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Hey all, Just a quick update to close this out... new mobo came this weekend, and I got everything up and running again. Thanks for all the help and advice!

This is true and a totally fair point. But part of me wonders if I wouldn't be better off putting that $200 toward the next purchase three years down the line... when we have M4 processors :O

Jamesbond007 - Thank you for that info - that's exactly the type of stuff that has tripped me up in the past when I took the "I'll figure it out!" approach, so I appreciate hearing it. "difficult but not impossible" is a difficulty tier above what I want to tackle at the moment! And you are...

Thank you both for the responses, I appreciate the insight. The games I play are typically not very GPU intensive (EUIV, Civ VI, etc.), but it's good to understand that I may be limited in that direction moving forward if I go with the Mini. I had originally been leaning toward buying a new...

I *believe* I fried my motherboard this weekend. My hackintosh won't turn on and I can't get any power to it. I replaced the PSU, cleared the CMOS, tried shorting the power switch, etc... so I'm thinking I have a fried motherboard. When I built my hack in 2017, I followed the Buyer's Guide on...

UPDATE After doing some research related to this motherboard, I came across this article... https://hardforum.com/threads/z170-boot-issues.1881141/page-2 The user Samuel Morris describes a situation where he believed a faulty DisplayPort cable was screwing with the PCI Bus. Long story short, I...

I'm a first time Hackintosh builder, and my computer is up and running with the exception of one remaining issue. When I push the power button on the case, about 50% of the time everything works fine. I see the fans on the graphics card kicking in, the Gigabyte boot menu displays on the...