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Hello, and I know I made a post earlier about the difficulties of sourcing quality components in S.Korea for building (DIY) computers. Well I just so happened to find a major outlet here in Seoul, called CompuZone. They have reasonable prices and deal in mainstream parts and components. Their prices are within 5-10% of what you'd expect to find in the US or Canada.
That's fair enough.
AS you may know, a number of MacOS users have split from the standard Apple crowd to produce their own more powerful machines utilizing a variety of off the shelf components, namely the 1155 and 2011 Intel sockets. In the past month or so some HUGE gains in compatibility have been had by a recent update in OSX 10.8.2.
you may get in touch with these Bad Apples here ( kidding...good Apples) not iSheep.
http://www.tonymacx86.com/home.php
I have obtained a GA-Z77X-UP5-TH Gigabyte motherboard and a i7 3770K unlocked processor (will overclock it to 4.3Ghz after everything is running correctly!)
My parts list:
GA-Z77X-UP5-TH Gigabyte motherboard
Intel i7 3770K (1155) processor
Noctua NH-D14 CPU cooler.
low latency (7 or 8 class) 16GB or 32GB of DDR3 1600Mhz ram
512GB SSD (Samsung)
2TB WD eSataIII Blue drive
~900W - Corsair Gold star PSU.
Graphics Card EVGA GTX690 /680? undecided... $1200 card.
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My brother in Macau, whom has access to more $$$ than I do, has taken my idea and produced a Hackintosh using the same board, and the idea of utilizing a 240GB SSD for the OS to boot on and a 1TB WD eSata III green drive to store the files on.
The boot time is simply incredible.
Even more so is that it seems to be benching over 15,000 on the geekbench application.
I have uploaded a video showing the build in Macau. Note the WIFI card in the video is a
480MB/sec WIFI card not a 300 as explained the in the video.
Also the Thunderbolt card mentioned is a FW800 port card. Thunderbolt is built into the Motherboard.
---> link.
http://www.ledmuseum.candlepower.us/Seoul_Lasers/IMG_1596.MOV
That's fair enough.
AS you may know, a number of MacOS users have split from the standard Apple crowd to produce their own more powerful machines utilizing a variety of off the shelf components, namely the 1155 and 2011 Intel sockets. In the past month or so some HUGE gains in compatibility have been had by a recent update in OSX 10.8.2.
you may get in touch with these Bad Apples here ( kidding...good Apples) not iSheep.
http://www.tonymacx86.com/home.php
I have obtained a GA-Z77X-UP5-TH Gigabyte motherboard and a i7 3770K unlocked processor (will overclock it to 4.3Ghz after everything is running correctly!)
My parts list:
GA-Z77X-UP5-TH Gigabyte motherboard
Intel i7 3770K (1155) processor
Noctua NH-D14 CPU cooler.
low latency (7 or 8 class) 16GB or 32GB of DDR3 1600Mhz ram
512GB SSD (Samsung)
2TB WD eSataIII Blue drive
~900W - Corsair Gold star PSU.
Graphics Card EVGA GTX690 /680? undecided... $1200 card.
----------------------------------
My brother in Macau, whom has access to more $$$ than I do, has taken my idea and produced a Hackintosh using the same board, and the idea of utilizing a 240GB SSD for the OS to boot on and a 1TB WD eSata III green drive to store the files on.
The boot time is simply incredible.
Even more so is that it seems to be benching over 15,000 on the geekbench application.
I have uploaded a video showing the build in Macau. Note the WIFI card in the video is a
480MB/sec WIFI card not a 300 as explained the in the video.
Also the Thunderbolt card mentioned is a FW800 port card. Thunderbolt is built into the Motherboard.
---> link.
http://www.ledmuseum.candlepower.us/Seoul_Lasers/IMG_1596.MOV
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