Help! Trying to create Hackintosh for Design/Gaming/Streaming on a Budget

Hello, I'm trying to build my first Hackintosh and I need a lot of help with this. Because i have no idea what I'm doing.

For the longest time , i relied on my 2010 iMac running OSX Mountain Lion to do a lot of work in graphic design and illustration. I also dabble with video editing, audio editing, coding, and game development. The only thing I couldn't do with was play games (outside of some emulation from 8bit to even the Dreamcast). I relied it on it so much that when it crashed, I payed a lot of money to get it fixed, and then a year later, payed to stabilize it by reverting from Sierra to Yosemite. (Sierra kinda causes some slowdown and errors on the 2010 Power-Pc Mac)

But now, I can no longer afford to keep my baby afloat anymore and so I've been preparing to take all my stuff out of the computer to finally let it go. Conventional wisdom would tell me to get a PC gaming laptop since I want to. But I don;t want to start from 0 in terms of work programs, just for the chance to play Steam Games. So my friend has told me to pursue making a Hackintosh that can dual boot Windows and Mac, and try to clone or copy my Yosemite into the Mac boot.

Me and my friend has tried to do "research" on the subject, but with so many options for parts, build and ways to make a Hackintosh, I got overwhelmed. I never made a computer in my life and he only made a budget VR machine. Black Friday came around, and I thought that was my chance to score some good parts. But all I could afford at the time was the following:

* Samsung 1 TB V-Nand SSD 860 QVO SATA 6Gb/s internal SSD (x2. One for the Mac. one for the PC) * Sandisk 2 TB Extreme Portable External SSD (shared drive for both platforms) * Intel i3-9100F LGA1151 3.6GHZ, 6MB Cache Core Processor (Potential Processor for the machine) 

Now I'm hearing that maybe the i3 is not good for my build and I should have gotten an AMD Radeon or Ryzen, but then I'm hearing that AMD builds are finicky and you'll need to keep tweaking to stabilize them. It's all so confusing.

TL;DR - I'm an idiot that knows nothing about computers, I bought a bunch of stuff that may not be what I need, and all I want to know is what parts people can recommend for someone who wants to have a PC that can play Street Fighter 5 and a Mac that can use Photoshop and Unity with a budget of $1500-2000.

If anyone can give me solid recommendations by the end of the week, that will really help. Thank you for your time and your consideration.

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