Questions and answers!
Hi Alfa,
Sometime soon I will be building my first Hackintosh. It will be very similar to yours listed here:
http://hacksbyalfa.com/post/28271035968/gigabytehackintosh
I have a few questions regarding the hardware and the installation of Mountain Lion:
1) The main difference in my setup is the use of a Samsung 830 SSD. Do I have to check “"TRIM Enabler”“ in MultiBeast?
2) Do any of the MultiBeast settings change for the installation of 10.8.1?
3) Initially I plan on having only one monitor attached to the GTX 670 (or GTX 670Ti) If I ever to decide to attach a second monitor to the HD4000 graphics, do the following instruction still apply?
http://hacksbyalfa.com/post/28886391069/how-to-enable-hd4000-on-a-z77-board-gigabyte
4) What is the benefit of having two Ethernet ports? One port can be a backup? Are two ports beneficial for a server?
Regards,
Grantwood
1) I would wait till you run Multibeast once then check the drive under system profiler to see if it has TRIM enabled. If it doesn’t you can run Multibeast again to add TRIM Enabler.
2) Nope.
3) I would follow that guide and because it get AirPlay running on your machine. Connect both monitors to your GTX670
4) Yes and no. It depends on how you have it set up. I do a lot of transfers between my multiple network drives so I run the dual port Intel NIC in link aggregation.
Hey Alfa-Just wondering - what ethernet card are you using? I’m noticing about a 20% decrease in speed when using the built-in ethernet on the Z77X-UP5-TH board.
Thx!
Yeah I’ve had issues with the onboard NIC too. I’m using the HP NC360T it was running on my old machine (Link). I’ll do some comparison tests with the on board in a few days. I think a new patch for it will be out shortly. We’ll see.