Mettiu Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 With X99 arriving soon, I am thinking about building a hi-end machine equipped with a 5960X, lots of RAM and a workstation GPU, like an AMD FirePro W7000 or a newer W8100.Since Yosemite comes with new AMD drivers, I was wondering whether these cards could work OOB or with minor tweaks to the kexts.It will be quite an expensive build, and I am considering as well as to go directly for a legit MacPro, though there are many parts of it which I don't like at all (like that I have to externalize all my ssds, hdds).Please don't come to suggest me a gaming-class GPU instead, because it is not what I need.I found almost no informations about this on the internet, I hope someone can give me a help here!Thanks in advance! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theconnactic Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 We don't know how long will it take to Apple to support X99. I'd suggest you go nMP for first class costumer support, specially if you're a pro with an already busy working schedule. If you are to try a hackintosh, it won't be because of price, because the nMP is quite competitively priced this time, but perhaps because you have a CUDA-based workflow, or will get the job done with prosumer hardware, and in this case the price/performance top spot is all hackintosh, with Ivy-E i7 CPUs and the GTX 780 ti or the Titan being the obvious choice. Simply google "rampagedev". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mettiu Posted August 6, 2014 Author Share Posted August 6, 2014 You are right, I was assuming X99 to work with Yosemite, which may cause instead several problems as well.Yes, the 2013 MacPro is not expensive for what it offers, and I am anyway thinking about a similar price range for my eventual build. The point is that it does not offer what I exactly need, as I would prefer a single GPU with plenty of VRAM. The applications I use (like Maya) would greatly benefit of a FirePro Wseries compared to Quadro or GTX 780Ti or Titan, while the rendering software I have chosen, Maxwell Render, is CPU-based and it would doubtless speed up thanks to the double threaded 8 cores of the 5960X. To buy the components I exactly need and to work in Windows would be then another option, although I really like OS X, which I have been using for years both on legit iMacs, MacBookPro and hackintoshes.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamiethemorris Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 I think people will have X99 working not too long after it's release. People had X79 and SB-E/IB-E working long before there was support... Power management just didn't work yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vusun123 Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 No jamie, power management works for some CPUs now. About the graphics card, you can get Nvidia cards to make things straight, stay away from AMD Radeon if you can't handle patching it to work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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