Hackintosh Pro Project! [Part 2: The Parts]

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Hey, what’s up guys, I’m Kay PhD here and welcome back to part 2 of the hackintosh pro project? Let’S do this alright, so for those of you who may be new or miss part, one BAM there. It is it’s annotated, or it’s also the first link in the description below the like button. But basically, this is the project to build a beast of a video editing machine for the new 2013 year, and the main idea of this rig is for it to be able to do a boot, Mac, os10 mountain lion and the latest version of Windows, which we Decided Windows 8, so it’s gon na be an absolute beast of a rig, and basically, what I’m going over in this article is all the parts that are officially now decided are going to be in this build. I have them all laid out in front of me, and these aren’t, including you know, the little accessories like you know, bluetooth adapters in a Wi-Fi card, and things like that. But this is the core. This is the main beast and brains really of the machine that are gon na help it work. So I’m gon na go ahead and go over all these things now and let you know why I chose them and how they work.

All the links to all the parts that I’m going over are in the description down below, so I actually got all of them from Amazon which is pretty convenient. So all the links below will be the links to where I got these let’s begin. First is the processor which you could say is the beating heart of the rig. This is the Intel Core.

I7 3930k. It is a 6 core processor with multi-threading. So thanks to Intel it will perform like a 12 core and it has a stock base clock speed of 3.2 gigahertz, but we will be overclocking this guy, so stay tuned. That’Ll have more information about it in later videos, but basically this is going to be an absolute beast.

It is a socket 2011 CPU, which means there will be no speed steps, so it’ll basically be running full blast, all the time and overclocked, which is why we’ll be getting to the cooler in a second, but also. This is just an overall awesome processor for things like not only video editing but the actual rendering just production overall in general, and for someone like me, with a workflow in Premiere and After Effects. This is an absolute beast and also actually that’s all. I have to say yeah: it’s gotten great reviews.

People love this thing, so I mentioned overclocking and you’re gon na want to have a high quality cooling solution for your CPU when you’re overclocking – and this is the coarser H ATI. I love the red black packaging, but this is going to be what keeps our CPU cool now. This is a closed-loop water, cooling system, it’s close to the H 100 i, but this only has one radiator, which goes in the back of the case, fits in the case that I’ll be using, which I also I’m going to go over. But basically, this is what’s going to keep it cool, and this is what I think is a pretty darn high-quality cooling solution, closed-loop water cooling, pretty much a mandatory thing if you’re gon na be overclocking so yeah, that’s we’re gon na be using for the CPU cooler. The motherboard is also sort of the heart of the experience and for this we’re going to be using Asus of saber-tooth, x79 motherboard again socket 2011 stuff, and this is an absolute beast of a board. If you saw that, what’s like written all over this box, I mean this is a huge box.

First of all, and it’s not the prettiest motherboard in the world, but it’s made with really tough components very durable, military-grade stuff inside. I don’t know what that means. In terms of durability, for a motherboard but hey better, it just works.

For me. It has eight REM, dim, so you’ll be able to use up to 64 gigs of ram if you feel like it I’ll get to the RAM in a minute. But this is overall, really high quality board plenty of expansion, plenty of PCI plenty of SATA 6 gigabits per second stuff.

This is just a really high quality board and again it’s important because this is compatible with Mac OS 10 mountain lion, so we’ll be able to do a boot thanks to a lot of the parts on this board. So the ram ram is pretty inexpensive nowaday. So we went with 216 gig kits of the Corsair Vengeance Ram, which gives us a total of eight sticks of RAM and 32 gigs of ram. I know some people just think that 32 gigs of way too much ram 16 gigs, is what I was using before. Was plenty but for using, especially switching now, like I said to After Effects Plus premiere the more ram you can throw out these programs the better. So if you’re gon na make a beast of a video editing, rig you’re gon na want to throw as much RAM as these programs as possible, and this is what I’m gon na be doing with 32 gigs of ram. If you really want to, you can get a whole bunch of a gig dims and put 64 gigs of ram in no compatibility will be affected. You can do that with that Kitaj. So that’s what I’m using for the RAM the GeForce GTX 670 windforce overclocked Edition. Gpu is going to be a pretty impressive part of this bill.

This is a few percentage points below the gtx 680, but this is a hell of a card right here. This is the graphics card, we’re gon na be using what the hackintosh pro this card has been an insanely good performer, but it’s also really important to mention that i’m not much of a gamer and even though i’m installing windows on this – and i might do some Light gaming and I’ll do some gaming benchmarks to prove that this is a great gaming card, but this is a really great card for the hackintosh for video editing. This has more than a thousand cuda cores that adobe products can take advantage of to offset some of the load for certain applications and certain tasks to the graphics card. So this will take some load off of the CPU and this will be an extremely good card for video stuff.

If you’re editing video producing video check out this card, it’s got a really quiet card as well. It has custom cooling, three very silent fans on it and it’s an overall excellent performer, even better than some of the workstation cards. That nvidia makes – and that’s why i picked this over those now. A lot of Hideaway has been made in terms of storage over the past couple of months, and storage is a big deal in this field and that’s why we’ll be going with three ocz vertex for SSDs, and these are each v as you can see, you may Not be able to see, but these are 128 gigabytes each, and I can’t really say too much out about this until the next article, but to be blunt, we’re gon na be doing some raid with these so stay tuned if you’re interested but uh dual booting Windows And OS 10 and having raid is going to be really awesome. You basically double your data speeds with raid zero. So I’ll get a lot more into that and there’s some steps we have to go through to enable it but know that these are ocz vertex for SSDs.

Our power supply is a fully modular fractal design Newton. This is their highest end thousand watt power supply fully modular and a lot of people immediately will assume that thousand watts is way more than you need, and it probably is, but the thing is, I would rather have way more power than I need than just barely A little bit more than I need, and the reason for that is expansion. Part of the reason I’m doing this over a Mac Pro is, if I want to put more storage in it later, if I want to add graphics cards later, if I want to change out the CPU, if I want to add higher power drawing components, I won’t Have to change this part. This part is pretty much going to stay in it for as long as I use this builder until it fails basically, so this is a thousand watt power supply and basically, when I’m idling, I’m probably gon na be using less than 500 watts, but I’m definitely gon Na go with a high end power supply just because well overkill is better than underkill for pretty much everything inside a build like this.

So that’s why I’m going with this guy last but not least, is the case and that’s the fractal design define r4. I love this case. I’Ve gone over it. I showed it in part, one and also some other concept, parts of the bill, but basically the define is an incredibly good-looking case kind of a nice minimalist plus functional case. It’S got a lot of room in the inside for our cooler for our motherboard, for our fans and for some other things, I’m going to be adding like a fan, controller and a card reader and things like that. But it’s overall excellent case and I’m definitely happy to be using it.

It’S a little bit different dimensions in the Mac Pro some people were suggesting. I use a Mac Pro case, but again I do want to have the most amount of room for expansion, so things like PCI slots were important. Things like the USB headers up in the front of the case very useful stuff, so the define r4 is going to be the case and that’s all the parts I’m using in the hackintosh pro overall, it’s looking very promising and I’m gon na turn the camera off And basically start building it immediately. So look forward to the next article or in fact give a thumbs up if you’re ready for the next article, because if I know you guys are interested I’ll, definitely crank it out a little bit faster. But thank you for watching this video part 2 of the hackintosh pro project. Again, if you missed part one that link is below, if you want to see all the parts those links are below and more information is coming soon.

Thank you for watching and I’ll talk to you guys in the next one you .