iMac Pro X299 - Live the Future now with macOS 10.14 Mojave [Successful Build/Extended Guide]

[Loloflatsix]

It would be better to directly compare the EVO 970 with the EVO 970 Pro. Could you do that? I guess you would stay with the EVO 970 pro finally, but let's see..

It's a good option I'm going to think about it.

 

[Loloflatsix]

For the moment I have in reserve a Western Digital SN750 NVMe with heatsink for testing delivered yesterday .

The only problem is to access my letterbox with the snow.

Done :

 

[zzmadd]

A question about motherboards.
I've seen the "new" PRIME X299-DELUXE II. Does it work well?

If you had to do a X299 iMac Pro for Video Editing in Premiere, that must have reliable thunderbolt 3, using a 16-cores i9 7960X CPU, and 2 x GTX 1080 Ti, which motherboard would you use?

Thanks a lot in advance.

 

[Ellybz]

A question about motherboards.
I've seen the "new" PRIME X299-DELUXE II. Does it work well?

If you had to do a X299 iMac Pro for Video Editing in Premiere, that must have reliable thunderbolt 3, using a 16-cores i9 7960X CPU, and 2 x GTX 1080 Ti, which motherboard would you use?

Thanks a lot in advance.

Before any motherboard suggestion, let's talk first about the elephant in the room ( two actually ). Below is the summing formula.
OSX Mojave + ( 2 x GTX 1080 Ti*) =
Clear enough?

GPUs Vega 64, 56 or against @kgp recommendation, Sapphire RX580 OC ( Oops I wrote a bad word ) are highly recommended.

 

[kgp]

A question about motherboards.
I've seen the "new" PRIME X299-DELUXE II. Does it work well?

If you had to do a X299 iMac Pro for Video Editing in Premiere, that must have reliable thunderbolt 3, using a 16-cores i9 7960X CPU, and 2 x GTX 1080 Ti, which motherboard would you use?

Thanks a lot in advance.

The most important issue of your proposal already has been answered by @Ellybz...

With respect to TB, I would go for the ASUS X299 Sage WS 10GB + GC-Titan Ridge.

Good luck,

KGP

 

[Loloflatsix]

Quick feedback with my both NVMe SSDs :

So, after clearing the snow and accessing my black WD SN750 NVMe delivered, I did the same test with:
(To keep the continuity of Thunderbold under MacO, you must first install it on Windows ...)

So with the same method I did before with the 970 EVO :

• Cloned my SSD with Macrium Reflect
• Started on Windows 10
• Installed the required drivers
• Thunderbold drivers installed

The verdict for the moment with both NWMe SSDs on the vertical M2_2 slot :

WD Black SN750 is more reliable ( without heatsink ! for compared with the previous ) :

• fastest boot time
• temperature is lower
• no thermal throttling issue

I have not tested the intrinsic performance but I do not use Windows for my work.

So let's go to put the 970 EVO on the M2-1 slot and install MacOs and see what is being done ....

 

[kgp]

For the moment I have in reserve a Western Digital SN750 NVMe with heatsink for testing delivered yesterday .

The only problem is to access my letterbox with the snow.

Done :

Do you really need any heatsink with all this snow? Just boot your rig outside and you will beat all records

 

[kgp]

Quick feedback with my both NVMe SSDs :

So, after clearing the snow and accessing my black WD SN750 NVMe delivered, I did the same test with:
(To keep the continuity of Thunderbold under MacO, you must first install it on Windows ...)

So with the same method I did before with the 970 EVO :

• Cloned my SSD with Macrium Reflect
• Started on Windows 10
• Installed the required drivers
• Thunderbold drivers installed

The verdict for the moment with both NWMe SSDs on the vertical M2_2 slot :

WD Black SN750 is more reliable ( without heatsink ! for compared with the previous ) :

• fastest boot time
• temperature is lower
• no thermal throttling issue

I have not tested the intrinsic performance but I do not use Windows for my work.

So let's go to put the 970 EVO on the M2-1 slot and install MacOs and see what is being done ....

Can you compare the performance of the WD SN750 with the one of the EVO 970 Pro that I depicted in in post #1,539?

 

[Loloflatsix]

The most important issue of your proposal already has been answered by @Ellybz...

With respect to TB, I would go for the ASUS X299 Sage WS 10GB + GC-Titan Ridge.

Good luck,

KGP

For sure but if the ASUS X299 Sage WS 10GB was not so expensive for now...It's just a time consideration because time is money (If "French humour" is allowed )

 

[Loloflatsix]

Can you compare the performance of the WD SN750 with the one of the EVO 970 Pro that I depicted in in post #1,539?

Of course but I did not ordered one for the moment , just want to see what the non PRO is doing :

If I'll have issue with it I'll return it on Amazon.

Edit :

I must admit I forgot this small but important detail before I ordered the non PRO