Before I get too deep into this, my system's specs:
- i7-4790k
- Asus GTX 760
- Gigabyte Z97MX Gaming 5 motherboard
- 16GB of RAM (DDR3-1333)
- Intel 520 SSD (180GB)/1TB 7200RPM hard drive (used for video exports)
- Running El Cap with Clover
So, getting into the actual issue, I've noticed that my exports in FCPX/iMovie are ridiculously slow. At best, my exports are 2x slower than real time, most of the time slower than that. This happens both with exporting the master file, and exporting a normal file. (In the case of both, I use H.264. In the case of the latter, I use H.264 faster encode.)
Exporting a 30 minute video is usually an all-day affair. The most I'm editing is 1080p60 video. Nothing crazy like 4K.
And just to confirm, my friend did an export of the same video file on his late 2013 rMBP (base model, 15") and it absolutely spanked the crap out of my system, rendering a 30 minute video significantly faster than real time. Just for shits and giggles, I also tried the same file on my mid-2010 MBP, and, surprisingly, it took about as long as my Hackintosh did.
Color me surprised.
My other friend (who diddles with Hackintoshes quite a lot, and has built/helped others with theirs countless times) and I came to the conclusion it might just be QuickSync that's the problem, so we attempted to enable it (and the iGPU), and while it apparently "worked", the system detects the iGPU...as the GTX 760. (I plugged a monitor into one of the motherboard's video outs, and the system picked it up and used it just fine but it was coming up in System Profiler as being on the 760, not the iGPU.)
Tried switching back to the default OS X drivers for the 760 as well, no dice.
Not really sure where to go from here, or if QuickSync is even the issue to begin with. I'm not even sure if this motherboard will allow it all to work. (Admittedly, I did not pick this motherboard for Hackintoshing, it was a substitute for an Asus board I really wanted, and someone caught on that my components were OS X-compatible. So I gave it a shot, and here I am, a year later.)
If anyone has any guidance on what to do, I'd be very appreciative. This isn't a BIG problem (as I usually don't mind letting the system sit and crunch video for a bit) but it'd be amazing if this thing could at least crunch video in FCPX a bit faster than a mid-2010 MBP.
Thanks!
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