My skylake from 2016 was my first hack, still use but it runs linux as it is just my plex server now.
I have 3 that I built, but I find that I hardly ever use macOS anymore.
I tried to run my media server on my skylake hack, but it would only stream at 720, so I tried windows which was also on the hack. Well that was very annoying, windows would reboot for updates with no warning in the middle of a movie. So I wiped everything, loaded linux mint on it, it has been...
Mostly use ethernet, but the times I have used it, it is ok, nothing to write home about though. Willing to trade a little speed for lack of problems the faster card seems to have.
I've built 3 hackintoshes, but won't build anymore. One has been converted over to Linux Mint (the Sky Lake), one is mainly running Windows 11/Linux Mint (my main rig), and the G4 will probably run Linux Mint when support for Intel macOS runs out. There is really only one macOS only app that I...
Maybe if I was a gamer, if I were to change out my 5800x it would be for more cores for handbrake. But even that is waning as I don't play around with video as much as I used to.
I've had zero failures with any of the Western Digital drives I own. Just be aware that the least expensive WD Green drives are very slow!
For performance on a HDD I would go with the WD Black series.
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