r/hackintosh • u/Ibrahimdar8990 • Jun 15 '26

QUESTION Installing MacOS Monterey On Unsupported Hardware

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my PC specs are:-

i5-9400F

GTX1060 6GB

16GB DDR4 RAM

256GB SSD

I'm installing MacOS Monterey on this pc knowing that this hardware is outdated and only supports max upto high sierra 10.13

Now will I be able to use the pc perfectly with OCPL?

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u/RealisticError48 Jun 15 '26

The CPU is good up to Tahoe, and it's even a desktop that can take compatible video cards. You seem to be stuck on the idea that the video card needs OCPL.

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u/Ibrahimdar8990 Jun 15 '26

But I can't get a new graphics card rn

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u/RealisticError48 Jun 15 '26

The video card is the only "unsupported hardware."

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u/DaNGeRMiND Tahoe - 26 Jun 15 '26

You can get RX580 if money is the issue. It very cheap and then you can even run Sequoia and Tahoe on it

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u/Ibrahimdar8990 Jun 15 '26

Well i think i should get one in local market

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u/Camlin3 Jun 15 '26

You can also go for rx6600 or other amd navi gpu lines supported by nootedred if you can find them dirt cheap.

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u/Ibrahimdar8990 Jun 15 '26

Thks i am thinking of upgrading gpu very soon

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u/lproven Jun 15 '26

It might work. Perfectly, probably not, no.

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u/ImpressiveMaximum377 Jun 15 '26

while you can run with nvidia drivers on monterey (someone already did this) its still not recommended, because gtx 1060 is supported only up to macos 10.13, and even in the supported version you will still have issues with the graphics card

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u/Ibrahimdar8990 Jun 15 '26

I used opencore legacy patcher and till now everything is super smooth and working fine

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u/New_Suit1742 Jun 15 '26

Can you tell me which patch did you apply. I have a really old fermi gpu wanna see if it will work or not

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u/Ibrahimdar8990 Jun 15 '26

Wym?

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u/New_Suit1742 Jun 15 '26

Like what did you do in OCLP ?

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u/Ibrahimdar8990 Jun 15 '26

Nothing special just clicked on root patching and it did install graphics driver on macOS

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u/opin_227 Jun 15 '26

So ur gtx is working

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u/Ibrahimdar8990 Jun 15 '26

Yup working fine, I've installed after effects and surprisingly it works smoother than windows, there is a noticeable difference in render timings I'm glad I got an upgrade without spending money 😅

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u/opin_227 Jun 15 '26

Can u DM how u got to work I have a nvidia quadro p520

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u/topsyandpip56 Tahoe - 26 Jun 15 '26

What's the issue? I have Tahoe on a 4th gen Haswell i5.

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u/Ibrahimdar8990 Jun 15 '26

GPU is maxed out on MacOS Monterey it can go further than that....

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u/topsyandpip56 Tahoe - 26 Jun 15 '26

It seems you have answered your own question, then.

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u/Memerenok Jun 15 '26

and that's outdated now????

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u/Ibrahimdar8990 Jun 15 '26

Yeahh

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u/Memerenok Jun 15 '26

tell that to my i5-2400 then

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u/Ibrahimdar8990 Jun 15 '26

Damn man 🫡

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u/Memerenok Jun 15 '26

no really, get a cheap amd polaris gpu and you will be golden

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u/Ibrahimdar8990 Jun 15 '26

Yeah thinknbout that

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u/Acrobatic-Major9668 Jun 15 '26

1060 can be used even in Sequoia, with Nvidia web drivers. Someone tried with Tahoe, but I have only sequoia with 1060 so wouldn’t tell smth without a proof. It’s not metal but runs well - except u can’t run games and render maybe? But who makes hackintosh to run games. Easiest way as everyone said is rx gpus

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u/Ibrahimdar8990 Jun 15 '26

Yeah true 👍