One of my friends asked me, if I can build a Hackintosh for him, for music creation and
production.
So I said, yeah, no problem man :)
I’m Teresa from morgonaut.cloud and I help people to
save money on their Hackintosh build.
I help them simply to build a perfect Hackintosh without pain.
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So my friend’s goal was to have silent machine but powerful enough, so it can handle lot
of plugins and virtual instruments in Logic Pro X.
He had also little bit tight budget.
So I prepared for him list of new components he should buy.
Choosing the correct motherboard is the crucial and most important part of building a Hackintosh.
I used many times for Hackintosh builds the Gigabyte Aorus Z370 Gaming 5 motherboard with
which I had the best experience and is greatly compatible, but lot of people reported to
me, they can’t find this board anymore in their local stores.
So I decided this time to choose some motherboard which is still available on the market.
I’ve found this - Asus Prime Z370-A motherboard to be as good motherboard for Hackintosh as
my Gigabyte board.
It was really very easy to tweak all things on it.
I would definately had harder time to install Linux on this build then macOS Mojave Hackintosh :)
CPU of my choice was Intel Core i5-8400 which is nicely underpriced these days
it has 6 cores and about 70% of performance of my Intel Core i7-8700k.
For memory I chose Hyper X Predator 32 GB of 3000 MHz CL15 and for fast storage I chose
500 GB Samsung 970 EVO NVMe disk.
And of course 700W power supply and case.
Total price was $860.
Installation of macOS Mojave on this Hackintosh itself was a breeze, took about just 30 minutes.
BTW I created two Clover configurations for this build, first one for use with only integrated
GPU - the Intel HD630, but because my friend lately changed his mind and wanted also dedicated
GPU, I created also second Clover configuration for use with AMD RX 560 I recommended to him.
It’s the cheapest natively supported AMD GPU in macOS.
Both Clover folders, already tweaked and ready to go including USB fixes you can download
from my site, link is now in this video description.
You may ask what exact steps I’ve done to finish successfuly the installation.
Because I want all my Hackintosh builds to be as clean as possible, I went for the Vanilla
installation method.
Vanilla Hackintosh is the best you can do.
If you would need any help with your build, you can at any time get my personal individual
support on my Patreon, link is again - in this video description.
All necessary steps how to build a vanilla Hackintosh I described already step by step
in my video tutorial, so it would be waste of time to show it again.
Link to this tutorial called “Build a Perfect Hackintosh - Beginners Tutorial” is also
now in this video description.
So now just briefly.
I downloaded latest macOS Mojave 10.14.3 directly from the Apple App Store.
Then I created USB 2 installer flash disk with it.
Then I installed Clover Bootloader onto it - again you can find how to do it in the same
video tutorial.
I have already lot of modified and tweaked Clover folders so I just used one for Coffee
Lake which you can download yourself on the link under that same video tutorial, I just
tweaked it little bit to suit this configuration.
As I said this Hackintosh was completely installed and running in about 30 minutes.
Fix for USB ports took about 10 minutes.
One of the most important things to tweak in Hackintosh is to get full encoding acceleration.
For people interested in video editing and rendering this feature called Intel QuickSync
massively reduces the encoding and render times.
So as you can see here, H.264 and H.265 or HEVC is fully supported and enabled with only
integrated iGPU.
And now let’s do the same proof with the RX 560.
The integrated GPU is in this configuration in so called headless mode, just helping the
main GPU the RX 560 with acceleration.
So again, both encodings are enabled.
I’m not a big fan of synthetic benchmarks, I prefer comparison in real world tasks, but
people ask for it, so I included Blackmagic Disk Speed Test, Cinebench and Geekbench scores.
So let’s have a look at them now.
Look at the read speed, just 1600 MB per second, but it should be around 3000 MB per second.
The Optimized Defaults in this Asus BIOS sets as default speed for the NVMe PCIe lane only
for x2 speed, so to get full 3000 MB per second read speed just change it to x4.
Easy.
Now let’s have a look at Geekbench.
I will fast forward it for you, so you don’t need to wait.
Single score 5679 and multi-core score 23353.
Very nice score.
Now let’s have look at Cinebench.
968 points.
So after about a week of experience with this Hackintosh build my friend is now totally
happy guy :) Yeah, that’s him, that’s Jacob.
So how is your Hackintosh?
HackintoshX$%^%$#$# :)
So after about a week of personal experience with this Hackintosh
my friend is now totally happy guy :) Yeah, that’s him, that’s Jacob.
So Jacob, how is your Hackintosh?
Hackintosh is perfectosh.
Works like a charm, really stable and fast.
Did you tried already to load some massive ammount of tracks and plugins?
Yeah I did, some of them, I do some demoes in the Garage Band on iPad and stuff and now
it turns into Logic easily, no problems.
And the Logic by itself runs really stable, fast, smoothly, perfect.
So how much money totally I saved you on this Hackintosh build?
Actually I think it’s about two maybe three thousands of Dollars if I buy iMac or something
like that to work the same.
Thanks.
So if you want to have also such a great Hackintosh just buy those components listed in this video
description, download my already prepared and tweaked Clover folder, copy it to your
disk and you’re good to go.
You can of course choose Intel Core i3 instead the i5, or i7, or slower and cheaper memory
if you want.
Your Hackintosh will be running as great as you could see in this video and you don’t
need to know quite anything about how to tweak and fix all necessary things in Hackintosh.
But still as I said, if you would eventually have some hard time to tweak something, you
can at any time get my personal individual support on my Patreon, link is in this video
description.
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So that’s all for today, thank you for watching and see you next time my Hackintosh friends.
OK, so now the questions up to you.
So how is your father after he got his new Hackintosh.
Little bit stupid.
Oh, you got it.
Sorry, that’s reality, that’s life.