mikeosoft Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 hi, so I've been around these forums for about a month or so, and I think it's time i build my new rig. i've done some searches on this but came up empty. I need a hackintosh for only pro tools audio work. And i need it to be as reliable as regular mac pro. I'm going with 10.4 Tiger because my pro tools Mbox 2 pro factory bundle and software is only compatible with tiger. Can anyone tell me 1. if what i want to do is worth doing on a hackintosh, 2. the best hardware (motherboard, graphics card, ect.) for this to build based on my specs below. heres the software i'd need to run: Pro tools logic logic pro 8 native insruments complete 5 protools 7.4 -Mbox 2 pro - factory bundle So here's what i've come up with. I have about $3,000 to spend. NEEDED WORKING ON MOTHERBOARD 1. Firewire 800 - 2 or 3 ports 2. SATA compatibility 3. 2 dual or quad core processors - possibly 2 Q6600 or better based on any recommendations 4. wireless and blutooth 5. I think I want atleast 8 gigs of ram or more GRAPHICS REQUIREMENTS 1. Nothing fancy just a 100% compatible cheap graphics card that has dual monitor outputs Thank you for taking the time to read my post and long live hackintosh osx86!!! -Mike Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97509-thinking-of-building-a-pro-toolslogic-pro-8-rig-need-helpsuggestions/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeosoft Posted April 5, 2008 Author Share Posted April 5, 2008 anyone? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97509-thinking-of-building-a-pro-toolslogic-pro-8-rig-need-helpsuggestions/#findComment-697574 Share on other sites More sharing options...
giggles778 Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 i've designed a few DAW's and a single dual core will do perfectly as well as around about 2 gig of ram ... where you wanna go nuts on is hard drive space as most of everything is put out as uncompressed waveform files if you get the right board which has i believe (but i'm not exactly sure) the intel 915 northbridge you should be alright with graphics as far as wireless ... i guess generic wifi should work but check around see what card and chipset is gonna give you the best performance and ease of install but for bluetooth ... there's only one the dlink dbt-120 from my research. for ideas on builds go and look around the installation forums and see what people have had sucess with Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97509-thinking-of-building-a-pro-toolslogic-pro-8-rig-need-helpsuggestions/#findComment-697851 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeosoft Posted April 6, 2008 Author Share Posted April 6, 2008 thank you I will check this out! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97509-thinking-of-building-a-pro-toolslogic-pro-8-rig-need-helpsuggestions/#findComment-698417 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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