DrSupachicken Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 Hi Guys, I'm looking at building a new Hackintosh, and this one will be purely dedicated as an audio and video workstation. Here is what I am looking at; Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 - $219AUD (I heard these over clock up to 4GHz) Asus Silent Square - $70AUD Gigabyte P35-DS3 - $189AUD (Hopefully full IntelHDA will be working soon) nVidia 7900GT 256MB PCI-E - $250AUD 4GB DDR2 1066MHz - $500AUD 500GB SATA II HDD - $132AUD (Will partition 2x 250GB) 500GB SATA II HDD - $132AUD (Will partition 2x 250GB) 18x DVDRW SATA - $35AUD Perspex Case - $90AUD Apple Keyboard - $50AUD Mighty Mouse - $70AUD Total Price = $1737AUD I know this isn't a 'real' Mac, but I think it will beat the pants off the base line Mac Pro selling for $3499AUD and at $1737AUD it is less then hal of the price of the Mac Pro!!! Base line Mac Pro Specs; Two 2GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon 1GB (2 x 512MB) 250GB Serial ATA 3GB/s drive - 7200rpm NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256MB SDRAM 1 x SuperDrive Apple Keyboard & Mighty Mouse What do you guys think? I'm planning on massive overclocks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56897-new-hackintosh-pro-build/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soündless Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 looks good. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56897-new-hackintosh-pro-build/#findComment-406388 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhalls Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 why not uing a quad core cpu ? The Q6600 is not very high priced at the moment (and prices will drop massively in about 2 weeks). THe Q6600 works very well here with osx 10.4.9 - and then you have the real speed of a mac pro and no need to overclock. And: Look for the intel bad axe 2 motherboard, its really fine and overclocks well. I wont give much on the audio abilities of the mainboards available, use an external box for that - M-Audio Transit or one of the firewire boxes. You get better quality for an audio machine. I would suggest this for a real mac pro, too. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56897-new-hackintosh-pro-build/#findComment-406395 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soündless Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 the q6600's price will probably be 200 in 2 months or so Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56897-new-hackintosh-pro-build/#findComment-406410 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vbetts Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 I don't know...2 dual core xeon Woodcrests...But, it will be a pretty nice hackintosh. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56897-new-hackintosh-pro-build/#findComment-406421 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrSupachicken Posted July 12, 2007 Author Share Posted July 12, 2007 Fair enough, a quad core would be nice. I'll be building this box in roughly one to two months so the price will have dropped by then. I already have an external audio interface that I use to run ProTools but it would nice to have onboard IntelHDA My hackintosh i've built and using now functions very nicely as everyday computer. Has only had OSx86 on it since day one and never have felt the urge to use windows. So I think the performance of the machine I'm talking about building will be great. At the very least I'd expect it to be faster running ProTools then an iMac, maybe a quad core will have a Mac Pro fighting? Cheers. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56897-new-hackintosh-pro-build/#findComment-406435 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 DrSupachicken, might I suggest one more item for your system. I use these on mine and it's made my systems extremely flexible and very easy to expand for more HD space. If your case will allow it, use 2 of the front external slots to install a mobile rack for your hard drives (e.g. http://www.directron.com/ds2131ssbk.html). This way, you can have a 100% hackintosh one day and a 100% PC (if you so desire) the next day. Just plop in the proper system drive. I have two 4 drive mobile racks in my 2 servers and depending on what system I'm working on, I can pull the data drive out of one system and plug it into the other. Works great. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56897-new-hackintosh-pro-build/#findComment-406551 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrSupachicken Posted July 12, 2007 Author Share Posted July 12, 2007 Hey Moose, Yeah that looks really cool! I wouldn't bother with different operating systems cause I'm perfectly happy with the one this site is dedicated too, but that would be brilliant for different sample libraries. Most of them are around the 80GB mark each. Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56897-new-hackintosh-pro-build/#findComment-406627 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheeplover Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 Yesterday I ordered the components for my first "serious" hackint0sh - looks much the same: Intel Core2Quad Q6600 Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 2x 1024MB Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400 2x Samsung SpinPoint HD501LJ 500GB sATA2 WinFast PX7300GT 256 MB NEC AD-7173S DVDRW 18x/8x/8x complete for about $890 (650 EUR) here in germany. The cpu dropped in price 2 days ago from $600 to $370. I've chosen the Gigabyte mobo because the BX2 is to expensive here (~ $350). The graphics card was the cheapest PCIe I could find ($50) that runs flawlessly and supports QE and CI. I'm waiting for the new ATI HD2900XT to arrive and to be tested. :wink2: I read & tested a lot with different kinds of components & notebooks and I travelled around my friend's computers with a USB-HD that has Jas 10.4.8 installed. Finnaly I decided to buy the above mentioned components. If everything works as planned, my next post tommorow will be written on my new hackint0sh. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56897-new-hackintosh-pro-build/#findComment-406643 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jl8080 Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 Looks quite decent mate!! Shame GF8 support ain't here yet I might end up buying a 7 series gfx card and upgrading at Christmas or something! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56897-new-hackintosh-pro-build/#findComment-406661 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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