Building of a Hackintosh Diary

[Rek_Aviles]

[akswun]

I hear Mountain Lion calling for your hackintosh!

[DJNR]

Good god man, that looks good! I haven't broken into water cooling yet, but I will someday hopefully. Once I get my new fans maybe I'll post a picture of my rig here

[thehadgi]

Wow scott nice build dude mine looks like a slab jungle of ugly next to yours lol

[Scott Michael]

Thanks for the kind words fellas. The link below is a build guide detailing my build.

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1642519

Here is a part list:

Parts List

Silverstone TJ07 Internals Powder coated
Intel Core i7 2600k
Asus P8z68 V-pro
Corssair Vengance 8GB (1600)
Evga GTX 580
Silverstone ST-85F PSU
Crucial M4 (64GB) Boot (128GB) Program
ASUS Blu Ray Burner
Silverstone HDD 5.25' bay

Water cooling Parts

EK Supreme HF CPU Block
EK Full Cover 580 GTX
EK Backplate
EK Multioption Res 150
Swiftech 120.4 Rad.
Swiftech MPC 655 pump (variable)
5x Gentle Typhoon AP-15's

[g-sep]

Lookin good Scott. Gonna have to get in touch with you about wc'ing my 2600k.

[Scott Michael]

Lookin good Scott. Gonna have to get in touch with you about wc'ing my 2600k.

5.0 ghz was my fastest 24/7 stable clock speed and I ran it for a couple months straight without issue. I think dialed it back to 4.7ghz because the vcore required to hit 5 ghz was pretty high. 4.7 ghz for my chip was the best bang for the buck with voltage vrs. clock frequency.

[DJNR]

5.0 ghz was my fastest 24/7 stable clock speed and I ran it for a couple months straight without issue. I think dialed it back to 4.7ghz because the vcore required to hit 5 ghz was pretty high. 4.7 ghz for my chip was the best bang for the buck with voltage vrs. clock frequency.

I've read people running 5.0 just fine on the 2600K. I also have one myself. For graphics im running 2x570GTX

Also just a warning, I had the same motherboard and that fried on me. I decided to get a Gigabyte instead.

[Manu]

looks and sounds tasty... Jeez, the amount of fans and cooling you got in there.

I hear Mountain Lion calling for your hackintosh!

+1 on that

[thehadgi]

I hear Mountain Lion calling for your hackintosh!

Yeah I'm gonna give the coders at tonymacx86 a couple months to make sure all the drivers and everything will work before I switch... After the amount of fresh installs I had to do from messing up drivers I'll let the people that know what they're doing test it out