I would like to upgrade...

[carlo_67]

if you go up to download here you will also find very useful things, for example this

https://macos86.it/files/file/91-powertool/

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[carlo_67]

in Download you will find many useful things, also take a look at useful links, you will find guides and much more, in short this forum is very well made and by people crazier than insanelymac 🤣

[naquaada]

Phew. Finally finished the new version of the Q77M-DS2H. It now has a dellidded i7 3770S with fresh Arctic MX-6.

I use a Scythe Ninja Mini with two 92mm CPU fans and two 120 mm case fans. In normal use and with closed case

the cpu is about 40°C, but the cooler fans are actually limited to 5V to be quieter.

A stresstest was creating a disk image using bzip2 compression. Disk Utility uses 780% CPU time, the rest ist used

by the system, so this is a really good method to max out the CPU. 55°C was the highest temperature.

 

I'm using a Sharkoon Quickport Internal removeable drive bay for a 5 1/4" slot. It has one 2,5" drive and one 3,5"

drive, as well as two USB 3.0 ports. I also added a DVD drive, but I know I have somewhere a BluRay drive.

The 4 TB HD I prepared didn't fit in the case, so it got a Seagate 5 TB 2,5" HD. It is 15 mm high and rather fast for its size.

I still have one PCI port and one PCI-E x 16 port (4x speed) free.

 

That's how I like it. Everything squeezed into a compact, silent case and still expandable.

 

Edited 11 hours ago by naquaada