Hello Forum

Glad to join you guys today as I see a lot of members getting help with specs and installation guide. I have 2 toys I would like to install hackintosh on and would someone confirm if it is compatible

First toy
Asus N61J (N61JV)
Processor: Intel i7
Graphics: ATI Mobility Radeon HD5730
Audio: Altec Lansing stereo speakers with SRS Premium Sound
Memory: 4GB DDR3 SODIMM
Hard disk: 640GB
Optical drive: DVD Super-Multi
Connectivity: 802.11n, Gigabit Ethernet, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR

Second Toy
PC
Processor: Intel i5
Graphics: Gigabyte ATI Mobility Radeon HD5850 Overclock
Motherboard: Asus P7P55 LX Intel P55 Chipset, ATX
Memory: 4GB DDR3 1333MHz
Hard Disk: Corsair Extreme X64 64GB 2.5" MLC SSD
WD Caviar BLACK GP 500GB 7200RPM 32MB SATAII
Optical Drive: Samsung 22x SATA DVD Writer Internal Black

Let me know if I missed anything out

Thank You
~Sonny

both should be work. but still need some kext.

Really? A few others told me the ATI HD5850 wont work with hackintosh let alone the 5730

here what i found from googling.

HD 5870 installs fine. without kext. OS version 10.6.2.
Fan speed is somewhere in the middle.

Well have tested my installation using this very nice and easy to use guide:

Asus P6T SE Retail Snow Leopard Installation Guide [FLASHDRIVE], Step by Step Instructions

Thanks to all that helped writing it and making it possible. Now onwards to my findings regarding my HD5850.

All went well except that my resolution is 1024 x 768 but that is a driver thing. I really hope drivers for the 5xxx will be released someday. But a 9600GT is on it's way for me so I will give that a try.

I got an ATI 5850 and it works but without acceleration, I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.0 haven't updated to 10.6.2 . It is running without kext so in VESA 3.0 mode, you can change resolution up to 1920x1200 but you will get underscan in all resolutions.

For having full hardware support we need Apple ships the newer Mac Pros with a 58xx card. Maybe we have to wait 2 months or so.

This card is fantastic, on Windows and Linux works very well in every res with detail to the max.

I've installed snow retail on my P5Q PRO and updated to 10.6.2. The 5870 obviously work only in 1024x768 without QE.
I'll wait ...

Both toys are now running 10.6.2 fine
Apart from the Asus N61J, the USB 3.0 is not detected/recongnized

There's so far no official (or unofficial) support for either USB 3.0 or SATA 6Gbps in OSX.
The ports still work, but not at full speed.

hi there i noticed that you have a asus n61j and so do i...

i always tried to install snow leopard on this pc cause i had a asus g1s with ibeneb 1.6 and i liked a lot... can you tell me how did you install snow leopard??

pleasee..

I also just bought a a ASUS N61J and i tried to install OSX on in numerious times (4 Different types of OSX) and failed, I also would appriciated if someone pointed me in the right direction of how to install OSX. I am a n00b when it come to hackintosh and look forward to any help.

Thanks.

Originally Posted by od3n

There's so far no official (or unofficial) support for either USB 3.0 or SATA 6Gbps in OSX.
The ports still work, but not at full speed.

Originally Posted by SonnyZhu

Both toys are now running 10.6.2 fine
Apart from the Asus N61J, the USB 3.0 is not detected/recongnized

i think SonnyZhu's method might work for us... if he tell us how he has done it we could try

Originally Posted by KingNothing117

I also just bought a a ASUS N61J and i tried to install OSX on in numerious times (4 Different types of OSX) and failed, I also would appriciated if someone pointed me in the right direction of how to install OSX. I am a n00b when it come to hackintosh and look forward to any help.

Thanks.

Have you tried EFI Rebel Bootloader by Psystar on Konteudos.info or a tutorial here "Asus P6T SE Retail Snow Leopard Installation Guide [FLASHDRIVE], Step by Step Instructions"?

i think with a little cooperation we could make this lovely machine work on mac