This is the moment lot of you have been waiting for.
Intel Core i9 Ultimate Hackintosh monster build in 2019 is finally here.
Can it compete with the latest Apple’s most powerful flagship, the iMacPro?
Let’s find out.
Hi, I’m Teresa from morgonaut.cloud and I help people to save money on their Hackintosh
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Guys and girls, this is the best Hackintosh build I have ever seen.
Not just because it’s so powerful, but mainly because it’s so compatible.
Most compatible components I ever had under my hands.
I will show you today how it looks, what components I chose and why, how this build is compared
to the 10 core Apple iMacPro and even to the 14 core iMacPro and I’ll also show you easy
overclocking to 5GHz.
I have to mention right in the beginning, this video would not be possible without partial
sponsoring, so huge thanks goes to ANDY, Japanese woman who build custom water cooling PCs and
also without help of Matthias Stockert, German music producer, guitarist and singer.
Check their YouTube channels, links are now in this video description.
As you guess already, the CPU of my choice is the most powerful option for the Z series
chipset, the Intel Core i9-9900k with 8 cores and 16 threads.
Those who saw my previous video about the Intel Core i7-8700k Hackintosh, the 12 core
Mac Pro killer probably think, it’s not much big step up from it’s 6 cores to 8
cores, but believe, it’s really very noticeable.
This is simply in one word - insane.
9. gen CPUs are known to run quite hot, so I had to find some ultimate but still cheap
solution.
My choice was Alphacool Eisbaer LT360 CPU water cooling.
So in total 360 mm radiator with three 120 mm fans.
I later added two fans in front to push pull configuration.
My temperatures at stock CPU settings didn’t exceeded 72 degrees of Celsius without any
undervolting.
This cooler uses classic Alphacool components and fittings, so you can easily add to the
loop any other radiator, pump, change tubing, it’s simply modular.
But CPU is not the most important part of a Hackintosh.
You know already it’s the motherboard who decides whether it’s gonna be win or lose
with a Hackintosh build.
What I will show you now is by my opinion BEST motherboard for Hackintosh EVER.
Period.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Gigabyte Z390 Designare motherboard.
And why I think it’s the best board for Hackintosh?
It has 4 x DDR4 DIMM sockets supporting up to 128GB of system memory in four 32GB sticks,
USB 2 ports, USB 3.1 Gen 1, USB 3.1 Gen 2, USB Type-C port with USB 3.1 Gen 2, three
PCI Express x16 slots, two PCIe x1 slots and… it has NATIVE Thunderbolt 3 Titan Ridge controller
built in onboard.
I say native because really you don’t need any extra additional PCIe expansion card to
get Thunderbolt working, like other boards need, it’s simply builtin already.
I love 64GB of RAM, it gives me freedom in all what I do, so now as you can see in these
detailed shots, I paired it again with the G.SKILL DDR4 3200MHz CL14 Trident Z.
But again, this is not recommended configuration by Gigabyte.
So if you want stable and most reliable build, always choose your memory from motherboard’s
QVL or Qualified Vendors List.
So I did exactly that and bought new HyperX 64GB KIT 3600MHz DDR4 CL17 Predator memory.
Man, it’s great.
So stable.
It is recommended and tested directly by Gigabyte itself, so there should be no issues.
Finally as GPU I chose again my proven 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.
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 this configuration 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 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.
I really don’t want to spend extra $8000 on new iMacPro only to show you real life
performance difference, so we have to rely on pure benchmarks scores now.
Detailed real life performance in video editing or 3D I will show you in one of my next videos,
so stay tuned.
Let’s go, synthetic benchmarks.
I do not overclock my production machines, but people asked for some example of overclocking,
so here you have it.
Now I will show you, how to easily overclock this i9-9900k to 5GHz in just few clicks in BIOS.
It’s really just few clicks, just carefuly do exactly what I do.
First disable Enhanced Multi-Core Performance, set CPU Clock Ratio to 50, set you fastest
XMP Profile 1, and in CPU core Voltage Control set CPU Vcore to 1.375 Volts.
You can later play with this value and lower it down little bit if your CPU can handle
it stable.
Now just save your BIOS settings and enjoy your new machine :) Just for confirmation
after reboot my CPU is really running at 5 GHz.
You can also overclock your memory to get even better performance, but I prefer stability
and reliability then just few % of increased performance.
BTW when talking about memory.
I run those non overclocked test again with the G.Skill memory I was talking about at
the beginning of this video.
And results are even better, but as I said it is not officially supported by Gigabyte.
So how is this build compared to the 10 core iMacPro and 14 core iMacPro?
Apple actually offers 10-core iMacPro with same amount of RAM, so 64 GB and 16GB Vega 64
for $7200.
14-core iMacPro Apple offers with same configuration for $8000 Dollars.
This i9-9900k ultimate Hackintosh monster in march 2019 costs only $2434.
So this Hackintosh is $4766 cheaper then the 10-core iMacPro, or if you want 3 TIMES!! cheaper.
and $5566 cheaper then the 14-core iMacPro or if you want 3.3 TIMES!!! cheaper.
Yes iMacPro has 5k display included, so I think for those saved $5566 you can buy lot
of 5k displays :) Or you can also buy another TWO! of these whole complete i9 builds for
those saved money and you will still have $700 saved for for example 800 Bud beer cans
:) It’s INSANE….
With all these massive savings you get 26% higher single performance and 12% higher multicore
performance against the 10-core iMac Pro.
Comparing to the 14-core iMacPro you get 29%! higher single core performance and only 2.4% slower
multicore performance.
2.4% slower but 3.3 times cheaper?
Sorry Apple, this is unacceptable!
So as you could see this Intel Core i9-9900k 8 core macOS Mojave Hackintosh build in 2019
can beat the 10-core iMacPro and even the 14-core iMacPro in single core workloads,
overall it’s quite on par with 14-core one.
But for really lot less money!
If you want to build also such a balanced editing system, I would advice reach me at
my Patreon and we can discuss it and I can recommend to you components suited exactly
for your needs, so you can save even more 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.
And don’t forget, all you need to build such a great ultimate monster Hackintosh,
or if you want iMacPro killer, you can find right now in this video description.
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