over the past few months I have found myself slipping further and further into the world of live and home mixed sound, a world foreign to a diehard linux and windows fan like myself. I have lately found more and more that I will need to have a mac for running shows and live mixing, but as a herald of open source and computer building, I really hate to buy from a company like apple cue the deaththreats. I have therefore arrived at the conclusion to build a hackintosh, and have drawn up this build. (effectively a copypase of tonymac's deluxe miniITX build).
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
| Type | Item | Price |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | Intel Core i7-4790 3.6GHz Quad-Core Processor | $292.99 @ SuperBiiz |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte GA-Z97M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard | $104.85 @ Mwave |
| Memory | Crucial Ballistix Tactical 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory | $119.99 @ Amazon |
| Storage | Samsung 850 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive | $69.99 @ Amazon |
| Storage | Seagate Barracuda ES 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive | $48.25 @ Amazon |
| Video Card | EVGA GeForce GT 740 2GB Superclocked Video Card | $83.77 @ Amazon |
| Case | BitFenix Phenom M Arctic White MicroATX Mini Tower Case | $98.99 @ SuperBiiz |
| Power Supply | Corsair Builder 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply | $34.99 @ NCIX US |
| Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts | ||
| Total (before mail-in rebates) | $873.82 | |
| Mail-in rebates | -$20.00 | |
| Total | $853.82 | |
| Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-02 12:45 EDT-0400 |
As of now these are my requirements -be able to run Qlab 4 without problems -be able to run run cubebase or a similar program -be stable enough to run theater shows with out problems -be able to create an aggregate device - (its a bunch of usb sound cards linked together to give the computer a bunch more audio outputs) -be portable enough to take from home to a theater and back on a weekly basis.
My biggest worry with this rig is stability, as I have no previous experience with hackintoshs and only some with OS X itself, though I do have a fair amount of expirence with OS tweaking in ArchLinux. Will it be stable enough to run multi hour shows with out problems?
As it is a sound processing unit, I have cut down on the graphics card, as I feel that anything more expensive will be useless to me. However, will this card be powerful enough to run a projector and a screen if necessary?
how compatible is the mac OS with UEFI sound cards? I don't have one in the build right now, but I may want to add one later for better audio quality.
Finally, any general comments on the build or things I should keep in mind? Ive had experience with building pc's, but never macs. Id appreciate any kind of guidance I can get.
tldr; Building an audio editing rig, will it be stable?
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