![]() And in multi-core tasks, only the 12-core and 8-core Mac Pro bests it. As a result, my Hackintosh is faster at single core operations than any official Mac product that Apple makes. This 6700K is the same CPU used in the most recent 5K iMac, but unlike real Macs, Hackintosh machines can be overclocked to eek out even more performance. I’m able to easily overclock this CPU to 4.6GHz, and the benchmark results speak for themselves. The Gigabyte UEFI interface also makes the CPU super-easy to overclock.įor the power you get, I think the Skylake Core i7 6700K is well-priced. Although I’m not yet using it, I like the fact that the board features built-in Thunderbolt 3 and USB 3.1. ![]() I’ve had good success with Gigabyte motherboards in the past, and this full ATX UEFI-enabled board is no exception. It’s not dead silent, but it’s quiet enough to not be a distraction when recording audio. I decided on EVGA’s 750W offering, as it provides plenty of power for my rig and features a fully-modular design. If I had opted for a lesser GPU, like the RX 480, I could have easily gotten by with the fan-less PSU. I was this close to buying a fan-less Silverstone 520W power supply, because it’s dead silent, however, 520W isn’t enough power for the 1080 Ti GPU. I’m not blown away by the Corsair Carbide, but I am satisfied with the results. It’s far from the prettiest case, but I reason that since it’s going to be tucked away on the floor, looks take a back burner to performance. The side panels, front cover, and top vent cover feature sound-dampening material to reduce noise emitting from inside the case. The full-sized ATX Carbide Series 330 is a bit larger than I wanted, but that allows for plenty of airflow and expandability. For that reason I choose the Corsair Carbide Series 330R. The Hardware Corsair Carbide Series 330R CaseĪs someone who edits videos, does voiceovers, and participates in podcasts, having a quiet machine was of utmost importance. There’s the aforementioned tonymacx86, and there are also sites like InsanelyMac. The good news is that there is a plethora of good help available on the web to help troubleshoot issues you encounter while building your Hackintosh. We’ll tackle the prospect of utilizing an AMD GPU in a later post. That’s not to say that AMD GPUs don’t work, because they do, it’s just that Nvidia GPUs are easier to get going for Hackintosh newbies thanks to easy-to-install Pascal Web Drivers. Unfortunately, these GPUs require an iGPU to be active, kext modifications, and often caused the latest version of Final Cut Pro X to crash. In theory, these are the best GPUs to use in a Hackintosh because of their superior OpenCL performance with Final Cut Pro X. The other major issue involves modern GPUs from AMD. There are simple step-by-step guides that you can follow if you wish to get it working, but I’ve heard mixed reports from people who have tried these methods. As someone who rarely uses iMessage on the Mac anyway, I’m abstaining from touching it at this time. There are known workarounds to get iMessage working, but it doesn’t work out of the box. Almost everything that I care about works, but let’s be honest and say that nothing can replace the “just works” nature of a machine designed in Cupertino.įor example, there’s the iMessage problem. Of course, a Hackintosh isn’t a perfect machine. It can take a lot of testing to get it right, and I’ve spent many hours trying to perfect my build. Subscribe to 9to5Mac on YouTube for more videos Downsides of a Hackintosh ![]() At this point, building a Hackintosh is one of the few things that meets all three of these requirements. I wanted something powerful, relatively quiet, and highly expandable. Granted, there has been a renewed vow to focus on Pro machines, but those are still a ways off.Īs a video editor, the 2016 MacBook Pro is adequate, it’s just not the ideal editing machine for me. Unfortunately, Apple doesn’t offer such a machine at the moment. I needed a fast, expandable, quiet machine that runs macOS. In this initial post, I’ll talk about some of my reasoning behind my hardware choices, and share some initial experiences and benchmark results. Going about it this way allowed me to learn more about the process, and helped me to see that the entire premise, while tedious at times, is actually fairly straightforward. I’ve been long interested in building a Hackintosh using just the Clover EFI Bootloader, and that’s exactly what I did for this build. This isn’t my first Hackintosh build, but it’s the first build where I decided to go about it without the assistance of the excellent tools over at tonymacx86. I’ve been planning and working on the machine for over a week, and I’m finally at the point where I can share the results of my journey. In a previous article, posted shortly after Nvidia announced its new Pascal Mac drivers, I briefly discussed my plans to build a new Hackintosh.
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