Hey welcome back to the channel and welcome to another hackintosh video.
Now there are a ton of people doing beautiful hackintosh builds Quinn, over
at Snazzy Labs, has done some really nice ones. Dave2D just did a beautiful,
beautiful build and this video is gonna be nothing like those because this one
looks like sh...
Alright so just a little bit of history on this and why I'm calling
it a "Frankentosh", I had an HP Elitedesk 800 G1, small form-factor, machine
now these hackintosh really well it's really easy to do it but it's such a
small form factor that you couldn't fit any cards or anything in there very easily.
Then I had an old HP 8200 Elite tower and that thing was kind of outdated the
internals and that I didn't really want to use it for anything but I noticed
some of the pin connectors were the same. So I went online kind of got the
schematics for both of them and sure enough the Elitedesk 800 G1
motherboard would work in the 8200 so that's what I did. Now I probably could
have done a much better job on this but I didn't I just hacked the crap out of
it so the ports were visible and I could get to everything put the motherboard in
there hooked it up and it powered on so there's my Frankentosh, ugly but
functional. Alright so when I got this elite desk it had an i7-4770, 8GB of
RAM and just a physical spinning drive with no external graphics card just the
on-board GPU. So I wanted to change some of those out once I got it in this new
case I added another 8 gigs of ram to bring that up to 16,swapped out the
physical drive for a SSD and added a Radeon rx560 because I knew these
rx560s, even though they're not listed as officially compatible with Mojave, they
are officially compatible with the Mojave with no extra work out of the box
to get them working. Now, once I got all the components in there I installed
MacOS Mojave on that drive now I'm working on the tutorial video of this I'll have
this on my next tutorial Tuesday I'll put a link up here if it's out already
so you can check that out if you want the specifics on how I install things on
here but once I got Mojave on there fired it up and started using it and it
was working great for day to day activities very very fast and fluid no
problems at all so I wanted to run some benchmarking on
so the first benchmarking I wanted to do was get bench and I was actually pretty
happy with the scores that I 74770 gave me for the single core score I got a
score of four thousand four hundred ninety four and multi-core score was
fifteen thousand three hundred thirty six now this is a pretty decent score
and it's a little bit better than the twenty eighteen Mac Mini and it's a
little bit better than the twenty seventeen iMac 21.5 inch so it kind of
gives you an idea of where it falls in that ballpark and it's a very very
capable machine next up with Cinebench and Cinebench gave me an opengl score of
ninety nine point four four frames per second with that rx5 60s so that is
working great and the cpu score was 703 Seabee which is a pretty decent score as
well again keep in mind these are just synthetic benchmarks these aren't
necessarily be all end all to how this machines gonna perform the next
benchmark I did was Unigine heaven had everything set to medium for that
benchmark again that's pretty decent without rx 560 I had to do no other work
to get that work and it just worked out of the box as far as gaming gave me
actually worked pretty decently on this this is actually the first low-end
hackintosh set I've done that provide a decent gaming now I tried fortnight but
fortnight has this bug where it just gets stuck at the loading screen and if
you wait long enough like ten minutes literally I'm not even joking it gets
past that loading screen but I didn't want to do that for this video so I just
passed on fortnight what I did do was shadow of mordor that was the first one
I tried out and with everything set to high I was getting right around 40
frames per second which is completely playable in my opinion everything was
smooth worked really well I didn't see any major lag spikes or anything like
that the same thing goes with the next game I
tried which is subnautica and again I had everything set on high got right
around that 40 frames per second again it was a really really great experience
so for the average gamer I would say this is a decent option of course on
this same hardware you could load Windows 10 and you would get much better
performance and games but if you're using solely Mac OS this is actually a
pretty decent option it works really well on to some media production stuff I
tried blender blender works great I had no slowdowns everything was really
smooth than this and then I tried some video editing I tried to Vinci resolve
first and it worked great I didn't have to transcode the media I was working
with 4k video right off my lumix g7 loaded on the timeline the scrubbing was
smooth playback was smooth I was able add transitions effects overlay text do
motion tracking all kinds of stuff and it worked beautifully and this is with
the free version of DaVinci Resolve so I would definitely recommend checking that
one out the next one of course I tried Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Pro was
beautiful that worked extremely well as well I mean Final Cut Pro works well on
even much older machines than this it worked great in the editing and the same
thing transitions layering tracks all that stuff didn't slow it down and work
great I went to do the export and I use the Bruce X benchmark to do the
exporting and it exported in one minute 14 seconds that was an average I did a
few different times that kind of took that average honestly that's a little
bit higher than I was expecting on this machine but it's still not too bad but
if anybody knows how I can tweak it a little bit to bring that down please let
me know down in the comments section I love to try that out and maybe do
another video on that tweak so all in all this Franken Tosh's ugly as it looks
works great it's actually one of the best budget hacking Tasha's that I've
built as far as performance and usability I could do just about
everything I want to do with it and it works really really well I've never had
it crash or anything like that so if you have one of these machines it's a great
option for hackin toshing now my normal disclaimer on hackintosh saying I would
not recommend a hackintosh for a primary machine a production machine or anything
that you need high reliability on they could release a patch at any time to
disable your hackintosh and then your are Sol what I would recommend it for is
the hobbyist or somebody that wants to learn Mac OS something along those lines
that you are not going to be using as your primary machine and maybe you want
to try things out in Mac OS once in a while I would recommend it for that but
not for a production machine if you want something for production with Mac OS go
out and buy a Mac even a used one is going to do you're right hopefully you
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