In the meantime I had started to research what my Hackintosh build would look like.
Mac pro 5.1 pro#
I stripped my Mac Pro off the best hardware, that is the GTX980TI and the SM951 M.2 drive, and sold the Mac Pro 5,1 with a 1000$ profit! (There's crazy people out there.) And after seeing used Mac Pro 4.1/5.1 with lesser specs than mine for over 2000$, I got tempted to see if I could make a profit off selling a 8 years old used computer. My Lacie 2.Big Thunderbolt 2-cabinett also supports USB 3, so the lack of thunderbolt didn't really bother me.īUT after seeing some Youtube-videos of people making a clear statement that a CustoMac Pro Hackintosh would be "SO much better" than the cMP, I started to doubt that my build really was that good. Worked perfectly well for my 4K editing, after effects rendering and playing the Original Starcraft that was re-released a few weeks back! So, this became a beast of a machine! Total buildcost around 1200$. I didn't buy a flashd card, since I had the original Apple GT120-card aswell, if I ever needed to see the bootscreen. So I eventually upgraded for a GTX980TI (And a few weeks later Nvidia announced the mac support for Pascal architecture. To be able to use all of my external drives that I keep my projects on, I also bought a USB3 card that was plug-and-play.įor graphics I started out with a GTX680 2GB which worked fine, but felt like a bottleneck in my 4K editing. Then after some research I eventually got my hands on a cheap M.2 SM951 256gb drive (Really fast drive, ~ 1500mb/sec r/w speed) since the cMP only supports SATA2 (~500mb/s r/w), this really speed things up! I installed it with a M2 to PCIe adapter. I started with upgrading firmware to 5.1, then installed new processors (2x X5680 3.33 GHz 6 core each) and installed 64 gb of RAM 1333 MHz DDR3. I didn't max it out all the way, mostly ended up with "the next best things", since the best was almost twice the money. (Father of 2 kids under 2 years old, a house in big renovating needs, no time, no money, but a lot of inspiration!) I bought it, and made a project out of maxing it out, for as little money as possible. Then I got offered to buy a cheap 2009 Mac Pro 4.1 with dual xeon processors earlier this year.
Mac pro 5.1 windows#
Considered Windows for a while, but that made me shiver. I have been using my 2013 15" rMBP and a 2012 27" iMac for a long time, and they have started to feel slow, especially since I upped my game from FullHD-editing, for 4K editing last year.īut I couldn't really finance a new mac for 4000$.
So, to make a very long story medium long. Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide
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