Boxes:
http://i.imgur.com/mzj75bV.jpg
Installed:
http://i.imgur.com/G3ojKpq.jpg
i5-4690K, 550W SeaSonic mostly modular (just the M/B power cables aren't modular and who cares about that) P/S ($80), 2 x 8GB Mushkin Stealth DDR3-1600 ($90 on sale), be quiet! Shadow Rock LP HSF + two more 120mm case fans to replace the old ones (they're hanging on the center bracket in the case).
I was able to recycle the very nice Lian Li HTPC case -- PC-32, bought in 2008 for $170 (!), 512GB SSD ($200), 2TB WD Green, and MSI R5770 Hawk, bought in 2010 for $180.
The PCIe 803.11/BT4 adapter I got worked great in Windows 10 for two weeks, but today I noticed the BT mouse I was using got jittery when heavy WiFi DL was going on. Not sure what's up with that but newegg has the iogear BT4 dongle on sale for $11 so I'm going to try that instead and may move the PCIe adapter to my Windows box.
Two install issues I ran into was my Yosemite install.app was apparently locked to the machine I had when I got it, a MacBook Pro 5,1. Very early in the boot the loader was saying my machine wasn't compatible. Switching the Product Name to MacBookPro5,1 bypassed this check, and I didn't see this problem later installing El Cap, after I had changed my machine to iMac14,2.
The 2nd issue I ran into was it was unclear when it was safe to boot into the new OS X install -- I booted back into the USB installer app when I should have booted into the new install FROM the USB key.
El Cap installed a lot easier than Yosemite since I didn't have either of these problems. Boot args were -x -v rootless=0 kext-dev-mode=1 . . .
After everything seemed to be working I just popped in my old 5770 and connected a second monitor to see what would happen, and Lo! it booted OOB perfectly fine -- no "injection" necessary. Sweet.
Been running El Cap a full day now, one issue I've had is copying a 4GB file to USB flash failed after 800BM (just hanged). Could just be 10.11 USB issue or I might need more config work on the Clover side.
Running Yosemite, I was able to make a new Clover installer USB for El Cap, so hopefully just beta bugs in OS X. . .
Not going to bother getting sound working since USB sound is working great.
Speaking of which, only two kexts I needed was for the ethernet port and FakeSMC. Only EFI64 driver I selected was that memory fix one.
Apple wanted $600 to resurrect my dead 2008 MBP. For the same money I got exactly what I wish Apple would sell -- a decent headless iMac, not the crappy over-compromised Mac Mini.
Coulda waited for Skylake, but doesn't seem a big improvement over Haswell Refresh, who knows how long it will take to get hacks working, and I need to work on 10.11 stuff so I can't wait that long anyway.
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