neilhart
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neilhart’s Scratch Build # 4 - MicroATX into a small box.
On my bring-up bench I have a MSI Z87M-G43 motherboard which I purchased at the Haswell release last year. At that time I had issues with OSX and this board and had put it aside and went on with a Gigabyte Z87M-D3H that just happens to be in the system that I am now using.
Anyway this build to give the MSI motherboard a more permanent home. I have an Intel i3-4330 CPU along with 8 GB of DDR3 memory installed. The CPU cooler is a Scythe “Big Sjuriken 2 B”, a 58mm high low profile unit.
Here is the starting point:
Yesterday or the day before I had used the new UniBeast 4.0 to build a Mavericks 10.9.4 USB installer and installed Mavericks on this system board. And please note that this motherboard has a PMPatch’ed BIOS installed. The OS X installation went off without issue thanks to the hard work of the TonyMacX86 team.
The design of this case in mostly in my head with ideas that need to be realized by giving them form.
These concepts include the build process that I want to use.
The key element is small. I intend to use internal graphics so I will not provide a GPU card slot.
And I have my last dead G5 Power Mac disassembled and I intend to use it as a mine for raw material for this hack.
And a side note on process. I keep the sheet metal and part fabrication activity in my garage work shop. All test fits require that I wash and wash the parts that I bring into my home office/lab. The
concept here is to not contaminate the electronics with metal chips and metallic dust.
More to follow shortly.
Good modding,
neil
On my bring-up bench I have a MSI Z87M-G43 motherboard which I purchased at the Haswell release last year. At that time I had issues with OSX and this board and had put it aside and went on with a Gigabyte Z87M-D3H that just happens to be in the system that I am now using.
Anyway this build to give the MSI motherboard a more permanent home. I have an Intel i3-4330 CPU along with 8 GB of DDR3 memory installed. The CPU cooler is a Scythe “Big Sjuriken 2 B”, a 58mm high low profile unit.
Here is the starting point:
Yesterday or the day before I had used the new UniBeast 4.0 to build a Mavericks 10.9.4 USB installer and installed Mavericks on this system board. And please note that this motherboard has a PMPatch’ed BIOS installed. The OS X installation went off without issue thanks to the hard work of the TonyMacX86 team.
The design of this case in mostly in my head with ideas that need to be realized by giving them form.
These concepts include the build process that I want to use.
The key element is small. I intend to use internal graphics so I will not provide a GPU card slot.
And I have my last dead G5 Power Mac disassembled and I intend to use it as a mine for raw material for this hack.
And a side note on process. I keep the sheet metal and part fabrication activity in my garage work shop. All test fits require that I wash and wash the parts that I bring into my home office/lab. The
concept here is to not contaminate the electronics with metal chips and metallic dust.
More to follow shortly.
Good modding,
neil