hey welcome back to the channel guys today I'm doing this video without the
Hat so hopefully the glare off the forehead doesn't get too far out of
control and we can get through the next hackintosh build this one's using the
elite desk 800g one small form-factor so here we go
now this elite that built is another cheap one I got this one for just barely
over 200 the machine cost me 120 bucks and then I got the GT 10:30 card to go
in there for 80 bucks now you're not gonna find that right now at the time of
this video for 80 bucks because people are buying up video cards like left and
right for mining rigs even a low-end one like this it's it's gonna be probably at
least 40 bucks more than that it's a decent little card it's not really a
gaming card but you know for the 80 bucks that I got it for at the time it
was a pretty good deal and then the other thing that I spent the money on
was $8 for a little USB audio device and we'll get into that more as I talk about
the build a little bit so the elite that's 800 G one has AI 74770 processor
has 16 gigs of ddr3 RAM this had 8 gigs of RAM when I bought it I put in another
8 gigs in there that I had on hand has a 500 gigabyte SSD drive I also had that
on hand so obviously that HD 4600 at was in here wasn't gonna cut it so I
replaced it with that GT 1030 if you're going to be doing more gaming I would
definitely get a gtx 1050 card you can't really get a 1060 or 1070 because these
the power supplies in these computers don't support the extra power that you
need for those cards but you could probably go up to a 1050 TX 1050 and get
away with it and get some much better performance than this gtx 1030 that I
put in alright so what works on this build then the answer is pretty much
everything Ethernet works the video works great with the nvidia web drivers
the only thing that I couldn't get working was the internal audio and
that's why I got that little USB audio device it just has a headphone and mic
jack on it plugs into the USB port and Mac OS recognizes it out of the box it
was eight bucks all of the link down in the description if you want to check
that out that is a easy fix for the lack of audio now as far as the performance
this thing performs fantastically day-to-day activities launching apps
booting of all that kind of stuff super fast with that SSD everything performs
beautifully multitasking without a problem you can do the full
screen applications and then switch back to your desktop and launch some other
full screen apps and all that day-to-day WordPress's and web browsers and
watching even those videos on YouTube all that stuff works great so as far as
benchmarking apps this thing actually did really well
I tried Cinebench and Geekbench on Geekbench we got a single core score of
44 95 and a multi-core score of 15,000 157 it's actually a little bit more than
I was expecting from this build in Cinebench we got an OpenGL score of 91
point nine seven I was actually kind of surprised by this with that GT 1030 card
I wasn't expecting it to score that high and for the processor score we got 697
on that which again is a pretty decent score it's not quite as high as a 4770k
but it's higher than 3770 obviously so it's kind of right around where I was
expecting for this machine so now for the gaming and again this GT 1030 card
is not really a gaming video card so these gaming specs are not really a
fault of the machine it's more of a fault of that video card and if you did
get that GTX 1050 or some flavor of an AMD card that you can put in this
machine you would see much better performance the first thing I tried was
seven days to die and on that I got a minimum frame rate of 14 frames per
second now that minimum was a spike that spiked down real quick to 14 frames that
came back up so I'm not sure how much that would actually affect gameplay I
honestly didn't see it when I was playing the game but it was the minimum
frames per second so I wanted to mention that here the maximum fps was 34 and we
got an average of about twenty nine point six frames per second so right
around 30 frames per second so it's playable ish depending on what your
definition of playable is you're not going to want to play multiplayer but
for you know playing by yourself it it's playable it was pretty sluggish though I
got to say so I bumped it down to low settings and on low settings
I got a forty point seven minimum frames per second 88.3 max and it was sitting
right around 52 frames per second average that so that's
more playable at low it doesn't look that great but it's still a really fun
game so even on that low setting you it's still an enjoyable game next thing
I tried with shadow of mordor and on this one I kind of just let it auto
detect the settings and it was a mix of medium and low settings and on that one
I got a minimum of 4.1 frames per second now again this is the same scenario that
I had with seven days to die that was one spike down to 4.1 and it came back
up so take that with a grain of salt the max frames per second was 44 and the
average was right around 30 4.5 frames per second
34 frames per second sounds pretty low but honestly when I was playing the game
I think it's because this game is so well optimized that that 34 frames per
second actually felt pretty slow with there were some some lag you know at
times with the frames you could see a little hiccup but for the most part it
was pretty smooth and then I bumped it down to low settings which on this game
still actually looks really good on low settings and I got a low of twenty point
nine frames per second so the minimum was it was right around twenty-one
frames per second the max was fifty point seven frames per second and the
average was thirty six point seven totally playable in my opinion I had a
great time I played it for like an hour on that setting because I was having so
much fun playing that when I was doing these bench markings that I just I just
kept going with it so something less graphic intensive like rim world that
works no problem at all there was a minimum of 40 frames per second max of
60 and the average it was right around 60 it was fifty nine point three and you
know you're not gonna see that fluctuation so rimworld oxygen not
included that kind of stuff it's gonna play really well on this I did not try
any Windows games on this machine this is just a Mac review so these are all
Mac native apps so the last thing I tried was video editing and I had some
actually really good results with this 1080p works beautifully there's no
problem whatsoever with 1080p you don't need proxy files anything like that
I took them right off my lumix g7 threw them into Final Cut Pro the
trial and everything worked fine i-it's a 1080p timeline with 1080p video is
able to scrub and edit no problem with 4k it's a little bit different so 4k
right off my camera loaded that in and it works really well in Final Cut Pro
without making proxies the playback is real smooth you can add effects and all
that stuff transitions no problem the thing where it slows down a little bit
is with scrubbing it's not smooth scrubbing so if you're somebody that
really needs that like myself that's part of my workflow is scrubbing through
my files you're gonna want to make proxies once I made those proxies
everything was buttery smooth on this machine no problem at all and it's a
really viable option for like 200 bucks to get yourself a 4k editing machine
that you can run Final Cut Pro I didn't try premier because I wanted to focus on
Mac OS and Mac centric apps I know there is a premier version for Mac OS but I
just want to focus on Final Cut I'm happy to do run a trial of the the
premiere on here and see how it performs if you want me to do that let me know
down in the comments and I'm happy to set that up so all-in-all guys I would
say this is another successful hackintosh build this one coming in
right around 200 bucks it's gonna be a little bit more now because of the cost
of the video cards but if you have one on hand that you could use in the
machine then go for it I haven't tried any AMD cards also work great as well
and I hope you guys enjoyed the video if you have any questions or want me to do
any other testing on this hackintosh please let me know I'm gonna be keeping
this one for for quite a while and using it kind of as a secondary machine I'm
happy to do any testing that you guys want to want me to do and put up another
video just let me know down below and as always come see me on Twitter Instagram
and Facebook I love to meet new people on there and chatting with them and
building that sense of community and I will see you guys in the next video and
hopefully you're not blind from the glare off the head