Hey, welcome back to the channe. So I built another Hackintosh, this time
running Catalina, but this one is ugly shi-!
So this build is fondly codenamed
WTFintosh and you'll find out why in just a minute, but this one is
using that Dell Optiplex 9020, that I've used in a few of my videos. This is one that
I got a thrift store for like $35. It's got a 3.3ghz i5,
8GB of ram, 500GB hard drive I went ahead and added a USB adapter for
wireless, it's a tp-link wireless adapter, and a generic USB bluetooth adapter.
I'm also using a Logitech c615 webcam for things like FaceTime and photobooth
and things like that. Now when I've used this machine in the past I've always
built it with just the integrated GPU, because this case is so weird that I
can't find a dedicated GPU that would fit in here. Now NVIDIA is not an option,
because I wanted to run either Mojave or Catalina and there's no Nvidia drivers
for either of those operating systems, so I had to go AMD. I tried a whole bunch of
different cards that I got from Amazon and other sources. Small form-factor, real
thin, nothing would fit well in this case at least nothing that I would want to
use in the machine. So I had to get a little bit creative.
Now knowing I couldn't fit a card in there I started to think about other
options and realized that there's plenty of room for a ribbon cable. I went on
Amazon and I looked for a PCIe riser. If you don't know what a PCIe riser is,
it's a ribbon cable with a male PCIe connection on one end, that plugs into
the slot on your motherboard, and a female PCIe connection on the other end,
that the card goes into. I did this, I put my RX560 card in there, I didn't
have an enclosure or anything like that, I didn't feel like building one, so I
just took a static bag put it on top of the computer and I have the card laying
right on top of that. I know people are gonna freak out all you PC build
purists because this is not a optimal solution and I would definitely not
recommend that anybody build this if they're gonna be using the machine long
term, I did this just as a trial to see if this would even work and it does.
Little spoiler, but I would not recommend doing this long term. Okay so let's just
get that out of the way and go and jump to some benchmarking. Now I know people
love their synthetic benchmarks so I did go ahead and benchmark some things we
have a geek bench score single core score of nine hundred for multi-core
scores twenty nine thirty Cinebench are twenty is a one thousand two hundred
twenty nine points and Unigine Heaven that tests the graphics performance of
the machine we got an average frame rate of forty point six minimum of eleven
point five and a max of seventy nine point three now if you're someone that
doesn't know what those numbers mean don't even worry about it because
honestly synthetic benchmarks are only one very tiny small piece of the picture
and really mean nothing when you're talking about the performance it's the
actual use of the machine that shows you what the performance is and this machine
performs really well so before I get into the performance let's talk about
things that do and don't work on this machine now some of the things that work
our FaceTime iMessage iCloud that kind of stuff works great FaceTime
works amazingly well with that logitech camera I have and I haven't had any
problems with that stuff the Logitech C 615 camera works great I just plugged it
into the USB port it detected on matically no drivers were needed to be
loaded I can use it in OBS on Mac OS I can use it in photobooth or FaceTime
works great in all those instances it's a very clear picture no drivers needed
and works flawlessly with this machine now the things that don't work are
related to not having an official Apple Wi-Fi card it really has nothing to do
with the hackintosh it has to do with the hardware now I use that USB Wi-Fi
adapter and the operating system does not really see that as a Wi-Fi card so
things that require location in Siri don't work like if you ask it what the
weather is it's gonna tell you it doesn't know where you are and then
other things like sidecar that does not work because that is relying on that
Wi-Fi card as well and another thing that doesn't work is anything related to
continuity so handoff the shared clipboard all that kind of stuff because
same thing that requires that Apple Wi-Fi now what you can do is you can buy
a Wi-Fi card from like a MacBook Pro or something like that and an adapter on
Amazon that you can put in there put into the machine and utilize that Wi-Fi
card the operating system will recognize that and you'll have access to all that
stuff I did that in my bigger hackintosh build and that works absolutely great
I'll have links down in the description to all the hardware that I talked about
in this video so make sure you check that out alright so let's get into the
good stuff and start talking about performance now and the performance of
this machine for day-to-day activities is awesome everything is very very fluid
I can use multiple desktops I can have dual monitors with that video card
everything is super smooth I can have multiple applications open and navigate
between them the file navigation is fast everything you would expect it's a
really really smooth experience for your day-to-day usage the next area I want to
talk about just briefly and that is gaming now Mac's are not very good for
gaming don't be mad at me it's just the case if you run Windows and Mac OS on
the same hardware the games are going to run better in Windows that's just how it
is don't be mad at me so with this machine I really wasn't
expecting too much in gaming and I kind of got about what I was expecting now
granted that rx 560 is not a hugely powerful card
but I was able to play some games things like rimworld oxygen not included things
like that terraria those are gonna run great no problem with those if you play
some more graphical games I tried seven days the die played a
little bit of subnautica that those actually worked really well I had to
bump some of the settings down things like csgo that's gonna work fine you can
even play some triple-a ish games but you're gonna have to set the settings
lower and sacrifice some of that detail or the resolution or whatever but games
are playable on this machine honestly if your focus is gaming load
Windows on this machine and you'll get a better experience in that regard so next
up is video editing and I tried some video editing in both Final Cut Pro and
DaVinci Resolve and had some really good results actually I took video right off
my Lumix t85 here it's mp4 h.264 4k video loaded on to the timeline of both
applications and I was really surprised scrubbing was pretty good navigation was
good I could add transitions and it had real-time processing of that I could
even do some basic color Corrections now when I started adding some layers in
there and things like that and some you know more significant color Corrections
it did slow down now keep in mind I only have 8 gigs of ram in here so bumping
that Ram up would help that quite a bit but it actually performed as is very
well and if you are having slowdowns both of those applications you can do
proxy Clips in there and you know boost up that performance a little bit and
have a very very capable editing machine so I was actually surprised at how well
the video editing worked on this device now I didn't do any exports testing and
the reason for that is I don't have an SSD in here I just have a 7200 rpm Drive
if I put an SSD in there I would get faster performance for the rendering and
stuff like that but because I didn't do that I didn't feel like it would be fair
to benchmark something that would benefit from a faster harddrive so all
in all this was a pretty fun experience catallena runs great on this setting up
a hackintosh with Catalina is actually a lot easier than you might think it is if
you find any guides for hi Sierra Mojave just follow those guys
it's pretty much the same exact process to get Catalina going i didn't install
catalina on some older max i'll have some videos coming up of that and
actually i had a harder time with some of those than i did getting it running
as a hackintosh so for anybody that's curious about the kex teas and the
clover settings i use these are the only kex teas I use now one thing I ran into
is that that whatever green the one I was using was a little bit older and you
have to get a brand new one or else the GPU wouldn't work correctly for me but
once I did that it worked fine now jumping into clover configurator here
are some of the settings I use I'm gonna go through this fairly quickly just so
you can see what I use you feel free to pause or ask me any questions I'll try
to share this if enough people want to see that as well but these are the
settings that I use to get it going like I said I didn't have to set up anything
special for the RX 560 once I upgraded that whatever green K ext and with these
settings everything's been rock-solid and a really good experience on this
what the f intosh now I want to do my normal disclaimer that I do on
hackintosh is I do these as project I do not use a hackintosh as my primary
machine if you're gonna be using Mac OS as your primary machine or doing
production work on it go and buy a Mac and use an official version of Mac OS on
an official Apple hardware they put a lot of time into developing the software
and with your hackintosh at any point they could release a patch or a change
that would break your hackintosh in that community is really good about getting
patches to bring that stuff out but if it does break you're gonna be down for
as long as it takes to get that fixed or for the community to release a fix so in
my opinion doing a hackintosh is fine as a project but as a production machine I
would not recommend it so as always if you have any questions or comments on
anything I talked about in this video leave those down in the comment section
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