![]() The iMac is very nice but I had serious concerns about its cooling or lack thereof. What were my options? The Mac Pro 6,1 didn’t appeal to me. I realized that this beast was consuming over 170W at idle and about 410W under full load! I needed to make some changes…. Then, I got myself a Kill-A-Watt clone and it changed my impressions of everything. I felt that even by today’s standards, it holds its own quite well. Through the years, I did a number of upgrades to it and it did great. It served me wonderfully for a very long time. My beloved Mac Pro 5,1 was a fantastic machine. As technologies improved, my upgrade cycle slowed drastically. There was a time when I would upgrade with each new model released. I’ve had a Mac desktop of one form or another grace my desks for about the last 20 years. Nvidia GTX 980 (Reference) (upgraded to GTX 1080)Īpple SSUBX 512GB SSD (switched to Samsung SM951 AHCI)Īpple Remote IR receiver that I ripped from an old iMac and jury-rigged to USB.ĭell P2715Q 4K Display w/ MKS14 (upgraded to AOC U3277PWQU 32" 4K Display) IStarUSA BPN-2535DE-SA 3.5" to 2x2.5" Trayless Hot-Swap Backplane module ![]() SeaSonic X Series X-850 (SS-850KM3 Active PFC F3) 850W Power supplyīCM94360CD Wifi/Bluetooth card w/ PCI-e adaptorĪthena Power BP-TLA2131SAC 3.5" HDD Trayless Hot-Swap Backplane module G.Skill TridentZ Series DDR4 RAM 64GB Memory Intel i7-6700K Processor (upgraded to i7-7700K) ![]() Pastrychef's build - Asus Maximus VIII Gene - i7-6700K - GTX 980 Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide ![]()
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