The Blackintosh
A clean and professional Hackintosh build. Simple lighting with nothing too complicated. All business most of the time with the capacity to game along with gaming on my Xbox One X or PS3 when I want to. After a lot of trial and error I finally completed this build and setup. I don't see many people with lots of hard drives (27 TB of storage currently) in their builds. I maximized the space within the case as much as possible.
I prefer macOS to Windows too so I exclusively run macOS. I have Windows installed on a small partition just to do driver or BIOS updates if needed.
The case doesn't support any 420mm radiators officially but I managed to get the Hardware Lab Nemesis radiator to fit perfectly. I also put in 2 RGB strips but actually prefer to have all the lights off #norgb lol. I have my fans running off a water temperature coming out of the pump which eliminates any peaks and valleys with the fan RPMs. I get max temps of approximately 70 degrees under a full load of both the CPU and GPU which is just fantastic. The water temperature never cross 40 degrees so this Hackintosh is practically silent. The 8700k is overclocked to 5 Ghz on all cores and the RAM is running at 3000 Mhz. Vega is stock (this is one of the few things I need to tweak).
Future updates will include creating a custom PSU shroud and possibly adding a third hard drive cage.
I present The Blackintosh
I prefer macOS to Windows too so I exclusively run macOS. I have Windows installed on a small partition just to do driver or BIOS updates if needed.
The case doesn't support any 420mm radiators officially but I managed to get the Hardware Lab Nemesis radiator to fit perfectly. I also put in 2 RGB strips but actually prefer to have all the lights off #norgb lol. I have my fans running off a water temperature coming out of the pump which eliminates any peaks and valleys with the fan RPMs. I get max temps of approximately 70 degrees under a full load of both the CPU and GPU which is just fantastic. The water temperature never cross 40 degrees so this Hackintosh is practically silent. The 8700k is overclocked to 5 Ghz on all cores and the RAM is running at 3000 Mhz. Vega is stock (this is one of the few things I need to tweak).
Future updates will include creating a custom PSU shroud and possibly adding a third hard drive cage.
I present The Blackintosh
Color(s): Black Silver
RGB Lighting? Yes
Theme: Color
Cooling: Custom Liquid Cooling
Size: ATX
Type: General Build
Contests
This build participated in 1 contest.
| Rank | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| #972 | The builds.gg 10K Challenge | ended |
Hardware
CPU
$ 193.00
Motherboard
$ 998.86
Memory
$ 209.95
Storage
$ 169.99
Storage
$ 169.99
Storage
$ 114.99
Storage
$ 167.00
Storage
$ 167.00
PSU
$ 228.02
Case
$ 149.99
Case Fan
Case Fan
$ 28.99
Case Fan
$ 28.99
Case Fan
$ 28.99
Case Fan
$ 28.99
Case Fan
$ 28.99
Cooling
$ 86.20
Cooling
Cooling
Cooling
$ 109.51
Cooling
Accessories
$ 169.00
Accessories
$ 69.95
Accessories
$ 109.99
Mouse
$ 69.99
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