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saryx

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  1. Ok, for starters, you can not install OSX onto anything other than Apple hardware using the default OSX install discs. You would do better going to a site like tonymacx86.com and asking them if they have had any success in installing OSX on the Y400. Depending on the hardware, it may be possible, or not. My y510p will not have a hackintosh image any time in the near future due to SLI, BIOS whitelist, etc.
  2. If you run RAM with different speeds, your computer will downgrade the RAM to the slowest speed of the slowest RAM stick you have installed. So in all honesty, you would do better running just the 8gb, at least until you have enough to buy at least one 8gb stick at 12800 so you can run 12gb at 12800...
  3. Your issues with the Intel graphics should stem from SLI. Considering that the Intel HD gfx is only seen after the2nd gpu is removed and then the y510p is rebooted, it is very likely you may have errors in your mdded BIOS I really hope you backed you original BIOS up first, otherwise you very likely ate you Windows 8 key as well as a fully functioning BIOS. I would suggest that you reflash the original BIOS and try again with the modding of it, this time with SLI completely disabled.
  4. Most likely not, as the modded BIOS is for a specific version. I would suggest that you update you BIOS to a later version 2.04 or so, and then flash the modded BIOS, after properly backing yours up of course. If that doesn't work, then you can always boot to the BIOS and select the option to downgrade your BIOS back to what you have now, or at least I have that option (3.07).
  5. To be honest, there is no real difference between 8GB and 16GB of RAM, unless you are running a program that will divide it up, i.e. virtualization. Having more RAM can actually SLOW your system down some, much like how the 1TB SSDs run about as fast as the 7200rpm drives. The way that RAM is actually utilized by the OS, is lie the pagefile in Windows, or swap space in linux. The OS throws a temp copy of the program (actually the next few instructions) into RAM so that it is not constantly running off the HDD, but the downside is that the more RAM you have, the more the OS much search this temp space for what you are actually doing. In a perfect world, your program would be in subsequent memory addresses so that the OS could basically run from 1-100 instead of 1, 5, 35, 2, 57, 99, etc. So, having 16GB of RAM is pretty much just a personal preference right now as pretty much nothing will utilize it.
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