Building a hackintosh... lessons learned so far...
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Yeah, I know, but I'm writing this response on Loki now, and as long as I don't have to change anything, I feel -- or at least hope -- that it's fairly stable. In essence, I have a Quad-core i7 that is on par with a $4299 6-core Mac Pro... At least on the Geekbench scale..
With all the mistakes told (two CPU coolers, only one of which fit, two motherboards, one of which is being sent back), I have around $1800 in this machine.
Whether it was "fun" to get there or not is a matter of perspective. I'm guessing several of you would appreciate such a challenge, and the tonymac guys DO make it incredibly easy, even if there's a learning curve. I've just spent the last 8 years not having to deal with trying to coerce things to work on real Mac products, so for me, it's been kind of an exercise in patience, futility, frustration, and eventually, reward.
With all the patches loaded, Geekbench is reporting 17843 on the 64-bit test. Graphics shows 75-90 fps in Call of Duty 4, and I finally got iMessages working, so -- since I have no reason to keep tinkering now, I'm content.
About the only thing I might do now (aside from consider a second ASUS MX27AQ monitor) is to disassemble it and put it in a somewhat larger case (Cooler Master Silencio 352) for better cooling and sound deadening... Then again, why tempt fate?
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So far, I have everything EXCEPT Thunderbolt working, and I'm experiencing a problem with dual booting (Windows 10) through Clover, but I'm thinking I'll figure it out..
Thunderbolt may, in fact, be working, but I would need to physically move the Drobo over to it for testing, and frankly, I'm out of desk space...
Thunderbolt may, in fact, be working, but I would need to physically move the Drobo over to it for testing, and frankly, I'm out of desk space...
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I didn't think about the fact that I had loaded about 5 megabytes of pictures into this thread.
If you're interested, I moved the pictures of the Hackintosh build into a media album here
http://whyzzat.com/media/albums/my-hackintosh-experience.2/
If you're interested, I moved the pictures of the Hackintosh build into a media album here
http://whyzzat.com/media/albums/my-hackintosh-experience.2/
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This weekend, I decided it was time to start actually start migrating away from the real iMac so that I might actually sell it... To do that, I needed to move my RAID Array (the Thunderbolt connected Drobo unit) from the iMac to the Hack.
Previously when I tried this, I ended up having to fall back to USB 3.0 connectivity because the Thunderbolt connector didn't seem to want to work. I don't know what changed. Maybe it was a Drobo s/w update, maybe it was an OS update. Dunno, but when I shut everything down, I decided to give it another shot, plugged in the Thunderbolt cable, booted the Drobo, THEN booted the Hack and it came up and worked without a hitch.
Thanks to the SSD both in the Hack and a caching one in the Drobo, I'm getting sustainable 8-10 Gbit/second transfers over a 4.0 ghz Mac with 32GB of RAM. Very happy about that...
Wayne
Previously when I tried this, I ended up having to fall back to USB 3.0 connectivity because the Thunderbolt connector didn't seem to want to work. I don't know what changed. Maybe it was a Drobo s/w update, maybe it was an OS update. Dunno, but when I shut everything down, I decided to give it another shot, plugged in the Thunderbolt cable, booted the Drobo, THEN booted the Hack and it came up and worked without a hitch.
Thanks to the SSD both in the Hack and a caching one in the Drobo, I'm getting sustainable 8-10 Gbit/second transfers over a 4.0 ghz Mac with 32GB of RAM. Very happy about that...
Wayne