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- raf1
https://www.techinferno.com/inde…
It will get easier and more available once Thunderbolt 3 hits the market and there is official support for eGPU.
- Omg omg! Thx! This might just be what I need.pango
- it looks promising but it looks like early days hackintosh drama as well...ernexbcn
- Yes, but with Thunderbolt 3 it will be straightforward, kosher and even hot-swappable.raf
- Still, when you look at it, iMac is priced like a 27" 5K monitor with an almost free computer thrown in for good measure.raf
- yeah well I guess if you need the 5K 27 inch monitor then it is a good dealernexbcn
- but those iMacs are over 21 hundred €, from what I've seen I can build an even more powerful thing for half thaternexbcn
- without the 5K 27 inch display of courseernexbcn
- Those 27" displays are high gamut too.evilpeacock
- a display like the one in the iMac is gonna run you 1300 € + by itselfmonospaced
- also, those iMacs run about $1500 €, not 2100 €monospaced
- nope, 27 inch 5k are over 21 hundred euros here, see my post belowernexbcn
- mugwart2
I can chime in as I'm mid sorting out my build now.
Got mine in January and it 'just worked' (meaning it was to good to be true). Month in the Processor fan stopped working. Taking it apart and putting it back together - computer wouldn't build.Replaced mother board and hit so many problems with scan.co.uk (UK people stay away).
Finally replaced that - still nothing. Replaced processor and fan - still nothing.After a frustrating month plus I discover it is the mother board and they probably sent me the original dud one back. Fighting them this week to get a refund. Praying I can get this for the weekend but doubt it highly.
Moral of the story - its doable, its fun, its a lot cheaper, there's good learning to be had, just don't get parts from the internet.
Find a good trustworthy shop (plus one on human interaction)If you want to do it as a main machine - I'd phase it in with your current MAC and try ad keep that in a condition in case yours "breaks".
Can send over my spec if you want.
- I can recommend overclockers.co.uk for components - I've used them for years now. Had two HW probs (not their fault), both instantly replaced, no questions.detritus
- Same story, but without all the hardware issues.noneck
- Thanks for the recommendation detritus.
found a good guy whom works in a shop on Tottenham court road.
might stick to people but I'll check this out.mugwart - noneck - whats wrong with yours?mugwart
- @mugwart - nothing wrong. just a pain in the ass. I gave up trying to get iMessage work, or install El Capitan.noneck
- I had no problem with El Capitan. Never had issues with IMessage - though my wifi card wasn't working!!mugwart
- pango1
Do you guys think it's worth it if i get a
13"Air, 128G SSD, 2.2 Ghz i7, 8GB RAM, $1,149.
And have a E-GPU $400?I like how it's really compact with just the air for carrying around. and when i'm home. I can just plug the E-GPU in and have enough processing power to render photos and videos.
- I don't know nor have anything to contribute to your post,
just wanted to say, Hello!GeorgesII - Apparently there are issues with Adobe apps: https://www.techinfe…raf
- ugggghhhh need more research....
Hi Georges!pango
- I don't know nor have anything to contribute to your post,
- ernexbcn1
- I need more Almacena!!!oey
- They start at just under 2K in the Spanish Refurb store, but yeah, I get what you mean.raf
- that's weird.. they're only $1500 US dollars in the USmonospaced
- omg, I was looking at the wrong one... my bad, you're right :)monospaced
- noneck1
I had a big long story typed up, and QBN logged me out when I submitted. Fuck.
Here's the tl;dr: It's cheap, you can get a fast machine for way less money than from Apple. But it kinda needs to be a hobby, because you'll always be fighting with it. You'll sit down one morning, and shit'll be fucked up, and you'll spend 6 hours trying to troubleshoot and fix it. Me? I'd rather do billable work for my clients, or play with my kids, or just about anything else than spend the day getting my computer to work properly.
- that was a bit of my experience.... sound was strange on my hackintosh, sometimes updates broke stuff....vaxorcist
- sounds shittymoldero
- mine's still running fine. still on snow leopard though.johnny_wobble
- noneck3
I have a hackintosh now, and I'm about to replace it with an iMac. I'd advise against it unless you want your hackintosh to be a hobby. If you want something that'll just work, stay away.
- johnny_wobble1
I'm posting this from my shiny new hackintosh! it was a bit dodgy getting everything running right, but I've got it now. just one little bug to work out still. getting audio and network took some trial and error, but I know the right combo if anybody uses this motherboard. :) I had a power supply problem at first. the 500W either wasn't good or not enough power. it would run the system with 1 sata drive, but not both hd and dvd. replaced it with a 700W and all is well.
I'll report back after living with it for a few days, but at this point, it's been a fun challenge and well worth the effort. total spent was under $800.
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- +1akrok
- did you hook up all the power molex connectors from the power supply? you should have 2 that go to the mobozarkonite
- yeah, everything was hooked up right.johnny_wobble
- raf0
Weren't people always having trouble updating hackintoshes to recent OSX builds?
You could consider a different approach: getting a 5K iMac, costing only a bit more than a 5K Dell display, and adding an external graphic processor of your choice via Thunderbolt.
- you can do that?monospaced
- please elaborate.pango
- *elaboratesraf
- ernexbcn0
How are your builds doing? it seems inevitable I'll end up building one.
- Why's that? Anything to do with Win10?detritus
- I will dual boot but I'd like to keep working on OS X, Windows for games.ernexbcn
- Ah, ok - makes sense. For some reason I had you in mind as a PC user for work too.detritus
- Mine has a few strange habits I'm ironing out but it works really well and I'm really happy with it.mugwart
- monospaced0
My home iMac is over 4 years old now, and I'm starting to consider a new machine. While I do spend most of my time in OS X, I have found uses for having a Windows machine as well, and I simply just want something else to tinker with (not to mention, save a little money).
Anyone with any more recent hackintosh experience to share. I'd love to build something capable of gaming, but that will still boot OS X without any major headaches along the way. Oh, and none of that see-thru led-lit pulsing liquid cooled fishtank looking stupid cases. Just a simple box I can put to the side would be great.
Upgradeability is a huge benefit I look forward to, especially when it comes to video cards. Is this something I can do with a hackintosh or am I limited to only cards Apple has in their machines?
- I've checked out the main hackintosh boards, but none of the content seems straightforward. I end up with more questions than answers :/monospaced
- My iMac is about the same age, and is still serviceable. Honestly I only use Windows on it these days.garbage
- Isn't Scarabin into hackintoshing? Like, legitimately - not as some weird deviant enterprise.face_melter
- My iMac is perfectly fine, but it doesn't have an SSD and I feel like it had a subpar video card from day one.monospaced
- Unless you spring for the top large-screen model, iMac video cards are garbage. Main reason why I binned mine and switched to PC.face_melter
- exactly, feels crippling considering everything else is just finemonospaced
- with a hackintosh at least I'd be able to keep any 27" display I invested in toomonospaced
- I have the 27". I'll go SSD if I ever really start using it again.garbage
- I can't go SSD without taking the whole damn thing apart though! Should I just use an external SSD?monospaced
- Guy I know had the SSD installed, said it made a world of difference. I had a recall on my current hard drive about a year ago, so I don't really worry aboutgarbage
- mine failing anytime soon. I'm pretty good with electronics, but I don't have the balls to crack open an iMac.garbage
- ernexbcn2
@noneck could you elaborate a bit on the issues you had and which hardware you picked?
I hear things are much better than a few years ago, I'm contemplating going the hackintosh way next year.
- Aye, I'd be interested to hear too - I've been idly considering a hackintosh build for my post-Windows7 machine, because fuck Windows 10.detritus
- johnny_wobble0
Never had much problem with mine. It's still on snow leopard though.
It's not currently being used, but just because the cheap case fans crapped out and the cpu fan is making a horrible noise.
Also the hard drive is maxed out and I haven't gotten around to adding another one and fixing the fans.
As far as hardware / software compatibility, I've never had much problem.
- Did you ever run update with in the same version of OS?pango
- don't think so, but the machine is/was just for the wife's email / web / itunes basically.johnny_wobble
- scarabin1
this site is a great resource in general
http://lifehacker.com/the-always…and here's a list of pre-vetted builds.
http://www.tonymacx86.com/buildi…it's not super hard and you can save a ton of money. just take the time to read about your chosen process, choose your parts from the lists above and you're good. oh, and expect random shit to add a day or two to your build.
- same links I went from. really helpful. add two days if your luck! expect weeks if not so...mugwart
- section_0140
I have more problems with my actual Mac than I do with my Hackintosh.
- 09 mac pro here and often times I pine for the days of hackintoshing. Ur screwed if you try to update the OS without making sure the GPU drivers are in order.dorkKn1ght
- noneck1
I just retired my Hackintosh to the basement as an overpowered home server running Windows. I'm working on my MacBook Air attached to an external monitor. The MacBook is slow, but I'm holding off getting an iMac until the new ones come out (in the fall?).
I've given up on Hackintoshes: too much work.
- Mojo0
It can be hard work to get a hackintosh build. I spent hours getting my Asus P6T / i7 920 to work - but now it's a dream. I use it for music production.
Put full details at http://phil.replete.nu
- i7 920 + 5850 + 6gb, nice system.
thanks for write up!Hombre_Lobo - Awesome writeup, thanks.nb
- i7 920 + 5850 + 6gb, nice system.
- pr20
anyone does heavy video editing here on one of those with FCP?
- scarabin0
how's that H60 treatin' ya, georges?
i'm hearing mixed reviews...