by "Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
Published 10/18/2017 at 16:47
by "Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
Published 10/18/2017 at 16:47
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I left that HP 8300 with my hackintosh expert yesterday, and apparently he got it running in less than an hour. 3.4 GHz of i7 powaaah running El Capitan. Allegedly it’s a real screamer, even with the stock on-board video. That would probably be sufficient, but I also want to use it as a windoze gaming machine, so a new video card will be added next payday. I can’t wait to give it a try - I’ve waited a long time for a faster Mac and I can’t believe the day has finally come.
I still need to have a decent genuine Apple machine for upgrades and such, but I’ll be OK in the mean time...
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
10/18/2017 at 16:54, STARS: 1
So what did he do?
"Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs" (yowen)
10/18/2017 at 16:56, STARS: 1
What video card will you be getting?
I just bought a 1050ti, nothing fancy, but good enough to run the games I want to play at 1080p.
"davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com" (davesaddiction)
10/18/2017 at 17:23, STARS: 1
Oh yeah...
"Nibby" (nibby68)
10/18/2017 at 17:45, STARS: 1
sweet just be careful with software updates
"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
10/18/2017 at 18:08, STARS: 0
I was thinking of the same card, but I’ve seen some pretty sweet deals on GTX 970 returns over at Micro Center for not much more money.
"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
10/18/2017 at 18:11, STARS: 1
Apparently the trick is to have a GPT-formatted drive in the system before starting the install. I assumed that we would format after the OS install started, but it seems that this is not how it works. One more reason to keep a genuine Macintosh around.
"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
10/18/2017 at 18:13, STARS: 0
That’s one of the things that concerns me. I don’t want this to be some fragile thing that’s going to blow up if I look at it wrong, like an old Win98 machine.
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
10/18/2017 at 19:00, STARS: 0
Hmm, I’ve always formatted or reformatted a drive before install. Didn’t know you could do it any other way.
"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
10/18/2017 at 19:45, STARS: 1
Whenever I’ve done a Windows install I would format during the installation of the OS. I don’t know if this is a Mac thing or a Hackintosh thing, namely having to format the drive before even attempting to boot the system and start the install. Macs I’ve purchased usually have a formatted drive installed, complete with OS, and then I would add another drive, clone the old one to the new one, and then do the physical replacement. Maybe I’ve installed the OS onto an unformatted drive before, but I’m entering a brave new world now where the previous rules no longer apply.
The Hackintosh world is still rather new to me, so there’s going to be a lot of experimentation and trial-and-error. I think I’ll keep one drive around as a known good working install, and then swap drives out to experiment with installation and configuration just for the experience. But I want to have something working to go back to if I FUBAR the software somehow.
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
10/18/2017 at 21:50, STARS: 1
Whenever I’ve had a new drive, it’s either been in a new Mac, in which case it’s formatted already, or it’s from another source, in which case I assume I’ll have to format it for the Mac, which I then do. So, you taught me something new today.
"Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs" (yowen)
10/19/2017 at 08:25, STARS: 0
Yeah, sometimes I wish I had held out for a deal on a used card from a previous or current generation. But I do like the fact that the 1050ti is a modern card with a low TDP.
"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
10/19/2017 at 10:28, STARS: 0
And the low TDP is something I need because I have to run a second power supply to drive the card despite this computer being a big-ass tower...
"Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs" (yowen)
10/19/2017 at 11:51, STARS: 0
Yeah, HP, dell and co. don’t like to build in much headroom there. The 1050ti doesn’t even require a power connector, it’s powered by the PCIe slot.
"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
10/19/2017 at 13:08, STARS: 0
I would replace the power supply, but this thing has all sorts of funky connectors. I didn’t think anyone could be worse than Dell but I was wrong...
"Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs" (yowen)
10/19/2017 at 14:12, STARS: 0
Haha that sucks. Splicing the connectors to a new PSU may not be a big deal though? I’m not sure if there’s anything special going besides the fact that the connectors are proprietary. As long as voltages are matched correctly I imagine it’d work.
"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
10/19/2017 at 15:37, STARS: 0
It looks like it would be a PITA to track down which wires do what. Different connectors and wire colors. It’s not like Dell that just rearranged the ATX connections.
I do have a board that fires up a secondary PS and I have a small 250 PS that fits inside, I just need to find a clean way of running a 120V line inside the machine; perhaps I can just tap off the main power supply.