You know, I honestly had no idea the AMD cards performed better when exporting video in FCP X. That really is interesting.
The testing of these two cards was "real world" testing by Jeff Benjamin of 9 to 5 Mac. He swapped out his 1080 Ti from his hackintosh build and exported the exact same 4K video and was amazed at the results. There are of course other areas where a 1080 Ti will perform better than a RX580 but for anyone who is exporting large 4 or 5K video files from FCP that is a major advantage for AMD. The following video is 1 year old now so the problems he mentions later on in the video with macOS and the RX480 are no longer relevant. 10.13.4 gives full OOB support to the Sapphire Pulse RX 580.
Thank you for your kind words, and I was just taking the lead from @trs96 and his HP 8300 guide which was so well written, even a dope like me could follow along nicely.
I tried to do the same with this guide with a step-by-step of exactly the process for those like me who want a replacement to their Mac 5,1. I don't see any reason why this shouldn't be a first build, especially if you too want a suitable replacement to the Mac Pro 5,1.The performance of this machine is night and day. I also was going from dual 1920x1080 displays to now dual 4k displays.
Thank you for your kind words, and I was just taking the lead from @trs96 and his HP 8300 guide which was so well written, even a dope like me could follow along nicely.
The performance of this machine is night and day. I also was going from dual 1920x1080 displays to now dual 4k displays.
Just the text of "retina" displays is shockingly clear, and I live and breathe in Lightroom, so this clarity and detail is jaw dropping. Playback of you tube videos at the highest resolution possible is pristine with no "stutter" or frame drop outs that I would occasionally see with my old Mac Pro 5,1, etc.
Sometimes I'm coping over files from one drive to another, and it's about 2-3 GB, and it copies over so fast I think something wasn't right. It's pretty awesome.
I read somewhere that liquid cooling isn't enough for the i7-8700k and found one other build where guy had used the same Mobo and CPU with a Cryorig H7. I'd appreciate any ideas you might have on cpu fan.
I was more disappointed about the install of the fan itself. It's a pain to install. Then again, I hear "liquid cooling" and my mind races back to those days of Mac towers with blue goo leaking inside the machine and ruining everything. I wanted to idiot proof this machine (from myself) so I went air cooled. I did some research on fans, and this fan is really quiet, works perfectly. It's just the install that wasn't ideal. So yes, I think it isn't great that the cooling fan is so large that it's blocking the RAM slots, if I had to do it all over again, I would still buy this fan. Mainly because the operation is flawless (thus far), it's really quiet, and that's the most important thing. And even if the install is a pain, I have a feeling if I have to remove it, it will get easier the second time (it will still be a pain though.)I get the vibe that you were slightly dissapointed in having chosen a CPU fan that blocks your ram slots - I'd rather avoid that. Could you recommend an alternative fan that might fit better (knowing the case space restrictions as you now do)? I like the corsair hydro fans like the H60 as they have a very small form on the CPU but I wonder if that will cool an overclocked CPU (i7-8700k) enough - despite being a coder and designer for 20 years I suddenly realise that I know bugger all about hardware
No added fans. The case itself comes with five (I think?) built in, and they're moving air really nicely out of the case. They're quiet too. I also noticed that previous photos I saw online of this case had the fans as white plastic fans inside. They were ugly. I guess Phanteks made a change, because my internal case fans are black and look great.
Ha! I was more on a "single sour-patch per minute" pace for this build. So approximately 180 of these little guys were sacrificed for this build. I'll miss you most of all blue ones.
I will answer first by saying I did not use thermistors.
I will answer first by saying I did not use thermistors.
I will follow that up by saying, I honestly don't even know what a thermistor is. Seriously.
As you can tell, I'm not the most experience hackintosh builder here, this is my first true ground up build after only getting my feet wet with the HP 8300 CustoMacs.
Gotcha. Makes sense to do as much research as possible.
