Very demanding Mac games! Looks stunning.īest part though, the machine is extremely silent! I can play any of my games in highest possible resolution and detail, like Call of Duty 4, Grid, Batman Arkham City and so on. Took me half of the building time just to get the installation right, but now it runs smooth as butter! It runs OS X 10.8.4 perfectly, have delayed the startup process with 5 seconds to give me time to punch in any boot parameters if needed, but after the countdown has passed it can boot in about 14 seconds due to it´s SSD RAID0 setup! Why Node 2.0? Because most of the parts come from a friends server that is now retired, it was called the Node. Lastly, the NoFAN CS-70 case (it´s very unusual and easily could be something Apple had thought up + perfect for true noiseless build without killing your hardware).Seasonic X400 fanless PSU (plenty powerful and build to last).One NoiseBlocker M12-S1 (8db fan in the top of the case above CPU cooler).Two NoiseBlocker M8-S1 (8dB fans to blow in a little fresh air).Two Intel 520 series 240GB SSDs in RAID0 (FAST! and reliable).Silverstone SST-SOB02 Blu-Ray burner (slot in type and perfect match for the case).IOGear GBU521 bluetooth adapter (should work natively in OSX).L圜OM PE-107 FireWire 800/400 PCIe card (should be OSX compatible).ASUS GTX660 TOP 2GB graphics card (nVidia is easiest to get working in OSX).Corsair DDR 1600 CL9 16GB low profile RAM (3225 native supports DDR 1600).Cooled by a NoiseBlocker modified Noctua (with two M12-S1 8dB fans).Intel i3 3225 3.3GHz IvyBridge CPU (low TDP with plenty of power).MSI Z77-MA-G45 motherboard (easy to hack and love the colour scheme).Who needs sleep then anyways (btw it´s 2:00am here now). Took me about 1 week of research and then about 1 month of assembly (see more in the thread I link to) to get everything to work - except one minor detail, it can´t wake up from sleep (it freezes until I physically push the reset button).Īnyway, when I leave m computer it is either because I am not doing anything so it´s off - or I am doing something that takes an endless amount of time and just turns the screen off. Something has to be done, and as I don´t trust the new Mac Mini is much of an improvement, the Mac Pro is too expensive and I already have an awesome screen so an iMac is not an option - I have to build a Hackintosh! Lately it has started to annoy me, mostly because of the summer heat where the fan goes bananas if I try to game. I have had three different Mac Mini computers the past 8 years, lastly a 2011 Mac Mini with the dual core i7 and AMD graphics. Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide
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