Newbie needs help building Hackintosh for Video Editing, Gaming, and Animation!

Sup guys! Like I already mentioned, I'm a newbie at this kind of stuff. I've always been interested in building my own computer, but never liked windows that much. With me about to head off into college, I felt it was time to upgrade from my Macbook Pro 7,1 and get the new Mac Pro. I was so excited until I customized it and got a rather large price tag. I want a set up like this one, but with something a little bit cheaper. I don't mind spending a bit of money, I plan on using this for college and to start of my career in animation. Just not THIS much money. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Take a look at the builds in the official buyers guide.

http://www.tonymacx86.com/416-building-customac-buyer-s-guide-march-2014.html

Thanks! I checked it out and found out a lot of good information, only probably is I really need a 6 core processor, and I didn't see any that we're supported.Any tips?

Jackwarrior said:

Thanks! I checked it out and found out a lot of good information, only probably is I really need a 6 core processor, and I didn't see any that we're supported.Any tips?

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http://www.tonymacx86.com/416-building-customac-buyer-s-guide-march-2014.html#socket_2011

I also really want a motherboard with thunderbolt 2 connections, or at least thunderbolt 1. And one that can handle 64gb of ram if needed

I don't know about compatibility with OS X, but there are thunderbolt PCI cards.

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Total price about 2700$ less than half of new mac pro on ur config

Thanks for all the input guys! Didn't know how much went into to a computer! This is what I came up with! Is this good, am I missing anything?http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/XWE3ZBZAJ4MN/ref=cm_wl_rlist_go_o?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128676&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=4902415&SID=
Thanks!

I personally would go with faster Ram, like 1866Mhz or higher. But that might just be me.

Jackwarrior said:

Thanks for all the input guys! Didn't know how much went into to a computer! This is what I came up with! Is this good, am I missing anything?http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/XWE3ZBZAJ4MN/ref=cm_wl_rlist_go_o?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128676&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=4902415&SID=
Thanks!

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Jack, there are a few problems with your choices. The CPU is socket 2011 and the motherboard
is socket 1150. They obviously won't work together. The UD7-TH is also limited to 32 GB of ram.
To get what you want you'll need to wait for X99 motherboards and Haswell E cpus to be released
sometime later this year. What you are asking for isn't possible right now.