Jony Ive Would Hate It

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Not much, but it's mine and within budget.

The info and performance after a few runs.

I was going to buy a Mac Mini with the i7 8700B, but then thought I could do better. My initial plan was maybe buy a Mini for a small desktop dev station and maybe mod it slightly to combat the overheating. Buuuut. That would cost me more time and money then just building from scratch. So I built a Mac Mini Pro or Mac Pro Mini? A powerful mini-ITX Mac that runs quiet and only hits 80°C or 54°C over ambient (I live in Australia).

A vanilla install of Mojave and everything works with the basic kexts:

• NZXT H200 Matte Black mITX case
• Intel i7 8700K (1300Mhz idle, 3700Mhz base, 5Ghz all core boost, 0.8V~1.26V)
• Asus ROG Strix Z390-I mITX
• Corsair 2x16GB 3000Mhz CL15 (3500Mhz CL15 1.37V OC)
• Sapphire Pulse mITX RX 570 4GB (love this little thing)
• Dell DW1560 Wifi (replacing the Intel card)
• Corsair SF750 PSU (needed 8 and 24 pin extensions for cable management)
• Corsair H100i Platinum AIO cooler (all ML120 fans)
• Samsung 970 EVO Plus 256GB NVME SSD (System drive)
• Samsung 840 EVO 500GB SATA SSD (Home drive)
• WD 2.5" Red 1TB HDD (Internal Time Machine)

I'd recommend these parts to anyone looking to build a similar Hack. I haven't updated to Catalina just yet because of paranoid dev reasons.