Hackintosh with a unique touch

[S7Studio]

Hey guys,

 

For a while i've been thinking about building a hackintosh with the specific purpose of OpenCL Rendering. I'm a moderately experienced pc builder, but i havn't done casemodding or actually custom loops before. The idea is to custom fit an old Powermac G5 case with the following components. I'd like to make a right panel  with custom window. Colourscheme i'm looking for is aluminium; white with black accents. Ofcourse with the 10% fps increase of RGB goodies!

 

I'm basically looking for comments on my plan and/or suggestions the community would make; thanks!

 

My planning list:

 

CPU Intel Core i9-9900K

CPU BLOCK EKWB EK-Velocity RGB Nickel + Plexi

MOBO MSI MPG Z390 Gaming Pro Carbon AC

RAM Corsair Dominator Platinum 32GB DDR4 3200Mhz 4 sticks

GPU ASUS RX 580 8G => have lying around to get started.

 ASUS ROG STRIX Radeon RX Vega 64 8GB OC

 ASUS Radeon VII 16GB HBM2

(I'm not sure to go for and buy a watercooled rx64 now or wait till radeon VII is decent)

 

GPU BLOCK EK-FC Radeon Vega STRIX RGB Nickel

GPU BACKPLATE EK-FC Radeon Vega Strix Backplate Nickel

PSU Be Quiet Dark Pro 11 850W Platinum

STORAGE Samsung 970 EVO 1TB M.2

FANS EK-Vardar EVO 120 ER RGB x4;  2x Pull of PP config & 2 exhaust

          EK-Vardar EVO 140ER Black BB;  Push of PP config

RADIATOR 240 EK Water Blocks Coolstream CE 280 (not sure if i'll do one or two rads)

PWM PUMP EK Water Blocks EK-XRES 140 D5 RGB PWM Pump x1

CABLE KIT Cablemod kit, custom black & white?

FITTINGS EK-HDC Fitting 16mm GI/4 Black x12

LIQUID EK CryoFuel Clear 1000ml

ACRYLIC TUBING EK-HD Tube 12/16mm 500mm (2pcs) x3

RANDOM ASUS Optical Bluray write BW-16D1HT/B

                Filling Bottle 1000ml EK-ATX Bridging Plug (24pin)

                EK-Cable-Y Splitter PWM x2

                EK-HD Tube DIY Kit

                EK-HD Tube Reamer

                Front IO kabel to ATX

                Thermal Paste: Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut

                WAGNER Furno 300 Heatgun Salvage

PowerMac G5 Case + working components

 

Total cost seems to be around €3200.00

 

Tinkering around with vanilla hackintosh on Mojave seems to indicate not to get an Nvidia GPU (driver support is scrapped by Crapple) and use Intel CPU's for accelerated rendering. Sidenote: a windows Bootcamp will be used after office hours for some gaming I currently have a 4K IPS LG 60 hz screen with freesync for this pc. Another reason to wait for the Radeon VII perhaps?

 

My main questions are compatiblity, wait for Radeon VII and do you think i should do 2x 240 rads or will one be sufficient? 2 would be a custom loop for CPU & GPU separately.

 

Thank you for any feedback/ suggestions.

 

 

 

[AntiTrust]

I've built one hackintosh and compatability with your hardware is a major issue, Id use parts recommended by tonymacx86 (especially motherboards)

 

https://www.tonymacx86.com/buyersguide/building-a-customac-hackintosh-the-ultimate-buyers-guide/#CustoMac_Pro

 

cool idea, would love to see a build log on this project

[S7Studio]

9 minutes ago, AntiTrust said:

I've built one hackintosh and compatability with your hardware is a major issue, Id use parts recommended by tonymacx86 (especially motherboards)

 

https://www.tonymacx86.com/buyersguide/building-a-customac-hackintosh-the-ultimate-buyers-guide/#CustoMac_Pro

 

cool idea, would love to see a build log on this project

Hello Antitrust,

 

So you're saying i should scrap the MSI Mobo for an Asus maximus hero? If i wanna maintain my aluminium colour scheme, i'd have to go with an asus maximus XI formula, which is a hefty price increase of 200€

[JulioDM]

My freshly built Hackintosh uses MSI MPG Z390 Gaming Pro Carbon AC MOBO,  i9-9900K Mackintosh OC'd to 5ghz. 32Gb 4000 ram. Be Quiet Dark Base 700 case. 750 Gold Power supply. 4 Port usb pcie card. 1tb NVME SSD Mac OS Drive. 2 Tb Windows 10 drive. Multiple extra hard drives for various storage needs. Thermaltake RGB Water 3.0 360mm rad liquid AIO. It all works beautifully.