Do you want perfect universal and powerful Hackintosh which can handle 4-8k video editing,
heavy music production, 3D rendering, which can handle simply ANYTHING you want?
Something like the 12-core Mac Pro, but significantly cheaper? Then this video is the right for you
Hi, I’m Teresa from morgonaut.cloud
and I help people to save money on their Hackintosh builds, I help them simply to build a perfect Hackintosh.
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This Hackintosh build I will show you today is not just 12-core Mac Pro killer.
It’s even faster then the latest 8-core iMacPro which you will se later in this video!
I used this Hackintosh build as my main production machine for last year. And believe me, I really
hate to be limited by anything in any way. So I built this Hackintosh to be the first
computer that’s waiting for me and not me waiting for my computer. Uff. What a pleasure
It’s simply build, which must satisfy anybody. I will show you and explain what
components I chose and why, I will show you how it looks, I will show you benchmarks scores
and at the end I will give you some useful tips.
As you know already the most important part of Hackintosh is the motherboard. I chose
the Gigabyte Aorus Z370 Gaming 5 otherboard, which I tested a lot and verified and found it to
be one of the best Hackintosh motherboards available. It can handle up to 64GB of RAM
and it’s CPU support goes up to Intel Core i9-9900k, so plenty room for upgrades.
It has support for Thunderbolt 3, but you would need to buy additional Alpine Ridge or Titan
Ridge PCIe expansion card. For CPU I chose Intel Core i7-8700k, it’s
6 cores and 12 threads is far enough for 99% of people. I don’t overclock, but on internet
you can see lot of success with overclocking even beyond 5 GHz. By my opinion it has great
price to performance ratio value. 8. and 9. gen CPUs are known to run quite hot, so I
paired this i7-8700k with the Kraken X62 280mm water cooling. My temperatures never exceeded
65 degrees of Celsius. For memory I chose 64GB G.SKILL DDR4 3200MHz CL14 Trident Z,
because it’s simply insanely fast :) This memory is not on this motherboard’s QVL,
so in 4 stick configuration it is not officially supported, so I had to slightly tweak it’s
timings. If you plan just two 16GB sticks, so in total 32 Gigs, then this memory will
run great at advertised speed and timings without any tweaking. Disk configuration depends
on your own needs and workflow, so what I found as a best for my mainly video editing
may not be the best for you. I have Samsung 860 EVO as a boot SSD for system and applications,
Samsung 970 EVO NVMe M.2 for my source media (mostly video files) and second SSD Samsung
860 EVO for my Cache files. In this setup I can work even with 8k files without any
problems. Again, it all depends on correct workflow, correct codecs, correct application
etc. So if you would want some advice or help with video editing or audio workstation setup,
just reach me at my Patreon, link is now in this video description. Finally as GPU I chose
Vega Frontier Edition with 16GB of VRAM, it’s an ultimate card which in some task beats
even Nvidia Titan XP in professional applications. Simply this Vega for video editing with massive
color corrections is absolute monster. I’m preparing some videos with comparison of performance
in video editing on several systems, including my newest i9 Hackintosh build, so today I
just show you what still most of you want :) synthetic benchmarks. I wanna mention that
despite all PC users are a little bit obscessed with benchmarks, in fact those benchmarks
has simply nothing to do with real life performance and that’s exactly where macOS shines. Look
at iPhones for example, when some PC guy see specifications of some iPhone like with just
1 or 2 cores, 2 or 3 gigs of RAM, he will say, Oh what a crap. But in real life the old iPhone
is still snappier then their newer Android phone. And that’s exactly the same on macOS.
Especially macOS Mojave is the most powerful system I could be working with.
So let's stop talking and go straight to those benchmarks.
So let’s do a summary. Fastest Mac Pro in
single core performance is the 8-core model with Geekbench score 3851 points. This Intel
Core i7-8700k 6-core Hackintosh build in 2019 beats the Mac Pro with quite 2 times better
score - 6403. In multicore performance 12-core Mac Pro’s score is 27214, this Hackintosh
base score is 29700, so 2500 points faster. Should I compare it now to the latest 8-core iMacPro?
Let’s have a look.
8-core iMacPro single score Geekbench performance
is 5057 against this Hackintosh score 6509. In multicore performance 8-Core iMacPro scores
31090, this Hackintosh 29700, so little bit lower. But you can easily in just few clicks
in bios slightly overclock it - let’s have a look, it’s just really few clicks to overclock
it to 4.8 GHz and bang, now you get score 31689 which is HIGHER then 8-core iMacPro.
And I overclocked the CPU only little bit, you can go even further.
So as you could see this Intel Core i7-8700k 6 core macOS Mojave Hackintosh build in 2019
can beat the 12-core Mac Pro and even the latest 8-core iMacPro. For lot less money.
Apple still offers 12-core MacPro for $6399 with same amount of RAM and 8-core iMacPro
with 64GB of RAM and just Vega 56 for $5799. So this Hackintosh is $4000 cheaper then top
specs MacPro and $3400 cheaper then the iMacPro, but has higher performance. Yes iMacPro has
5k display included, so I think for those saved $3400 you can buy several 5k displays
:) Ufff, this is a huge savings on money. But the biggest advantage is? If some of your
components die after warranty, you will just go to first PC parts shop and buy another
for cheap. When something die in your Mac, repair would cost the same as the new Mac,
so you can only cry. Because I step up few weeks ago one level
and built a new monster Hackintosh with Intel Core i9-9900k processor and Z390 mainboard,
I transformed this i7 build into some kind of backup machine, lowered the RAM and instead
of Vega Frontier Edition I paired it with Sapphire Nitro+ RX 580 8GB. So this is how
it looks now. And again as my thanks to my supporters, you can find now in this video
description complete already prepared and tweaked EFI Clover folder for these two configurations
as a free gift from mine. So you don’t need to know anything about how to build a Hackintosh,
just buy those components listed in this video description, follow my tutorial again in video
description, download my whole EFI folder, copy it to your EFI partition and your Hackintosh
will be up and running at 100% in just an hour.
If you want to unlock full potential of this build and don’t want any bottleneck, I would
advice to pair it with AMD Vega GPU, especially those who want to do video editing on it,
but most of you will be happy even with the RX 580. If your intent is to build a Hackintosh
for music production then you can stick even with only the integrated GPU without any dedicated.
When people asks me what components would be great for audio or video production
I always answer - it depends. It really mostly depends on your own workflow. To editors who
works in Final Cut Pro X I would advice different disk setup than for those who works in DaVinci
Resolve. The same applies to audio editing. Different setup would be for those who records
live 30 tracks with low latency and different setup for those, who are just editing and
use mostly massive virtual instruments with tons of gigabytes large sound banks. Different
setup would be for insane video colorist and different for some youtube hobbyist. So there
is NO single answer. If you want to build a balanced editing system, I would advice
reach me at my Patreon and we can discuss it and I can advice you components suited
exactly for your needs, so you can even save some money on it. Link to my Patreon is in
this video description. And it does not matter if you are Windows, macOS or Linux user.
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