MacMini 2011 -i5 2500k - GA-H67N-USB3-B3 - 8GB RAM - H3000

[pippox0]

MacMini 2011 - Intel i5 2500k - GA-H67N-USB3-B3 - G.Skill Sniper 8GB RAM - Intel HD 3000 Graphics - Sony Blu-Ray

Component List
Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 3000 BX80623I52500K
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115072
$219.99

GIGABYTE GA-H67N-USB3-B3 LGA 1155 Intel H67 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Mini ITX Intel Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 813128484R
$149.99

G.SKILL Sniper 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model F3-10666CL9D-8GBSR
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231417
$39.99

Sony Optiarc Black 12X BD-R 2X BD-RE 16X DVD+R 12X DVD-RAM 8X BD-ROM 8MB Cache SATA 12X Half Height Tray Blu-ray Writer BD-5300S - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827118065
$99.99

Already Owned
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
http://itunes.apple.com/app/os-x-lion/id444303913?mt=12

Western Digital WD10EADS 1TB 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - Bare Drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136317

Acer AL1914 19" Monitor - VGA
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009067

miniDesktop Computer Case 400W - mod. TechSolo TC20


Comments:
I Was looking for a quad core processor, and a Blu Ray drive , a mini system.
The system I picked seemed adequate for my purposes…
I would use my old VGA monitor and i found out How-to
http://tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=36335
In future i will substitute my SATA HD with a SSD 6.0Gb/Sata HD.

Installation Process
I essentially followed the instructions on the UniBeast Lion Install page.
Everything went smoothly.

NOTE: to get things working on the initial boot up before running MultiBeast I had to set GraphicsEnabler=no.

I used MacBook8.1 SMBIOS as well as I wanted a cleaner About My Mac. Overall, the system is working like a charm.


Many thanks to all posters on this site .....

 

[Mate94]

You can't overclock because of the H67 chipset.
Nice build!

 

[pippox0]

MacMini 2011 -i5 2500k - GA-H67N-USB3-B3 - 8GB RAM - HD3000

Finally i have added a Corsair Force Series GT 120GB SATA III 6Gbs (SSD) as primary drive.
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233191
$119.99
I have used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone my OSX Lion partition from HDD to SSD.
I have reinstalled Chimera on SSD and voilà - all works .... :->



The Speed improvement is very good 430 Mb/s read/write.

TRIM enabled with Trimenabler 2.0
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/37852/trim-enabler

Cheers

PippoX0

 

[Stork]

MultiBeast incorporates the appropriate TRIM enabler Perl commend. However, since Sandforce controllers perform their own garbage collection, you don't need the TRIM enablers.