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Help me build a home brew pc or hackintosh.

aPple nErd

aPple nErd

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Ok so over the next few months I am going to build at least one homebre computer, maybe two. I want to be able to boot up to either flash drive, hdd or DVD. I will be using parts from various pcs, possible macs if I can find some parts macs, and a modem and a router. I want to turn it on by flipping a light switch. I am going to build a case similar to the apple I. so let's start off by saying this: so far I have a 90w power supply, an amd Athlon 2, a keyboard, mouse, a few flash drives, a DVD/cd drive, a DSL Ethernet modem board and power supply, 4 gb ram from an hp pavilion all in one, and the monitor and motherboard from that pc. I also have a netgear router board and power supply.

I will keep you guys posted and will post anything I need help with. Oh and ps, os is to be determined.
 
aPple nErd said:
The power suply and also, the cpu will work as i put it into the socket and i pluged in the pc. It came on and nothing got hot or anything.
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Damn, man. You're lucky you didn't burn your house down.

But then again, with a 90w PSU...

edit: I should also add that you won't be able to hackintosh that machine with an Athlon chip. Unless things have changed considerably since I last checked up on it, anyway.
 
Renzatic said:
Damn, man. You're lucky you didn't burn your house down.

But then again, with a 90w PSU...

edit: I should also add that you won't be able to hackintosh that machine with an Athlon chip. Unless things have changed considerably since I last checked up on it, anyway.
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well, thats why if i can find an intel chip, that would be bast, but if not, oh well linux or windows is ok for this build
 
aPple nErd said:
Is this supposed to be a joke?
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No but the hackintosh may end up a joke, seriously consider buying a refurbished? Apple make good products, yes they cost a bit more but the finishing is supreme and everything works well together. Why not consider an older mac mini? Its a really good idea! :apple:
 
Les Kern said:
Tomorrow make sure your homeowners insurance is current. Especially the "fire" part.
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lol i checked to make sure that nothing would happen, i looked up the motherboard and it will run on 90w. so no need to worry about that. i will check things like this before i burn things lol
 
aPple nErd said:
The power suply and also, the cpu will work as i put it into the socket and i pluged in the pc. It came on and nothing got hot or anything.
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Please, for the love of god, tell me that you put a heatsink/fan on the CPU before turning it on.

Also, an old Gateway computer I had from the late 90s with a Pentium II chip had a 200 watt PSU. 90 watts sounds like a great way to ruin an otherwise perfectly good piece of hardware - unless you already did that by running without a heatsink.
 
aPple nErd said:
Nope. I put a heatsink on it you think 90w is bad, my dads 2012 celeron laptop runs on a 65w psu
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That is a notebook, which uses less power hungry parts than a desktop computer.

I do not understand your threads anymore, you want to buy a specific i5 iMac from 2011 and then you want to use several old parts to make a Frankenmac.
 
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