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
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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
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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