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Hi. My friend wants me to build a computer for him that's capable of running El Capitan and Pro Tools HD.
I have no doubts about the hardware and OS X, it's a Gigabyte Z170XP-SLI, Core i7 6700K, 8GB Kingston HyperX Fury DDR4, 240GB Kingston SSD and a 1TB Seagate Barracuda HDD.
The thing is, afaik, Pro Tools HD relies on a PCIe card. And I know Hackintoshes can diss on PCIe cards that are not GPUs, like a sound card, etc. As you probably already figured, he works with audio and recording, so he's building this rig for his personal studio. Do any of you have experience with Pro Tools HD and Hackintosh? Is it tricky, or require a couple of extra additional components? He plans on using iGPU and, from what I've searched, Pro Tools HD works better with better graphic performance, too.
I found a couple of old discussions on Pro Tools but, since things have changed and some of the threads dates back to 2012, I wanted to make a new post.
I have no doubts about the hardware and OS X, it's a Gigabyte Z170XP-SLI, Core i7 6700K, 8GB Kingston HyperX Fury DDR4, 240GB Kingston SSD and a 1TB Seagate Barracuda HDD.
The thing is, afaik, Pro Tools HD relies on a PCIe card. And I know Hackintoshes can diss on PCIe cards that are not GPUs, like a sound card, etc. As you probably already figured, he works with audio and recording, so he's building this rig for his personal studio. Do any of you have experience with Pro Tools HD and Hackintosh? Is it tricky, or require a couple of extra additional components? He plans on using iGPU and, from what I've searched, Pro Tools HD works better with better graphic performance, too.
I found a couple of old discussions on Pro Tools but, since things have changed and some of the threads dates back to 2012, I wanted to make a new post.