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- May 13, 2013
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- Motherboard
- Asus Rampage IV Extreme
- CPU
- Core i7-4930K
- Graphics
- GTX 770
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
Great build. Thanks for putting in the time and effort to work out the details.
I'm building a Hackintosh for basically the exact same purposes, but it looks like the R4E motherboard is very tough to come by these days. Do you have any suggestions of similar boards which you would suggest? I work with R3Ds a lot, but mostly ProRes 4444 converted to ProRes 422.
At somepoint down the road I'll probably add a second graphics card, a Thunderbolt card— maybe even a Red Rocket but that likely depends on performance of the graphics cards. They feel less necessary these days. Do you feel ATX Extended or the WS size boards are necessary?
Also, somewhere you recommended the P9X79E-WS. This looks like it will have enough space for whatever I would need to add, but it is also one of the pricier motherboards I've seen at close to $600 shipped.
If you were building a rig like this for yourself right now, which motherboard would you choose?
Thanks,
Hi there,
I can confirm this guide works great, I have just built the same rig with the same motherboard/cpu/gpu combo. Not sure which country you're in but here in the UK the R4E seems to be in stock in most of the places I searched for. Mine came next day after ordering. Not sure how available it is in other countries though but it might be worthwhile continuing to search for this board. I can't fault it so far.