Captain Jack
Burnt out human
- Joined
- Oct 21, 2006
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- My Satellite Setup
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- My Location
- North Somerset
So after using the same PC for over 5 years now on the original Intel i5 CPU (the 760), I thought it was about time to do the upgrade - especially as it's my birthday in 2 weeks!
I don't do any gaming but I do watch a number of HD videos and it does sometimes struggle with the content. I run Mac OS X as my OS (Hackintosh method), as I hate Windows 8 with passion and Linux doesn't float my boat as a desktop OS. OS X is also free! While Mavericks runs fine, Yosemite was a bit sluggish with some UI transitions being a bit choppy.
Sooo.... I bought:
A new Dell U2412M IPS monitor - beats the spots off my old 24" TN panel
A Gigabyte Ga-Z97M-D3H motherboard - I like Gigabyte stuff, nice and reliable. Also, lots of support from the Hackintosh community for it.
An Intel i5 4590 3.3GHz CPU - with onboard HD4600 graphics, which is natively supported by OS X
A Mac keyboard with Russian/Cyrillic layout
A 128GB SSD drive. Toyed with the idea of going with PCI-Express SSD, that have real world speeds of over 700Mb/sec!!!, but the high price ruled that out
8GB RAM - really don't see the point of having more than that in my use case
Very much looking forward to playing with it. The whole thing above cost about £500, which is a lot cheaper than what a real Mac would have cost (an equivalent Mac would probably be about £1200-1300).
The only thing that I need to purchase now is a USB satellite card that I can use from within a Windows VM.
Will also be selling my old hardware (including the sat card) to recoup some of the cost... but will be worth it
Not all my spare cash goes towards satellite stuff! Most but not all...
I don't do any gaming but I do watch a number of HD videos and it does sometimes struggle with the content. I run Mac OS X as my OS (Hackintosh method), as I hate Windows 8 with passion and Linux doesn't float my boat as a desktop OS. OS X is also free! While Mavericks runs fine, Yosemite was a bit sluggish with some UI transitions being a bit choppy.
Sooo.... I bought:
A new Dell U2412M IPS monitor - beats the spots off my old 24" TN panel
A Gigabyte Ga-Z97M-D3H motherboard - I like Gigabyte stuff, nice and reliable. Also, lots of support from the Hackintosh community for it.
An Intel i5 4590 3.3GHz CPU - with onboard HD4600 graphics, which is natively supported by OS X
A Mac keyboard with Russian/Cyrillic layout
A 128GB SSD drive. Toyed with the idea of going with PCI-Express SSD, that have real world speeds of over 700Mb/sec!!!, but the high price ruled that out
8GB RAM - really don't see the point of having more than that in my use case
Very much looking forward to playing with it. The whole thing above cost about £500, which is a lot cheaper than what a real Mac would have cost (an equivalent Mac would probably be about £1200-1300).
The only thing that I need to purchase now is a USB satellite card that I can use from within a Windows VM.
Will also be selling my old hardware (including the sat card) to recoup some of the cost... but will be worth it
Not all my spare cash goes towards satellite stuff! Most but not all...