pastrychef's testing machine - HP Elite 8300 SFF - i7-3770 - GT 630

[Micalllee]

Upgrade to High Sierra went smoothly, just need to find the instructions to remove the extra volumes from the Clover boot screen.

I did have the YaraScanServices process run amok. It was using 14 GB of ram after less than an hour. I force quit it, but will keep an eye out. It's apparently related to the macOS malware scanner.

 

[sigmatec]

Hi I'm thinking about buying a refurbished HP 8200 i7-2, just to use mostly photoshop cc for digital painting do you think that can hold up the expectations?

 

[pastrychef]

Hi I'm thinking about buying a refurbished HP 8200 i7-2, just to use mostly photoshop cc for digital painting do you think that can hold up the expectations?

I think it might be passable, but I've never tried hackintoshing an 8200 and I don't know if it has UEFI. If it doesn't have UEFI, you will have to do a "legacy" installation. That's something I have zero experience with.

 

[sigmatec]

I think it might be passable, but I've never tried hackintoshing an 8200 and I don't know if it has UEFI. If it doesn't have UEFI, you will have to do a "legacy" installation. That's something I have zero experience with.

I read that it has UEFI. Comparing the specs from the macBook pro it stays almost side by side.

 

[Micalllee]

So, after a week of HS I'm noticing a few things.

(1) Wake from sleep seems slow. I think I've read this may be due to the Nvidia drivers, but I haven't tried rebooting to the native driver to check; it's only been an infrequent, minor annoyance.

(2) I'd been getting a LOT of web pages crashing in Safari/Sierra for the last few months ("A problem occurred, so this web page was reloaded" or something like that.) I don't think I've had a single one under HS.

Overall seems like a solid update - which one would hope would be the case by the .6 version almost a year after release...

 

[pastrychef]

I read that it has UEFI. Comparing the specs from the macBook pro it stays almost side by side.

If it has UEFI, installation of macOS should be relatively simple.

 

[pastrychef]

So, after a week of HS I'm noticing a few things.

(1) Wake from sleep seems slow. I think I've read this may be due to the Nvidia drivers, but I haven't tried rebooting to the native driver to check; it's only been an infrequent, minor annoyance.

(2) I'd been getting a LOT of web pages crashing in Safari/Sierra for the last few months ("A problem occurred, so this web page was reloaded" or something like that.) I don't think I've had a single one under HS.

Overall seems like a solid update - which one would hope would be the case by the .6 version almost a year after release...

On 10.13.6, wake seems slower on my Z370-G build too.

 

[Stork]

...
(2) I'd been getting a LOT of web pages crashing in Safari/Sierra for the last few months ("A problem occurred, so this web page was reloaded" or something like that.) I don't think I've had a single one under HS...

I get this occasionally on my MacBook Pro using FireFox. So, it could be macOS or our DSN provider.

 

[phrozenpenguin]

I managed to change the fans. Noctua was in backorder, so I went with Arctic PVM 92mm fans. Seems to be working fine, and the fans themselves are virtually silent now. The airflow can still be heard though.

@PBL sorry for bringing up an old post, but was the PSU fan swap straightforward? Soldering job I presume. Is the PSU fan speed controlled or not? Haven't opened my PSU up yet and keen to only do the job once

 

[PBL]

Yes, it was rather straightforward. Not soldered, as far as I remember. I don't know if the PSU-fan speed is controlled or not. You could find out be detaching the other fan and then changing the settings in BIOS.