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So where do I get this uodate ? I seem to be stuck at 47, and my nVidia 980 graphics seem to be a bit shaky at times/ I've been trying to find 17D102, but no luck. Thanks, Pete

I have been building PC's since around 89. I build at least 5 a year, and regularly take theme apart, put them back together and do all kinds of crazy experiments with them. I have built hacks with 945's, P55's, Z68's, Z87's, B75's, and many more. I have also used Gigabyte mobo's for donkey's...

I got this Asus gaming monitor a few weeks back. Today I reinstalled my Hack Mini. It has a 3570K and I'm using the on board graphics. The monito is creating 5 'copies' of the screen, like really blurry ghosts. The issue is the monitor. It works fine on other monitors. Problem is I don't know...

I had a perfectly good 4770K but I couldn't leave well enough alone, so I got an Asus X-99 Sabertooth board, a 5820 E, some DDR4, watercooling, and reused the GTX980, powersupply and the HAF-X and got to work. I've made a new USB with the latest Capitano and made it bootable with unibeast...

One of the most painless I've had...aver. Lost more time faffing about trying to find out how to include boot arguments in clover than running the update. 1. Get El Capitan from the Store 2. Make bootable stick with UniBeast 3. Downloadthe El Capitan post installation Tools...

Sorry guys, I've been out of it for a while. I had a dedicated hack mini for my OSX needs, but I now want to return to just one system, albeit with a swappable SSD. The main box has ab R290. Does this work with the latest iterations of OSC, or should I just drive by the parts store tonight an...

Ok, So I've built : A 3570K on a Giga B75 mini-ITX with 16 GB ram A 256 GB Vertex 4 SSD A 500 Gig laptop HD for data A Sony Optiarc slot loader A Conceptronic BT USB stick In a Streacom FC7 Evo case. Originally I used the standard intel fan supplied with the CPU, but as it was a...

Hey folks, Would anyone with a 3570K and a GT640 be so kind as to run a Cinebench benchmark and post their result ? I need to determine whether it's an effective upgrade to the HD 4000, and I don't put much truck in what they put up on the websites. Thanks, Pete

I was in one of these big electronics stores yesterday, and found several bluetooth mouse/dongle offerings from Logitech and MS specifically marked as compatible with a Mac. I would like to know if I could install such a dongle on my hack and then connect a Mac wireless keyboard to it. In other...

I've started assembling the new system in a Streacom 7 chassis (see piccy below) and here's what's been going on up to now : 1. The B75N DOES NOT have usb 2 connectors on the board itself. Luckily, the streacom has an USB3 plug for the front USB's, but I don't have the cable. It needs to...

I've been contemplating building a new Hack or buying an Imac for a while, and I thought I had it pretty much nailed down untill I started looking in to graphics. For comparative purposes I've listed some relevant 3D marks. I know these are not gospel, but it's better than just pulling some...

I had an SSD lying around doing nothing, and decided to reinstall ML on it. The Mobo is a Z68X-UD3H-B3 with UEFI and a GTX 570. Tried and tested Now, the USB with ML I made a few months ago boots fine with PCIRootUID=0, and installation runs flawlessly. Upon the first reboot, however, I...

Hello, End of the fiscal year is fast approaching, and thus I'm being poked by the Head of Accounting to spend some money. I've already done 3 or 4 hacks, so I'm contemplating going for the genuine article. However, configuring a Mini to an acceptable spec was going to run me something...

It looks like they're putting all their eggs in the laptop basket. Much strangeness... Oh, and Mr. Cook :offering a Pro with a 5770 in 2012 is really not done. Couldn't you even have bothered to update it to something even a bit more recent ? Pure contempt for your customers, that.

So, I upgraded my 10.7.3 to 10.7.4, added the GTX570 device id to the HAL once more, rolled back the 889 audio, and all was well. However, upon re-running Cinebench, my GL score had dropped from mid -30's to 17.8. Since the box is still id'd as a MacPRo 3.1, I figured I'd move it up to 5.1 and...

I don't know how this happened, but the latest reinstall (2.251.365) got something wrong with my keyboard. I have no @ in the right place. My <> and #@ are swapped. Who came up with this bright idea ?

I've tried Tony's DIY with DSDTSE, but I get compilation errors. Does anymone have an alternative route that's not too daunting for a N00B ? Thanks, Pete

Now, since I bricked my P55A board this week, I had to run out and get some new hardware double time. Grabbed the abovementioned Z68X-UD3H. Now, since the former HAck is toast, and the HD off that gives a boot failure on the new hardware, I need to do a clean reinstall. And I can't do it...

Guys and girls, I need to know and I need to know fast. Which would be the preferred X68 board ? The regular, the H, the XP's ore something else. Preferably Gigabyte. I bricked my board yesterday, so I need some stuff this afternoon. I don't need 7 SATA controllers. I'm thinking the UD3H or...

So, I have a perfectly functional Lion system. It was a bit of a dreary day without much action, so I ripped out the 470 and stuck in an Asus 6970. So how do I get the box to boot again ? :lolno: Thanks !