Build a Hackintosh

[Fake Pilot]

@Jagger: Well ... if there was a place to actually buy a Hackintosh? Without any previous knowledge on how to build one?

[jagger]

Sadly no

The only resource I know is tonymacx86.com

[Fake Pilot]

Don't think I can afford 4xTitans anyways.
Not sure how fast two GTX 970 is, though.

I have one NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4096 MB on my iMac at work, think that is OK. It is faster than any CPU rendering setup I have.

[Fake Pilot]

OK, I finally made my purchase. A PC purchased for Octane Rendering.
Skipped Create.Pro, mainly because of having 3 years of my own country's support if anything crashes permanently.

Now to see if it can become a Hackingtosh or not. What do you guys think?
OSX is not a dealbreaker, I can do Windows too. But for workflow, I would prefer OSX.

Komplett Xtreme i100 - Triple Titan
GPU: 3x Gainward GeForce GTX TITAN X 12GB
with MSI Triple SLI Bridge Spaced
CPU: Intel Core i7-5960X Extreme Edition
LGA2011-3, 8-Core,3.0GHz,20MB,140W,22nm,40 lanes,H
Motherboard: MSI X99S GAMING 9 ACK, Socket-2011-3
RAM: HyperX Fury 2133MHz 32GB (4x8GB)
32GB 2133MHz DDR4 Non-ECC CL14 DIMM (Kit of 4)Hype
Energy: Corsair AX 1500i, 1500W PSU
ATX Digital, 80 Plus Titanium, Modular, 8x 6+2-pin
SSD: Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 480GB 2.5"
HD: Seagate® Desktop SSHD 4TB
DVD: ASUS BW-16D1HT, Blu-Ray Writer

They added extra power supply in case I wanted to add no. 4 Titan X in the future. But they didn't recommend it, the spacing of two slots in between helps cool it down.

[glimpse]

looks like a nice build =) with extra gap in between of those GPUs surelly help to cool them down =)

jsut for MSI motherboard, I'm not sure You're going to get Hackintosh..think Gigabyte works best, then some asus boards.. do some good research eif anyone managed to build one with Your motherboard.

[face_off]

Unless you are expert with kexts, imo you are best sticking with Gigabyte m/boards.

Paul

[balt]

Why would you build a hackintosh if you can buy a MacPro on ebay and bring it up to speed for relatively little money?

My setup is a dual hexacore Xeon MacPro (2010). The latest MacPro is only marginally faster CPU wise, and I doubt you'll build a much faster hackintosh (again CPU wise). GPU wise, you'll need an external chassis anyway, I'm using an Amfeltec GPU cube (see amfeltec.com) with 4 x 780 Ti's in it.

For the MacPro, over the years I've added more RAM and SSDs. You'll be hard pressed to find anything more elegant and solid inside and out than a MacPro, it's as simple as that.

GPU wise, you won't get more bang for your dollar than the 780 Ti at present, I can buy them here in Australia for about US$350 a piece today. The Titan X is 3 times that, but only delivers 30% more in CUDA power (but has 4 times more RAM if you're rendering complex scenes that may be an issue - it's never been an issue for me).

Unless you're doing this for the fun of it I really wouldn't bother, you'll only get marginally more power out of a hackintosh and it's going to cost you the same in the end, because what's gonna cost you money is the server grade Xeon mobo and CPU's as well as the cluster of GPUs you need.

Just my 2c...

Cheers

- Balt

[Fake Pilot]

Yeah, your setup might be better. I bought a finished product, have no computer building knowledge to build one on my own. Wouldn't know what and how to put it in there.
Create.Pro offers to build one for me, but that is in UK and feels less secure for me. Spending a lot of money so, what would happen if anything breaks?

With mine, I have 3 years of service, if it crashes I get it fixed for "free".

[Fake Pilot]

Got my computer yesterday! One of the first things I did was to download OctaneBench and run it. Scored 370 which I'm very happy with.
Was worried this beast would sound too much, not being water cooled. But it is very silent! And while running OctaneBench, it just started "humming" a bit, sounded like a breeze? Not disturbing at all.

All though, was surprised at how awful Windows 8 still is, compared to OSX. Still not sure if I can make this a Hackintosh.
I guess, while running the actual 3D software and Adobe apps, it won't be that different.

[smicha]

Is the 370 score on 3 X separated by one extra pcie slot? How hot are they? And what are the core and memory clocks while testing?