nobodynose
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- i7-8700
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- RX 560
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nobodynose's Non-Profit Build: Intel Core i5-4460 - GA-H81M-HD2 - Intel HD 4600 Graphics
Components
Gigabyte GA-H81M-HD2 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00I6DLK3O
Intel Core i5-4460 Haswell Socket 1150 CPU w/Intel HD 4600 Graphics
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JIJUBAS
Crucial Ballistix Sport Very Low Profile 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A14ZTWE
Rosewill FBM-01 MicroATX Mini Tower Computer Case
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00G6TAAWC
Corsair CX430M 430 Watt ATX/EPS Modular 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ALYORA4
Kingston Digital 240GB SSDNow V300 SATA3 SSD
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A1ZTZNM
TP-Link TL-WDN4800 Dual Band Wireless N900 PCIe WiFi Adapter
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007GMPZ0A
Acer G6 Series G206HQLbd 19.5" Widescreen 1600x900 LED Backlight LCD monitor
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DZT96C6
Mac OSX Mavericks 10.9.4 (downloaded from Mac App Store)
Mac OSX Mavericks 10.9.4
Comments
I built these three identical systems for a non-profit for which a very good friend of mine is executive director.
This non-profit has a very small paid staff (4 employees). The staff uses Mac OS X for all office administration, coordination of volunteers, grant application writing, etc. The machines that were replaced by these Hackintoshes were vintage iMac G5's, stuck on some version of OS X Leopard 10.5.
The main idea behind this build was to keep the machines as inexpensive and as reliable as possible - the non-profit's offices are in Taos, NM, an hour's drive from my home in Santa Fe, NM. I don't want to be making a lot of support trips up to Taos.
When shopping for components for these machines, I was able to get some good deals, which kept the cost down to $586.11 per machine (monitor included, keyboard and mouse not included, as they'll use existing ones).
The builds went very smoothly - I couldn't have asked for an easier build! The only problem I ran into was that the audio driver from MultiBeast 6.4.2 simply would not work. I had to use MultiBeast 6.2.2 (with only audio specified) to get the onboard ALC887 audio working (after using MultiBeast 6.4.2 for everything else).
MultiBeast Configurations