My rigs.
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Hmm. That's odd because Mavericks is completely and totally free. All you need is an Apple account.
But OK yeah will stick to hardware.
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Hmmm, not a big fan of the Apple logos really, but other than that it looks like it's going to be a tidy build
It's supposed to be an Apple build dude, themed as such.
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Aye, I know the intent, I'm just not a fan of branding particularly. I personally think it would have been better to have fewer apple logos, but make one more prominent (like apple do) not knocking it bud, I'm sure you like it which is all that matters!! I often do things that others dislike.
Yeah that's fair enough man
Apple do tend to brand everything individually. I guess it's because they're more like designer products than PC parts. Mind you, let's face it, OEMs do love a bit of branding don't they?
Once I get this finished I'ma try building me one of them trash can MACs using a Dyson cylinder and a AM1 Kabini.. My mate is just doing the software research as I type this
That will be mainly unbranded.So what's left to do?
* Finish the side panel. The one I've not even touched. With any luck the fan for that will arrive today. Got a little bit of filling and spraying to do, and some minor etching to get that knocked out.
* Pull all the cables through properly and neatly and then stitch them all.
* Fit a Firewire 400 card. I have a Lacie Porsche external drive which is my Time Machine. I want to use it, card was only £5.50.
* Set up the KVM.
* Mod the desk to add an extension to the side for the MAC to sit on.
Once I'm all done and hooked up I will begin looking at parts for the next conquest
Update.
The Radeon R9 290 came. Sadly it doesn't work yet. I am currently fighting to get the latest OS on here... Won't go into detail but it's safe to say I'm losing the fight.
Any way. Today I hooked up the MAC and took it apart to start working on software so I could easily switch the hardware. I couldn't be bothered plugging in the sound card so I found an old bluetooth dongle I paid 99p for in my drawer.
Which allowed me to hook up my Pills dude.
Very handy.
The side panel fan is in.
And the outside.
And I created a splitter for the power button like this.
And wired up the secondary easy access power button like so.
Plugged it in.
And have now received this.
And this.
Oh yeah, and this.
So now I am just waiting on getting the ermmm, latest OS on here before I set it all up permanently.
The Radeon R9 290 came. Sadly it doesn't work yet. I am currently fighting to get the latest OS on here... Won't go into detail but it's safe to say I'm losing the fight.
Any way. Today I hooked up the MAC and took it apart to start working on software so I could easily switch the hardware. I couldn't be bothered plugging in the sound card so I found an old bluetooth dongle I paid 99p for in my drawer.
Which allowed me to hook up my Pills dude.
Very handy.
The side panel fan is in.
And the outside.
And I created a splitter for the power button like this.
And wired up the secondary easy access power button like so.
Plugged it in.
And have now received this.
And this.
Oh yeah, and this.
So now I am just waiting on getting the ermmm, latest OS on here before I set it all up permanently.
Probably a good thing they don't look like that to me huh.
But whatever, you're entitled to your opinion.
** As previously warned no discussion of software, hence deletion - DirtyJester **
Then I can get to modding the R9 290, because it looks totally out of place.
I don't my Jaw has hung open for so long, your dedication , patience and detail are amazing, loving the Hackintosh build, been building my own PC's for over 30 years and am looking into building one when I came across this thread.
A great pity your post on the build was deleted, I'd have love to have seen that. Tonymacx86.com, lifehacker & mackintosh.com all have lists of builds so I don't think anything is illegal to post when i comes to a custom Mac, I think lot like me who have a PC & a Mac are considering building a dual purpose machine. Besides it shows you can build something faster, better & cheaper! Please keep posting the details...
A great pity your post on the build was deleted, I'd have love to have seen that. Tonymacx86.com, lifehacker & mackintosh.com all have lists of builds so I don't think anything is illegal to post when i comes to a custom Mac, I think lot like me who have a PC & a Mac are considering building a dual purpose machine. Besides it shows you can build something faster, better & cheaper! Please keep posting the details...
Hi guys and girls. So X8 is back on.
I'm a little overweight (15 stone 5'10) and I don't carry weight well. So, I've been planning and building a BMX because I hate mountain bikes so.
It's costing me a pretty penny, so the PC has been on the backburner because basically I am building it part by part.
I've also been side tracked by audio equipment and recently bought this.
And a set of these.
Valve and B&W, can't go wrong really. This was after a failed Sound bar that I bought (Boston Acoustics) so decided to DIY and do it properly.
Any way, apologies for digressing so.
Thanks for your comments. Things are now pressing onward, and, I had the most frightful piece of good fortune. I found my Soundblaster XFI Fatal1ty FPS (a meal in itself lol)
Any way, here I am removing a SATA power run and replacing it with a MOLEX one.
I then braided a floppy power connector for the IO. Now I wanted to make absolutely certain that this thing worked. I've had it 1.5 years and it never worked properly. Thankfully I only paid £30 and I am patient....
See, this way I could have unplugged the cable and left it be. But I set it up like so.
And then spent three days testing it and making sure the March 2014 driver actually fixed it. And it does ! pure happiness at this end
So it was time to make space for it in the rig.
A little surgery later ,and....
Open the bugger up and remove the front, then mark.
Cut and sand...
And Mr Skull has a new home...
So. What to do about the absolutely revolting cable that connects the IO to the sound card. First up, the older members will remember these.
40 pin IDE DMA 33. The 80 pin ATA and UATA do not work. So then I am going to split all of the 40 wires, before breaking down a covered 80 pin one and making something rather nice from it. So basically braid.
And large shrink.
And with a UATA cable with the rubber bits on I should be able to make it quite nice.
OK. So basically a few days ago I was having graphical issues. Not in Windows, but .... well you know. I was getting large artifacts and splitting graphics. I was worried the card may be borked so I put a genuine Windows 8.1 serial on it and installed Windows. Hardware is all fine, so for now gaming on that other thing isn't going to happen. Not an issue, I want to edit video.
So, given 8.1 being so seamless I decided to keep it on here. 8.1 resides on the 60gb SSD and there's a 160gb laptop drive in there for storing images and so on. I also converted the Firewire Porsche drive to USB2, and made some more cables. You'll note that there's a MOLEX external cable braided now. It's between the sound card and GPU.
Any way, so what could I do for more storage to put both of the OSes on? well the answer was two of these.
32gb Enterprise SSDs. New these things were $375 each. They will last forever, and, I can confidently put them in a RAID stripe without worrying about them taking a crap on me.
£30.
I also bought one of these.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CM-203-BX
As I really, really hate taking apart SATA connectors. It cost me £9 delivered, so I'm more than happy. All I need now are two fancy SATA cables, and given the drives are completely black and white I will not have to mod them at all, they can go in 'as is'.
More to come soon, I'm really pushing to get this thing done now
Peace out...
I'm a little overweight (15 stone 5'10) and I don't carry weight well. So, I've been planning and building a BMX because I hate mountain bikes so.
It's costing me a pretty penny, so the PC has been on the backburner because basically I am building it part by part.
I've also been side tracked by audio equipment and recently bought this.
And a set of these.
Valve and B&W, can't go wrong really. This was after a failed Sound bar that I bought (Boston Acoustics) so decided to DIY and do it properly.
Any way, apologies for digressing so.
Thanks for your comments. Things are now pressing onward, and, I had the most frightful piece of good fortune. I found my Soundblaster XFI Fatal1ty FPS (a meal in itself lol)
Any way, here I am removing a SATA power run and replacing it with a MOLEX one.
I then braided a floppy power connector for the IO. Now I wanted to make absolutely certain that this thing worked. I've had it 1.5 years and it never worked properly. Thankfully I only paid £30 and I am patient....
See, this way I could have unplugged the cable and left it be. But I set it up like so.
And then spent three days testing it and making sure the March 2014 driver actually fixed it. And it does ! pure happiness at this end
So it was time to make space for it in the rig.
A little surgery later ,and....
Open the bugger up and remove the front, then mark.
Cut and sand...
And Mr Skull has a new home...
So. What to do about the absolutely revolting cable that connects the IO to the sound card. First up, the older members will remember these.
40 pin IDE DMA 33. The 80 pin ATA and UATA do not work. So then I am going to split all of the 40 wires, before breaking down a covered 80 pin one and making something rather nice from it. So basically braid.
And large shrink.
And with a UATA cable with the rubber bits on I should be able to make it quite nice.
OK. So basically a few days ago I was having graphical issues. Not in Windows, but .... well you know. I was getting large artifacts and splitting graphics. I was worried the card may be borked so I put a genuine Windows 8.1 serial on it and installed Windows. Hardware is all fine, so for now gaming on that other thing isn't going to happen. Not an issue, I want to edit video.
So, given 8.1 being so seamless I decided to keep it on here. 8.1 resides on the 60gb SSD and there's a 160gb laptop drive in there for storing images and so on. I also converted the Firewire Porsche drive to USB2, and made some more cables. You'll note that there's a MOLEX external cable braided now. It's between the sound card and GPU.
Any way, so what could I do for more storage to put both of the OSes on? well the answer was two of these.
32gb Enterprise SSDs. New these things were $375 each. They will last forever, and, I can confidently put them in a RAID stripe without worrying about them taking a crap on me.
£30.
I also bought one of these.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CM-203-BX
As I really, really hate taking apart SATA connectors. It cost me £9 delivered, so I'm more than happy. All I need now are two fancy SATA cables, and given the drives are completely black and white I will not have to mod them at all, they can go in 'as is'.
More to come soon, I'm really pushing to get this thing done now
Peace out...
I still have that X-Fi Platinum in my PC and the cable is totally horrendous and massive. I'm getting rid of my PC though and getting a new one soon so I can finally get rid of it. I just hope that the onboard sound on the X99 Asus mobos sound better because I don't fancy purchasing a new soundcard.
If you have one and it works why not take it with you?
Onboard sound is fine and usually built to spec but the amplification for headphones sucks. My headphones are mostly Beats and very easy to drive but the levels on my X79 BBXPII were so bad I bought an Asus for it.
Onboard sound is fine and usually built to spec but the amplification for headphones sucks. My headphones are mostly Beats and very easy to drive but the levels on my X79 BBXPII were so bad I bought an Asus for it.