The moment you realize that you had the perfect hackintosh build all along without ever realizing it..

The last few hours have been a ride, but what an enjoyable one that was! So I basically have configured hackintoshes for quite a while now, I think 10.5 was my first, installed on some old Thinkpad. About almost three years ago, I upgraded my main workstation to Intel, using a Xeon E3-1230v3 on a MSI H87-G43 Gaming mobo, 16GB DDR3, an Asus Radeon R9 280X DC2T graphics card, and the rest is a bunch of drives, namely a 120GB Samsung 840 Evo (where Mac OS resides for now), an additional 250GB 850 Evo for games, some 500GB HDD and I also got a Asus Xonar DX soundcard.

So back to my recent story. I first installed some not to be named 10.12.1 Sierra OS, as always heavily modified, just to have something to buy and download the High Sierra update with, should it end up working well. And it worked fine, except that I had some graphics glitches and no acceleration. Funny thing was, I got a 10.12.6 update notification from App Store, was like 'screw this, I'm just gonna try it out' and turns out, that official update actually worked, and even better, it gave me native (according to loaded kexts on Kext wizard at least) support for this gpu! That's when I decided to give High Sierra a try, following tonymac's guide as usual (never did it before tbh) and it was such a pleasure! Worked on first try, no hiccups, no errors, no freezes or panics, and you can't imagine how surprised I was xD..

Anyway, so far everything runs juust fine, as mentioned my GPU works perfectly, even on dual monitors (although I read that HD6000 and HD7000 are hard to get working at all, hm, interesting..). The only thing that doesn't work yet, as completely expected though, is that soundcard, but I can fall back to internal for now, or look up a kext for it. I mean I didn't even run multibeast yet at the time of writing this. It's just that smooth already!