Tech Nerd Ramblings

[azurbanclucker]

#3 asked me for help pricing out a new rig for a friend of his a couple of weeks ago for an 1800 dollar budget.

Said Homie and all his parts showed up this afternoon and we built it in a couple of hours. My first AM5 build and the first aircooler I've done in a while

Parts list

All I've done is get it to POST at this point. Need to do the cable management, get the OS installed on it (W11), drivers, yadda yadda, and then stress test it. I like that 4000D, it's a nice roomy mid tower to build in, and at no time did it try to sever fingers with sharp edges.

 

[notabitail]

#3 asked me for help pricing out a new rig for a friend of his a couple of weeks ago for an 1800 dollar budget.

Said Homie and all his parts showed up this afternoon and we built it in a couple of hours. My first AM5 build and the first aircooler I've done in a while
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Parts list
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All I've done is get it to POST at this point. Need to do the cable management, get the OS installed on it (W11), drivers, yadda yadda, and then stress test it. I like that 4000D, it's a nice roomy mid tower to build in, and at no time did it try to sever fingers with sharp edges.

That looks quite nice.

How do you stress test your stuff?

 

[azurbanclucker]

That looks quite nice.

How do you stress test your stuff?

For this rig, fire up Cyberpunk 2077 and see how far I can push it before it starts dropping frames.

 

[notabitail]

macOS installer USB creation is a pain. With Lion and Mountain Lion, you have to go into the installer and flash some kind of image to the stick manually. It took me some time to realize you have to mount the image first. Mavericks, Yosemite, El Capitan, and Sierra all use the same command, but the Sierra media install creator is busted so you have to run a command (sudo plutil -replace CFBundleShortVersionString -string "12.6.03" /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Sierra.app/Contents/Info.plist) first, and then High Sierra all the way to Sequoia use the same command.

Thankfully it's mostly smooth after that but I've never had a fantastic experience with macOS installer creation. macOS works best once installed.

Oh, and you need a Mac to create the install USBs easily. Add that to the list of things that frustrate me.

 

[azurbanclucker]

Write a shell script and keep it on a utilities drive. So in the future if you run in to that, you just run the script and don't have to go dig the commands back up.

 

[Chicken_Obsesser]

Right on.

 

[notabitail]

I finally got all of the installers for every MacOS from Lion to Sequoia. I was just missing Ventura.

I didn't need the High Sierra patcher, but I used it as a way to download it straight from Apple. I will need patchers for Mojave and newer on the Mac I intend to install all of these on. It's gonna be fun .

 

[notabitail]

I finally got all of the installers for every MacOS from Lion to Sequoia. I was just missing Ventura.

I didn't need the High Sierra patcher, but I used it as a way to download it straight from Apple. I will need patchers for Mojave and newer on the Mac I intend to install all of these on. It's gonna be fun .
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Sequoia runs fine on this 2014 MacBook Air, I assume it'll run real bad on the 2010 MacBook Pro I intend to install it on.

 

[notabitail]

I got Snow Leopard and Lion installed, Mountain Lion installing now. I suspect that if it keeps going this well I may well have Mojave by the end of the day.

 

[notabitail]

I got Snow Leopard and Lion installed, Mountain Lion installing now. I suspect that if it keeps going this well I may well have Mojave by the end of the day.

My Mavericks installer wasn't any good, so...