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Building a Hackintosh
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 11:14 am
by orest
Did not have the money to buy a Mac Pro.
So, I am building my own custom PC that will be able to run Mac OS X.
When the build is complete it will be a Core i7 4790k quad core with 16 gig of ram (to start with). It will also have 5 SSD drives and an nVidia graphic card.
If someone is interested I will post the complete setup and post a step by step guide.
Re: Building a Hackintosh
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 1:51 pm
by andygabrys
love to hear about it Alexander.
Re: Building a Hackintosh
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 3:57 pm
by JAMRecording
I know several people who use them in their studios and they work great.
Re: Building a Hackintosh
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 5:57 pm
by PaulBergren
I would love to follow your progress on this project. It sounds like a sweet machine. Good luck!
Re: Building a Hackintosh
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 11:45 am
by orest
I will do so!
And the thing is, I need a dedicated hard drive for Windows 7 as well.
I will not run a DAW system on this computer. The Mac partition will only be used for Vienna Ensemble Pro and link that to my Macbook pro machine (running Logic)
Re: Building a Hackintosh
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 10:29 pm
by elser
For those interested in something like this and not feeling up to the task of DYI, I just found this guy building custom hacintoshes with some good reviews. I'm planning to get one within a month or so.
http://sacramento.craigslist.org/syd/4666504341.html
He also has a website, something to do with "Iconic Workstations" if you want to google it.
Re: Building a Hackintosh
Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 3:23 am
by orest
He has good prices for sure!
My build will be somewhat less powerful (no Xeon, mine is Devil's Canyon. Strange name..)
But, I think mine will handle all the tasks needed.
Re: Building a Hackintosh
Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 1:50 pm
by elser
He's adding Thunderbolt ports this month as well. I plan to order one with USB, FW and Thunderbolt for convenience.
Re: Building a Hackintosh
Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 2:34 pm
by HectorRContreras
This is so very impressive, dear Alexander. 
Re: Building a Hackintosh
Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 8:00 am
by orest
Success!
I did it! I actually built my own working Hackintosh computer!
Specs:
Gigabyte gaming 3 killer ethernet motherboard
Core i7 4790k CPU
GT 740 nVidia GPU
16 gig Ballistix sports crucial memory
3 SSD drives (1 SSD drive running Windows 7)
Noctua fans (for the case and CPU)
Fractal design r4
I had some problems getting the killer ethernet to work, but after using the Atheros Multibeast it did work. The audio is not working, but I will run the iRig pro on this computer. I also had some problems with login on to my apple ID, but after some configurations and throwing out some ethernet preferences plists it did work.
Benchmark is 4 000 single core and 15 000 multi core. So I am pretty satisfied!
I have installed Logic, Vienna ensemble pro and Kontakt 5 so far. No problems!