How to Build a 4. K Editing Machine for Half the Purchase Price of a Mac. Dont buy your next computer, build one with the performance of a Mac Profor half the price If youre like me, the data rate of your footage may be multiplying faster than your current computer can handle. Why not build your own upgradeOne of my favorite psychological tricks comes from a novella by comedian Steve Martin, Shopgirl. Its a guide to telling lies. There are three essential qualities. Microsoft Windows Media Format 9 on this page. Heres a complete step by step tutorial on how to install Windows 8 on Mac using Boot Camp. It worked for me. As a relative novice to the world of computer builds, practically all Id done prior to this was install RAM. Did you no where for uploded driversmonplombiersympatico. Daniel. If you dualboot your Hackintosh, youve probably noticed that Windows cant read hard drive partitions used by Mac OS X. Mac OS X uses the HFS hard drive format. Okay, lets talk about a very serious topic bath mats. Is there a right and wrong way to use them Choose which operating system you want to boot. Once all of the drivers have finished being installed for Windows, youre ready to start booting between the two. Putting together my first Hackintosh was a lot of work, a lot of fun, and saved me a heck of a lot of money. If youre interested in doing the same, Ive compiled a step by step beginners guide including a detailed list of components based on my experience to help you get started your first machine. Building a Hackintosh or Custo. Mac, depending on your vernacular had been on my mind ever since Ryan Koo posted the original No Film School Hack tutorial a few years back. This past year, I decided to finally do it because a  my old computer was dying a slow pinwheel of death, and b I didnt have the budget for a real Mac Pro. I also wanted to have a better understanding, as a video editor, of how my editing machine actually worked. With that in mind, this guide is meant to help you not only choose and build your system, but give you a beginners primer on how and why everything works. A couple notes from the outset. Note that it is illegal to sell a Hackintosh. Remember Psystar But building your own is legal gray area. The way Ryan Koo first explained it, building a Hackintosh may violate the End User License Agreement EULA that you agree to when you download Mac OS X. But thats not a crime that would land you in the clink its a contract violation. Just keep in mind that neither Ryan, myself, or any NFS writer is an actual lawyer. Carry on at your own risk. I enjoy figuring out how to build things from the ground up, and you probably do too, or you wouldnt be reading this. With that being said, deciding on a build and assembling it can be both nerve wracking and tedious. Why not enlist a partner I asked my friend Peter Reinhard to team up with me. Peter is a software developer and SQA analyst whos built tons of PCs from scratch, but never a Mac. Id never done a build, but have worked on Mac since Apple IIehello, 6. KB of RAM Not only did having a partner like Peter help tremendously in finishing the build without any catastrophes, it also made the process way more fun. I. Choosing the Right Parts. The basic components of a Hackintosh include a motherboard, CPU, CPU cooler, GPU, SSD, RAM, WIFI card, power supply, and case. Its as easy as 1 2 3, A B CPU What makes building a Hackintosh trickier than a regular PC build You cant make one out of any old componentsyou must use parts that have OSX drivers. Since Mac OS was designed to run exclusively on proprietary Apple parts, most hardware vendors just arent writing OSX drivers for their hardware. Since drivers are the software that tells the OS how to interact with the hardware, you must seek out parts that have an OSX driver. Tonymacx. 86 is the hub for all things Hackintosh, and has an amazing selection of supported builds that are always up to date. If you want to peruse the plethora of current options, go there. Im calling this build Video Editor on a Limited Budget Pro. It comes with a 4. GHz quad core CPU, H1. N WIFI motherboard, EVGA Ge. Force GTX 9. 70 GPU, and Samsung SSD drive among other things for between 1. Parts change all the time, and more importantly, Hackintosh support for parts changes all the time, so its a good idea to check the Tonymacx. Buyers Guide for news on build components. Recently, support was announced for NVIDIA Pascal cards. Neato. And while the components and software may change, understanding the process does not. Heres an introduction to what each part of your Hackintosh does. The motherboard is in charge of all the communication between the components of your computer. Its like your computers nervous system, telling the heart to beat, and the legs to walk. Mobo for short, this all important printed circuit board must be compatible with a Hackintosh build because, when youre fooling software into thinking that it is running on proprietary components, that communication all starts with the Mobo. So whatever else you do, choose one thats hack approved My build GIGABYTE Motherboard GA H1. N WIFI. The Central Processing Unit CPU does the bidding of the programs you install on your computer, so the more GHz you can get, the faster youll be able to import, cut, apply, render, and export Since a Mac Pros CPU is pretty similar to a PC version its just a Xeon branded Intel chip deciding on a CPU is easy. For comparison, the current entry level Mac. Pro comes with a 3. GHz Intel Xeon E5 CPU with 1. MB L3 cacheTurbo Boost up to 3. GHz. The sixth generation quad core Skylake Core i. I went with is a solid choice. In case you were wondering, GHz is the unit of clock frequency. When you hear people talk about overclocking this refers to setting the clock frequency higher so it can perform more operations per second. Cool Not literally of course, as overclocking makes it quite hot. Youll need a heavy duty CPU cooler either way, but especially if you plan to overclock. My build Intel Core i. K 4. 0. 0 GHz Unlocked Quad Core Skylake Desktop Processor. To cool the expensive, gold speckled CPU, youll likely use a fan and a heatsink. Its actually the heatsink pictured thats primarily responsible for moving heat away from the sensitive internal organs of your computer. The heatsink is usually made of a metal like copper because its a great heat conductor. It can also be made of aluminum, which compromises a little heat conductivity to be more lightweight. The heat dissipates from the CPU to the Heatsink to the air or in some cases, liquid and keeps your whole system from melting off the face of the planet. My build ARCTIC Freezer 1. CO Copper. A video editors best friend, a graphics processing unit GPU is designed specifically for handling graphical images, which helps with video workflow. Its an electronic circuit like the CPU, but with an uber efficient specification of just processing images and graphics. Note While the GTX 9. I did my build, I stuck with the GTX 9. Different models go in and out of stock on Amazon and Newegg. Just make sure you have one with ACX 2. My build EVGA Ge. Force GTX 9. 70 4. GB ACX 2. 0 SC. An SSD does that same thing as the regular HDD, but it has none of those breakdown susceptible moving mechanical components. You know those spinning disks on your regular hard drives, the ones you can hear start whirring when you plug them in They even sound slow. SSDs are quicker, quieter, and more reliable. They can also get expensive, so if youre on a budget, you may opt to use your SSD strictly for the programs on your computer, and save the rest of your storage needs for a cheaper internal or external HHD. Note SSD is getting cheaper everydayMy build Samsung 8. EVO 5. 00. GB 2. 5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD. Youre probably familiar with RAM Random access memory as the kind of memory that makes your computer programs go faster. Random access means that data can be read or written in the same amount of time no matter where the data is located. Its the difference between walking through a library with a Dewey Decimal number, versus instantly pulling a book out of thin air the moment you want it.