[HELP] A well thought out build with room for expansion and possibly Hackintosh

[lrosengaard]

So this started when i went and bought a 4k monitor. I bought it with no regards to my Macbook Pro 13" 2015 being able to utilize it. Maybe that was stupid, but here i am. 

 

I have always loved my Macbooks and never really missed additional power. But as the time has passed, i don't really se myself buying another mac in the future. But i would on the other hand like to try dual booting Mac with Windows just for the sake of trying - but again thats not really the point of this build. The point is on the other hand to have little to no compromises software wise. Not 4k in ultra/mega/monster settings in AAA-titles, but global playability in 1080p with some titles in 4k. 

 

Case: Corsair Carbide air 240

Motherboard: ASUS Z170M-PLUS (mATX)

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K

Graphics (option 1): GeForce 1070 mini itx

Graphics (option 2): GeForce 1060 6gb

RAM: Anything DDR4 16gb *edited from DDR3

Storage: mix of Samsungs 850 EVO and a 1tb HDD

PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA G3 550W

 

Have i missed anything obvious? Will one of the slim Noctua coolers be able to keep the thing reasonably tempered? Bad experiences regarding the case?

 

 

Edited June 11, 2017 by lrosengaard

[SukaroBlue]

Just note finding a motherboard that supports DDR3 with that CPU may be a bit difficult as most 1151 motherboards only support DDR4.

[SukaroBlue]

1 minute ago, SukaroBlue said:

Just note finding a motherboard that supports DDR3 with that CPU may be a bit difficult as most 1151 motherboards only support DDR4.

and i just saw that you posted what motherboard you're using and you definitely have do get DDR4 ram if you're getting that board.

[lrosengaard]

Just now, SukaroBlue said:

Just note finding a motherboard that supports DDR3 with that CPU may be a bit difficult as most 1151 motherboards only support DDR4.

Thanks! Guess i will be going for DDR4 then, since i like the versatility of the motherboard.

[SukaroBlue]

Also on the hackintosh side be sure to go online and see if your components will work with an hackintosh install.

[lrosengaard]

Just now, SukaroBlue said:

Also on the hackintosh side be sure to go online and see if your components will work with an hackintosh install.

Well as far as i know it "should" work. Apart from the fact that pascal cards are not supported in mac officially yet. But to be honest i wont be heartbroken if it doesn't work. It's more like a nice-to-have feature than need-to-have.

[Silver47]

If you really consider running your machine as an hackintosh I'd strongly recommend to go with a Gigabyte mainboard. Somehow those get much more love and support in the communitiy, and most of the drivers are readily available. Also you might run into trouble setting up a 10xx-series nvidia gpu to run under macOS. The last time I built a hackintosh I used a 4770k on a z87 board with a gtx 750 ti, and it worked fine, but I've heard bad things about pascal-based gpus and z170/z270 under macOS...

[Droidbot]

1 minute ago, black0utm1rage said:

If you really consider running your machine as an hackintosh I'd strongly recommend to go with a Gigabyte mainboard. Somehow those get much more love and support in the communitiy, and most of the drivers are readily available. Also you might run into trouble setting up a 10xx-series nvidia gpu to run under macOS. The last time I built a hackintosh I used a 4770k on a z87 board with a gtx 750 ti, and it worked fine, but I've heard bad things about pascal-based gpus and z170/z270 under macOS...

z170 works fine, z270 don't, Gigabyte choose good audio solutions and have a good UEFI for the purpose. Hardware is more generic than other mobos too.

[lrosengaard]

1 minute ago, Droidbot said:

z170 works fine, z270 don't, Gigabyte choose good audio solutions and have a good UEFI for the purpose. Hardware is more generic than other mobos too.

So lets say that i choose to swap out the mob for an equivalent Gigabyte, which would you recommend? 

[lrosengaard]

4 minutes ago, black0utm1rage said:

If you really consider running your machine as an hackintosh I'd strongly recommend to go with a Gigabyte mainboard. Somehow those get much more love and support in the communitiy, and most of the drivers are readily available. Also you might run into trouble setting up a 10xx-series nvidia gpu to run under macOS. The last time I built a hackintosh I used a 4770k on a z87 board with a gtx 750 ti, and it worked fine, but I've heard bad things about pascal-based gpus and z170/z270 under macOS...

Since this build's primary task is running Windows i would rather use a 1070. Besides, cant i just use the integrated gpu on the cpu just for basic uses in hackintosh?

[Silver47]

8 minutes ago, lrosengaard said:

So lets say that i choose to swap out the mob for an equivalent Gigabyte, which would you recommend? 

Gigabyte GA-Z170M-D3H

This one should come pretty close in functionality.

7 minutes ago, lrosengaard said:

Since this build's primary task is running Windows i would rather use a 1070. Besides, cant i just use the integrated gpu on the cpu just for basic uses in hackintosh?

Absolutely true, didn't think of that.