My hackintosh consisted of the following:
Gigabyte P35-DS4 (rev. 1)
Intel C2D E6400 (2.13Ghz overclocked to 2.85Ghz)
4x1GB PC-8500 RAM
GeForce 8800GTX
SATA harddrive+DVD drive (I believe IDE won't work, although I didn't check it out myself)
It worked pretty much flawlessly.
On bootup I got an error about some kext not working. Tried fixing it, but failed.
Photoshop would crash when trying to activate.
iTunes wouldn't recognize the AppleTV (MBP could connect just fine)
After a month and a half I got two Kernel Panics in rapid succession which pushed me over the edge (These were the first since I set it up though, so it's not like it was a regular occurrence). There may have been some external-ish reason for it, it's been a few months and I can't quite remember.
I use a Mac because I don't want to waste my time fixing the computer. While the Hackintosh I made was nearly perfect, "nearly" isn't good enough for me
