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hey what's up guys I'm Kay PhD here and welcome to part five of the hackintosh pro project the finale let's go round one so now the hackintosh pro is a complete machine it is finished and in case you missed the first three episodes of the series which are annotated right there or there will be the first three links in the description below the like button if you're on mobile but in case you missed the first three the basic purpose of this series was to create a beast of a video editing machine that will happen to dual-boot Mac OS 10 and windows and there's been a ton of comments so this video this entire video this finale is meant to address all the comments and questions that I've got and basically wrap up exactly how this machine performs and what it does for the price you pay so let's go and get started so as a refresher for the parts of this build we're going to be centering it all around an Intel Core i7 3930k 6 core processor and that's pretty much the center of the system and what we're building off of so for that we have an Asus x79 Sabretooth motherboard and we have the gigabyte GTX 670 windforce overclocked edition 2 gigabyte graphics card we also have the courser h ati we also have three vertex 4 SSDs and numerous other various components and accessories that we'll get to but basically the parts to this build are all linked down below and a lot of you guys are asking for a total price and that kind of fluctuates but I have a PC parts picker link down below which will give you a graph of how the total price fluctuates over time all these parts were put together in a fractal design define our four case one of my favorite cases of all time that I've ever even seen period it's really good looking case it's a silent inside case and it's probably the best thing that I could have possibly picked for this project again opinions may vary but I love the r4 so that's the case we use so in previous videos in this series we've discussed why exactly we have those three vertex for SSDs these are all 128 gig SSDs the first two are going to be used or are currently being used as a Mac OS 10 raid 0 striped array and a second drive or the second part will be for Windows 8 so there's three total drives two of them are a 256 gig raid array for OS 10 and the last one is 128 gig Drive dedicated to Windows 8 and because of this after you go through the install process for Mac OS 10 you can go ahead and insert the windows 8 CD drive and install windows 8 on the third drive just like any normal computer and now every time you boot when you get to the bootloader you'll have a choice to boot whether you want to go into OS 10 raid or into Windows now one of the easiest ways to get the most performance out of your system is to overclock it and that's exactly what I've done I went into the BIOS just like anyone else who's using this motherboard CPU combination and I overclocked the CPU it comes out of the box stock at 3.2 gigahertz with a 3.8 gigahertz turbo and I bump that up to a 4.3 5 gigahertz clock speed so now we're running at you know four point three five gigahertz for all the tests that we do we're going to go ahead and show you guys the benchmarks when I ran these benchmarks I was at 4.2 gigahertz so I did eke out a little bit more performance but the benchmarks that we used were geek bench Nova bench and Cinebench so I'm going to go ahead and show you guys the benchmark results we got for those first benchmark here is a classic it's the 64 bit geek bench - a fairly well-known and well trusted multi platform tree the highest 2012 imac has been known to max out around 13,000 points and that's where the $2,500 baseline 2012 mac pro picks it right up and as you can see here without screen recording at 4.2 gigahertz I got a score of fifteen thousand eight hundred eleven and I did run it again off camera after overclocking a bit more - like I said four point three five and was getting a score in the low seventeen thousand s so that was pretty solid next up is Cinebench which was a pretty fun benchmark to test both the CPU and the graphics card so for the GPU test we ran through the animation with the car chase scene and the reflections and physics etc which was pretty neat and we got a solid 34 frames per second which is pretty good for a single card and then the CPU test which was basically a benchmark of pure raw data crunching gave us a score of nine point one three points so it's it's pretty good it's not touching the systems with two GPUs or two CPUs but then again we wouldn't expect it to and for the price of these parts it's a damn good performer as you can tell last we did Noah bench and as you may recall the fastest Mac Mini in the world series concluded with the finale similar to this where we got a new event score in the mid 900s but of course this is the hackintosh Pro and it blows it out of the water scoring more than 1600 points and also showing our insane read/write speeds thanks to raid zero around 700 megabytes per second so pretty sweet performer so now that we know that it performs well what about the experience well the OS 10 experience on a hackintosh is one of the most curious parts about this build a lot of people want to know why you should get a hackintosh over a regular Mac and if it's going to be the same experience well I've owned a Mac Pro for a couple of months and I can tell you that from experience there is a lot similar between a Mac Pro and a hack Pro and there is also a lot different first of all on the hardware side there are some serious differences I'll start with upgrade ability when you're going with a hackintosh pro you have far more upgrade ability than any other Apple desktop so with the hackintosh you can change your power supply at any time you can change your RAM you can change your CPU motherboard whatever you put in that hack Pro you can switch out for whatever part you want and get it working with a Mac Pro you don't really see people replacing the motherboard or replacing the power supply those things really don't just happen usually the only things you replace in a Mac Pro are the graphics card the RAM and occasionally the actually yeah that's pretty much it the hard drives I guess there's also a difference in dimensions but this depends on the case that you pick for your hackintosh I happen to pick like I said the fractal r4 it's a very good looking case but it's also a little bit shorter and a little bit more squat than the mac pro case which is a tall slim aluminum tower with handles on top now you can build a hackintosh in a magnate g4 case or a modded mac pro case to fit your motherboard people have done that but personally I went with the r4 because it's a like I said good-looking to me but there are other options you can get so the difference in dimensions will vary based on what case you get so another big difference between the hack Pro and the mac pro is the i/o the inputs and outputs that you get thanks to the motherboard and there is a huge difference you won't get nearly as much I owe on the mac pro as you do on the hak pro if you look at the back of the Mac Pro you're going to get some USB ports but not very many you get some Ethernet some firewire you don't get Thunderbolt on the new Mac Pro it's weird that they still don't have that yet but hopefully we'll see a new model of the Mac Pro but right now it's really really limited you flip it around to the front and you still only have two more USB ports and some firewire it's very limited and then you have your headphone jack your microphone jack on the hack Pro you have a load of i/o and you can see also the new nock to a fan that I threw in there but basically you have way more USB ports you have way more ethernet you have firewire you could get a hackintosh Pro and use a motherboard with Thunderbolt support I didn't but that's an option for you if you want it but other than that you get the point you also have the front IO on the fractal r4 case so you have not only the power button but you have four more USB ports at least and you have your headphone jack microphone jack and reset button so there are way more i/o options available with the hackintosh so processing power how does it stack up well that you could say that that's one of the strengths of the Mac Pro it's not a weakness of the hackintosh but the Mac Pro absolutely flies ahead of pretty much any of the competition in terms of processing power you can throw dual Zeon's in your mac pro it will be very expensive but you can configure very powerful Mac to outdo it so it'll crush benchmark so get things like eighteen thousand on geek bench you know nineteen thousand without even breaking a sweat that being said the six core 3930k is a very powerful single CPU system and since we're using a single CPU system with a single CPU motherboard this is a really good system I've been using it to video edit and things like premiere and After Effects and it works wonders and then there's the graphics the Mac Pro has some outdated graphics I'm going to be perfectly honest the 5870 is more than a year old and the applications were using today are not that old and they need more power than they did when the 5870 came out so when you're using a hackintosh you get to pick exactly what graphics card you want I went with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 that is lightyears ahead of the Intel or the AMD Radeon HD 5870 that was in my Mac Pro another advantage to the 670 is the CUDA cores so you'll be able to use the cuda cores on the graphics card the basic way of saying it is that you can offset a lot of the power on onto the graphics card that you would normally be doing on the CPU and the graphics card is like untapped power a lot of people don't you know ever turn this on but when you turn on CUDA you know After Effects flies premiere is really smooth so being able to turn these things on is pretty important and you're supported with a lot of new cards and last major difference I'd say between the Mac Pro and the hack Pro is the price per spec that you get now if I were to spec out you know this hackintosh again the PC parts picker link is in the description below the equivalent Mac Pro is more than a thousand dollars more in fact you can't get a Mac Pro for the price that I built the hack Pro the lowest Mac Pro starts at two thousand five hundred dollars and even then you only get I think six gigabytes of RAM and a regular hard drive it's just not the same with this you're getting a six core 12 thread processor you're getting 32 gigs of ram you're getting a raid 0 array there's just no comparison you get way more for your money and that is probably the number one reason that people buy a hackintosh or at least build one over buying a Mac Pro and then there are the little things like you know the noise if you're video editing and audio recording at the same time you don't want the fans kicking in when you don't need them so again the Mac Pro that I had was pretty quiet but again I went all out with the quietness with the hack Pro and so we went with the insulated our 4 case and we went with the actually a new knock to a fan on the back so that's the NFP 1220 millimeter fan on the H ADIZ radiator so all of these things are very very quiet and that's definitely a pro the SSDs also have trim support in raid 0 a lot of people didn't know you could do that but multibeast allows you to do that so there's trim you don't have to worry about these SSDs degrading there's also the even smaller things like being able to tweak the about this Mac section to show exactly how awesome your specs are there are instructions to doing all these things all over the internet so you can show exactly what the specs of your machine are and show the case you use and for any of you guys wondering if stability is a major concern for you once you get past the installation process it's just as stable as a Mac Pro from my experience I haven't had any hiccups I haven't had any smoothness issues frame rates or higher and animations are just a smooth Mission Control all the features work the same way stability stop not so for the Windows boot a lot of you guys were asking about the Windows install because I didn't talk about it in the OS 10 install video so the Windows 8 is what we decided to go with for the dual boot basically you get an optical drive and you boot up just like you would boot a normal computer to the optical drive and you install Windows 8 to your SSD the single SSD that we're having out side of the raid array and that brings us into vertex for Windows 8 super fast SSD solution you get very fast read/write speeds with Windows 8 even if it's just one SSD and it's significantly faster than you typically get on a hard drive also I'm not a big gamer but a lot of you guys were asking for some gaming performance so I'll go ahead and leave you with a little bit of some Max Payne on the highest settings available on the GTX 670 almost as much as I did all right so popular question I get about the hackintosh Pro is this setup the actual physical setup that I have a lease on my desk here I was tweeting some behind-the-scenes pictures on you know Twitter at MTV HD and some on Instagram too but basically I'll go ahead and explain to you how this works because some things are a little bit different all the way on the left here I have the fiyo e 10 that's my amp and DAC or digital audio converter I've done a video on these already so that link I guess will also be in the description about why digital and audio converters are perfect so these guys are was powering all my audio who's always powering these studio monitors and my IP audio or my ath m50 headphones these are our IQ audio studio monitors too so that's what the audio is coming from the m50 is by the way are pretty awesome you should check them out if you haven't already and then I'm using the Apple accessories here so pretty much any wired or wireless Apple accessories will work even Bluetooth stuff so if you get a little Bluetooth adapter you'll be able to throw these in so I'm using the Apple wired keyboard because I like to be able to throw it into my BIOS at any time if I want to tweak and overclock or anything and I'm using the Bluetooth Magic Trackpad as well so that's what's allowing me to use Mission Control and a lot of other features that you kind of need the trackpad to use for those guest use I would never use a magic mouse just no and then there's the cyborg rat 9 it's not the best Mouse in the world just because of the battery life but it is pretty damn customizable so I recommend it to those of you who want a wireless customizable Mouse and a lot of people also ask about the displays so this is a dell ultrasharp 3000 7 WF p HC as a 30 inch 2560 by 1600 display and then over here is a 20 inch portrait display it's again a 1600 by 1200 so the reason I have this portrait is because they match up perfectly so they're the same height and they're the same vertical resolution so I end up with the rest lucien of 2560 plus an extra 1200 and then I get you know 1200 vertical and 1200 vertical here so when I move windows across it doesn't resize or anything and then the way I have my workflow set up for Mission Control is I have three spaces up here desktop one is this for normal stuff desktop two will be where I use premiere and then desktop three will be where I have After Effects and then I can swipe between these three as I go you know I might be downloading things from the internet and then I swipe up and bring that into Premiere and then bring that into After Effects so the whole project cycle works pretty well with that but that's just so you guys know how I use these displays on a daily basis especially when I'm video editing so the elephant in the room now is is this technically legal is it legal to make this run OS 10 well technically no this is not legal Apple does not want you to do this at all but I'm not responsible for anything you may do as a result of watching the videos in this series but if you're watching a series you probably already have a good idea of what you want to do anyway overall though I'd say the hackintosh pro project has been a success it has been quite the workhorse of the machine perfectly stable very usable animations have been smoother frame rates have increased buffer and render times have decreased it's just been an all-around great machine to own and the satisfaction of building yourself is kind of like Legos for adults as dave dugdale has said having the ability to pick all your own parts and the satisfaction of getting it together is really fun so that has been it that's been the hackintosh pro project i guess now we'll return to our typically scheduled not really scheduled but our normal programming of mkbhd videos we got some more comparisons and smartphone stuff coming up but either way this has been fun guys thank you so much for watching thanks for the thumbs up and all the new subscribers as a result of this project hi welcome aboard and I'll talk to you guys all in the very next video thanks for watching guys face you