I'm new to both PC building and mackintoshes, but I'd at least like to claim that I can understand some technical information. Going for a budget build, I put together a PC for under £250.
I did not however, look carefully enough at the compatibility or quality of my parts.
My motherboard is a Gigabyte B85-HD3. The reasoning for this was that I had seen a previous generation listed in a successful build, and also wanted to have a Haswell CPU. All seems fine so far, however there does seem to be some word of this board being poor quality. I'd like to know if that's true. Furthermore, I have purchased a Haswell i3-4130, and in an effort to cut cost, I am relying on its integrated graphics. After some graphical issues persisted, and assuming that I had driver issues, or that the HD4400 chip I had wasn't being recognised, I found that the compatibility site listed in the side bar has HD4400 chips as unsupported. Are there any workarounds, or news of compatibility? Apart from this, I went through Mavericks installation without a hitch. Sleep however does not work out of the box and I have been unable to find any workarounds for it. Audio and ethernet work, however the outputs seem rather messed up, though the headphone jacks do output sound. HDMI video works, but not sound. All USB ports work, which is great. I'd list more problems or working elements of this build, but I can only assume that my would-be helpers, if any, are growing weary reading this all, so I do apologise, but still beg your help,
A humbleand stupid redditor and mac user
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