In my last video I showed you a sneak peak of my world’s Fastest Hackintosh Ever for
year 2020.
In benchmarks you could see how it completely smashed down the 2019 Apple Mac Pro.
Lot of people asked me for detailed components list, so in this video I will walk through
all components I used to build this monster, the most powerful macOS Catalina Hackintosh
ever, the real 2019 Mac Pro Killer.
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So, I prepared for you detailed components list with direct links in 7 different countries
where you can buy it, it’s already now in this video description.
So if you would buy exactly same components I can guarantee to you the same amazing functionality
and performance as I achieved.
Simply build your own ultimate Hackintosh for year 2020.
Later in this video I will summarize price of components and compare it to real 2019
Apple Mac Pro and also show you new benchmark results, because now I get even higher scores
than in my previous video.
So, most important part of any build is the motherboard.
And my demands on motherboard were really high.
I wanted to add this build to my video editing workflow so for me 10 Gbit ethernet is a must.
I also want to be able in future run 4 GPUs at once.
So to get a motherboard which would suite my needs and which would not ruin me even
more was not an easy task.
If you will look at prices of TRX40 socket platform motherboards, the prices are really
very high.
So to build a super powerful Hackintosh build which would be faster than the 2019 Apple
Mac Pro is not a cheap journey, but still significantly cheaper than Mac Pro itself
:) Fortunately there is on market one motherboard which exactly fulfill my needs and is relatively
cheap for features it offers.
It’s this one :) Asrock TRX40 Creator.
2 USB-C ports, 2.5Gbit Ethernet as well as the 10Gbit Aquantia Ethernet adapter found
in new Macs.
4 double slot wide PCIe x16 slots.
And one more amazing thing about this motherboard is - it’s small.
Unlike most other TRX40 motherboards, this one is standard ATX format, so you don’t
need any fancy big case for it.
The only downside is support for “only” 256GB of memory, but that’s limitation of
whole platform, not of just this motherboard.
For this moment I just use 64GB of 3600 MHz CL17 memory which I will maybe upgrade later.
BTW all amazing benchmarks scores I showed in my last video was on not overclocked build.
I never overclock.
I just enabled XMP profile, PBO level3 and adjusted the infinity fabric frequency according
to my memory speed.
That’s all.
No overclock.
And as you may already guess the CPU of my choice was the newest 3rd generation Threadripper.
24-cores?
32-cores or even 64-cores?
I chose the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970x because the 3990x costs two times more but will not
give you two times more performance.
The scaling here is not linear and is going down.
So I have 32 physical cores and 64 threads.
As I showed in my last video it crushed completely the most powerful and most expensive 28-core
2019 Mac Pro by really a lot.
So $2000 dollar CPU in Hackintosh beats the $7000 CPU in Mac Pro.
For that saved money you could buy another 2 of these whole Hackintosh builds :)
To utilize full potencial of any CPU you need also proper cooling.
And because I wanted this build to be as silent as possible I chose the Noctua NH-U14S TR4-SP3.
For how it is small it performs amazing.
Under continuous load my CPU temperature never exceeded 68 degrees of Celsius in quite warm
office.
And it’s super silent.
So by my opinion best CPU cooler for Threadripper.
Next I need really super fast and reliable storage for my massive video files.
1 minute of my shooting is about 24GB of data, so imagine how much of fast storage I need
just to shoot single video.
There is on market one NVMe disk which has capacity 2TB and has insane value of 3,600
TBW.
That means you can overwrite this whole disk 1800 times.
Ideal for video production.
So I bought 3 of them.
Now it’s just on me which final raid setup I will chose, for super speed or for compromise
of speed and also redundancy.
It’s PCIe Gen. 4 disk so perfect companion for this motherboard and CPU.
For power supply I chose CORSAIR HX1200, which is fully modular.
Of course if you would also plan to run four Radeon VII GPUs in this build you should buy
even more powerful power supply, I guess 1600W should be fine and slightly undervolt your
GPUs.
Case of my choice was my favourite Fractal Design Define R6 with from USB-C port.
I build lot of computers using this case and all were super silent, because it has tons
of sound dampening material on sides, front and top.
It’s running now on my table even with side panel off and you cannot hear it at all.
And finally GPU setup.
I already mentioned I plan to use in this build four GPUs in total, but for now, just
for testing purposes I used the reference Sapphire AMD Radeon 5700 XT because most people
are interested in this quite budget GPU with solid performance and this one will keep case
cooler and fit those 2 slots in width.
If you don’t plan to use all 4 PCIe slots you can choose also wider GPUs models of 5700
XT like Sapphire Nitro+.
But…
As you can see I have inside also some RTX card :) I chose MSI Nvidia RTX 2070 Super,
because I wanted also to enjoy some gaming until I will finally decide what I will do
with this build and 2070 Super is by my opinion best value.
And I have to say, this combination of GPUs I think will be perfect for most people who
want to enjoy all advantages of super fast and powerful macOS Catalina Hackintosh and
also in free time make fun by playing games in Windows 10.
And now imagine if I would put inside four AMD Radeon VII GPUs.
At that moment this Hackintosh would be not just fastest Hackintosh ever on planet in
CPU tasks, but also most powerful Hackintosh ever in terms of GPU performance.
And not just fastest Hackintosh.
It would be faster in GPU performance than the maxed out 2019 Mac Pro.
It’s proven by many people already that two Radeon VII GPUs are slightly more powerful
than the most powerful GPU on planet - the Apple’s Radeon Pro Vega II Duo.
In 2019 Mac Pro you can run two of those dual GPUs, so equivalent would be four Radeon VII
GPUs :) That’s why I chose this motherboard.
So if you would want to see such a monster Hackintosh build for year 2020, hit the like
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So now you can have also such an ultimate Hackintosh, no problem, build it yourself,
just look at this video description below and buy components I listed, tested and recommend.
Of course you can choose cheaper CPU, GPU, memory or disks, but then you will not get
as much performance as is hidden inside of this ultimate Hackintosh which I showed in
my previous video.
And if you are interested how I physically build this Hackintosh I will release video
about it to my second youtube channel, so make sure you subscribe to that one too.
And if you would need any help with Apple Mac, Windows, Linux or server build you can
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So if I summarize the price of these components with single Radeon VII and single 2TB NVMe
I’m slightly below $5000 against $15,700 for equivalent Mac Pro which would in fact
be much slower.
So I saved quite $11,000 of dollars and still have much more powerful system which I don’t
have to fear about, when something brakes I will simply replace it by parts from first
PC parts shop.
If something brakes in your Mac Pro that would be very sad story.
So in fact I could build 3 of these complete ultimate Hackintosh builds and I would still
save over $700 bucks instead of buying single Mac Pro.
And since my previous video Asrock released new BIOS update which even more improves performance
of this ultimate macOS Catalina Hackintosh.
So I will now just quickly run Cinebench and Geekbench again and I will post results on my website.
In my next video I will show you even more shocking details about this build, how is
it made and lot of bonus stuff which will blow your mind so make sure to click the subscribe
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