MY NEW COMP!

[Zakaree Sandberg]

these are the specs.. its running mac snow leopard.. being custom built for me..
let me know what you think..
also trying to figure out the video card.. ati or this nvidia. help me out. and if you suggest ATI over my NVIDIA.. please tell me why



EVGA X58 SLI LE motherboard

1 Intel Core i7 1366 "Nehalem" 920 Quad Core Processor @ 4.25 GHz ( TURBO ON / HYPERTHREADING ON )
= 8 CORES ) IDLE TEMPS @ 32 CELCIUS

6 x 2 GB Corsair XMS3 ( 12 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Triple Channel RAM)

1 EVGA NVidia GeForce GTS 250 ( 1024 MB VRAM 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready

SLI Supported Video Card

1 Western Digital Black Caviar 1000 GB 7200 RPM SATA 3 GB/s Hard Drive

1 Pioneer SATA 22x DL DVD Burner

1 Corsair TX750W 750 Watt Power Supply

1 PCIe 3 port Firewire 800 card(2 FW800 external + 1 FW400 external ports)

1 Athena Power 4 Bay SATA Backplane

1 RocketRAID 2640X4 SAS/SATA 4 Channel RAID Card

1 Corsair CWCH50 CPU Water Cooler

1 Athena Power 4U Rackmount case

8 USB 2.0

2 Firewire 400

2 Firewire 800

6 SATA 3GB/s

4 SATA/SAS 3GB/s

2 eSATA 3GB/s

1 x PCI Express x16 slot
2 x PCI Express x8 slots
1 x PCI Express x4 slot
1 x PCI Express x1 slot
1 x PCI slot


Will get a redrocket also.

here are the photos.

 

[Zakaree Sandberg]

Also.. anyone tried this out?

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/...etail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&sku=320-8277

How is it for color grading? maybe if i have it calibrated with a spider also?

 

[Felix K.]

Congratulation! Custom built Apple... that's new to me...

 

[NateWeaver]

I'd think a hackintosh would be a lot of problems waiting to happen if you try to get a Kona, Redrocket, or RAID card working in it.

 

[Zakaree Sandberg]

its been tested with a red rocket. works flawlessly.
there are no issues whatsoever.. fully updateable. all programs work.. smooth as butter

 

[Zakaree Sandberg]

it already has a raid card in it

 

[dino g]

why western digital?

 

[Luis Otero]

Is the price tag significant lower than comparable Mac Pro to justify potential risks, headaches, etc...???:shocked:

 

[Alex Carr]

This really needs an SSD, is this an EFI partitioned System?

Once you have an EFi Partition, and it is correctly configured there are no more Headaches, they become extremely reliable and highly configurable.

 

[Zakaree Sandberg]

why western digital?

i can put whatever in.. what do you recommend

 

[Imran Farouk]

looks wicked but I always thought hackintosh's had the issue with updating drivers and what not later on, thats why Apple wouldn't support them because they'd have to then start writing this and that for a hackintosh and not just able to write one set of code for its whole line up...dunno maybe wrong...but it seemed like that with the prystar case going on...

 

[Nook Kim]

how much did it run you?

 

[Pietro Impagliazzo]

That Corsair cooler is awesome!

Nice build man, hope you use it a lot.

 

[Gabriele Turchi]

Nice Machine !

What is the name of the chassis?

What hackintosh procedure did you use?

Thanks!

g

 

[Jaime Vallés]

Sweet rig. I'm looking to put together my own in the next few months. Hadn't thought about a rackmount case... Very nice.

 

[Daniel García]

Nice machine but ditch the blue leds

 

[Alex Carr]

If a System like this is EFi enabled, then updating drivers becomes as simple as going to the 'software update' as you would on a real mac. All Drivers are replaced with EFI Strings instead, inside the boot.plist. EFi is the best way to configure HackPro's for professional use, its not exactly simple to set up and configure. But once it is.... it's Rock solid and nearly identical to a MacPro, except that you can configure it to your every need.

 

[PatrickW]

I prefer PC Power and Cooling power supplies, they are expensive but the rock solid stability tthey bring is well worth it.

 

[Zakaree Sandberg]

If a System like this is EFi enabled, then updating drivers becomes as simple as going to the 'software update' as you would on a real mac. All Drivers are replaced with EFI Strings instead, inside the boot.plist. EFi is the best way to configure HackPro's for professional use, its not exactly simple to set up and configure. But once it is.... it's Rock solid and nearly identical to a MacPro, except that you can configure it to your every need.

exactly..


its 3000 if anyone wants one let me know

 

[Jason Gurnick]

Very nice! I was thinking about doing this as well... One you get it, please post reports of speed and stability when working with, processing and transcoding RED footage. That's an overclocked processor, right?