Suggestion for VGA and some questions...

[mairk]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif]Hi.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif]I'm buying some compose to build a Hackintosh with i7 CPU. Use: Lightroom and Photoshop (90%) and video editing.
[/FONT]I want to buy a i7 4790K 4.0GHz to be OC to 4.4GHz.

Boundary conditions
- triple boot: Windows 8.1 on a HDD, OSX 10.9 and 10.10 on a SSD drive with 2 partitions
- I need 1-2 eSATA ports on the mainboard rear
- I need 2 FW800 ports (on a a PCIe controller)
- I already have a 24'' DELL monitor. I will add a second one (maybe identical). Issue: my monitor has DVI port, no HDMI
- Lightroom catalogue will stay on another SSD
- Photos will stay on 2 HDDs in RAID1 configuration
- This Hackintosh has to be very very fast in 1:1 picture rendering (my actual iMac is too slow)
- ...and it has also to be very silent

Already own:

- Cooltek W2
- CPU cooler Noctua NH-U12S
- Enermax Platimax 750W semimodular
- 2xHDD da 1TB 64MB cache 7200rpm (for pictures repository)
- 1 SSD Samsung 840EVO 500GB SATA3 (for Lightroom catalogue and 1:1 rendering)
- 1 HDD 2.5'' 250GB (for Windows 8.1)

To be bought:
- CPU: CPU Intel 1150 i7-4790K Ci7 Box (4,0GHz) BX80646I74790K
- MB: Asrock Z97 Extreme6 (ha la porta eSATA)
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif]- VGA: 2GB DD5 GX740 or AMD FirePro. I do not want to spend a fortune, as Lightroom does not use it too much. I heard about CUDA but I do not know what is it... [/FONT]
- RAM: DDR3 PC1866 16GB CL10 Corsair Ven k 2x8GB Vengeance,black,Low P. [CML16GX3M2A1866C10]
- SSD: Samsung 840 PRO 120GB SATA3 with 2 partitions, for OSX 10.9 and 10.10
- FW: Syba PCI-Express 2 FW800 and FW400
- WiFi: Opzional

Questions:
1) Is it a stable configuration, or shall I expect some issues from this HW?
2) Any suggestion about VGA?
3) Is the RAID configuration recognized by OSX?
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif]4) Does "target disk" function works with Hackintosh?[/FONT]
5) Are there any possible issues with "sleep function" with that CPU and the PSU?
6) Do you suggest something better for the OSX SSD , i.e. PCI express SSD? Or are there any problems with those drives?

Thanks!

 

[mairk]

Any advice, please?

 

[Going Bald]

Any advice, please?

Suggest an Asus to Gigabyte board rather than the Asrock - CPU MSR is locked - if you plan to use Legacy booting. If you will use Clover as boot loader, disregard and get Asrock.

Now that we have support for the GTX 970/980 with nVidia kexts, get the GTX 980 if you are going to game in Win8.

Otherwise you look good if that Noctua will clear your memory OK - should be no problem with low profile RAM but I would double check clearance.