- Joined
- Jul 4, 2017
- Messages
- 11
- Motherboard
- Dell GXM1W
- CPU
- i7-3770
- Graphics
- Intel HD 4000
- Mobile Phone
Well, more or less. It was a bigger trick just to get this system to power on when I got it home.
I started plotting a Hackintosh build after seeing the $70 build video on YouTube. Turns out WVU does not have a surplus store open to the public. But Pitt does. A whole stack of surplus Optiplexes for $50 sans hard drive. And memory in some cases. I picked up an Optiplex 790 SFF with an i5-2400 CPU on Monday. With HD 2000 graphics, I knew I'd have to spring for a discrete card and bigger PSU.
So payday hits this morning and I head to Amazon to place that order... until I read the reviews on the PSU I'd selected. Ugh. And trying to run a GeForce 710 or 730 on a mere 240W didn't sound like a good idea. So back to the Pitt surplus store site. The pickings were slimmer, but there was an Optiplex mini tower still waiting for a home. So I make the hour's drive north.
That mini tower was an older i5 dual core. Nah. But there was also an Optiplex 7010 SFF i7. with HD 4000 graphics *and* a Radeon discrete card, the graphics problem is solved. SOLD! Stopped by Best Buy for a 2TB HDD and set to work once I got home. Had to scavenge the memory out of the 790, but let's see what I've got... um... uh oh.
What I had was nothing but a flashing amber power light. Seems the PSU had bit the dust. But wait a minute, I've got an identical PSU in the 790. Thank goodness they use the same case and PSU. Swapped it out and I was in business... except the Radeon card has a dead fan. No matter. I've got the HD 4000 graphics to fall back on. A little detour to Windows land to update the BIOS, get the USB installer fixed, and I'm off.
Once I got past the operator error of getting the USB stick to boot, everything was as easy as could be. Not one hiccup.Nothing interrupted the install. No graphics issues. Ethernet working from the word go. The only thing holding me back was the dreaded ALC269. After a couple of dead ends, I got pointed to Voodoo 2.8.8 and now I've got sound!
I don't have iMessage working right yet, but that's for another day.
tl;dr version: except for sound, on a stock Optiplex 7010 i7-3770, the Unibeast/Multibeast method Just Works.
I was surprised. I was sure there was going to be something simple that I missed. Maybe I used up the screwup karma by having to redo the USB stick. Somehow I made it MBR on the first try.
I started plotting a Hackintosh build after seeing the $70 build video on YouTube. Turns out WVU does not have a surplus store open to the public. But Pitt does. A whole stack of surplus Optiplexes for $50 sans hard drive. And memory in some cases. I picked up an Optiplex 790 SFF with an i5-2400 CPU on Monday. With HD 2000 graphics, I knew I'd have to spring for a discrete card and bigger PSU.
So payday hits this morning and I head to Amazon to place that order... until I read the reviews on the PSU I'd selected. Ugh. And trying to run a GeForce 710 or 730 on a mere 240W didn't sound like a good idea. So back to the Pitt surplus store site. The pickings were slimmer, but there was an Optiplex mini tower still waiting for a home. So I make the hour's drive north.
That mini tower was an older i5 dual core. Nah. But there was also an Optiplex 7010 SFF i7. with HD 4000 graphics *and* a Radeon discrete card, the graphics problem is solved. SOLD! Stopped by Best Buy for a 2TB HDD and set to work once I got home. Had to scavenge the memory out of the 790, but let's see what I've got... um... uh oh.
What I had was nothing but a flashing amber power light. Seems the PSU had bit the dust. But wait a minute, I've got an identical PSU in the 790. Thank goodness they use the same case and PSU. Swapped it out and I was in business... except the Radeon card has a dead fan. No matter. I've got the HD 4000 graphics to fall back on. A little detour to Windows land to update the BIOS, get the USB installer fixed, and I'm off.
Once I got past the operator error of getting the USB stick to boot, everything was as easy as could be. Not one hiccup.Nothing interrupted the install. No graphics issues. Ethernet working from the word go. The only thing holding me back was the dreaded ALC269. After a couple of dead ends, I got pointed to Voodoo 2.8.8 and now I've got sound!
I don't have iMessage working right yet, but that's for another day.
tl;dr version: except for sound, on a stock Optiplex 7010 i7-3770, the Unibeast/Multibeast method Just Works.
I was surprised. I was sure there was going to be something simple that I missed. Maybe I used up the screwup karma by having to redo the USB stick. Somehow I made it MBR on the first try.
