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Recommend a good hackintosh - pleiades7 - 10-17-2014
Thinking of a good hackintosh for my career needs and gaming needs.
Is this one a good one?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Custom-Hackintosh-Workstation-6-Core-i7-3930K-16GB-512GB-SSD-Nvidia-GTX-770-/171503436725?pt=Desktop_PCs&hash=item27ee66c3b5
In terms of price and performance, I don't want to spend the same $$$ for an overrated mac mini when I could spend the same of much less for a MUCH better CPU (saw the NEW minis today and I wasn't impressed)
If there are better hackintoshes available, here are my choices for the moment (unless I can bug my friend into helping me build my own).
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=hackintosh&_sop=16
Thanx for all your help!
RE: Recommend a good hackintosh - DJBarry004 - 10-17-2014
The second has a stronger CPU, which will help with dealing on demanding game stages and intense tasks (whatever comes to your mind).
Plus you´ll get higher frequencies when OCing.
RE: Recommend a good hackintosh - AnyOldName3 - 10-17-2014
You're sure you don't want to build one yourself? Buying a prebuilt takes away most of the fun, and costs a hell of a lot extra. Plus, I've had bad things happen with eBay PCs, although that was nearly a decade ago, so thing might have changed.
RE: Recommend a good hackintosh - Lucario - 10-20-2014
Right, I've built my own hackintosh system and it was fun (with some frustrations)! Should be way cheaper to build by yourself than to buy the whole pre-built system.
Look at my sig
RE: Recommend a good hackintosh - ThePokeman92 - 10-20-2014
A word of caution: That ebay listing doesn't mention the specific power supply. A lot of ebay builds I see have excellent specs but cheap power supplies and other component brands which cause problems in a year or two, ultimately killing all those good components. Contact the ebay seller about the EXACT power supply, then check it against this list: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-1804779/power-supply-unit-tier-list.html
The system is OC'd so if the PSU is not tiered or below class two B, skip it and find something else. It typically doesn't matter much with your standard PCs, but when you get to gaming rigs or anything that will be overclocked, better safe than sorry (and out $2000!) I've avoided this rule when buying "high-end" gaming rigs and been burned on it...twice.
Personally, unless I absolutely needed maximum performance out of a mac, I'd just as soon buy a $400-500ish used one and spend $1500 on a separate gaming build. You'd probably get similar specs without being a hackintosh anyway, or you could buy the parts and create your own hackintosh.
RE: Recommend a good hackintosh - AnyOldName3 - 10-21-2014
pleiades initially mentioned wanting OSX for specific OSX-only video editing software, so the CPU performance would have to be in the Mac.