NeonThunder

this is an awesome build! great craftmanship! cant wait to see it finished

Looks awesome. Very inspiring build

So has this been unlocked now??

So im building a hackintosh. Here's the current list of hardware I'm hoping to use and keep my build around £600 / $775 Case - already bought - £20 inc. vat 1TB HD - Salvaged from my iMac FREE! Gigabyte Intel GA-H270-HD3 LGA 1151 ATX Motherboard - £91.98 inc. vat Intel Core i3 6100 3.7GHz - £108.62 inc. vat - Choose this as it has the processing power i need and Im not looking to over clock, plus I can't justify the price of an i5 Gigabyte GeForce GTX 750 Ti 4GB - £122.97 inc. vat Corsair CX Series CX450M 450W - £48.36 inc. vat Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (2 X 4GB) DDR4 - £63.98 inc. vat Samsung 850 EVO 250GB 2.5inch SSD - £89.93 inc. vat Been using tonymacx86.com as guide and sourcing parts from ebuyer.com thanks for any help in advance.?

So im building a hackintosh. Here's the current list of hardware I'm hoping to use and keep my build around £600 / $775 Case - already bought - £20 inc. vat 1TB HD - Salvaged from my iMac FREE! Gigabyte Intel GA-H270-HD3 LGA 1151 ATX Motherboard - £91.98 inc. vat Intel Core i3 6100 3.7GHz - £108.62 inc. vat - Choose this as it has the processing power i need and Im not looking to over clock, plus I can't justify the price of an i5 Gigabyte GeForce GTX 750 Ti 4GB - £122.97 inc. vat Corsair CX Series CX450M 450W - £48.36 inc. vat Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (2 X 4GB) DDR4 - £63.98 inc. vat Samsung 850 EVO 250GB 2.5inch SSD - £89.93 inc. vat Been using tonymacx86.com as guide and sourcing parts from ebuyer.com thanks for any help in advance.?

what about this....

First attempt at wrapping something big but me think its went well Checked out the processor you mentioned it is a possibility but i had thought about going with this spec..... Case - £20 Gigabyte GA-z170 - £110 Intel i3 Processor 6100 - £110 enough processing power for what i need currently. GTX 1050 Ti OC / 4GB - £240 Toshiba SSD 120GB - £50 Crucial RAM - 8GB DDR4 2133mhz (could change this too 4GB would save me about £20) Blue Ray Drive - £50 (Could skip this as it's not essential) Corsair VS series 550 Watt - £40 That brings me too £528 - If i downgrade too 4GB ram and skip the blue ray, Im saving myself £70 so my total is £450 which leaves me with £150 for monitors and a wifi card, maybe USB 3.0 Should also mention Im rescueing the 1TB out of my iMac as it's only a couple year old and hardly been used. Any other suggestions to save money where I can? thats about it for now, part of me wants to make a ryzen build as I loved AMD back when i made my first comp. The processors are fanstic for stuff like photoshop / editing. Might save Ryzen for the next build...

It now looks like this. more to come on the asthetics soon!!

So first place to start is the case - iMac's are nice and shiny but do like custom built pcs So to save money I dichted the Corseair case and got this http://www.ebuyer.com/725458-avp-mam...reader-cas-748beauty! For £20 delivered. Now while its not the prettiest of cases it does have a free card reader and window panel plus a free fan and it's got enough room for everything. Only thing is I want some customization and I can always change the case at a later date and it also give me something to do whilst I get the rest of my parts. It's actually in more parts then that now as I wanted to paint it all. I'm going for a grey / pink theme on it. So been sketching ideas for my case and this is roughly what it will look like

1. Budget - £600 / $775 2. Aim / Upgrade - building a hackintosh to replace my dying imac. The idea is that the system will be better then the current iMac cheapest iMac specs and be upgradable overtime when money allows. I shall be using it for web / email / media streaming and my design work. So photoshop, illustrator etc. Also wanting to get into video editing and 3D modeling / printing. 3. Monitors Plan on running two monitors maybe a 3rd in the future. 4. Peripherals Keyboard.... Possibly Montior - Already got one but would like to the same and need a mounting system for them. Will be using sites such as eBay / amazon / ebuyer.co.uk for my purchasing my parts ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hopefully my build will make sense I've copied and pasted it from a thread on another forum. So I've not built a pc in a long time!! I think it was 15 years ago since my last build! I built myself a pc as I could make it better spec and for half the price of a mac at the time. Then throughout the years I gradually moved to apple, got myself a G4 power book (which is still going strong!) and an iMac. My reason for this build is i need a new mac due to my iMac being on its last legs and apple is now a rip off! Only good thing about them is the OS and I don't have £1000 spare. So I'm building a Hackintosh on a budget that will hopefully cost half the price of the basic spec iMac and be alot better! ------------------------------------------------------------- iMac Spec - www.apple.com/uk 21.5-inch iMac - Item Price: £1,049.00 Hardware; 1.6GHz dual-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 2.7GHz 8GB 1867MHz LPDDR3 1TB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm Intel HD Graphics 6000 Magic Mouse 2 Magic Keyboard (British) & Users Guide (English) Accessory Kit ------ I've been using tonymacx86.com to help with the right configuration of parts to build the hackintosh. My new Hackintosh Spec (Hopefully) Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3P Socket LGA1151 HDMI 7.1 Channel Audio Motherboard £112.12 Intel Core i5 6600 3.3GHz Socket 1151 6MB L3 Cache Retail Boxed Processor £214.98 Gigabyte GTX 750 Ti 4GB GDDR5 Dual-link DVI HDMI PCI-E Grpahics Card £118.20 Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 DRAM 2133MHz C13 Memory Kit - Red65.97 Samsung 850 EVO 250GB 2.5inch SSD £88.18 Corsair Carbide 300R Case with Window £72.98 Corsair VS Series 550 Watt VS550 Power Supply £38.49 Edimax Gigabit PCIe Network Card £9.68 LG Super Multi Blue Internal 14x Blu-ray Disc Rewriter WH14NS40 £58.22 Total: £778.82 ALL PRICES / PARTS SOURCED FROM EBUYER.COM - this is just a guide for now, parts need changing in places - Im wanting to get the build cost under 600 Including 2 monitors. Now the under £600 MIGHT BE A CHALLENGE.... BUT I LOVE A CHALLENGE!! And Im not going to get the parts right on first go