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BitterMelon, thanks for the write-up! Was very helpful 
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I've was waiting for Apple to release a new Mac mini, but no joy, so figured I'd give this a shot.
Assembled a Z77N-WIFI with i7 3770K, 2 x 8gb Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz DDR3 and a Plextor M5 pro 128gb SSD.
The purpose for this one is just to hang on a wall, headless in a wiring cabinet as a server, so no real need for any peripherals, just ethernet.
Pretty much everything worked as expected, although getting the SSD to boot without the thumb drive was a pain. It threw the Boot0 error. Found and followed the guide for resolving that - http://www.tonymacx86.com/25-boot0-error-official-guide.html. Took multiple attempts, and not quite sure what the correct recipe was, but it eventually sprang to life and hasn't been a problem since.
Enabling FakeSMC was similarly problematic, but eventually it also worked as per your instructions and its been stable since.
It runs pretty hot though. For the moment, I'm just using the Intel CPU fan. Transcoding 5gb video files certainly warms it up. The CPU cores all report between 93 to 103c, so I bought a Corsair H60 hydro cooler, but yet to install it.
Bluetooth seems to work ok. Only using it for a keyboard though. it seemed a bit hit and miss, but I plugged one of the ariels in and it seemed to work fine then. Assuming the whole thing is stable, I won't really need that either as everything will be controlled via VNC.
Airplay didn't initially work, but after reading someone else's post - http://www.tonymacx86.com/mountain-...no-airplay-mirroring-any-tips.html#post403350, I changed the system definition from iMac 12,2 to Mac mini and now it plays happily on a 3g AppleTV.
Also let the appstore install the 10.8.2 upgrade. No problems.
. I've was waiting for Apple to release a new Mac mini, but no joy, so figured I'd give this a shot.
Assembled a Z77N-WIFI with i7 3770K, 2 x 8gb Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz DDR3 and a Plextor M5 pro 128gb SSD.
The purpose for this one is just to hang on a wall, headless in a wiring cabinet as a server, so no real need for any peripherals, just ethernet.
Pretty much everything worked as expected, although getting the SSD to boot without the thumb drive was a pain. It threw the Boot0 error. Found and followed the guide for resolving that - http://www.tonymacx86.com/25-boot0-error-official-guide.html. Took multiple attempts, and not quite sure what the correct recipe was, but it eventually sprang to life and hasn't been a problem since.
Enabling FakeSMC was similarly problematic, but eventually it also worked as per your instructions and its been stable since.
It runs pretty hot though. For the moment, I'm just using the Intel CPU fan. Transcoding 5gb video files certainly warms it up. The CPU cores all report between 93 to 103c, so I bought a Corsair H60 hydro cooler, but yet to install it.
Bluetooth seems to work ok. Only using it for a keyboard though. it seemed a bit hit and miss, but I plugged one of the ariels in and it seemed to work fine then. Assuming the whole thing is stable, I won't really need that either as everything will be controlled via VNC.
Airplay didn't initially work, but after reading someone else's post - http://www.tonymacx86.com/mountain-...no-airplay-mirroring-any-tips.html#post403350, I changed the system definition from iMac 12,2 to Mac mini and now it plays happily on a 3g AppleTV.
Also let the appstore install the 10.8.2 upgrade. No problems.
I wouldn't recommend installing it after installing the motherboard in the Prodigy, but I didn't want to take the whole build apart, so I had no choice. Some fiddling (and cussing) later, I booted up and found it, as expected, to work excellently OOB. Speeds are as expected, around 100-120 Mbit/s on 5 GHz (copying from/to my NAS).
