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- i7 6700K
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Skylake Z170N HackPro itx Build - FT03 mini
Hi all - I'm a bit new to forums but not entirely wet behind the ears when it comes to PC build or Hackintosh. I've built two previous rigs and converted one to a hackintosh with limited success due to it not having been planned to make it run OSX but this build is different - although I've taken a punt that there will be upcoming Hackintosh compatibility for the parts I've purchased already...
For the case I've gone with a Silverstone FT-03 mini - in black so to be somewhat similar to the Mac Pro. A bit bigger but still very compact and considerably more customisable.
I've also gotten from Silverstone the 450w SFX PSU and Tundra TD-03E AIO Liquid cooler.
The mobo is a Gigabyte Z170N, with 16GB (8+8) of Mushkin 2800 DDR4 RAM and the OS drive is an M.2 Samsung 950 Pro 256GB supposedly capable of incredible 2200MB/s read speeds and somewhat more subdued 900MB/s write.
At this point I've just gotten these parts and a Panasonic uj-265 slot loading Blu Ray burner but remaining on the shopping list is:
i7 6700k cpu
a nVidia GTX960 (?)
a sata3 SSD for Windows
and a file storage drive
I'm not so sure about the Graphics card, I've not been much of a PC gamer but looking to dip my toes in. I used to play on consoles heaps but study and work took over - Driving games interest me the most, FPS not so much, more games that don't take over your life.
I'm a graphic designer and photographer so Creative Suite is my main focus but this is for my home studio so it has to provide a bit of entertainment too. I have a pretty good monitor to compliment this build too (using my Mbpr on it for now) - an LG 34UC87C Ultrawide 3440x1440.
Movies look terrific on it - hoping games will too although I know it doesn't have adaptive sync but I do think it's the best looking and most functional 1440p Ultrawide out there, could go without height adjustment and the colour accuracy is where I need it to be. I had a 4k monitor for a few months (Dell 2715) but missed my smaller multi-monitor setup for productivity.
So this is my project... any advice on GPU's is welcomely received. Feel free to ask questions too, I intend to document this build on this forum as it might help others and trouble shoot my installation also.
Really hoping there will be a bit more Hackitosh support for the Skylake platform soon and that the parts I've gotten are compatible.
Hi all - I'm a bit new to forums but not entirely wet behind the ears when it comes to PC build or Hackintosh. I've built two previous rigs and converted one to a hackintosh with limited success due to it not having been planned to make it run OSX but this build is different - although I've taken a punt that there will be upcoming Hackintosh compatibility for the parts I've purchased already...
For the case I've gone with a Silverstone FT-03 mini - in black so to be somewhat similar to the Mac Pro. A bit bigger but still very compact and considerably more customisable.
I've also gotten from Silverstone the 450w SFX PSU and Tundra TD-03E AIO Liquid cooler.
The mobo is a Gigabyte Z170N, with 16GB (8+8) of Mushkin 2800 DDR4 RAM and the OS drive is an M.2 Samsung 950 Pro 256GB supposedly capable of incredible 2200MB/s read speeds and somewhat more subdued 900MB/s write.
At this point I've just gotten these parts and a Panasonic uj-265 slot loading Blu Ray burner but remaining on the shopping list is:
i7 6700k cpu
a nVidia GTX960 (?)
a sata3 SSD for Windows
and a file storage drive
I'm not so sure about the Graphics card, I've not been much of a PC gamer but looking to dip my toes in. I used to play on consoles heaps but study and work took over - Driving games interest me the most, FPS not so much, more games that don't take over your life.
I'm a graphic designer and photographer so Creative Suite is my main focus but this is for my home studio so it has to provide a bit of entertainment too. I have a pretty good monitor to compliment this build too (using my Mbpr on it for now) - an LG 34UC87C Ultrawide 3440x1440.
Movies look terrific on it - hoping games will too although I know it doesn't have adaptive sync but I do think it's the best looking and most functional 1440p Ultrawide out there, could go without height adjustment and the colour accuracy is where I need it to be. I had a 4k monitor for a few months (Dell 2715) but missed my smaller multi-monitor setup for productivity.
So this is my project... any advice on GPU's is welcomely received. Feel free to ask questions too, I intend to document this build on this forum as it might help others and trouble shoot my installation also.
Really hoping there will be a bit more Hackitosh support for the Skylake platform soon and that the parts I've gotten are compatible.