Zonkvert

thank you

Budget (including currency): <1500 Country: Canada Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Entry level Video editing, house audio server Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): I have a 2011 Mac Mini Server 5.3 which has 8Ram and 500 HDD, and two Mac Pro Cases: One is a Power Mac G5 the 2.1 and the other is a 4.1 both of them are missing HDD but otherwise appear to be perfect. I have always liked the mac pro case and when i saw them I grabbed them both for $65. I got the Mac Mini 2011 Server last year for $260 which was the lowest price i could get here on the east coast. So what had i planned to do: Mac MIni 2011 Server. I was going to replace the HDD with a SDD and then i was looking to see if I could grab a Egpu (I have two old video cards) figured that they would give it a boast and I would be begin to learn to video edit on it. So I have a SDD and somewhere around here is a USB over 8GB that I could flash and put a OSX on it. The problem that I am having that I had not foreseen the M1 mac mini and am now wondering if I am just going down rabbit hole on this project. I was about to start the SDD replacement but I cannot find the USB, so then I got looking at the OSX and realised that I do not know which one to put on it. Does one just put the best one that Apple supports on it, which at this point is High Sierra but it also seems that some people are getting Big Sur to work through patches. Does anyone have any experience with this on such an old Mac? Should I just look at junking this project and look at getting a M1/ or cheaper 2nd hand Intel Mac Mini. Are Intel mac minis even worth it? Idk what do you think? The Two Mac Pro: I wanted to create a home server of some sought. The house is not wired and we are have been (along with a lot of other people apparently) been spending a huge amount of time at home on line. I was looking at getting one of those upgrades for the case https://www.thelaserhive.com/ so they are in the UK and it says their kit is about 75 pounds each which would be $260, but you can get kits and have them cut for you, idk I know some engineer types that might like doing that. Any rate so I think that the Mac Pros can be converted into PC's, I generally like the idea of running those APU's that they have. I do not really have any firm plan in my head about hardware.

Hi thanks for feedback. I read your response and was like, in my head, yeah what he think he is of course I flip that... Then I remembered theirs a power button on top. Pushed that. Bing got power, had couple of red less but they are gone fan on CPU is working, have no output to LCD so still no post. So thanks, sorry about bad thoughts, for the tip. Now onwards to the next step...to get it post

I am building a new computer, its been ages (10 plus yes) and now seems like a good time. Asrock x570 AMD 3600 Bequiet Straight power 11 650w Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 (used) Western Digital WDBlue SN550 NZXT 410 case (used) GSkill aegis ddr4 ram 3000 8g2g*2 Do i turned on the computer without gpu in it and two LED out up red: CPU and DRAM. Looked over reread thread on troubleshooting, was missing CPU power cable, and reset Ram into slots 2 & 4. Then inserted GPU since it said that you would get no video output without it. Plugged in video power. Push power button and nothing, no lights no power. Rechecked cables and everything appears set. What am I missing? Thank you for your respond.

Thanks, yeah macbook cost too much, the thx is gone now, sigh. USB ok thanks Wi-Fi. I will do more is research

Yeah Hackintosh might be my next build. Have to finish this one first.

The guy who wants the gtx wants a trade gpu and some cash. So I would trade my 1060 3g plus some cash.

Hi, long time me no build. My 2001 pc died, was AMD build. I am going to build a new build . Looking at being more creative: video, pod cast some drawing animation. I have a mac mini 2011 I am also upgrading for some video editing. Any rate, was pleasantly surprised with AMD new offering was drooling over APU and had this crazy idea to use thunderbolt 3 connection between pc and mac to save $$. As a result I ended up ditching APU and went CPU. So here is what I am looking at. Oh yes am looking at running Linux, but don't know which one. Any suggestions? Oh and is up grading to 2060 worth it, buddy offering to trade GPu+$$ for his GPU. CPU AMD 3600 CPU Cooling wraith Motherboard X570 asrock Phantom Memory G.Skill Aegis 16 GB (1 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory Storage (SSD)Western Digital Blue 500 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive Video Card Gigabyte Nvidia GTX 1060 3GB Graphics Card Case NZXT Phantom 410 ATX Mid Tower Case Power supply be quiet! Straight Power 11 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply Step 10: Operating System Step 10.1: Linux which one? Any idea on a Wi-Fi card? Cheers Zonkvert