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I went to a dedicated card in my 2012 machine because I wanted to hook to a 4k television and be able to drive at 60 Hz. I have no desire for 1st-person gaming or bitcoin mining. I settled on a 2GB Radeon RX 560 and have been 100% happy. • Plug-and-play. No configuration. • Cool and quiet. •...

The RAM situation is annoying. I'm reminded of the days when the 27-inch iMac was less expensive than the 24 because you could upgrade the 27-inch RAM by yourself. I'm wondering if Apple is shooting itself in the foot because they'll probably sell a lot of machines with insufficient RAM, which...

Great to see these 10 year old builds still going well. In my case the ability to easily expand has greatly extended the useful life. I moved from HD4000 to RX 560 when I upgraded my TV to 2160p. I also added an additional 3TB HDD to complement the original 3TB HDD + 256 GB SSD. Best "Mac"...

Fall of 2012 Gigabyte Z77 DS3H with i5 3570k. (see profile on left). It has been my only computer all this time. Since I still run some 32-bit software, Mojave is the end of the line for me. I believe the machine has run every version of macOS from 10.8 through the current 10.14.6 except for...

Much of the reason for building my Hacintosh many years ago was the ability to shove a bunch of hard disks into it. So, no NAS for me! I'm realizing that when I upgrade (eventually) I'll probably be forced into a NAS due to Apple's design trend, so this thread will be useful to revisit...

You've got to get yourself a 4k TV. macOS on a "retina" display is the only way to go. If I remember correctly, Apple's 17-inch color CRT from the early 1990s (!!!) had a suggested resolution of 1280x1024 — taller than a 720p TV monitor (in pixels). Time to step up from 30 years ago. You'll...

Wow! Thank you Robbish! That was a fantastic writeup. I have similar hardware (Z77-DS3H with 3750K). I'm overclocked to 4.2GHz. I got a Radeon RX 560 when I bought my 4K TV to use as a monitor. I've been using my machine since 2012. Machine is in the living room hooked to my 65-inch dumb...

I always thought that instead of California places, Mountain Lion should have transitioned to Mountain Goat and then on to Goat and boom... a whole set of farm animals!

Maybe "obb" is short for obsolete? In other news "Intel 660p Series M.2 2280 1TB PCI-Express 3.0 x4" is for sale at NewEgg for $103 today.

Don't forget to add in the cost (and inconvenience) of 3 or 4 dongles so that you can use industry-standard peripherals!

A built a family member a 7th generation i3 (3.9 GHz) machine with a 4k display. With built in video there was a little lag; noticeable when moving a window around on the screen or other operation requiring a lot of pixels to be drawn. Also, the Displays System Pref by default doesn't give you...

If you're playing 3D games, then the sky is limit for a video card price & heat. But I don't think you're building a gaming rig. I'm driving a 1080p display and find my onboard HD4000 is plenty fast for my modest needs. Also, the newer CPUs are considerably faster than my 5 year old machine...

Nice build! Without the HDD it's probably just about silent. Are there any H370 boards yet? Seems like all the boards I see are Z370. With a Z board, maybe you should have gone with the i3 K version.

Good points Gigamaxx. That machine is with my sister now, so I can't check. As for my own machine, it's hooked to a 55-inch flat panel TV, so accurate color—even at 24 bit—is questionable. The newer cards (RX560 and GTX 1050) are amazing though. Fast and silent. The GTX (and probably RX)...

I think we're pretty much in agreement. I figured you already had some of that equipment, so it's a no-brainer to just use it. As for getting the audio working ... yeah, it should work perfectly right out of the box exactly as you said. Probably I'm just not following directions correctly. I...

I built my sister a box with same motherboard. One plus is that the motherboard has both HDMI 1.4 and DisplayPort built in; this is good to get set up initially before messing with the video card. It also means you can drive your DisplayPort monitor without having to (yet) spend all that money...

Article: OS X 10.9.3 Update Ah. Got my stereo system sound. In System Preferences > Sound > Output > Device the setting was reset to merely Digital Out (I guess that's the motherboard optical output). Changed to the HDMI device and all is good. I have HDMI passthrough (5.1 surround from...

Article: OS X 10.9.3 Update I have the ds3h also. My audio works from EyeTV in direct HDMI passthrough (5.1 surround sound) but if I switch to basic system stereo I get nothing. That also means that anything like Youtube gives me nothing also.

Column view since NextStep 1.0 beta in 1988! And I keep the dock on the right, too. http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterl/6965560422/

Article: Building a CustoMac: Buyer's Guide May 2013 One thing to keep in mind is that the figure is the total output of the power supply. A 450 W power supply might not be able to supply 300 W to a very high end video card even if the total of other components is less than 100 W. That said...