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Upgrading Mac
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The Atto SAS card and the SAS Expander alone are about $2K the three GTX-480’s will run you about $1.5K The MoBo and CPU Plus RAM are about $1.5K Drives are about $1.5k. The 1200W Power Supply was about $400.
High end PC hardware is as expensive as high end MAc hardware I built this instead of a Mac-Pro with a Cubix for performance not necessarily for cost.
-Rob-
Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.comMAHC-PRO 6-Core 3X GTX285 20Tb SAS Wave Panel Panny 11UK SDI Plasma.
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The way I have the Hack setup is that there is a special BIOS mod and then a small USB stick drive that loads the basic OS Kext files and the Plist file for video and then boots a 10.6.8 partition on a drive which is a “stock” OSX build. Setting the machine up initially is a technical task.
Running a Hackintosh allows you to use PC GPU cards without flashing them for Mac OS. You can get a GTX-580 flashed to run in a Mac-Pro from Macvideocards.com I believe.
-Rob-
Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.comMAHC-PRO 6-Core 3X GTX285 20Tb SAS Wave Panel Panny 11UK SDI Plasma.
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Yeah it sounds really neat. I work in the IT field so it wouldn’t be necessarily impossible to battle these hack battles, but I was nervous about spending a bunch of money and then only having a windows capable PC in the end. What do you think of the current Mac Pro models maybe using the macvideocards flashed cards? What would you personally recommend for someone like me looking to spend about $2500 for a machine good enough to run FCP, CS5.5 Resolve all at 2k footage and mess with some R3D files?
Thanks!
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I think the current Mac-Pro line is pretty old and dusty and nobody knows if and when Apple will release a new high end desktop machine. You could build a P6T7 Asus based machine that would dual boot (it has the ability to load multiple bios iterations) and that runs very well as a Mac. Email me and I can send you the files to set that up.
rob -at- cinelab -dot- com
-Rob-
Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.comMAHC-PRO 6-Core 3X GTX285 20Tb SAS Wave Panel Panny 11UK SDI Plasma.
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Ok cool – I shot you an email.
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hi rob,
can i have the files to ??
prathvish hegde
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If we were say to stay on the Mac Pro route vs the Hackintosh route what would be the minimum desired processor speed for a good resolve system? If I bought a Mac Pro with low-end RAM, low-end HDD, low-end video card. Then after, upgrade the RAM, HDD, Video Cards for a significantly lower price than direct apple upgrades.
Would you see something like this being in the $2500 range. What are the desired video cards for resolve right now excluding any that cost over 600 a pop.
Thanks for the aide in this rough process to get things going!
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Few if any master in 4K. You will be mastering in 2K or 1080p – requirements are far less than generally stated above to see Red RAW footage in a useable manner and grade it.
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dual core, quad core, 6 core, 12 core? Which for 2k, which for 4k? Anyone have concrete details on any purchasable hardware?
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