MY NEW COMP!

[BradWright]

I'd still prefer buying from Apple then building myself. Getting the Apple Care and Genius Bar support at a local Apple store is import for my needs. I'd rather have somebody I can turn to when things go bad. I'm not sure everyone agrees with this, but I've found that getting support for a product is essential to ensuring things work smoothly. Downtime can eat up a lot of that savings pretty quickly.

 

[Zakaree Sandberg]

im not going hackintosh for the savings.. im going hackintosh for the flexibility. With apple.. Im stuck with their gear.. My logic board goes down? oops theres another 900 bucks out the door.. but I can replace my own for 200..
plus I can make a faster computer with PC parts

 

[Bruno Solaja]

Try ssd for sistem drive....Or two in raid

 

[A. Bastaki]

whats EFI you guys? and how is it better than loading kexts

 

[Fredrik Callinggard]

I have 2 SSD drives in a RAID configuration in my 17" macbook - 500GB with 400MB/s read and write SWEET!

 

[Zakaree Sandberg]

think im gunna do ssd for my OS.. and 3 raid harddrives for whatever.

any recommendations on SSD drive to use?
price?

 

[Jonathon Laing]

Yes, G.Skill Falcon 128GB 230 Read / 190 Write speeds, comparable to the OCZ vertex series but cheaper. There the same SSD pretty much. Its what I'm usign on my hackintosh, works flawlessly.

 

[Stacey Spears]

I would go for the Intel Gen2 X-25 drive(s). The G2 is MLC. There is an SLC G1, but the G2 will get TRIM support while the G1 will not.

 

[Zakaree Sandberg]

GOT IT! fast as hell..
opens redcine in 2 seconds.. final cut in about 3..
no issues at ALL 100% working.

 

[Evangelos Achillopoulos]

GOT IT! fast as hell..
opens redcine in 2 seconds.. final cut in about 3..
no issues at ALL 100% working.

To launch is easy to be fast, SSD's... tell as some transcoding times with and without rocket and how it performs in Color... As for stability I know its rock solid...

 

[Luis Otero]

Update...?

Update...?

GOT IT! fast as hell..
opens redcine in 2 seconds.. final cut in about 3..
no issues at ALL 100% working.

Any other update on your experience? What was the final price tag?:hurray:

Thanks,

 

[Gabriele Turchi]

may i ask where didi you buy that rackmount chassis?

thanks

g

 

[Miguel "Macgregor" De Olaso]

What performance are you getting with the rocketraid? I have the same card and it´s very slow. I did all kind of bencharks with the aja system test and i could even get much faster results with software raid0 (allthough i needed raid5 and that´s what i´m using).

 

[Zakaree Sandberg]

MACGREGOR.. Honestly.. havent set up my raid card yet..Once I do I will post stats.
Gabriele- newegg.com
Luis- Havent really done much work with it yet.. Im mostly shooting right now,
But its Super Fast.. rock solid..and works very well.. I paid 2850.00
I have 4 OS drives, and 5 Drives in my Raid

 

[Kim Frank]

Hey Zakaree...
Very inspiring!
Im thinking about doing the same.
Do you have mor experiences to share, yet?
Regards
Kim

 

[Loyd Bateman]

snapz pro!! Can you tell me how you got it to run snow leopard with no issues?? I'm very interested

 

[Alex Carr]

Chameleon EFI, thats how it becomes rock solid.

 

[Loyd Bateman]

Thanks!! P.S. very disapointed to say I just bought and tried a 32 gig sandisk extreme pro card and it's only good for 2k shooting and up to 60 fps, saaaaad!!! so sad

 

[Bob Gruen]

Z.S.,

I'm contemplating a similar i7 hackintosh and would like to find out how your box is at processing Red footage. Could you run a few tests converting to 720 4x4? A Xeon dual quad can do roughly 85K frames in 24 hours with 4 streams, I think a lot of us would like to see how an overclocked i7 would do.

Thanks,

Bob

 

[Kim Frank]

MY New comp is going to be built by www.pearc.de
Contact them, they know their buiseness and the support is great