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Oh sorry was not aware, I'll keep the Hackintosh elements of the build out of the build log. Could someone send me to the rules, I'm new to this, i read the rules about sponsors banners etc... but didn't read anything on hackintoshes. My bad, this didnt come up the last time i posted so I assumed it was all right.

I started planning nearly a year ago. I even bought the case cpu and motherboard however unforeseen circumstances meant i couldn't complete it. One year on the announcement that the GTX 10XX Series is now supported in mac os was all it took to do some serious saving to by the rest of the parts. Bellow is the original post made last year, you can skip over it but it might give you some context as to what was going through my head. The purpose of the PC is still the same btw. Original Thread Did you skip? I probably would have, who needs context any way, besides the final build as changed a lot any way. Here is the link to pc part picker. https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/yjR8kT I bought the Case Cpu and Motherboard last year. The other reason I was holding of on building apart from money is the was no support for the 1070 and with 980ti being out of stock pretty much every where i didn't wan't to buy new graphics card that was already out of date or a used graphics card for high price. I order the rest of the part earlier this week and they are arriving today ! You guys like pictures right, even if its picture of boxes? I'll take as many as I can, here are the first few from what I already have. Don't worry they won't be all boxes, I just don't want to open them till they're all here, and yes I installed the motherboard and cpu, I couldn't resist, they were sat in my room for so long beggin to be put in my case

Where can i get the 980ti for £310 in the UK? I'm interested as i would perfer to get that compared to the 1070. I can't find that price anywhere?

If it was me i would do it. Nothing to lose, I would keep it in my hand luggage though that way i can always see it. You can check if things are cheaper the import using this website http://www.dutycalculator.com/ I've used it when coming back from holidays to see if its worth buying some stuff while i'm there.

And also if you were wondering if your order the gtx 1070 GPU (founders addition from the USA) it would cost 310.47 sterling but you would have to pay 62.09 in taxes and duty so the total in £372.57 which is cheaper than the 399 here, but this does not include shipping.... but you wouldn't have to pay shipping since your flying in with it anyways. So it is cheaper no matter what if you buy it in the usa. It is only more expensive if you ship it over unless you can haggle free shipping some how.

It depends, When my uncle has done it with cameras he has had times where he has opened the box but still had to prove he bought it before going the the us..which he couldn't do.. so he had to pay the imporrt tax. But other times they had seen it but the didn't do anything so i think it might be just having a bit of luck. And after the import tax i think it was the same price has here in the uk any way so it is probably worth the ris? I think with the gpu being so new and high profile it might attract there intrest so not as easy to get through as a dslr and lenses which a lot of tourist take with them. Good luck if you do try it though. It will be a huge saving!!

I think Nvidia have web driver for mac on the website. Look at step eleven on the tonymacx86 "UniBeast: Install OS X El Capitan on Any Supported Intel-based PC" it tells your how to intall and enable alternate nvidia drivers

This is the build i came up with, just over budget but its not a big deal... http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/NtrFf8 Did some more research, i think i will go with the x99 platform, i found a guy that managed to get it woking on tonymacx86 with this motherboad and CPU. I can imagine getting a second 1070 in a year probably if i reallyget into gaming. I just hope my estimate for the price is realistic haha I won't risk getting the new intel cpu's one just incase... Thanks for the suggestions though, im happy i asked or i would have been stuck with 4 cores and no posibillity of upgrading

Thanks, Especially for the Windows 10 purchase tip. I'll spend sometime tomorrow looking at compatibilty will x99 and OS X El Capitan. I'm not sure slighlty faster render times will be worth it for me. I'll chaeck out what the difference is while editing. I never took the x99 platform into account as i assumed it would completly blow my budget

Now that is a good question, On tony mac x86 the only Gpu's in the parts list were Nvidia (So i assumed that AMD was not Supported) i knew the mac pros used AMD cards though but i thought they were some sort of special propritary card... After looking further into it i 've found this http://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/radeon-compatibility-guide-ati-amd-graphics-cards.171291/ So i'll be spending tonight looking at compatible AMD cards, Not sure any will compete with the pascal just yet so we'll have to wait for Polaris and see.

Yeah though about that, i was looking at external interface istead as i do a lot live recording somthing like the Focusright Scarlet focusrite scarlett 2i4 would do and it would drive monitors like the Yamaha HS5 fine

Yeah I know, I have a link i can post but some of the vendors aren't in the PC Part picker Data base, i'll post the link now anyway if it helps.

I'm finally in a position that i can buy the part for my pc. It's taken years to get to this point and it's a huge investment for me so i'm putting it up here to make sure there aren't any huge over sights and for general reassurance that i'm doing the right thing. So here is some context. I’m A-Level Student currently in my second year of 6th form (Senior Year in high school in the states I think) I’m Studying Math, Physics, Music Technology and Media. I will probably go down the academic route at Uni because it is a safe bet but i don’t want to let go of music and media creation. It’s actually what I want to do for a job. So to keep it going I want to build myself a content creation PC. I’m not new to building PC’s but im new to this level of hardware. (I did maintenance of PC at my old schools It department but that was all ancient tech like IDE instead of SATA. I’m just about able to use Photoshop and lightroom on my laptop but heavily rely on school Mac to edit and video and use Logic Pro X. I’m not a huge gamer, I pretty much play FIFA 14 on Xbox 360 every weekend for a while but that it, but I would be using this to start PC gaming Sorry for the large context paragraph, I thought some of the parts below might not make sense if i didn’t state this. My budget £1600 ( For the Start of summer) I’ll have more cash by the end for peripherals a NAS and monitors and more equipment for my setup. For now it’s just the core of the PC tower. The first thing that cannot be changed is that I am building a hackintosh I need to use Logic Pro X and this is on available on Mac os Here is a PC part picker list , (Ignore the GTX 970, It is only there to hold value).... http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/kdbfr7 Part Name Price Boot Drive 500GB Samsung 850 EVO (2) £213.30 PSU EVGA SuperNova P2 850 W £123.21 CASE Phanteks evolv ATX Glass £154.99 RAM 32GB (2x16GB) Corsair DDR4 Vengeance LPX Black £101.60 Mother Board Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD5 TH £149.45 Graphics Card GTX 1070 £339.00 CPU Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz £276.00 Cooler Hydro Series H110i GTX £94.99 OS Windows 10 OEM £52.49 OS OSX EL Capitan free Secondary GPU GPU (opp) For os X EVGA NVIDIA GT 740 SC Graphics Card (I doubt there will be drivers for Pascal any time soon so this is cheap and on takes up on slot) £73.298 Total Price: £1,578.33 Just a brake down of why I chose each part to help you with and suggestion you may have. Boot drive: 500GB Samsung 850 EVO I chose this because it is popular it has value and the review i read didn’t raise any alarms I also already have a SanDisk 120GB SSD to but current project on. Two SSD’s because one is for OSX, One for Windows. I probably won’t bother with raid until the NAS. PSU: EVGA SuperNova P2 850 W Very Good PSU all black cables Fully modular Platinum rated. I can add a second GTX 1070 CASE: Phanteks evolv ATX Glass For the last year my choice has been the Phanteks enthoo pro. But this looks way to good and pretty much has everything I could need. MotherBoard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD5 TH Main reason is because it is the cheapest way to get thunderbolt. Problem is Apple doesn’t support thunderbolt 3 yet. I’m betting on them adding it the machines soon considering their inclusion of the one usb 1 port on the MacBook. Some audio interfaces make use of Thuderbolt... GPU: GTX 1070 + GTX 740 SC The GTX 1070 offers the most cuda cores for the money which adobe applications make use of. OS X only has support for the Nvidia cards so that takes out all the AMD cards. The is no support for Pascal yet in OSx hence the GTX 740SC It is more of a just in case purchase. The pricing isn’t available is I’m basing it of a straight currency conversion plus a £40 premuim that usually happens with electronics. CPU: i7 6700k It seems like a good choice, The 6800k has just been released, the motherboards are supported on OS X, not sure the CPU will be plus its like £100 more, probably not worth it right. Cooler: Hydro Series H110i GTX Some of the best temps for a AIO CPU cooler. Should be able to reach 4.5Gz easily on the cpu with this and the motherboard. OS: WINDOWS 10 and OS X I’ve only used Premier Pro on Windows 7, Is there something I should know or keep in mind? Photo shop works fine on my Windows 10 laptop. OS X is literally just so I can use Logic pro X. RAM: 32GB (2x16GB) Corsair DDR4 Vengeance LPX Black 32 GB because i can just about afford it. It will let me upgrade to 64GB if I ever need to. The RAM adobe applications can get the better You might be wondering why I don’t just buy a Mac. Sometimes i think that to myself as well. Firstly, I want to build it myself, I don’t know why I’m just a DIY kind of guy. Secondly, I won’t getting a new Computer for quit a considerable amount of time, A self built PC will let me make small improvements to it while the Imacs are locked down Thirdly, Money, I can make i bit of a saving (i think) by buying the part myself, It is hard to do a price comparison because spec for spec Imacs don’t exist plus they all come with very good displays and are hard to give an exact value. If you have just read all that, thank you very much, What do you think? Is there anything I should change. I’ll be purchasing all my component after the 24th june (my last exam) So I have time to change things do a complete overhaul if i need to. Plus more detailed reviews on the GTX 1070 and new IntelCPU’s will be out by then. And maybe even a significant price drop on the GTX 9xx series. There is an Excel document attached with a break down of my parts and retailers ETC ( I probably won't opt for the credit option) Pc Build 2016.xlsx

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I love them bezels... Those thin bezels doe, great work LG