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- Mar 2, 2014
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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Z390 I AORUS PRO WIFI
- CPU
- i9-9900K
- Graphics
- RX 580
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
My first computer was an IMSAI 8080A, which was mostly a toy with lots of switches. At work I used a Mac SE for a long time. Later I bought a Mac II (wow, color!) Then a PM8500, upgraded to a G3 motherboard. My last Mac was/is my G5.
I still have my PPC G5 2.7 GHz dual-CPU liquid-cooled with a couple of 1 TB WD hard drives and a good ATI Radeon graphics card, but I could only stay with the PPC for so long since Steve pulled the carpet out from under me in 2005. And now I'm mostly gaming.
No more room on the floor for a tower, plus I wanted an "efficient" (AC power-wise) computer. So small, but a "Mighty Mouse" kind of computer that fits under the monitor shelf on my desk. I started with Snow Leopard with tonymac's help, then Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite, El Capitan, and now Sierra. The first mini-ITX was a Haswell, and my present is a Skylake. The CPU's TDP is only 65 watts but it runs at 3.4 GHz. My new GTX 1050 Ti OC (low profile) barely fits, but turns 83 fps on "Valley" in High quality and 2xAA. And it uses about 67 watts. Good, since my power supply is only 180 watts. But it supports everything including a Blu-Ray writer, 2 SSDs, 16 GB DDR4 RAM, and my Noctua NH-L9i CPU cooler.
Building the hardware for both computers was very easy, but without tonymac's website I never would have satisfactorily completed either project.
My Haswell Mini-ITX now has a GTX 750 Ti (low profile) shoehorned into it, and it and my primary computer both run Sierra and both work fine.
[Edit Jan. 2021: My, these old posts do go out of date, don't they?]
I still have my PPC G5 2.7 GHz dual-CPU liquid-cooled with a couple of 1 TB WD hard drives and a good ATI Radeon graphics card, but I could only stay with the PPC for so long since Steve pulled the carpet out from under me in 2005. And now I'm mostly gaming.
No more room on the floor for a tower, plus I wanted an "efficient" (AC power-wise) computer. So small, but a "Mighty Mouse" kind of computer that fits under the monitor shelf on my desk. I started with Snow Leopard with tonymac's help, then Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite, El Capitan, and now Sierra. The first mini-ITX was a Haswell, and my present is a Skylake. The CPU's TDP is only 65 watts but it runs at 3.4 GHz. My new GTX 1050 Ti OC (low profile) barely fits, but turns 83 fps on "Valley" in High quality and 2xAA. And it uses about 67 watts. Good, since my power supply is only 180 watts. But it supports everything including a Blu-Ray writer, 2 SSDs, 16 GB DDR4 RAM, and my Noctua NH-L9i CPU cooler.
Building the hardware for both computers was very easy, but without tonymac's website I never would have satisfactorily completed either project.
My Haswell Mini-ITX now has a GTX 750 Ti (low profile) shoehorned into it, and it and my primary computer both run Sierra and both work fine.
[Edit Jan. 2021: My, these old posts do go out of date, don't they?]
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