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Hello everyone!
I recently purchased a GoPro Fusion and immediately found out it was finally time to upgrade my early 2013 retina MBP...
In a nutshell my MBP renders the fusion footage at... 0.4 fps... (so rendering one minute of footage takes over one hour and a half... yikes!) plus the previews are unusable etc. If you're interested in seeing exactly how power hungry the Fusion (and Fusion Studio) are check out this benchmarking from the excellent GoPro Fusion Facebook group.
GoPro issued some pretty tight minimum requirements that have guided me in speccing my build. Notably 4GB GC ram minimum and recommended i7 CPU.
The typical workflow consists in rendering the camera footage (== stitching the 2 files from the 2 lenses) in Fusion Studio (this is the bit that puts most machines on their knees) and then importing the result into your editing software of choice (currently much better plugins in Adobe Premiere than FCPX unfortunately) to do things like overcapture, tiny planets etc.
So... here is my current specs plan:
CPU Core i7-8700k - 3.7Ghz
CPU Cooling Corsair Hydro Series H90 140mm with upgraded Noctua NF-A14 fan
Motherboard GIGABYTE Z370N WIFI
Ram Kingston 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 2400MHz
SDD OS M2 Samsung 960 EVO 250GB NVMe SSD
SDD Swap M2 Samsung 960 EVO 250GB NVMe SSD
Graphic Card EVGA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti SC Gaming 4GB Video Card
Case SilverStone Black Sugo Series SG13 Mini ITX
PSU Silverstone SFX SX500-LG 500W 80 Plus Gold PSU - DIED after a week...
PSU Corsair SF 600
WiFi/BT Broadcom BCM94352Z DW1560
In terms of cost, here in Australia this comes to just under AU$2000 / US$1600 / EUR1300 (I'll spare you all the BTC conversion).
Why Nvidia and not Radeon?
The Fusion plugins are ahead in Adobe Premiere and fall behind in FCPX unfortunately. Plus I strongly suspect that Fusion Studio is a lot more Nvidia friendly...
Why 2 SSDs?
Ideally 3 SDDs would be perfect but I thought I'd save a few $ there...
2 SSDs allow for a better bandwidth spread when having the OS/Softwares on one SSD and the Premiere/FCPX library files on another.
I also decided to go for the more expensive NVMe drives for the extra speed. They would be both mounted in the 2 M2 slots of the MB for better space/energy efficiency and performance.
Questions for the Hackintosh veterans
- Is the Samsung 960 EVO NVMe compatibility... likely?
- Will the (cheap-ish) Kingston ram work?
- I take it that replacing the WiFI/BT on the GIGABYTE Z370N by the Broadcom BCM94352Z DW1560 is indeed possible...
- I currently have two 27" DELL U2715H displays plugged onto my MBP. I presume that it will be possible to plug them at the back of the GTX 1050 Ti SC at their full 2560 x 1440 resolution? I'm kinda restricted to this card due to size limitation in the case.
Thanks everyone!
The adventure begins...
PS. This will be my first Hackintosh build. I have experience putting together PCs though from... 15 years ago #whatcouldgowrong
I recently purchased a GoPro Fusion and immediately found out it was finally time to upgrade my early 2013 retina MBP...
In a nutshell my MBP renders the fusion footage at... 0.4 fps... (so rendering one minute of footage takes over one hour and a half... yikes!) plus the previews are unusable etc. If you're interested in seeing exactly how power hungry the Fusion (and Fusion Studio) are check out this benchmarking from the excellent GoPro Fusion Facebook group.
GoPro issued some pretty tight minimum requirements that have guided me in speccing my build. Notably 4GB GC ram minimum and recommended i7 CPU.
The typical workflow consists in rendering the camera footage (== stitching the 2 files from the 2 lenses) in Fusion Studio (this is the bit that puts most machines on their knees) and then importing the result into your editing software of choice (currently much better plugins in Adobe Premiere than FCPX unfortunately) to do things like overcapture, tiny planets etc.
So... here is my current specs plan:
CPU Core i7-8700k - 3.7Ghz
CPU Cooling Corsair Hydro Series H90 140mm with upgraded Noctua NF-A14 fan
Motherboard GIGABYTE Z370N WIFI
Ram Kingston 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 2400MHz
SDD OS M2 Samsung 960 EVO 250GB NVMe SSD
SDD Swap M2 Samsung 960 EVO 250GB NVMe SSD
Graphic Card EVGA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti SC Gaming 4GB Video Card
Case SilverStone Black Sugo Series SG13 Mini ITX
PSU Silverstone SFX SX500-LG 500W 80 Plus Gold PSU - DIED after a week...
PSU Corsair SF 600
WiFi/BT Broadcom BCM94352Z DW1560
In terms of cost, here in Australia this comes to just under AU$2000 / US$1600 / EUR1300 (I'll spare you all the BTC conversion).
Why Nvidia and not Radeon?
The Fusion plugins are ahead in Adobe Premiere and fall behind in FCPX unfortunately. Plus I strongly suspect that Fusion Studio is a lot more Nvidia friendly...
Why 2 SSDs?
Ideally 3 SDDs would be perfect but I thought I'd save a few $ there...
2 SSDs allow for a better bandwidth spread when having the OS/Softwares on one SSD and the Premiere/FCPX library files on another.
I also decided to go for the more expensive NVMe drives for the extra speed. They would be both mounted in the 2 M2 slots of the MB for better space/energy efficiency and performance.
Questions for the Hackintosh veterans
- Is the Samsung 960 EVO NVMe compatibility... likely?
- Will the (cheap-ish) Kingston ram work?
- I take it that replacing the WiFI/BT on the GIGABYTE Z370N by the Broadcom BCM94352Z DW1560 is indeed possible...
- I currently have two 27" DELL U2715H displays plugged onto my MBP. I presume that it will be possible to plug them at the back of the GTX 1050 Ti SC at their full 2560 x 1440 resolution? I'm kinda restricted to this card due to size limitation in the case.
Thanks everyone!
The adventure begins...
PS. This will be my first Hackintosh build. I have experience putting together PCs though from... 15 years ago #whatcouldgowrong
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