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Unique! X99 Mini-ITX mobo - ASRock X99E-ITX/ac
Dear hackintoshers,
I've been thinking on going 1 or 2 steps forward on the hackintosh direction, from an Intel Nuc hack I was able to complete following advises in this forum (fairly easy following this site's guides)
For that, I plan to prepare a new G4 Cube that I'm going to use as my main desktop while at home (and continue using my MBP i7 2.9 2012 (with 16gb and 2 SSDs on it while away from home).
Since I want the most powerful G4 Cube I may get inside it, I already got the smallest PSU I could get that would give me 450W 80Gold ST45SF-G
Then, while I was planning what Z97 mini itx board to use along with an i7-4790k, ASRocked announced (and is shipping already) a X99 compatible board in the mini-itx form factor, basically allowing to use more than 4 cores in a mini itx, along with more than 16gb of ram, and even a m.2 sata slot with up to 32gb/s bandwidth (4xpcie) (which makes space, in my plans, to the mobo + psu + 6-core processor + cooler + mini gtx 970.
I did not find any comments in this new motherboard yet in this site , so here I go...
The new X99E-ITX/ac from ASRock...
There are a few reviews online like this, this and this
.... and just got on sale on some online stores. here
So, an X99 with a 6-core on a G4 Cube.... I know.... probably more than 1 or 2 steps forward if I come from just an Intel Nuc hack with Yosemite.
The question then is:
knowing this is a brand new mobo, of a newer, not yet supported chipset X99:
- I'll need to use Windows only for a long time, until I get it to work with Yosemite, right?
Or some of the ASRocks with X99 I see running already on these forums, are a good hope of getting the mini itx x99 to work also?
I'm System Engineer, and I have no trouble on following all the guides around, and troubleshooting these kind of issues. In fact, I'd love to have a 6-core inside my G4 Cube (either a Xeon 1650v3 or i7-5930k)! And I even have some ideas on improving airflow inside it, using some 3-d printed tunnels (Patent Pending).
Well, any kind of critics are welcome. :
Thanks!
Lucho
bonus: a new build by Linus with X99E-ITX/ac and an 18-core!
To the moderators:
sorry if this one goes inside the G4 Cube mods topic, but at this point, the doubts I have are more related to the X99 hardware (which may help non G4-Cube builds as well) instead of how to make everything work inside the cube(which will be an issue too of course)
Dear hackintoshers,
I've been thinking on going 1 or 2 steps forward on the hackintosh direction, from an Intel Nuc hack I was able to complete following advises in this forum (fairly easy following this site's guides)
For that, I plan to prepare a new G4 Cube that I'm going to use as my main desktop while at home (and continue using my MBP i7 2.9 2012 (with 16gb and 2 SSDs on it while away from home).
Since I want the most powerful G4 Cube I may get inside it, I already got the smallest PSU I could get that would give me 450W 80Gold ST45SF-G
Then, while I was planning what Z97 mini itx board to use along with an i7-4790k, ASRocked announced (and is shipping already) a X99 compatible board in the mini-itx form factor, basically allowing to use more than 4 cores in a mini itx, along with more than 16gb of ram, and even a m.2 sata slot with up to 32gb/s bandwidth (4xpcie) (which makes space, in my plans, to the mobo + psu + 6-core processor + cooler + mini gtx 970.
I did not find any comments in this new motherboard yet in this site , so here I go...
The new X99E-ITX/ac from ASRock...
There are a few reviews online like this, this and this
.... and just got on sale on some online stores. here
So, an X99 with a 6-core on a G4 Cube.... I know.... probably more than 1 or 2 steps forward if I come from just an Intel Nuc hack with Yosemite.
The question then is:
knowing this is a brand new mobo, of a newer, not yet supported chipset X99:
- I'll need to use Windows only for a long time, until I get it to work with Yosemite, right?
Or some of the ASRocks with X99 I see running already on these forums, are a good hope of getting the mini itx x99 to work also?
I'm System Engineer, and I have no trouble on following all the guides around, and troubleshooting these kind of issues. In fact, I'd love to have a 6-core inside my G4 Cube (either a Xeon 1650v3 or i7-5930k)! And I even have some ideas on improving airflow inside it, using some 3-d printed tunnels (Patent Pending).
Well, any kind of critics are welcome. :
Thanks!
Lucho
bonus: a new build by Linus with X99E-ITX/ac and an 18-core!
To the moderators:
sorry if this one goes inside the G4 Cube mods topic, but at this point, the doubts I have are more related to the X99 hardware (which may help non G4-Cube builds as well) instead of how to make everything work inside the cube(which will be an issue too of course)