Pokopo Posted July 20, 2007 Share Posted July 20, 2007 If somebody can give me a working quad-core configuration running FCP 6, around or under $1300, I will buy them a beer, even two beers. No kidding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stickpin Posted July 20, 2007 Share Posted July 20, 2007 Intel D975XBX2 Intel Q6600 Corsair Value 4GB DDR800 250GB OS 250GB x 2 Apple RAID0 for Video Editing. My friend using such configuration for Final Cut Studio 2. p.s. Where is my beer? ))) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pokopo Posted July 21, 2007 Author Share Posted July 21, 2007 Thanks stickpin but before I buy you your two beers.. 1 - what do you recommend for a video card for dual display editing? (I don't need gaming power or anything, just need to be able to edit with two screens efficiently)2 - fan? and case?3 - Do the osx86 (uphuck?) versions natively recognize and support the 4-cores without too much hassle?4 - Last, the firewire port is recognized by FCP and captures HDV?Sorry for too many questions but it would make me so happy if I could figure this out and make it work.Or....5 - Is there a reasonably priced consumer machine (hp etc) that is already quad-core and can easily be turned into a Hacintosh for quad-core editing?Thank you so much for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stickpin Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 1 - 7300GT 256MB works great with NVinject 009 and dual display. 2 - Case buy one you like, but you need good PSU, something like 550W True power, i think Enermax, Thermaltake, Antec, HEC will be fine. You can use intel's original fan if you are not overclocking cpu. 3 - i dont like unhuck's one, using JaS OS 10.4.8 then koolkal 10.4.10 combo update intel sse3 only. 4 - As i remember no patch needed for Firewire, works fine out of the box. 5 - Dont like to pay money for brands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pokopo Posted July 21, 2007 Author Share Posted July 21, 2007 1 - 7300GT 256MB works great with NVinject 009 and dual display.2 - Case buy one you like, but you need good PSU, something like 550W True power, i think Enermax, Thermaltake, Antec, HEC will be fine. You can use intel's original fan if you are not overclocking cpu. 3 - i dont like unhuck's one, using JaS OS 10.4.8 then koolkal 10.4.10 combo update intel sse3 only. 4 - As i remember no patch needed for Firewire, works fine out of the box. 5 - Dont like to pay money for brands. Thank you so much, you've been so helpful. I know you said you don't like brands but I found this Gateway machine which pretty much costs the same as putting all that together. Do you think it'll work without major problems? Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Quad Core Processor 2.4GHz each of 4 Channels 2GB DD2 Upgradeable to 8GB PC2-5300 (2 DDR2 Slot Available) NVIDIA GeForce 8500GT with 256GB ObBoard Memory NTSC Analog and ATSC Digital TV Tuners with Antenna Ports / Vista Remote Control 500GB SATA II 7200RPM Hard Drive Up to 16x DVD CD SuperMulti Drive also supports Dual-Layer DVD Media USB powered Stereo Speakers / Up to 7.1 Channel Audio Capable 15-in-1 Digital Media Card Reader Up to 56K Fax- Modem RJ11 10/100 Ethernet Wires Network RJ45 (also for Broadband Internet connection) 8 USB Ports; 2 IEEE1394 Firewire; 1 (VGA) Monitor Port; 3 Analog A/V front inputs; 2 PS2 ports; 5 Rear audio connections; Front Microphone input; Front Headphone jack // 1 Available PCI-E slot // 1 each available 3.5" and 5.25" Drive bay for expansion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stickpin Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 You spend money for nothing here. Ill mark stuff that you dont need: NVIDIA GeForce 8500GT with 256GB ObBoard Memory <= no 8xxx series currently supported by OSX. NTSC Analog and ATSC Digital TV Tuners with Antenna Ports / Vista Remote Control <= yeah right Vista, pretty sure not OSX compatible.. )) 500GB SATA II 7200RPM Hard Drive <= 250GB x 2 in RAID0 will give much better performance in video editing. USB powered Stereo Speakers / Up to 7.1 Channel Audio Capable <= blah 2GB DD2 Upgradeable to 8GB PC2-5300 (2 DDR2 Slot Available) <= you need 4GB here Up to 56K Fax- Modem RJ11 <= im pretty sure not OSX compatible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahbau Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 Wait until after Sunday to buy a Quad Core. The Q6600 is about to drop in price by about 50% when Intel releases the new chips Sunday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pokopo Posted July 21, 2007 Author Share Posted July 21, 2007 Wait until after Sunday to buy a Quad Core. The Q6600 is about to drop in price by about 50% when Intel releases the new chips Sunday. Thanks for the tip. The Intel D975XBX2 board on newegg doesn't say it supports quad-core. Do I disregard that? Hmm. Any ideas? Is there a cheaper motherboard that'll drive the Q6600. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahbau Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 Intel says it supports the Core 2 Quad - http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/D975XBX2/index.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hirez Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 Building exact same sysmte with Q6600 and i am going for a asus P5k E or deluxe edition. Both have threads, and both are working. The reason for this is that you get more connections than Bad Axe 2, similiar price for newer board, and two nice esata.. which is great for switching between projects or even Windows to Mac osx (I hope this is possible btw hehe.. my first hackintosh so better learn a lot) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ive scene enough Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 I am seriosuly wanting to build a system like this for protools/ FCP. hopefully with in a month or two i can do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stickpin Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 The reason why better go for Intel its stability. Intel's MB with Intel's CPU, always was and always be the most stable system. I do love ASUS much more then Intel, but my next upgrade with be Intel MB for quad or xeons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 I too use the Bad Axe 2 MB for my editing system. One thing to be careful of with a pre-fabbed unit like the one from Gateway is the motherboard. You never know what they're using at any given time and I would always build any system (PC or Mac) starting from the motherboard on up. I'm not a gamer either, so I don't need the latest greatest graphics card. I went with the 7600GS because it runs cool (for a 512mb card) and supports dual monitors (albeit 1vga and 1dvi). If I were building this today, I might opt for one of the cards others have mentioned here that supports supports dual dvi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pokopo Posted July 21, 2007 Author Share Posted July 21, 2007 Just ordered all this: PSU TT|W0101RU 550W RT MEM 1Gx2|MUSHKIN DII800 996529 R CASECOOLERMAS|CAC-T05-UW BLK RT VGA EVGA GF 7300GT 256-P2-N445-LX CPU INTEL|C2Q Q6600 2.40G 775 8M R HD 250G|SAMG 7K 8M SATA2 SP2504C MB ASUS P5K P35 775 R Already have DVDdrive and 2 monitors and 320Gb sata + 300gb firewire Will post results once I put it together. Thank you all for your help. Also.. in exchange for your help, I'd be happy to answer any/all questions about FCP. Been using/teaching it since Beta version circa 1996.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hirez Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 Pokopo: THATS exactly what i think I am going for (except i am getting a x1950XT 256 mb card). May i ask why you chose the P5K instead of Bad axe 2 ? I wonder when the new bad axe "3" comes out, which has esata and all the stuff.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reghost Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 The Intel D975xbx2 is extremely reliable. It feels solid and well put together. It offers 8 sata port and is supported by OS X (10.4.8-9) right out of the box minus audio. (easily fixed through Tarugas Patcher) Overclocking is nicely supported and dependable. e-Sata port and firewire are standard. I definatly agree with going with a Dual DVI Video Card from the begining. Using DVI to VGA adaptors makes you loose clarity and speed in the graphics department. DVI is really shard and clean. 256mb seems to be sufficient for most users in my opinion and 512mb is really for showing off and gaming. Go with as much ram as you possibly can from the start. OS X will thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pokopo Posted July 21, 2007 Author Share Posted July 21, 2007 I went for the Asus P5K because it's cheaper and the eSATA will come in handy for me. (already have a few external boxes with SATA drives in them) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stickpin Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 P35 good chip but not supported my OSX yet. :\ Your money, your choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hirez Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 The Intel D975xbx2 is extremely reliable. It feels solid and well put together. It offers 8 sata port and is supported by OS X (10.4.8-9) right out of the box minus audio. (easily fixed through Tarugas Patcher) Overclocking is nicely supported and dependable. e-Sata port and firewire are standard. I definatly agree with going with a Dual DVI Video Card from the begining. Using DVI to VGA adaptors makes you loose clarity and speed in the graphics department. DVI is really shard and clean. 256mb seems to be sufficient for most users in my opinion and 512mb is really for showing off and gaming. Go with as much ram as you possibly can from the start. OS X will thank you. esata is not standard i am afraid, unless you mean they throw in some esata brackets? However, what I CAN advise is the beautiful thoughtrough Setup, there are several pcie available meaning it would be easy to add a card which support 2 esata or for example rocketraid 2310 (pciex4 but you can use the 16 lane for this). And you are still left with a few pci depending on how large the gpu will be. Well the P5k, is never, has 2 esata but "only" 6 internal SATA, which two of them sit in a stupid position in case you get a loooong card one day, but i guess its not applicable with the hackintosh, still, who puts the connectors right in line with the pcie gpu slot.. So I can get the bad axe for similiar money as a p5k the deluxe is already much more. So all in all, i think for compatability Bad Axe 2. still as no bad axe 3 is to be seen and perhaps will only come along with X38 chipset AND ddr3,, blehhh..!! I hope the upcoming versions of Mac osx like leopard (? hope i am right) will work with this board, anything showing that it wouldnt? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stickpin Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 P35 and X38 architecture will be supported by Leo, but it will take a time, Apple is not upgrading their Mac's so fast as PC industry. You see whats going on with Nvidia 8xxx series, so far no normal solution for this. On PC we got this card almost for 6 month already. So think twice before you buy unsupported hardware for Hackintosh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pokopo Posted July 21, 2007 Author Share Posted July 21, 2007 just changed my order upon your recommendations and got the bad axe 2 instead. a $50 is worth the peace of mind.. thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asap18 Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 eh, dont talk about what you dont know plskthxbai. p35 works fine, i have a q6600 soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hirez Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 Well yes some ppl get ANYTHing (well almost to work) But if ppl say tha it works "out of the box" then i take it works very well and that is WELL worth the money instead of me sitting and trying 10s of different configs. So i will be getting Bad axe 2! Pokopo: I think you did the right think as well! feel free to keep us posted. I am waiting for q6600 drop and THEN! eyyypppppuieeee!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 The Intel D975xbx2 is extremely reliable. It feels solid and well put together. It offers 8 sata port and is supported by OS X (10.4.8-9) right out of the box minus audio. (easily fixed through Tarugas Patcher) Overclocking is nicely supported and dependable. e-Sata port and firewire are standard. I definatly agree with going with a Dual DVI Video Card from the begining. Using DVI to VGA adaptors makes you loose clarity and speed in the graphics department. DVI is really shard and clean. 256mb seems to be sufficient for most users in my opinion and 512mb is really for showing off and gaming. Go with as much ram as you possibly can from the start. OS X will thank you. Reghost, are you saying you've got all eight drives recognized by OSX? The 4 on the Marvell controller? That's the only thing that keeps my system from being perfect (as perfect as a clone can be). If I could get them to work, I'd set up an external quad drive on that controller for Mac and the other controller would be for Windows. Since I can turn off all my front mounted drives, I could then have 2 completely separate systems with all the drive space I'd need for each, at the flick of a switch. Let me know what you've discovered as I've been searching for a fix for this for several months. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hirez Posted July 22, 2007 Share Posted July 22, 2007 Wait a minute, so its not "normal" that all 4 sata work on he marvell?? Then how come ppl say this works, it doesnt if only HALF of the sata connects. I would appreciate if someone could help out,BJ, i am looking for similiar solution with the frontloaded backplane.. would you mind telling me what brand etc. it is?I currently found one which seems to have buttons for each harddrive as well as a reset button. found this in a nother thread"for the additional SATA ports,try adding thier id into the Appleviaata kext. It worked on badaxe one, but im not sure how similar marvell is to VIA" Also read following from the wiki:"Works: LAN, USB, FireWire, all 8 SATA-II ports with AHCI mode intel/marvell, SATA dvd drive nec7170s! Edit: Audio working with 10.4.9 update jas and AppleHDA Patcher 1.15.- Use this install DVD "jas 10.4.8 intel/AMD sse2/sse3 ppf1 + diskutil fix" Don't Forget to update your bios first!pako"Does it shed som light?Somewhere i read that it was working in IDE mode..The guides are unfortunately not mentioning about these 4 extra sata connectors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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