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Lifehacker Hackintosh w/ Final Cut Studio 3


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Hello,

 

I am considering building the latest Lifehacker Hackintosh (Oct 25, 2010) with the default specs:

but with 16gbs of ram.

 

I am building this firstly for full functionality with Final Cut Studio 3, that means compressor, color, dvd studio, fcp (and motion). I need to burn DVD's as well, ofc. Should this build, if I do everything right, work flawlessly with Final Cut Studio 3? ABSOLUTELY KEY.

 

Second, I'm building this for full OSX functionality with an emphasis on Adobe's CS5, mostly just photoshop. Will external harddrives (USB, firewire, and esata) play nicely with this system?

 

And finally, will I have any display problems if I plug this into a basic, good, widescreen monitor. Compatibility and color accuracy are important here.

 

I need to be as close to 100% sure on this as I can.

 

Thank you

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I'd recommend more powerful PSU - like 600-700w. 500w might not be enough for future upgrades.

 

Noted.

 

I didn't make it clear that this was the first Hackintosh I've ever built. I'm wary of building a hackintosh pretty much exclusively for Final Cut Studio 3. I need someone to tell me whether a hackintosh with these specs (save the psu) will absolutely, positively work flawlessly with Final Cut Studio 3.

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The Antec EA500w power supply that's packaged with the Sonata Elite case is more than suitable for the system specs you've provided. As noted before, if you wish to upgrade the graphics card later, you might need to get a 650w PSU. But I kinda doubt it, the only card I would really upgrade to from there is the GTX460 and I don't know how well that plays with OSx86 at this point in time

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Noted.

 

I didn't make it clear that this was the first Hackintosh I've ever built. I'm wary of building a hackintosh pretty much exclusively for Final Cut Studio 3. I need someone to tell me whether a hackintosh with these specs (save the psu) will absolutely, positively work flawlessly with Final Cut Studio 3.

 

Again, the PSU does not worry me. Will the system run Final Cut Studio 3 without problems?

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Your system should be able to do it. I'm was using a 7200GS and a 9400GT with FCS3 and I had no problems with it.

 

That's a better answer, thank you. I am not concerned with the specifics of the build. I just wanted to know that FCS3 was absolutely feasible on a hackintosh.

 

Thank you. I am licking my lips now. Can't wait to have FCS3 running like a {censored} on a $1200 piece of hardware.

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That's a better answer, thank you. I am not concerned with the specifics of the build. I just wanted to know that FCS3 was absolutely feasible on a hackintosh.

 

Thank you. I am licking my lips now. Can't wait to have FCS3 running like a {censored} on a $1200 piece of hardware.

 

You may wanna think twice about it mate i wanted the same thing as you ive installed final cut studio and im getting sync issues when adding sound to my movie clips :rolleyes:

 

Running a asus striker 2 extreme Quadcore processor , 4gb Ram , Nvidia gtx260

 

Im well disapointed im really thinking about buying a mac pro

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You may wanna think twice about it mate i wanted the same thing as you ive installed final cut studio and im getting sync issues when adding sound to my movie clips :rolleyes:

 

Running a asus striker 2 extreme Quadcore processor , 4gb Ram , Nvidia gtx260

 

Im well disapointed im really thinking about buying a mac pro

 

Like I said, i'm not having any issues with both my build using FCS3... and my slowest one is using a Pentium P4 Core solo :blink:

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