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).
- 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.
