet Lilo virtual SMC and the two USB texts that's all I need now we need to download open core configurator which I'm going to use to mount the USB sticks every partition and make a couple of changes to the config.plist file go to the open core configurator website which I'll link down below and click on the download button once it's downloaded open your downloads folder and double click on the zip file to decompress it then drag the icon into your applications folder right click on the open core configurator icon select open and then click open again now to mount the USB stick Savvy partition click the icon that just appeared in the menu bar find the USB drive in the list and click on mount partition then enter your password you should see the Fe icon appear on your desktop double click on it to open it then copy across the entire Fe folder from your downloads onto the Fe partition of the USB drive now we need to make a few changes to the config.plist inside the Fe partition you just copied click on Fe then OC and then double-click the config.plist file to open it in open core configurator you may see a message about it being the wrong version since olorella's effies rarely use the most recent version of open core you can dismiss this message for now as you can update open call later once the Hackintosh is working first select kernel on the left and in the list of texts select all of the unneeded texts you just deleted and click on the minus to remove them next select nvrum on the left and click on the third hexadecimal number down under uuid on the right next to boot args change alcid equals 1 to ALC ID equals 11. this is the audio layout for the onboard Realtek audio on the motherboard then immediately after type a space followed by igfx on Ln equals 1. this will prevent a screen from going black after booting finally select platform info on the left click in the drop down box next to check coverage and select iMac 20 comma 1 as the Mac model this is the closest real Mark to the hardware I'm using since it also had a 10th genital CPU with UHD 630 now click the generate button at the top next to serial number to generate a new serial number and then click check coverage at the bottom this will take you to the Apple website complete the capture code then hit enter and you'll see the warranty status or the serial that was just generated if it has a green tick next to valid purchase date then that serial is already in use so you should avoid it go back to open core configurator and click generate again and then click check coverage keep repeating this until you get a result like this you should see a red message saying we're unable to check coverage for this serial number which means it's free for you to use now you can save the plist by going to file then save and query to open core configurator the drive is now ready to be plugged into the Hackintosh to begin the installation first there are a couple of changes to be made in the Bios plug in the USB drive turn the computer on and hit F2 as it powers on to enter the BIOS make sure that the Bios mode is set to ufe initiate Graphics adapter should be set to igp and the shed memory should be set to the maximum 64 megabytes change the boot priority so that the USB flash drive is first and finally make sure that secure boot is disabled after saving changes the computer will restart and begin to boot from the USB drive you'd see the Mac OS recovery screen with options to restore from time machine install Mac OS Ventura or run Safari or Disk Utility select install Mac OS Ventura and then choose your SSD from here on the installation processors just as it would be on a real Mac the computer reboots a couple of times during the install process but open core will automatically choose the right drive to boot from to continue the installation after around 20 minutes to half an hour the installation is finished and we can see the select language screen go through the initial setup steps and we're into a fully working Mac OS 13 Ventura the last thing to do is to mount the Fe partitions for both the internal SSD and the USB flash drive and copy the Fe folder from the flash drive onto the SSD this allows the Hackintosh to boot directly from the SSD without the flash drive needing to be plugged in and that's it we're done now let's take a look at performance when using professional applications I was surprised by just how well this computer performs everything is smooth and responsive video editing and Final Cut Pro is a breeze even when editing 4K and editing photos in Lightroom is just as usable in geekbench 5 this machine scores 1154 for single core and 4559 for multi-core that's about 10 faster in single core than the 2018 Core i5 Mac Mini and only two percent slower in multi-core it's also comfortably faster than both the I5 and i7 variants of the 2020 13-inch MacBook Pro in multi-core performance in geekbench 5's opencl test the Hackintosh scores 4788 and in the metal test it scored 4436 these scores are basically identical to the 2018 Mac Mini since it shares the same UHD 630 graphics Apple still sells the 2018 Mac Mini on their website for 1 359 euros and that's for model with only 8 gigabytes of RAM if you bring the ram up to 16 gigabytes the same as the Hackintosh then you have to pay an extra 230 Euros bringing the total to 1589. that's more than five times the cost of this Hackintosh for near identical performance but it's not just about the performance now it's also about the potential to upgrade you can have up to six ssds you can upgrade the CPU to an i5 i7 or I9 upgrade the RAM to a maximum of 64 gigabytes or add a dedicated GPU these are all options that real Macs don't have adding a 400 euros RX 6600 XT will give you graphics performance in metal that comfortably beats Apple's 64 core M1 Ultra that's a 2760 Euros upgrade option on the already expensive Max studio or you could add a cheap used RX 560 the Beats d8 core M1 and the total cost would still be under 400 and finally of course you can install Windows 10 or 11 on another SSD to put into for gaming giving you two machines for the price of one I hope you enjoyed this video if you have any questions put them down in the comments below and I'll do my best to answer them that's it for now thanks for watching [Music]

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Published: Tue Jan 10 2023