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Greetings fellow hackintoshers,
I have been silent on the scene the past 2-3 years due to some personal developments and have fallen a bit behind.
I have set-up many hackintosh's, and quite a few of them for my brother, which he makes music with.
Luckily, the last one i did for him (a Haswell), ended up being untouched for quite a while, as music producers tend to gain workflow, they cannot drastically change the environment around them.
It seems this time he's in need for a thorough upgrade and your advice will be really appreciated.
A few key points and needs i have identified:
1. RAM - 128GB will be needed (for post-production mostly, those guys will understand why).
Meeting this requirement will most probably be tricky. What is the best option in this case? 32GB x 4, which will ease me the decision for motherboards with 4 RAM slots. Or 16GB x 8, which in this case probably means E-ATX motherboards and maybe 2011 Socket.
2. NVMe (or equivalent, M-2 etc) - Last time i checked this, it was not supported, i think this has changed if i am not wrong. SATA SSD will be the library haven, but the system deserves the new upgrade.
3. CPU - 7th gen or 8th gen? Stick to widely used i7-x700K's or go for the beefy ones with more cores? What about i9?
4. Motherboard - This one is tied to the previous points (and the one below),
Thunderbolt is somehow important, but there are most probably cards out there for this need to be fulfilled, yet a built in one or two is desired.
I have already settled for:
A nVidia 1050 card unless i see any argument pointing at benefits of beefing up a better one for Cuda/GPU help.
A Bitfenix case (the very silent one)
Watercooling obviously depends on the choice of 3 and 4.
Further research will be needed for a 10GB Ethernet, as i will introduce a NAS in this new environment, but this is an optional subject and 1GB is more then enough.
Thanks in advance and i hope i didnt bore you. Feel free to correct me in anything i may have guessed incorrectly as i really did not keep much up in the hardware world.
I have been silent on the scene the past 2-3 years due to some personal developments and have fallen a bit behind.
I have set-up many hackintosh's, and quite a few of them for my brother, which he makes music with.
Luckily, the last one i did for him (a Haswell), ended up being untouched for quite a while, as music producers tend to gain workflow, they cannot drastically change the environment around them.
It seems this time he's in need for a thorough upgrade and your advice will be really appreciated.
A few key points and needs i have identified:
1. RAM - 128GB will be needed (for post-production mostly, those guys will understand why).
Meeting this requirement will most probably be tricky. What is the best option in this case? 32GB x 4, which will ease me the decision for motherboards with 4 RAM slots. Or 16GB x 8, which in this case probably means E-ATX motherboards and maybe 2011 Socket.
2. NVMe (or equivalent, M-2 etc) - Last time i checked this, it was not supported, i think this has changed if i am not wrong. SATA SSD will be the library haven, but the system deserves the new upgrade.
3. CPU - 7th gen or 8th gen? Stick to widely used i7-x700K's or go for the beefy ones with more cores? What about i9?
4. Motherboard - This one is tied to the previous points (and the one below),
Thunderbolt is somehow important, but there are most probably cards out there for this need to be fulfilled, yet a built in one or two is desired.
I have already settled for:
A nVidia 1050 card unless i see any argument pointing at benefits of beefing up a better one for Cuda/GPU help.
A Bitfenix case (the very silent one)
Watercooling obviously depends on the choice of 3 and 4.
Further research will be needed for a 10GB Ethernet, as i will introduce a NAS in this new environment, but this is an optional subject and 1GB is more then enough.
Thanks in advance and i hope i didnt bore you. Feel free to correct me in anything i may have guessed incorrectly as i really did not keep much up in the hardware world.