- Joined
- Mar 26, 2019
- Messages
- 19
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Z390 Designare
- CPU
- i7 8700
- Graphics
- RX 580
Hey guys,
Sorry for the misleading title, I'm all too new in the Hackintosh world, thus I have no pretension to write a guide for your goto mixing station.
But who knows ?
With the help of all the passionate people in this forum and my skills at making a decent google search; this thread might become a decent guide!
So I will apologise for the clickbait title and hopefully we can start building this thing.
In all honesty, I've just came across the Hackintosh world and in all humility I don't really know how it works, so I might be completely in over my head when I think I can figure this out. But I'm quite handy and this wouldn't be my first experience in building a rig of upgrading/customising a computer.
Though I'm quite comfortable in a Mac OS environment, I can't really say the same thing about the windows structure. I've always been on a Mac, and as of my line of work, it is quite rare to stumble upon windows operated workstation in recording studios.
So my question is: when building a Hackintosh, how often will I encounter the windows environment? (For software installation, rig setup, blablabla...)
And one follow up question to that: apparently there's a lot of time to spend on the rig to set it up, but is there any difficulty in installing softwares and plugins and libraries and yadiyadiyada...? Or is it just like the mac OS I know?
Why do I want to build this?
Money. I'd like to tell you that I do it for the passion of building something from scratch (which amuses me) or that I do it to boycott apple products becoming more expensive and less performant (which i might be doing?). But the bottom line problem is money: I can't afford a 3k Apple rig.
So wait, you're telling me that there is a way to get performance at a lower price AND that it can be on a Mac OS ? Sign me in.
The thing is, I don't know how any of this works. I've already tried to install a windows OS on a macbook with the help of Bootcamp and it worked out fine. I doubt that it's this easy on a full customed rig though... So this is why I'm writhing this thread, to try and lure you into helping me build this money saving tool.
What I'd like my computer to have.
Well now that I've written a fairly boring introduction, I guess we can dive right in the heart of the issue.
I've looked at the buyer's guide and after looking at an endless list of different motherboards with each one having a sexier name than the other, I came to the realisation that I had no idea what to pick. Pretty much the same story with the rest of the components.
So perhaps I'm going to leave YOU take decisions for my computer's metabolism. (I don't want to trust myself and end up with a glorified toaster you see).
But good news! To help you help me, I have a pretty clear idea of what I want this computer to be able to do or not do.
Nothing too fancy right? Sometimes, easy works. I just want a reliable, stable computer to work on.
First of all, I want to thank everyone in advance for helping me build this. You're doing this on your free time, benevolently and I greatly appreciate it.
If you have any questions or remarks or advices, please feel free to ask or tell.
Cheers,
Theo
Sorry for the misleading title, I'm all too new in the Hackintosh world, thus I have no pretension to write a guide for your goto mixing station.
But who knows ?
With the help of all the passionate people in this forum and my skills at making a decent google search; this thread might become a decent guide!
So I will apologise for the clickbait title and hopefully we can start building this thing.
In all honesty, I've just came across the Hackintosh world and in all humility I don't really know how it works, so I might be completely in over my head when I think I can figure this out. But I'm quite handy and this wouldn't be my first experience in building a rig of upgrading/customising a computer.
Though I'm quite comfortable in a Mac OS environment, I can't really say the same thing about the windows structure. I've always been on a Mac, and as of my line of work, it is quite rare to stumble upon windows operated workstation in recording studios.
So my question is: when building a Hackintosh, how often will I encounter the windows environment? (For software installation, rig setup, blablabla...)
And one follow up question to that: apparently there's a lot of time to spend on the rig to set it up, but is there any difficulty in installing softwares and plugins and libraries and yadiyadiyada...? Or is it just like the mac OS I know?
Why do I want to build this?
So wait, you're telling me that there is a way to get performance at a lower price AND that it can be on a Mac OS ? Sign me in.
The thing is, I don't know how any of this works. I've already tried to install a windows OS on a macbook with the help of Bootcamp and it worked out fine. I doubt that it's this easy on a full customed rig though... So this is why I'm writhing this thread, to try and lure you into helping me build this money saving tool.
What I'd like my computer to have.
Well now that I've written a fairly boring introduction, I guess we can dive right in the heart of the issue.
I've looked at the buyer's guide and after looking at an endless list of different motherboards with each one having a sexier name than the other, I came to the realisation that I had no idea what to pick. Pretty much the same story with the rest of the components.
So perhaps I'm going to leave YOU take decisions for my computer's metabolism. (I don't want to trust myself and end up with a glorified toaster you see).
But good news! To help you help me, I have a pretty clear idea of what I want this computer to be able to do or not do.
- The price is an important thing for you to know I guess: I can spend no more than 1500 euros on this (minus screen, kb, mouse), so even if it's 10 euros more than the agreed price, I'll go back and change a component for a cheaper one. This might a bit exaggerated but a budget is a budget you know?
- i9 or i7 ? I don't think that the price/performance ratio is worth it. I might want to stick with a really good i7.
- I don't need an excessive amount of RAM, I know 16gb works fine, I've had VERY FEW RAM related problems and I can't remember the last time I had a shortage of it. 32 GB sounds dope though, I can't argue with that. But I have to put boundaries for myself. If I ever need more, I'll just buy two more sticks.
- I want something only apple has, and that's Thunderbolt 2 or 3 protocole. So many things in the music industry uses this system that it would make no sense for me not to have the latest protocole available. Or USB-C, I just need something that fits with the global actual standard. I've seen a few motherboards fitted with some thunderbolt ports but I'm not sure how compatible they are with a Hackintosh.
- With no server rooms or closet available in my studio, this computer will be in the control room with me, so I need it to be silent. Maybe silent is not the proper word... I need it to be inaudible.
- For storage, nothing too fancy. I'll be content with a 256gb or 512gb SSD (if i can afford the bigger one I'll take it), and a 2TB HD.
- I guess we'll see for power after the rest of the components get clearer.
- Graphic card wise, I don't need 4k video processing, or 80 fps. I just want to be able to plug two HD screens to it.
- Don't need a wifi card, I'll go with a cable.
- Don't need a sound card, got this.
Nothing too fancy right? Sometimes, easy works. I just want a reliable, stable computer to work on.
First of all, I want to thank everyone in advance for helping me build this. You're doing this on your free time, benevolently and I greatly appreciate it.
If you have any questions or remarks or advices, please feel free to ask or tell.
Cheers,
Theo
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