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For £1000 just buy a mac mate its not worth the hassle of messing about with hardwear issues all the time. i had an osx86 machine for about a year till i got enough money for a macbook then this year i got a mac pro the real thing is far better and runs much more smoothly.

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For £1000 just buy a mac mate its not worth the hassle of messing about with hardwear issues all the time. i had an osx86 machine for about a year till i got enough money for a macbook then this year i got a mac pro the real thing is far better and runs much more smoothly.
I beg to differ.
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I would think the real thing would be better, most of all it would feel better knowing you have the original.

But also at the same time though, OSx86 devs are getting so much exp and right now are doing a great job. 10.4.10 is flawless on install for me at least and performance so far is excellent.

Xbench is next to compare with Macs.

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An imac would do the job, depending on what kind of projects you are working on. Its more fun to spend time making music then troubleshooting. Then again if you stick to recommended hardware it could be a pretty simple process.

I just added 4 gigs of ram on my hackintosh i now get 176 on xbench....i guess thats snappier enough.

Think about getting a good soundcard, thats very important too.

 

Good luck!

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Actually yeah, I second that opinion, somehow I thought £1000 = $1000. With $1000 you could get an okay setup enough for logic pro but the hassle of osx86. Getting the real one would be better.

Just look around the board... they have lots of good combos that are full supported, or have fully working drivers made from this community.

 

I wouldn't stop you from buying a Macbook or Macbook Pro, but when you dump serious cash on a desktop, Mac Pro IS NOT a bargain. It takes a little research to build a Hackintosh, but the end result would be positive in both the performance and price departments.

 

For $1000 I can build a hackintosh faster than any Mac Pro on the market, no problem.

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The best system today for Logic pro 8

 

Mainboard : Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R

Processor : Intel Quad Core 6600 with Thermalright ultra

RAM : Whatever flotes your boat, but we recommend PC6400 + 2gb memory.

Graphic card : 7950GT 256mb (Almost as fast as 8800GTS 320mb and DX10 games won't become a standard in a while so it's useless to get a DX10 card now when they might get slow once the DX10 games are out)

Harddrive : 500GB Western Digital AAKS (BUY AAKS, BEST DISKS FOR HFS+)

DVD-writer : Some random black SATA burner

Case : Antec Sonata III with a 500W PSU and it's supposed to be very quiet

Monitor : Hewlet Packard W2007 20" 1680x1050 with intergrated speakers and it got Brightview

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The best system today for Logic pro 8

 

Mainboard : Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R

Processor : Intel Quad Core 6600 with Thermalright ultra

RAM : Whatever flotes your boat, but we recommend PC6400 + 2gb memory.

Graphic card : 7950GT 256mb (Almost as fast as 8800GTS 320mb and DX10 games won't become a standard in a while so it's useless to get a DX10 card now when they might get slow once the DX10 games are out)

Harddrive : 500GB Western Digital AAKS (BUY AAKS, BEST DISKS FOR HFS+)

DVD-writer : Some random black SATA burner

Case : Antec Sonata III with a 500W PSU and it's supposed to be very quiet

Monitor : Hewlet Packard W2007 20" 1680x1050 with intergrated speakers and it got Brightview

All for less than $1000.

 

Heck, if you do some price watch and ebaying for this stuff, I bet you could build this system for $700 after taxes.

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For £1000 just buy a mac mate its not worth the hassle of messing about with hardwear issues all the time. i had an osx86 machine for about a year till i got enough money for a macbook then this year i got a mac pro the real thing is far better and runs much more smoothly.

 

 

That not true at all, once a hackintosh has all its devices supported it wont run any different to the real thing.

 

I recently built a quad core 2 duo @3ghz with the intel Badaxe 2 mobo. It has ran perfectly and even beats similar specd mac pro quads in benchmarks.

 

 

Seriously there is no need to pay for apples ridiculously over priced mac pros. There is no difference with the xeon cpu and the quad extremes and the 1333 fsb on the extremes adds a very small perf gain under 10 % so you could even get a Q6600 OC it to 2.8-3ghz and be a very happy man.

 

 

 

Not to mention you wont get much real mac for a grand, the macbooks dont pack enough of a punch for extensive logic projects.

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Will SPDIF-IN on the P35-DS3R mainboard work?

Doubt it, one frequent limitation of OSX86 machines is that sound input doesn't work.

 

For £1000, either get the best iMac you can afford, or what olofd recommended. What you get with apple is a completely compatible and silent PC with a great screen. With the hack you get great flexibility in pricing and configuration and better speeds.

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I put together an

  • Asus p5w dh 130.00 $ (audio in and out)
  • c2duo 6300 120.00 $
  • 2 gigs of ram 800supertalent 100.00 $
  • 7300gs xfx 30.00 $ Dual monitors running
  • sonata 2 case 20.00 $
  • sata drives 160 free (pull from other friends dead linux comp)
  • 500 watt tr2 thermaltake 60.00$
  • dvdr pioneer 112 25.00$
  • presonus firebox 200.00$ (6 ins and 8 outs)

I have audio in but I wouldn't use a computers audio card for pro audio

 

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grand total 685.00$

  • logic pro 8 academic 150.00$ New and full university computers boston.

I have a 152 xbench without drives checked and I can run logic with a huge amount of plugins no problem. I would love to have a mac pro but I don't really see the reason it costs so much since my machine can handle most tasks it can do for a fraction of the price. My system never crashes, very stable. Get the mac pro if you can afford it , if not put together a sweet, stable hackintosh for a quater the price.

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^nice setup, n good choice with buying.

My AMD 64 Am2 3800+ cost about the same price last year, now i wish i had the cpu you have. The cpu i have is great but i could use that extra cpu memory for Logic. Although i have no problems with what i work with now, only occasional Audio overloads that come from Azureus starting up and allocating, checking files. Course if i really need the power none of the sort would run in the background.

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Any suggestions would be great i got budget of £1000

 

I was thinking of the Tyan Tempest i5000XT Motherboard????

 

Thats about it lol

 

You don't have to spend loads of money to get a good DAW. Been ther done that with a £300 Tyan board a while back . Had loads of probs with my 2 UADS. After searching the Nuendo forums and speaking to ADK Audio (DAW builders) I ended up selling it and using a MSI Dual Opertron workstation board which worked better with the UAD's.

 

I've since switched to mac from PC/Nuendo once Logic went dongle free. What you should get is in my sig SteveUK. Def the way to go. My Rig is Rock solid with LS8. I am extremely happy with it. I used Geekbench and got 6800. You can see here how it compares to the Mac pros http://www.primatelabs.ca/blog/2007/06/mac...ance-june-2007/

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I've just built a new hackintosh for Logic 8. This are my prices in Madrid, Spain.

 

My PC:

Monitor: LG TFT 22" Flatron L226WTQ-SF 304€

MB: Intel BADAX2 D975XBX2KR 199€

CPU: Core 2 Quad Q6600 (4x 2400 MHz) 250€

MEMORY: OCS DIMM kit 2 GB DDR2-800 126€

POWER SUPPLY: Aeris 680W 109€

CASE: Antec 100€

Video: Antec 6600GT 50€

HD: WD Raptor 74GB (10000RPM) 124€

DVDRW: Samsun SH-S203B 30€

 

Total= 1292€

 

 

MacPro:

Two 2.66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon

2 GB (en cuatro módulos de 512 MB)

GeForce 7300 GT de NVIDIA

Serial ATA de 250 GB a 7.200 rpm

23" Apple Cinema HD

 

Total = 3.608,01€

 

 

Yeah I saved quite a bit!

 

-Cheers!

 

P.S. I do have a couple of problems with the PC which don't bother me at all. 1) is that you have to fiddle with the network/cable to get it to work some times when you start the system. Doesn't happen all the time and I don't care cause I have my PC running 24/7. 2) Some times if the pc goes to sleep it never comes back. Which again does not bother me because I have disable sleep mode for the PC. Other than that everything runs perfec, even logic with lots of instruments and plugs. Also, I'm running 10.4.10 from Kalyway.

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Hi Steve,

 

No, I sold them along with my Powercore. I'm all native now. My RME PCi card is working great though, with very high plug count and low latencey. I'm using the RME mac drivers btw.

 

You should build something around the Q6600 (G0 version). For current price/performance you will not get better.

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