Say hello to Ryzentosh. For less than $1,000, I built in all AMD hackintosh with a Ryzen
1600 CPU and Radeon RX480 GPU. It not only outperforms the $3,000 iMac, but also the fully loaded
$5,000+ Mac Pro, for less than a thousand bucks, and one of you is going to win it,
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As you may have noticed, given the fact that I recently built a 5-year-old hackintosh that outperformed a decent chunk of Apple's current lineup,
Intel hasn't really been doing very exciting stuff lately, and
AMD's new Ryzen platform has really come in to shake things up. Now, surprisingly enough,
it's Mac OS compatible, and so I opted to buy a Ryzen 5
1600. For just a bit over 200 bucks, you get a 6 core processor, that has a price to performance ratio
so good, it'll tickle your giblets. Uh....
I also, use the ASRock B350 Pro ATX motherboard, which normally cost 99 dollars,
but it had a $30 rebate on top of a $14 Newegg discount on top
I have a $10 markdown, so I got something for 45 bucks,
which is a steal. And I'm also just using the stock cooler that comes with the CPU, which does a
surprisingly excellent job, even for overclocking, much better than expected and much better than Intel's included crappy coolers.
I also have 16 gigabytes of Crucial Ballistix
DDR4 memory, and the motherboard has allowed me to overclock sub memory to
2666 MHz, which is good because Ryzen really benefits from fast ram frequencies. Ideally, you'd just buy 3000MHz+,
but I only had 2400MHz laying around. I also decided to go with an AMD RX480 for my GPU.
Now no, it's not the latest and greatest, but even at a year old, it still performs remarkably well.
That is, assuming you can find one.
Cryptocurrency miners have purchased pretty much every mid-range GPU in sight and so,
prices on GPUs currently, especially mid-range GPUs,
especially from AMD, like the RX480 are crazy inflated,
So keep that in mind if you're deciding to build a machine anytime soon. Now,
we throw the whole system into a Phanteks P400 case, which is beautiful. It comes with a tempered side glass panel,
a few fans, and it even comes with an RGB LED strip, all for less than 80 bucks.
And then lastly, I went for an EVGA 550 B3, a fully modular power supply.
Now, assembling the hardware is just a fraction of the battle, and
unfortunately, it's the easy fraction. The OS installation is where things get tricky, and there are several custom kernels floating around the internet, that
allow you to run Mac OS on Ryzen, but since we're in the early days of Ryzen on Mac
OS, really the early days of Ryzen, most of the people tinkering around with this stuff are experts.
So, none of the tutorials are very specific and installation is much more involved and difficult than an Intel-based hackintosh.
Now, the AMD OS X community helped me the most, and their discord chat was,
vitally important in helping me get my machine up and running. And now that it's set up,
It's a golden build. Everything works including some stuff that even good until hackintosh builds lack, such as sleep weight functionality,
iMessage, the App Store, etc., but be warned. Getting to this point where you have a golden build is not easy,
and it will take a considerable amount of time and effort.
For example, I needed to use an old NVIDIA 750ti to set up the machine, because Ryzen CPUs
don't support internal graphics and AMD cards aren't supported during the install presses. See,
it's just, it's kind of janky. You got to expect that if you're going to do this, but was it worth it?
Well, I'd say so, but don't take my word for it.
So I was able to overclock the CPU with the stock cooler mind you, to 3.8GHz, and the results are,
they're truly stunning. In GeekBench, Ryzentosh's multi-core score out benches all of Apple's lineup, including the near
$6,000 Mac Pro, and it's single core performance is just as surprising. Now benching all but Apple's fully loaded
2017 Intel I7
7700K iMac. Now, this trend continues through both Cinebench as well as my Adobe Premiere video export benchmark.
(chuckles) You can see, Ryzentosh
just, friggin clobbered the iMac.
The only area really where Ryzentosh seems to fall short is in Final Cut Pro, and unfortunately, it really falls short.
My loaded 5K iMac exported over twice as quickly, as Final Cut heavily relies on the Intel Quick Sync platform,
which is obviously not present on AMD Silicon, but it's also not present on Xeon processors,
which is why the Mac Pro was also quite a bit slower.
Perhaps, the best thing about a hackintosh though, is that you have the GPU. Now, it emittedly
won't help much in Final Cut Pro and really even Adobe Premiere in Mac OS, but
with the RX480, games in Mac OS all ran very smoothly at 1440p ultra settings with an average of around
60 frames per second. Even better though,
this is a PC. So, don't bother with gaming in Mac OS. You just boot into windows and suddenly,
you've got a killer gaming setup.
And this is really the area in which Ryzen
excels if you ask me at least, you get the performance of a gaming PC with the dank
RGBs but you also have the option to have the productivity software and elegance of Mac OS. And, to be honest,
I think you'd be pretty hard pressed to build a more well-rounded system with the superior performance for the same price.
I'm not talking just hackintosh, even PCs as a whole.
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