Hi folks... long time no see.
Short version... we had a house fire on May 25th (mostly smoke, but we're out of our house for about a year because of the rebuild). I just got my Hackintosh equipment back from the restoration company and am looking for some advice.
My main computers were far from the fire, but smoke was spread throughout the house. Because of costs, I chose not to have the PCs cleaned by the restoration company ($250 to clean a 7 year old PC didn't make sense).
But the passive (non-mechanical) parts are fine after a simple wipe down and cleaning with some isopropyl alcohol (ram, CPU, video card, SSD).
I was planning to replace the power supply, heat sink and fan with replacement parts, but I've found that barebones HP 8300 Elite SFFs are going for about $50 on eBay... cheaper than buying the individual replacement parts.
I plan to have a new barebones system on its way later today, but a thought struck me...
I also have another PC that was not on during the fire, but I also didn't have cleaned. It is a Sandy Bridge (i5 2500k) on a Gigabyte motherboard (Z68MX).
I'm was actually in the process of rebuilding that as a hackintosh before the fire. I also was planning to replace other parts on this machine, but realized that I SHOULD be able to just drop the CPU, ram and video card into a second 8300 SFF, right?
The 8200 explicitly supports the 2500K (obviously no overclocking, but I never did anyway), but I can't see any reason the 8300 would not support it.
Any thoughts?
I may go ahead and get my refurb 8300 barebones and try the i5 2500k in it to see if it will boot and then make that decision.
Thanks for any advice.