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With the addition of an incredibly priced SSD from NewEgg, my budget Hackintosh workstation (dubbed “The Overmind”) is officially complete. I did an XBench benchmark and submitted the results to their online database (link to entry).

Hardware:

• Motherboard
  • Gigabyte EP45-DS3L
• Processor
  • Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 3.82 GHz
• Memory
  • G. Skill 8GB PC-8500 @ 1066 MHz
• Hard drives
  • OCZ 30 GB Vertex SSD
  • 2 x 320 GB Western Digital HDD (7200 rpm) in RAID 1 (mirrored) configuration
  • 1 TB USB 2.0 Fantom drive
• Graphics and monitors
  • ATI Radeon HD 4890 w/ 1 GB GDDR5
  • Acer H233H (1920 x 1080) DVI monitor
  • LG W1943 (1360 x 768) DVI monitor
• Miscellaneous
  • 500W Antec power supply
  • Antec 900 case (six case fans)
  • Zalmann CPU cooler
  • A keyboard, a mouse, a webcam, and some speakers

I’ll probably put together a YouTube video later, but hopefully this provides some insight as to what I use for general computing.

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