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I have a machine which previously worked great (long before Clover) and I've just done a fresh install of Catalina. Everything's running fine except the graphics. Shows up as having 3MB RAM, and only does 1024x768. I currently have a 1920x1080 display on the DVI port. BIOS has "Internal...

I've updated my lammergeier build to El Capitan, but have one problem remaining. I can't get the AHCI_3rdParty_eSATA kext to load. I have many SATA controllers on the machine: Intel Series 7 (6 ports on the chipset), one Marvell 88SE9172 (2 ports), and three ASM1061 (6 ports). All the ASM1061...

Using a GA-Z77MX-D3H TH board (F5 BIOS) I've got an annoying issue with the fan control. Unlike some of my other boards, I can't find a way to enable non-PWM fan control. I didn't realise this was going to be a problem. Not a show-stopper for me at the moment (I'm using an NH-U9B cooler on...

Due to the combination of PCIe cards I'm using in lammergeier I have a GTX 650 GPU (a PCIe 3.0 card) which is restricted to PCIe x8 (instead of the x16 the card is capable of). But how much performance am I losing by not running the card at the full bus speed? I've done some experiments with...

Note: this thread is about overclocked i7-3770 processors, not the 3770K. If you have a 3770K there's a thread for that. The ability of some motherboards to slightly overclock some 3770 CPUs (we haven't run an exhaustive survey) has been discussed in some other threads...

I've maintained for a long time that the HD4000 graphics had enough grunt for my work. And they do. Using Lightroom, Photoshop CS6, writing software, browsing the web, reading email, watching movies, it's all fine. I've tested this on 27" 2560x1600 displays as well as dual 24" displays. However...

DBP's "FractalPro": i7-3770 / GA-Z77-D3H / HD4000+GT440 "FractalPro": i7-3770 / GA-Z77-D3H / HD4000+GT440 In my photo work my lammergeier build is king. But I also work at another location, where I'd been provided with a 2011 i5 mini. Quite a decent machine, which has been rock solid for me...

Well, the title tells part of the story, anyway. The i7-3770 at its stock configuration is faster than a non-overclocked i7-3770K. Don't believe me? Read on. The i7-3770 is described by Intel as a 3.4 GHz CPU (with turbo to 3.9 GHz) while the i7-3770K is 3.5 GHz (again with turbo to 3.9). So...

It's not a current card, but I've got a machine currently using HD4000 graphics which we have a Gigabyte GV-N440-2GI card for. So that's a GeForce GT 440 with 2 GB RAM. I haven't managed to find relevant examples in anyone's build posts: could someone please set me on the path to getting it...

Up until now my eSATA devices have been connected via ASM1061 controllers (all the Z77 ports are occupied by internal drives) and using the "3rd Party eSATA" kext hot-swap works great. Drives show up as "external" and ejectable, and after they're ejected they disappear from the drive list and...

I've been using a Dell U2410 for years. This monitor has one upstream USB2 port, and four downstream USB ports (which I use for things like my webcam, tablet, and wireless keyboard/mouse receiver). So it's easy to think of it as having a 4-port USB hub. I've never looked closely before, but it...

Before Christmas I purchased a 3 TB Barracuda.14 drive (ST3000DM001) for use on one of my CustoMacs. I've used some of these drives on other systems before, and they have a major fault that means you cannot use them in hardware RAID controllers without upgrading the firmware to the latest...

DBP's "lammergeier": i7-3770K / GA-Z77X-UP5-TH : Photography Beast This build post is “rather large”, so I’ve split it into several parts to avoid problems with the spam filters. It's also had some rework later on (e.g. setting it up to use a GTX 650 and using monitors on both the HD4000 and...

Lite-On iHBS312 Blu-ray/DVD burner A forum search turned up a couple of people saying they were using these drives, but not that they'd actually done "blu-ray things" with them. It's a cheap option at the moment: is anyone aware of issues with this drive, or should I just go for it? Would...

For people looking to mod their machines with the classic startup chime, you might be interested to note that it's now achieved US trademark status. And that the US Patent & Trademark Office even supplies it as an MP3...

"thornbill": i3-3225 / GA-H77N-WIFI I had some of the components already, and the new stuff I got from a local supplier (ScorpTec). Amazon and Newegg aren’t viable options here in Australia. Components (new) Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H77N-WIFI...

This morning this turned up in my news reader: http://blog.macsales.com/15990-shielding-resolves-usb-3-0-conflict-with-bluetooth Summary: USB3 runs so fast it can cause interference with the Bluetooth RF spectrum. BT modules inside your computer may benefit from some extra shielding. If...

On my H77N-WIFI board (running 10.8.2) I just used Multibeast 5.1.3 to install the FakeSMC plugins and HWMonitor. Looks great (more details than my usual Temperature Monitor app). However the ambient temp reading is stuck on 126 C (261 F). Everything else looks fine, but that's weird. A...

Has anyone seen these in the wild yet? According to Intel it sits between the i3-3225 and i5-3570K in price, and it has some technical advantages which make it interesting (see below). But I can't find them at retailers. Am I just looking in the wrong places? I've been planning to head out next...

Have been planning a UP5-TH build for my workstation/server, but have decided to take a first run at a mini build (to replace the 1.83 GHz Core2 Duo mini that's still driving our TV). It should be a cheap and simple proof-of-concept that will have an actual application. However, I'm flummoxed...