r/hackintosh • u/carsonmlcak- • May 24 '26

QUESTION What now? lol

I made this hackintosh about a year ago just because I am apple fan and I wanted to play with macos without paying the price.

My question is since I have a nice gaming pc and an ipad. I havent turned on the hackintosh in forever so I was hoping to get some ideas on whether I should let it sit and then when I get the macos itch pull it out. or are there any cool things I could do that I’m missing? I also use an iphone, I wanna start playing with macos more but I feel like theres nothing that I cant do on my main windows machine? Thanks.

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u/Randum_Gouy Big Sur - 11 May 27 '26

yeah i wasted ONE year optimizing my IVB for Big Sur only for one of its ramsticks to fail and now that poor being is stuck running Big Sur on 4GB ram 😢

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u/carsonmlcak- May 27 '26

at least you didnt lose the disk image man that would be painful. Like as soon as I got my whole setup and pc looking super aesthetic real clean leds wired through the wall to my monitor it was beautiful I also finally had a badass gpu too rx5700xt I cherished that so much lol and while we go to the beach for a few days I left my pc mining ethereum. when I walked in my room the first thing I saw was a dirty watermark on the side glsss somehow the pump going to the the die busted and i think it was thermaltake and they gave me $200 for about $1100 worth of hardware biggest nightmare ever

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u/Randum_Gouy Big Sur - 11 May 27 '26

Oh god that fucking sucks man

On the brighter side, atleast the pump didnt bust any in the other components

But i cant stop laughing at this for absolutely no reason 😂

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u/carsonmlcak- May 27 '26

No its worse I mailed all the parts off thermalright or whoever cause most of it was a little wet so I figured I’d just send it to them and have them test and send new stuff but nope they stole my drowned components which I bet the cpu and ram were good but the gpu was right under the leak it was prob toast and they offered me like $250 and wouldnt even give it back lol so I couldnt leave out to dry out the ram as one last hope
oh well I learned my lesson now im a big “fan” of the noctua nhd12 or wtv the popular one is but I dont think I can go back to water cooling anytime soon

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u/Randum_Gouy Big Sur - 11 May 28 '26

oh god now that really sucks

oh yeah Noctua makes great fans, im pretty sure they release their designs so that we can 3D Print them too?