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- Oct 25, 2015
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- Motherboard
- Z390 Aorus Pro Wifi
- CPU
- I9 - 9900K
- Graphics
- GTX 1080 Ti - OC
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Hi everyone!
I'm a Hackintosh user for several years and happy with my current stable, but old setup. It's time for an upgrade!
After reading a lot on the forum for a few months I am still debating about my new setup.
I am a beginning freelancer active in graphic design (interactive) and use my workstation mostly for Adobe Creative suite, Cinema4D, maybe Maya in the future and a few other programs. I use my dekstop quite a lot for rendering.
CPU
Currently I am thinking about the 8700K Coffee Lake or hoping for an 8-core Coffee Lake coming soon. I think this CPU will fit my needs, it has less PCI lanes but I am not thinking about using multiple GPU's (currently). What I am reading about Coffee Lake is that it's quite natively supported in High Sierra? I think this is a benefit over X299 which is rather a pain in the ass? There are only a few X299 build on the forum at the moment.
GPU
Because of AMD native support in High Sierra my eye fell on the AMD Vega 64. I think it's a great GPU although it produces a lot of heath and energy.. The shop where I ordered one couldn't fulfil my order and I had to choose an alternative. I chose the Inno3D 1080 ti Black edition (liquid cooled), again they could't fulfil my order. I can cancel the order or choose to wait before it will be back in stock. The price difference with a Sapphire Nitro+ Amd Vega 64 is around €70 (85$) which I think the 1080ti will be definitely worth it. The AMD Vega 64 is too expensive at the moment for what it offers I think. Now is my question, is the 1080ti so much better it will outperform the Vega 64? Or is native support more important for a smooth and stable experience?
Thank you in advance!
Giovanni
I'm a Hackintosh user for several years and happy with my current stable, but old setup. It's time for an upgrade!
After reading a lot on the forum for a few months I am still debating about my new setup.
I am a beginning freelancer active in graphic design (interactive) and use my workstation mostly for Adobe Creative suite, Cinema4D, maybe Maya in the future and a few other programs. I use my dekstop quite a lot for rendering.
CPU
Currently I am thinking about the 8700K Coffee Lake or hoping for an 8-core Coffee Lake coming soon. I think this CPU will fit my needs, it has less PCI lanes but I am not thinking about using multiple GPU's (currently). What I am reading about Coffee Lake is that it's quite natively supported in High Sierra? I think this is a benefit over X299 which is rather a pain in the ass? There are only a few X299 build on the forum at the moment.
GPU
Because of AMD native support in High Sierra my eye fell on the AMD Vega 64. I think it's a great GPU although it produces a lot of heath and energy.. The shop where I ordered one couldn't fulfil my order and I had to choose an alternative. I chose the Inno3D 1080 ti Black edition (liquid cooled), again they could't fulfil my order. I can cancel the order or choose to wait before it will be back in stock. The price difference with a Sapphire Nitro+ Amd Vega 64 is around €70 (85$) which I think the 1080ti will be definitely worth it. The AMD Vega 64 is too expensive at the moment for what it offers I think. Now is my question, is the 1080ti so much better it will outperform the Vega 64? Or is native support more important for a smooth and stable experience?
Thank you in advance!
Giovanni