#Hackintosh requirements 10.10 drivers

Fortunately this was easily resolved with several cans of compressed air and left me a clean case ready for new components. In retrospect, I should have probably done a better job cleaning it more regularly. This turned out to be an absolute nightmare since it had become quite the dust farm over the past two years. Once I had all the parts, I had to empty and clean my case in preparation for the new build.

#Hackintosh requirements 10.10 drivers

After extensive research, I decided on the GeForce GTX 970 since recently released alternate drivers from NVIDIA made the card viable on OS X 10.10 Yosemite without too much trouble.

This obviously makes using them a little more difficult compared to my first build which basically worked out-of-box. Since there are currently no Macs with any of these NVIDIA cards, there is no native support for them in OS X. The most difficult decision by far concerned the graphics card since the current generation Mac Pro uses a custom AMD GPU whereas most Hackintosh guides recommend NVIDIA cards.

TP-Link PCI Express Wifi Adapter (WiFi).

EVGA GeForce GTX 970 Superclocked (GPU).

After considerable waffling on the exact components to get, I finally settled on an relatively high-end build largely based on the December CustoMac Buyer’s Guide that reused a few components from my original Hackintosh ( case, power supply, and memory). It’s been roughly two years since I built my original Hackintosh desktop computer and I decided earlier this year that the time was ripe for an upgrade.