Welcome to the iATKOS Frequently Asked Questions. This guide covers fundamental questions regarding modern vanilla Hackintosh setups, hardware compatibility, bootloader selection, and troubleshooting across macOS Sequoia, Sonoma, Ventura, and earlier versions.
1. General Questions & Principles
What is the modern standard for installing macOS on PC?
Modern setups exclusively use the OpenCore Bootloader with vanilla macOS recovery or full installation media. Automated installer distros and legacy utilities (UniBeast, MultiBeast, Clover) are obsolete and unsupported on modern macOS versions.
Where should I obtain the macOS installer?
Download official macOS installers directly from Apple servers using either a genuine Mac (via App Store or softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer) or cross-platform command-line tools like macrecovery.py (included in OpenCorePkg) or gibMacOS. Never download modified DMG or ISO torrent files.
2. Hardware Compatibility Reference
Which CPUs are supported?
Intel: 10th Gen Comet Lake is the last generation with native iGPU acceleration. 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th Gen Intel CPUs work with dedicated AMD Radeon graphics cards + CpuTopologyRebuild.kext.
AMD: Ryzen CPUs (Zen 2, 3, 4, 5) require AMD Vanilla Kernel Patches and a supported dedicated AMD GPU (AMD APU integrated graphics require community kexts like NootedRed).
Which Graphics Cards (GPUs) work natively?
Supported: AMD Radeon RX 6800, RX 6800 XT, RX 6900 XT, RX 6600, RX 6600 XT, RX 5700 XT, RX 580/590, Vega 56/64.
Unsupported: All NVIDIA RTX 3000/4000 series, GTX 1600 series, and AMD RX 6700 XT / 6750 XT (Navi 22).
3. Troubleshooting & Posting Guidelines
What information should I include when asking for help?
When asking in the forum, provide the following details:
CPU: Exact model (e.g. Intel i7-10700K / Ryzen 7 5800X)
Motherboard: Model and BIOS version
GPU: Make and model (e.g. Sapphire Nitro+ RX 6800 XT)
RAM: Capacity and frequency
Storage: NVMe model
macOS Version: e.g. Sequoia 15.x / Sonoma 14.x
Bootloader: OpenCore version (e.g. 1.0.x)
Error description & screenshot of verbose boot log (-v)