Hey, welcome back to the channel! All right, so I know I said I wasn't gonna do
any more Hackintosh videos but then the other day I was at the thrift store, or
the charity shop for my friends across the pond, and found a Dell Optiplex
9020 for $35 and i thought this would be a great machine to turn into a
Hackintosh, so that's what I'm showing you in this video, so here we go
alright now before we get started I
wanted to point out $35 is the total cost that I spent on this machine I got
a lot of crap on some of my older videos because I didn't factor in some of the
hardware that I had sitting around for years that I used to upgrade the
hackintosh is this time I didn't do any upgrades I brought this machine home
from the thrift store and started installing Mac OS on it now this machine
has an i5 4590 processor running a 3.3 gigahertz eight gigabytes of RAM a 500
gigabyte 7200 rpm spinning drive and it did have an AMD card in there but it was
a super old AMD card I just pulled that out and I'm using just the Intel HD 4600
integrated graphics alright now that being said there are plenty of upgrades
that you can do to this machine to make it run much better you can add more RAM
I recommend that you can swap out that spinning drive for an SSD definitely
definitely recommend doing that one and the other thing I would recommend is
adding a dedicated video card this is a small form-factor machine so you need a
low profile card for this machine but those are available from both AMD and
NVIDIA if you're gonna be running mojave on this go with AMD because at the time
of this video anyway there's no web drivers available for Nvidia for Mohave
now you can get the nvidia cards to work using the web drivers from high sierra
and a little trickery it's a pain in the butt and i've read that people have had
all kinds of problems with it so if you're planning on upgrading the video
card and you're planning on going mojave get an AMD low-profile card and if you
have any other ideas for upgrading this machine please feel free to leave those
down in the comments and let us know so the version of mac OS that's installed
on this machine is the latest as of today and that's mojave version 10 14.2
and just about everything works great on this build there are some
exceptions one is sleeping so waking from sleep doesn't work sometimes it
wakes but it's extremely sluggish sometimes it doesn't wake at all
so I would recommend just turning off the sleep feature the next thing is the
USB 3 ports do not run it at USB 3 that's something I'm still working on if
you know how to fix that please put some info in the comments down below and the
last thing is items related to continuity such as handoff and things
like that those won't work because those rely on a Wi-Fi card and it has to be
kind of a Mac approved Wi-Fi card so you can actually get those and add them to
the machine I haven't done that again I wanted to keep it stock so there
probably is a way to get that working but in my build that doesn't work but
other than that everything works fantastic now this video is not a build
video because I pretty much just followed the basic install instructions
on the Tony Mac site and then there are some specifics I'll put those down in
the description there's some tweaks you have to do to get the audio working and
things like that if enough people want it I'm happy to do an installation video
but that was not part of the scope of this video this is kind of just to show
you how it performs and what you can do on a machine this cheap as far as the
performance on this machine just about everything works great day to day
activities work fantastic everything's smooth I can multitask launched multiple
applications multiple desktops I don't have any lock ups or freezing's
now some of the applications do take a little while to load and that is related
to that hard drive I just have the 7200 rpm spinning drive so swapping that out
with an SSD would vastly improve the launch times on those applications but
once they're up and running everything works great and I've had no problem
using this on a day-to-day basis just for regular computing stuff now I was
kind of torn if I was gonna talk about gaming in this video because of that
Intel HD 4670 I did a bunch of testing and I was able to find a set of settings
that would get me a solid 30 frames per second and I didn't really see any drops
below that so that is setting for tonight at full screen mode 1080p but
setting the 3d view Ellucian down to 44% so that's a
resolution of about 844 by for 75 and then setting everything else on low
turning off vsync and turning off motion blur and it works it doesn't look great
but it actually performs really well if you don't mind those graphics now the
good thing about fortnight is even at these lower settings you can still see
things pretty well but honestly it's not a great experience and I really wasn't
expecting a great experience with this Intel HD card and that's kind of why I
didn't try any other games this is a pretty good representative of what you
can expect in games now if you updated that video card added more RAM and
updated the SSD you would be able to play much more advanced games which I'm
with a much higher frame rate on this same machine but just stock out of the
box this is about the performance you're gonna get all right so the next thing up
is video editing and honestly this is one area that I'm always surprised by
hacking touches sometimes when I think they're gonna do great they do really
poorly when I think they're gonna do really poorly they do great and this
machine is kind of in that category I thought it was going to be really poor
I've been editing videos but it actually does a great job in DaVinci Resolve
editing 4k video mp4 h.264 which it I know it's a horrible video format to
edit pulling those right off the camera I can scrub no problem but playback
there's a lot of drop frames it's not a great experience but it is usable it's
different with 1080p the 1080p video it's really smooth I can do transitions
a color correction everything works really well in DaVinci Resolve now in
Final Cut Pro those same 4k files mp4 h.264 right off my lumix g7 dragging
them into Final Cut Pro butta they are beautiful scrubbing is smooth playback
as smooth no drop frames I can add color Corrections effects do transitions all
that stuff doesn't slow it down everything works great
of course that's for K and then 1080 P of course is going to be great too so
the editing works great but where you really see the slowdown is with the
rendering or the exporting of the I have a one and a half minute video
that I did some testing with and exporting that 4k one and a half minute
video to 4k mp4 took four minutes for that one and a half minute video and
exporting to ProRes forty two high quality took two and a half minutes now
again that is going to be improved with a dedicated video card and at least an
SSD getting rid of that spinning drive that is going to make a huge improvement
on those rendering capabilities of the machine there's not much you can do
about the processor it has a fourth gen processor which is powerful but it's an
i5 not an i7 but the dedicated video card and an SSD will vastly improve that
export time and for me personally the way I work I'm more concerned with how I
can edit the videos how things work on the timeline how well it can scrub I
don't mind waiting a little extra for that video to render out so all in all
this OP duplex 9020 runs Mojave great except for those minor issues I pointed
out I'm really happy with the performance of this you could vastly
improve that performance with those basic upgrades I talked about more ram
SSD drive dedicated GPU but even out of the box it's totally totally usable and
if you want to boost that up it's some really inexpensive and easy upgrades
that you can do to this machine so as usual I hope you found this video useful
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