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- GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 670 2GB
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Hi Guys,
I have been a long-time lurker, first time poster here...
I'm in the process of building my first Hackintosh what I'm calling Project: Icon. This Hackintosh will primarily be used for the following: Web development, Image processing, Light video production/editing, Light audio work and of course gaming MMOs to FPSs. I'm looking for a slick, seamless/rock-solid build, as much as possible, which also has some horespower under the hood without taking a second mortgage out. If anyone has better suggestions for improved component compatibility or better performance/future-proofing please let me know.
I have the vague notion there's not huge "speed" benefit going from a Sandy Bridge to an Ivy Bridge CPU with similar clock speeds, plus I have heard Sandy Bridges run a little cooler. I'm also waiting for the new CustoMac Buyer's Guide 2012 to be published but the wheels are already rollin' on my end. Any advise such as major options/performance or price differences for Sandy compared to Ivy CPUs will help as well.
Preliminary components for the build I'm looking at are:
CASE: Custom build - http://www.reactor-core.com/mods/icon.php
CPU: i5-2500k
Motherboard: Gigabyte 1155 GA-Z77-DS3H
RAM: 16GB (8GB x 2) Corsair Vengeance Blue DDR3 SDRAM (Might have to go "low-profile" for my CPU cooler)
Graphics: Radeon 6870 1GB
Storage: Two OCZ 120GB Agility 3 SATA 6Gb SSD (Plan on running in RAID 0 Mode)
Storage: Two Samsung 128GB 830 SATA III SSD (Plan on running in RAID 0 Mode)
Items I already have:
PSU: Kingwin 850w
CPU cooler: Zalman CNPS12X Pure Copper/Aluminum CPU Cooler
Many thanks for reading and any advice/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
-Reactor
I have been a long-time lurker, first time poster here...
I'm in the process of building my first Hackintosh what I'm calling Project: Icon. This Hackintosh will primarily be used for the following: Web development, Image processing, Light video production/editing, Light audio work and of course gaming MMOs to FPSs. I'm looking for a slick, seamless/rock-solid build, as much as possible, which also has some horespower under the hood without taking a second mortgage out. If anyone has better suggestions for improved component compatibility or better performance/future-proofing please let me know.
I have the vague notion there's not huge "speed" benefit going from a Sandy Bridge to an Ivy Bridge CPU with similar clock speeds, plus I have heard Sandy Bridges run a little cooler. I'm also waiting for the new CustoMac Buyer's Guide 2012 to be published but the wheels are already rollin' on my end. Any advise such as major options/performance or price differences for Sandy compared to Ivy CPUs will help as well.
Preliminary components for the build I'm looking at are:
CASE: Custom build - http://www.reactor-core.com/mods/icon.php
CPU: i5-2500k
Motherboard: Gigabyte 1155 GA-Z77-DS3H
RAM: 16GB (8GB x 2) Corsair Vengeance Blue DDR3 SDRAM (Might have to go "low-profile" for my CPU cooler)
Graphics: Radeon 6870 1GB
Storage: Two OCZ 120GB Agility 3 SATA 6Gb SSD (Plan on running in RAID 0 Mode)
Storage: Two Samsung 128GB 830 SATA III SSD (Plan on running in RAID 0 Mode)
Items I already have:
PSU: Kingwin 850w
CPU cooler: Zalman CNPS12X Pure Copper/Aluminum CPU Cooler
Many thanks for reading and any advice/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
-Reactor