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Whipped this puppy together over the weekend and I'm pretty happy so far. Few questions for the community for a noob as well.
PARTS LIST:
OS 1: Mac OS X Lion 10.7.1
OS 2: Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AMHWP8?ie=UTF8
MOTHERBOARD: Gigabyte Z68MX-UD2H-B3 (from CustoMac Build #3)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005484N9W
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128503
CPU: Intel Core i7 2600K 3.4GHZ Sandy Bridge
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004EBUXSA/
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115070
RAM: Corsair Vengeance Blue 16GB DDR3-1600
http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Vengeance-Channel-Memory-CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9B/dp/B004RFBIUU/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1320006014&sr=1-3
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145346
HDD: Crucial M4 2.5" 128GB SATA III SSD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148442
Already Owned:
VIDEO: "Old Trusty" EVGA 9800GT 512 (No longer available)
OPTICAL: LG Black SATA Super Multi BluRay+DVD+HDDVD (No longer available)
Comments:
PROCESS:
-Flashed BIOS to F5 (Board came as F3).
-Used DSDT from the database.
-iBoot and then Install Snow Leopard
-Installed 10.6.8 and ran Multibeast before restarting
-In Multibeast installed Network, USB3, Audio Rollback, MacPro 3,1.
-9800GT works great, dual monitors, both DVI.
COMMENTS:
I also use a Logitech Perfomance MX mouse and Apple flat keyboard in case that's important to you. I'm also using the Apple trackpad here and there on the Lion build, but I'm a designer so it's really mouse for the details. I've hooked up both of my Cintiqs and they worked ok as well.
Ran this configuration for a few days as a work machine and it was VERY stable. USB3, SATA3, etc, all great. SSD is blazing fast. Geekbench64 hit 12899.
Decided to try Lion 10.7.1 Used the Tonymac method with xMove+Multibeast over Snow Leopard Install.
Installed standalone 10.7.1 updater and reran Multibeast to install audio rollback again before restart.
Only issue I'm getting in Lion is the same as others. USB gets ejected on wake from sleep. I also lose my USB3 ports until a restart. I'd love to get this figured out, otherwise I may go back to Snow Leopard. It's a little annoying to have to unplug my USB drives, etc all the time.
Lion actually scores a little higher in benchmarking.
Here are my MultiBeast settings:
Multibeast.png
I have two questions for the community. I'd like a decently priced but more powerful graphics card but I'd love as little hassle as possible the 9800 is great for my normal graphics work, but I'd like to maybe play some games and would love a more powerful card. Are there any good nVidia cards that are as no hassle as the 9800 was?
Thanks in advance.
Also, anyone else have any luck with the USB eject on sleep? I'm really hoping to figure this out.
Feel free to ask any questions. When I get back home I can start up the box and post a screencap of the Multibeast exact settings if that would help.
This seems to be a really solid, compact, blazing fast build. Very few issues on installing and it seems to be very stable so far minus the crashes here and there if I forget a USB stick when sleeping.
If you do this build and don't care for Lion, the 10.6.8 build is ROCK SOLID.
Thanks everyone. This board was immensely helpful and I would have been lost without the layman's walk-throughs.
Anyone got a good thread on doing hackintosh backups that is tried and true?
PARTS LIST:
OS 1: Mac OS X Lion 10.7.1
OS 2: Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AMHWP8?ie=UTF8
MOTHERBOARD: Gigabyte Z68MX-UD2H-B3 (from CustoMac Build #3)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005484N9W
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128503
CPU: Intel Core i7 2600K 3.4GHZ Sandy Bridge
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004EBUXSA/
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115070
RAM: Corsair Vengeance Blue 16GB DDR3-1600
http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Vengeance-Channel-Memory-CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9B/dp/B004RFBIUU/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1320006014&sr=1-3
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145346
HDD: Crucial M4 2.5" 128GB SATA III SSD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148442
Already Owned:
VIDEO: "Old Trusty" EVGA 9800GT 512 (No longer available)
OPTICAL: LG Black SATA Super Multi BluRay+DVD+HDDVD (No longer available)
Comments:
PROCESS:
-Flashed BIOS to F5 (Board came as F3).
-Used DSDT from the database.
-iBoot and then Install Snow Leopard
-Installed 10.6.8 and ran Multibeast before restarting
-In Multibeast installed Network, USB3, Audio Rollback, MacPro 3,1.
-9800GT works great, dual monitors, both DVI.
COMMENTS:
I also use a Logitech Perfomance MX mouse and Apple flat keyboard in case that's important to you. I'm also using the Apple trackpad here and there on the Lion build, but I'm a designer so it's really mouse for the details. I've hooked up both of my Cintiqs and they worked ok as well.
Ran this configuration for a few days as a work machine and it was VERY stable. USB3, SATA3, etc, all great. SSD is blazing fast. Geekbench64 hit 12899.
Decided to try Lion 10.7.1 Used the Tonymac method with xMove+Multibeast over Snow Leopard Install.
Installed standalone 10.7.1 updater and reran Multibeast to install audio rollback again before restart.
Only issue I'm getting in Lion is the same as others. USB gets ejected on wake from sleep. I also lose my USB3 ports until a restart. I'd love to get this figured out, otherwise I may go back to Snow Leopard. It's a little annoying to have to unplug my USB drives, etc all the time.
Lion actually scores a little higher in benchmarking.
Here are my MultiBeast settings:
Multibeast.png
I have two questions for the community. I'd like a decently priced but more powerful graphics card but I'd love as little hassle as possible the 9800 is great for my normal graphics work, but I'd like to maybe play some games and would love a more powerful card. Are there any good nVidia cards that are as no hassle as the 9800 was?
Thanks in advance.
Also, anyone else have any luck with the USB eject on sleep? I'm really hoping to figure this out.
Feel free to ask any questions. When I get back home I can start up the box and post a screencap of the Multibeast exact settings if that would help.
This seems to be a really solid, compact, blazing fast build. Very few issues on installing and it seems to be very stable so far minus the crashes here and there if I forget a USB stick when sleeping.
If you do this build and don't care for Lion, the 10.6.8 build is ROCK SOLID.
Thanks everyone. This board was immensely helpful and I would have been lost without the layman's walk-throughs.
Anyone got a good thread on doing hackintosh backups that is tried and true?