Apple Hack Pro [G5 Mod, Hackintosh, OSX, 2600K]

[paulsterio]

Day 8 - Testing the Corsair H105

So today I needed to make a decision on what to do regarding cooling this PC. Because of the layout of the case and the fact that stand-offs are glued on rather than screwed on, I think the best option would be to go for an AIO rather than a large tower heatsink. I wanted to test how the Corsair H105 would fit, so I removed it out of my main rig, where it's cooling a 5820K. 

 

 

 

 

 

Looking up the instructions to find out how to mount it to an LGA1155 board. 

 

 

Found the hardware required. 

 

 

Backplate is on!

 

 

 

Stand-offs for the cooler. 

 

 

Installing the standoffs and it's ready for cooler installation. 

 

 

The 2600K in the case and right before the cooler is about to be installed. 

 

 

Just my luck to find out that the damn thing doesn't fit. So there was just no way I would be able to fit a 240mm radiator in there without removing the top panel, something I don't want to do as I'm hoping to convert that into a space for some hard drives. So I guess that means we have to go with a 120mm radiator. 

 

Went to the shops and picked up this bad boy for pretty cheap, so tomorrow we'll be installing it and taking a look at some temperatures and performance. 

 

 

 

Thanks for reading, stay tuned!

[Sithhy]

Day 8 - Testing the Corsair H105

Go for the liquid cooler! [emoji1]

[Heesleemer]

mounting in the front I am assuming? 

[paulsterio]

Go for the liquid cooler! [emoji1]

 

Yep, liquid cooler it is! 

 

 

mounting in the front I am assuming? 

 

Yep, going to mount it to the top horizontal dividing panel near the front. I guess I could also mount it on top of the power supply, not sure which I will go with at the moment. 

[paulsterio]

Day 9 - Installing the Deepcool Maelstrom 120

So I picked up the Deepcool Maelstrom 120 yesterday for a pretty good price. It's a surprisingly decent performer, able to keep the temps pretty low. Just a quick unboxing for all of you. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not sure which set of fans to use, the Corsair SP120 ones or the Noctua NF-P12 ones. The Noctuas are definitely quieter and better performing, so I think I'll go with them for the time being. These have served me pretty well in the past when I used them as part of a watercooling setup. 

 

 

 

Now, on with the mounting. 

 

 

 

 

Nice, thermal compound pre-applied, saves a bit of time, though the bad thing is that it's only good for one application. Back when they gave you tubes of thermal compound, you could use them a few times. Noctua is pretty generous, you can use theirs up to like ten times. 

 

 

And it's in!

 

 

Throwing this in the front for now, I'll be mounting it once I get in some radiator mounts. 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's a quick look at how it's looking now, not too shabby for half way in. Basically the rest will be just small cleaning up touches, mounting things properly and then routing all the cables neatly. The system works and the cooler is boss. At stock, it barely reaches above around 35 degrees under load. I've managed to overclock this to a stable 4.80GHz with temperatures probably about as high as acceptable (high 80s under heavy load - i.e. IntelBurnTest, low 80s in AIDA64, mid 70s under normal loads, e.g. Cinebench). I'm pretty gutted that I couldn't reach the fabled 5.0Ghz with this 2600K, but I reckon if I play with PLL voltages and BCLK, I might be able to nudge it to 5.0GHz, hopefully. 

 

Benchmark numbers coming in tomorrow, believe me, it's fast!

[itsmyjobtoknow]

Just a little heads up, Asus boards that supported Ivy Bridge and possibly Sandy Bridge had issues Hackintoshing out of the box.

 

Personally I own an Asus P8Z77-V Pro which I failed hackintoshing several time until I read somewhere that a lot of Asus z77 boards needed a custom BIOS in order to run OS X. 

 

It was either get a Custom BIOS from someone who already used a pre-made software that hacked the Asus official BIOS or do it yourself with the pre-made software.

 

Now whether or not your board needs a custom BIOS is unknown to me, but just a heads up.

[paulsterio]

Just a little heads up, Asus boards that supported Ivy Bridge and possibly Sandy Bridge had issues Hackintoshing out of the box.

 

Personally I own an Asus P8Z77-V Pro which I failed hackintoshing several time until I read somewhere that a lot of Asus z77 boards needed a custom BIOS in order to run OS X. 

 

It was either get a Custom BIOS from someone who already used a pre-made software that hacked the Asus official BIOS or do it yourself with the pre-made software.

 

Now whether or not your board needs a custom BIOS is unknown to me, but just a heads up.

 

Cheers for the heads up, but so far I've managed to get Yosemite working 100% well with proper graphics support and all the right kexts, so audio, USB, SATA, all of that working. I've always been a Chameleon/Chimera user rather than Clover, but with El Capitan, Unibeast is moving to Clover only, which I haven't been able to get to work properly on my system, but it's something I'm willing to tease out later on when this build is in a more complete state. 

 

I might see if I can get Clover and El Capitan working on my X99 5820K system, but at least Yosemite is working on this, so I'm happy. Windows works perfectly as well, I'm getting around 830 in Cinebench in Windows and 810 in Yosemite, so hopefully the upgrade to El Capitan can give it a bit of a boost. I'm only at 4.80 GHz, so I can probably nudge it to 5.0 GHz with some finer tuning beyond just cranking the Vcore. 

 

Thanks for your input, just checked out your Re-Define build log and it looks great!