DnFx91

This has been the most painfully irritating build i have ever attempted, but i finally have a desktop machine that can boot Linux Mint 18, OSX Sierra and Windows 10, but it has many quirks. I noticed that triple/quad booting has been asked about on the web for years but nobody has ever really done a good case study of how on earth you do it, least of all with pictures and guides.
 
Ill just give a quick run down of what we have here.
 The machine is a lenovo thinkcenter E73 tower, OEM machine with only upgrade being the 9800GT, it has a 128GB sata SSD and a 1TB HDD. 
 
First step was to install the hackintosh on the entire SSD using clover and the fantastic instructions on TonyMacx86. Spend weeks trying to figure out how kexts work and getting the nvidia web driver to run persistently, a basic tutorial on clover configurator comes in handy here. So once OSX was installed, i then introduced the 1TB HDD to the system and installed windows 10 on it in the usual manner, just boot off the USB stick and give windows the entire 1TB. From here on i believe you are at the mercy of your UEFI whether the windows bootloader makes it onto the SSD where it should go, or whether windows craps out and put it on the HDD. In my case windows put it's bootloader into the EFI partition of the SSD, therefore clover was able to see it and i was instantly given a windows option in clover. 2 down one to go.
 
Finally in order to cram linux mint onto the machine, i refrained from shrinking the NTFS partition from within windows as this screwed everything the first time i did it, partition table went completely out of whack. instead, at this point simply boot off the live Mint setup USB, and proceed to install, Mint will detect the windows bootloader (but not the OSX one) and prompt you to install alongside windows. At this point i used the linux setup to cut the 1TB in half and installed mint into the second half. 
 
When mint has finished installing, reboot into clover and you should now have a linux boot option. In my case, the installation of linux destroyed my ability to boot windows from clover, but i was still able to boot windows from grub, which appears after you select linux from clover, ugly i know. The fix i found for this was to boot back into Mint and run sudo update-grub, which then rejiggers all the bootloaders around into their right places, after this, i was able to boot all 3 OS's from clover, as well as the OSX recovery partition (doesn't quite count as a quad-boot right ?)
 
The main issue i found with this project was the trial and error nature of screwing up bootloaders and having to start again, clover is a bit fragile when it comes to making it boot more than just OSX. Essentially this machine went through about 5 iterations before it was finally stable.  
 
In summary, windows 10 and Mint run perfectly on the hardware as you would expect, but that's the easy bit, the challenge lies with making OSX happy with "peasant grade" non proprietary hardware, and this almost entirely revolves around onboard realtek audio. From what i can tell, clover has kexts for basically any realtek 3.5mm jack bay that has 5 ports, but seeing as i have this weird OEM machine, i only have a bay of 3 x 3.5mm jacks, and this is tragically not supported AFAIK. i solved this by cannibalising a USB DAC, velcro-ing it to the floor of the case, and running XLR's out of the rear I/O, looks janky as hell but works a charm, and the sound quality is far superior to the onboard anyway. One final thing i was unable to get working within OSX was hardware reporting like CPU temps and stuff, from what i can tell this is all low-level apple kernel stuff that goes over my head, but hopefully someone can make or port a kext for this functionality.
 
Thanks for reading anyway guys i just wanted to share what i learnt building this frankenstein PC, as i know many of you are interested in the concept of multiple OS's on a PC, but are maybe confused as to where you even start.
 
DnFx
 
 

yeah man im running a 460 in my work machine and it's rather toasty. Imagine the 480 is a damn furnace

Yes, I'm necro'ing this, because it's a very big mountain to conquer and DnF accomplished what few have.
 
Congrats to you DnFx91. I forgot that I did the same back in 2015. It was a TOTAL PITA. Took me about 2 weeks, every night, 3-4 hours each night, to pull this off using a single HDD and no bootcamp, Many hours of my life were wasted just to say I did it. I don't even remember what the system specs/hardware are. I put the Winuxtosh in my spare closet when I was done and haven't touched it since.
I had some sound driver issues iirc that I was never able to remedy.
Yes that's called a CRT kids. I also like working on my computers on the floor/carpet. I also have cats and don't use a grounding strap. 
I'm old, don't judge me.

ive been here before lol, you can make this work with a normal ATX PSU, just let the 24-pin overhang the 14-pin socket  its kinda scary but does work, you may need to cannibalise the 24-pin a little bit to get it to sit in the 14-pin socket.
 
I hereby abstain from any and all responsibility regarding the information i have just provided  (Don't burn your house down haha)

Star Citizen
 

This has been the most painfully irritating build i have ever attempted, but i finally have a desktop machine that can boot Linux Mint 18, OSX Sierra and Windows 10, but it has many quirks. I noticed that triple/quad booting has been asked about on the web for years but nobody has ever really done a good case study of how on earth you do it, least of all with pictures and guides.
 
Ill just give a quick run down of what we have here.
 The machine is a lenovo thinkcenter E73 tower, OEM machine with only upgrade being the 9800GT, it has a 128GB sata SSD and a 1TB HDD. 
 
First step was to install the hackintosh on the entire SSD using clover and the fantastic instructions on TonyMacx86. Spend weeks trying to figure out how kexts work and getting the nvidia web driver to run persistently, a basic tutorial on clover configurator comes in handy here. So once OSX was installed, i then introduced the 1TB HDD to the system and installed windows 10 on it in the usual manner, just boot off the USB stick and give windows the entire 1TB. From here on i believe you are at the mercy of your UEFI whether the windows bootloader makes it onto the SSD where it should go, or whether windows craps out and put it on the HDD. In my case windows put it's bootloader into the EFI partition of the SSD, therefore clover was able to see it and i was instantly given a windows option in clover. 2 down one to go.
 
Finally in order to cram linux mint onto the machine, i refrained from shrinking the NTFS partition from within windows as this screwed everything the first time i did it, partition table went completely out of whack. instead, at this point simply boot off the live Mint setup USB, and proceed to install, Mint will detect the windows bootloader (but not the OSX one) and prompt you to install alongside windows. At this point i used the linux setup to cut the 1TB in half and installed mint into the second half. 
 
When mint has finished installing, reboot into clover and you should now have a linux boot option. In my case, the installation of linux destroyed my ability to boot windows from clover, but i was still able to boot windows from grub, which appears after you select linux from clover, ugly i know. The fix i found for this was to boot back into Mint and run sudo update-grub, which then rejiggers all the bootloaders around into their right places, after this, i was able to boot all 3 OS's from clover, as well as the OSX recovery partition (doesn't quite count as a quad-boot right ?)
 
The main issue i found with this project was the trial and error nature of screwing up bootloaders and having to start again, clover is a bit fragile when it comes to making it boot more than just OSX. Essentially this machine went through about 5 iterations before it was finally stable.  
 
In summary, windows 10 and Mint run perfectly on the hardware as you would expect, but that's the easy bit, the challenge lies with making OSX happy with "peasant grade" non proprietary hardware, and this almost entirely revolves around onboard realtek audio. From what i can tell, clover has kexts for basically any realtek 3.5mm jack bay that has 5 ports, but seeing as i have this weird OEM machine, i only have a bay of 3 x 3.5mm jacks, and this is tragically not supported AFAIK. i solved this by cannibalising a USB DAC, velcro-ing it to the floor of the case, and running XLR's out of the rear I/O, looks janky as hell but works a charm, and the sound quality is far superior to the onboard anyway. One final thing i was unable to get working within OSX was hardware reporting like CPU temps and stuff, from what i can tell this is all low-level apple kernel stuff that goes over my head, but hopefully someone can make or port a kext for this functionality.
 
Thanks for reading anyway guys i just wanted to share what i learnt building this frankenstein PC, as i know many of you are interested in the concept of multiple OS's on a PC, but are maybe confused as to where you even start.
 
DnFx
 
 

Elite Dangerous

i once destroyed 3 quadro 5000's in a row. i blew them out with a compressor (while holding the fan stationary) and then none of them worked. Turns out the jet of air from a compressor can be very highly statically charged, so i zapped all 3 and had to explain to my boss how i killed 3 quadros

hey man, sorry i actually dismantled this machine about a week after this post, i cobbled it together from spare parts. Can't remember too much about how it worked to be honest  I sometimes refer back to this article if i need to remind myself how i did it haha.

Elite Dangerous

This has been the most painfully irritating build i have ever attempted, but i finally have a desktop machine that can boot Linux Mint 18, OSX Sierra and Windows 10, but it has many quirks. I noticed that triple/quad booting has been asked about on the web for years but nobody has ever really done a good case study of how on earth you do it, least of all with pictures and guides.
 
Ill just give a quick run down of what we have here.
 The machine is a lenovo thinkcenter E73 tower, OEM machine with only upgrade being the 9800GT, it has a 128GB sata SSD and a 1TB HDD. 
 
First step was to install the hackintosh on the entire SSD using clover and the fantastic instructions on TonyMacx86. Spend weeks trying to figure out how kexts work and getting the nvidia web driver to run persistently, a basic tutorial on clover configurator comes in handy here. So once OSX was installed, i then introduced the 1TB HDD to the system and installed windows 10 on it in the usual manner, just boot off the USB stick and give windows the entire 1TB. From here on i believe you are at the mercy of your UEFI whether the windows bootloader makes it onto the SSD where it should go, or whether windows craps out and put it on the HDD. In my case windows put it's bootloader into the EFI partition of the SSD, therefore clover was able to see it and i was instantly given a windows option in clover. 2 down one to go.
 
Finally in order to cram linux mint onto the machine, i refrained from shrinking the NTFS partition from within windows as this screwed everything the first time i did it, partition table went completely out of whack. instead, at this point simply boot off the live Mint setup USB, and proceed to install, Mint will detect the windows bootloader (but not the OSX one) and prompt you to install alongside windows. At this point i used the linux setup to cut the 1TB in half and installed mint into the second half. 
 
When mint has finished installing, reboot into clover and you should now have a linux boot option. In my case, the installation of linux destroyed my ability to boot windows from clover, but i was still able to boot windows from grub, which appears after you select linux from clover, ugly i know. The fix i found for this was to boot back into Mint and run sudo update-grub, which then rejiggers all the bootloaders around into their right places, after this, i was able to boot all 3 OS's from clover, as well as the OSX recovery partition (doesn't quite count as a quad-boot right ?)
 
The main issue i found with this project was the trial and error nature of screwing up bootloaders and having to start again, clover is a bit fragile when it comes to making it boot more than just OSX. Essentially this machine went through about 5 iterations before it was finally stable.  
 
In summary, windows 10 and Mint run perfectly on the hardware as you would expect, but that's the easy bit, the challenge lies with making OSX happy with "peasant grade" non proprietary hardware, and this almost entirely revolves around onboard realtek audio. From what i can tell, clover has kexts for basically any realtek 3.5mm jack bay that has 5 ports, but seeing as i have this weird OEM machine, i only have a bay of 3 x 3.5mm jacks, and this is tragically not supported AFAIK. i solved this by cannibalising a USB DAC, velcro-ing it to the floor of the case, and running XLR's out of the rear I/O, looks janky as hell but works a charm, and the sound quality is far superior to the onboard anyway. One final thing i was unable to get working within OSX was hardware reporting like CPU temps and stuff, from what i can tell this is all low-level apple kernel stuff that goes over my head, but hopefully someone can make or port a kext for this functionality.
 
Thanks for reading anyway guys i just wanted to share what i learnt building this frankenstein PC, as i know many of you are interested in the concept of multiple OS's on a PC, but are maybe confused as to where you even start.
 
DnFx
 
 

I somewhat agree. I never really got into the game, but I did have fun when I played it. I’m sure other people would love it, and I support it if more people want it. 

i got a new one, been bugging me recently. People are so accustomed to GUI, and so brainwashed by movies, that any time i am working on a linux machine at work, or even a windows machine with CMD open, people instantly assume you are up to something "dodgy"
 
fucking morons

There is also Ryzen mobile laptops like Lenovo Ideapad 720S, Acer Swift 3 and HP Envy x360, though the ecosystem of Ryzen mobile is still new and therefore have some firmware issues (eats battery life, CPU not reaching full performance etc).
 
For Ryzen desktop CPU, only GL702ZC, however it's a toaster without repaste and undervolting. It has OKish build quality which cannot meet its price.

LTT did a review on that. It did perform well in multithreaded tasks compared to Intel processors but throttles on load and has poor build quality

just been down ASDA, got a good'n 
 
Went to the "technology" section to grab a USB hub, asked the lady at the till if they had any USB3 hubs, she responded "i don't know but we do have USB4 hubs"
 
In my curiosity i followed her to this fabled device, and she presented me with a USB2.0 hub with 4 ports, i facepalmed and then explained what USB3 was to no avail. 
 
 

You probably need to update the BIOS while the old processor is still installed. From what I know, a lot of computers require BIOS updates before they can use later-generation processors.

um, really ? 
the fans push the air though the radiator, i dont .... ?

no you need like an i7 my r5 can only get 23 fps with tons of dips 

Not been here in a while, dumping some Elite Dangerous screenshots

yeah why do we still us it? l mean there isn't really anything wrong with it, but it's a very cheaply designed connector and it's impossible to plug in because hte pins keep moving around, but once you get it in it works fine. so l would have to agree that there should be another connector, but they probably haven't redone it because there isn't a need to. 

Windows deployment need not be boring
 
This may not have been a good idea, some of them overheard others and set their language to Kurdish 
 
 

Finished The X299 4K streaming rig, it's alive !!

Sod the cable management, it's rackmount  
 
i7 7820X
32GB DDR4
Corsair H100i
Samsung 960 Pro M.2
Magewell 4 channel HDMI capture card
BMD 5 channel 6G SDI Capture card
BMD HDMI/SDI monitor card.
Some asus wifi card
ESI Maya AES Balanced Sound Card
And a shit GPU just for testing, the W7100's havent arrived yet  
 
 
Never built something this meaty, and never built in 4U before. i think i did good  

Looked at first picture ew thats an uglee case sees its a 4u server rack case oh nvm you dont see that shit anyway. Linus lowkey dont need the fancy front panels on those 4u's..

Finished The X299 4K streaming rig, it's alive !!

Sod the cable management, it's rackmount  
 
i7 7820X
32GB DDR4
Corsair H100i
Samsung 960 Pro M.2
Magewell 4 channel HDMI capture card
BMD 5 channel 6G SDI Capture card
BMD HDMI/SDI monitor card.
Some asus wifi card
ESI Maya AES Balanced Sound Card
And a shit GPU just for testing, the W7100's havent arrived yet  
 
 
Never built something this meaty, and never built in 4U before. i think i did good