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Hi!

 

I'm going to build a hackintosh that I will use for video editing, probably Final Cut Studio.

Just want some comments and suggestions on the hardware I'm planning to buy.

 

Asus P5K-VM

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz

Corsair Dominator TWIN2X8500C5DF 4096MB (2x2GB)

Samsung SpinPoint F1 750GB SATA2

XFX GeForce 8800GT 600M 1GB GDDR3

Antec Sonata III Miditower with 500W PSU

DVD +/- R/RW PATA (old one I already use)

 

Thanks!

 

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Yeah, for Final Cut you had enough to put the fire on video editing and Hollywood lol! Nice build and at all, it seems pretty compatible and supposed to work whitout hassle ;)

 

Welcome to InsanelyMac btw :) PS: Thanks to post on the right section, keep on going !!

  • 2 weeks later...

Greetings,

 

I'm interested in a similar project for similar use, also with creative suite. osx86 seems a good idea for my needs and budget. the last pc I built was about five years ago, and I wish I had taken more time to prepare, as well as had more of a reason to build a higher-end pc.

it feels like hd setup could be an underrated importance. I am wondering if using an internal drive or partition to read/write files is a better than using external drives.

what is the future for 8gbram support? I haven't read that it is possible to maximize that power, but if a could build a machine ready for that, I would start sooner.

 

I will be curious as to how your project develops, so please let us know about hardware/software victories/defeats. and I wish you good luck.

  • 4 weeks later...

Final Cut loves to use RAM. 8GB of ram is really cheap now. You will not be adding that much more to your purchase price by adding another 4GB of RAM. Well worth you investment right now. Otherwise your system is a great system for final cut. Also save your self the headache and drop $30 on a Pioneer 216 SATA DVD-R drive. PATA is not worth the headache to get working. If you do a lot of video editing get a second hard drive (or even a third and fourth drive). I am booting off a 640GB now, and running a 750 and 500GB drive externally. The new 640GB drives are cheap, have two platters, and 32MB cache. Best of luck on your build.

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