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Budget build for FCPX - Which motherboard to get?

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Hi, I'm new to the forum! So I got some components laying around and I want to build a hackintosh with them, to use it only for Final Cut Pro (mainly) and Xcode (for iOS dev). I don't really care about other apps as long as these work function properly, because all the rest I use is on a Debian 9 workstation.
I currently have a Corsair TX850 + GTX 550Ti + 2x Kingston HyperX 8Gb 1600Mhz
Planning to get a cheap used CPU between i7 4770 and 4790K, however I don't know what MB to get, the cheapest options I have locally are (lower to higher price):

- Asrock H81M-HG4 (RTL8111G + ALC662)
- ECS Q87H3-M6 (Intel WGI217LM + ALC662)
- Intel C2014-H81H3-M4 (RTL 8111G + VIA VT1705)
- MSI H81M-P33 (RTL8111G + ALC887)
- ASUS H81M-C, H81M-CS/BR (RTL8111G + ALC887-VD)
- ASUS H81M-A, H81M-K (RTL8111G + ALC887)
- MSI H81M-E33 (RTL8111G + ALC887)
- Gigabyte GA-H81M-S2PH (RTL????? + ALC887)

I could buy any of those, just want to make know which one would take less time and effort to get up and running.
Does Sierra works OOB with any of those motherboards? My primary concerns would be audio (for FCPX) and wake from sleep, as I hardly ever shut it down.


(The ECS one has 4 DDR3 slots, but haven't seen it running MacOS anywhere. The Asrock one is almost half the price of the last one, sooo the cheaper the better haha)
(Also the 550Ti is just temporary, I'll soon get an AMD R9/Vega, so if it's too much of a hassle to use it, I can switch to onboard Intel 4600 Graphics for now if its VGA output works)​
 
any of those will take the same amount of effort to get a MacOS on it. Check for some golden builds here on the forum with the board you want to buy and see.
 
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