i7 2600k GA-H67N-USB3-B3 Mini-ITX 1st homebrew hackintosh

[alisdairv]

I don't see an Introductions section so first off hi!
3rd year computing student and Symfony web developer.
Former linux die hard, born-again mac user!

Built some machines back in my youth for gaming/hacking.
More recently a Lion Mac Mini early 2009 2.26Ghz Core 2 Duo 4Gb RAM user and dual boot (mac/m$) Dell Mini 10v for coffee shop browsing etc.
Got to get out of the Mini box and into something a little more future-proof!
Pro's are verging on disgusting at >£2k and self building, with what seems to be an excellent and growing community ( ) along with the guys at Infinite Loop broadening hardware support, has definitely taken my fancy.

So anyway I thought I'd start a topic for my build for perusal in the hope that one day (soon) it can be migrated to the user-builds section!
Here's what I'm planning, purchases to be made soon:

OS - OS X Lion / Fedora16 / Win7 (not bothered with 8, I'd have XP if I could get away with it!)

Mobo - Gigabyte GA-H67N-USB3-B3
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3783&dl=#ov

CPU - Core i7 Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz 2600k
http://ark.intel.com/products/52214/Intel-Core-i7-2600K-Processor-(8M-Cache-3_40-GHz)

CPU Cooling - Corsair Hydro H40
http://www.corsair.com/cpu-cooling-...s-h40-high-performance-liquid-cpu-cooler.html

RAM - Corsair Vengeance 2x4GB 1600 MHz
http://www.corsair.com/memory-by-pr...hannel-ddr3-memory-kit-cmz8gx3m2a1600c9b.html

HDD - Crucial M4 128Gb
http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/partspecs.aspx?IMODULE=CT128M4SSD2BAA
+ another 500Gb 7200rpm SATA drive thats lying around somewhere!

Case - Lian-Li PC-Q08 Mini-ITX
http://www.lian-li.com/v2/en/product/product06.php?pr_index=480&cl_index=1&sc_index=25&ss_index=64

PSU - Cooler Master Silent Pro 700W
http://www.coolermaster.co.uk/product.php?category_id=2384&product_id=4202

The plan in the short term is to use the 2600k's HD Graphics 3000 and see how it goes; with the view to later plugging in a 2Gb 6870 (or similar) when the prices drop a little (hence large PSU).
Anyway unless there are any objections I'll be getting my purchase on in the next week.

Thanks for your thoughts.

 

[Mate94]

I don't see an Introductions section so first off hi!
3rd year computing student and Symfony web developer.
Former linux die hard, born-again mac user!

Built some machines back in my youth for gaming/hacking.
More recently a Lion Mac Mini early 2009 2.26Ghz Core 2 Duo 4Gb RAM user and dual boot (mac/m$) Dell Mini 10v for coffee shop browsing etc.
Got to get out of the Mini box and into something a little more future-proof!
Pro's are verging on disgusting at >£2k and self building, with what seems to be an excellent and growing community ( ) along with the guys at Infinite Loop broadening hardware support, has definitely taken my fancy.

So anyway I thought I'd start a topic for my build for perusal in the hope that one day (soon) it can be migrated to the user-builds section!
Here's what I'm planning, purchases to be made soon:

OS - OS X Lion / Fedora16 / Win7 (not bothered with 8, I'd have XP if I could get away with it!)

Mobo - Gigabyte GA-H67N-USB3-B3
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3783&dl=#ov

CPU - Core i7 Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz 2600k
http://ark.intel.com/products/52214/Intel-Core-i7-2600K-Processor-(8M-Cache-3_40-GHz)

CPU Cooling - Corsair Hydro H40
http://www.corsair.com/cpu-cooling-...s-h40-high-performance-liquid-cpu-cooler.html

RAM - Corsair Vengeance 2x4GB 1600 MHz
http://www.corsair.com/memory-by-pr...hannel-ddr3-memory-kit-cmz8gx3m2a1600c9b.html

HDD - Crucial M4 128Gb
http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/partspecs.aspx?IMODULE=CT128M4SSD2BAA
+ another 500Gb 7200rpm SATA drive thats lying around somewhere!

Case - Lian-Li PC-Q08 Mini-ITX
http://www.lian-li.com/v2/en/product/product06.php?pr_index=480&cl_index=1&sc_index=25&ss_index=64

PSU - Cooler Master Silent Pro 700W
http://www.coolermaster.co.uk/product.php?category_id=2384&product_id=4202

The plan in the short term is to use the 2600k's HD Graphics 3000 and see how it goes; with the view to later plugging in a 2Gb 6870 (or similar) when the prices drop a little (hence large PSU).
Anyway unless there are any objections I'll be getting my purchase on in the next week.

Thanks for your thoughts.

The build is Ok.

 

[alisdairv]

The build is Ok.

Thanks.
Majority of orders now placed.

 

[xadmin]

Looks good. Make sure that PS fits your case

 

[w_bizzle]

I like the look of this system, how is it going?

 

[alisdairv]

Sorry guys, problems sourcing the mobo and case meant this project grew into a full ATX rig with GPU and everything so maybe not so applicable to those who were interested.

It's probably worth bearing in mind that Gigabyte no longer make this motherboard and I haven't read any plans for them to update their range with a Z68 Mini ITX board either unfortunately.

See my build here:
Alisdairv's Build - GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3/i7-2600k/4850 512MB