New Hackintosh / PT7 monster HD PCI Rig

[jeremyroberts]

Do we like this Fractal Design case? Watch the video!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811352007

or even better, this one:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811352015

[jeremyroberts]

Hey Jetway guys -- anyone using the mSATA port for an SSD?

I am a little concerned that the Jetway mobo is not the perfect fit for my build...

*only* 5 SATA ports (+ the mSATA)
no firewire
no optical audio
DVI will not drive a 30" display at 2560x1600 (I presume this is a limitation of the chipset, not the mobo - but DisplayPort will drive one 30" screen, right?)

yes, it has 4 PCI slots - but the remaining 3 PCIe slots will have to go to:

1. GPU. I am trying to find a "silent" no-fan GPU that will drive 2x DVI @ 2560x1600. Any ideas?
2. Firewire (drivers?)
3. eSATA card? (maybe find a card that has internal SATA and external eSATA? drivers?)

I guess I will need an audio card to get system audio output to s/pdif optical? I presume so... so should I run a PCI soundcard to do S/PDIF side-by-side with 3 HD PCI cards?

Pardon the noob aspects of my questions -- but I get the boot stuff and how the hackintosh works... but I am not sure how the OS can talk to the other devices -- have you guys added eSATA and Firewire cards?

I so want to hit the buy button. I am amazed that I can spec quality parts for so little $.

Would it be better to take this discussion to the tonymacx86 forum?

[temetrepo]

GPU-> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814121422
You'll lose a pcie slot with this one as the heatsink is huge

Firewire -> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16815124072
Works OOB, no drivers needed

eSata-> http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-PCI-E-SA...item256390bef3

Also works OOB, and it's bootable too. Most of the other eSata cards cannot boot Mac OSX.

For an optical out you can use one of ese
http://www.amazon.com/Turtle-Beach-A...8692996&sr=8-1

[jeremyroberts]

Originally Posted by jeremyroberts

Do we like this Fractal Design case? Watch the video!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811352007

or even better, this one:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811352015

NO! We DO NOT like green eggs and ham.
The R3 may be a quiet, and beautiful case -- but the area from the card slot to the drive cage is about 11-7/8" -- HD cards are 12-3/8"

f*ck

I was really digging the R3 case -- and it is perfect for a studio (without HD cards).

OK guys, which case is the sure thing? Microcenter needs to have this in stock...

PS -- the rest of the build is totally solid. FINALLY found a video card (EVGA GT520), and the firewire card worked OOB.

Why is there so little talk about ATX cases? Yikes! Help?

[temetrepo]

I used this one, but has the same problem as the R3. Had to remove the caddies that wre aligned to the slots where the cards were in. Good thing it has a lot of HDD caddies so it wasn't really an issue.

http://www.microcenter.com/single_pr...uct_id=0361306

[jeremyroberts]

Thanks temetrepo.

I found this case at Microcenter --

http://www.microcenter.com/single_pr...uct_id=0383858

Antec P280

There was a very favorable review on this model at SilentPC

http://www.silentpcreview.com/Antec_P280

I am THRILLED with the P280 case!!!! Compared to the Fractal R3, it's like moving from a studio apartment to a mansion. The noise-abatement properties of the Antec are not as tricky or obvious as the Fractal (Fractal has lots of internal padding and treatment), but the quality of the fans and placement seems to be very intelligent - and the Antec has fan speed switches... I am very satisfied with the quiet of this case -- I can now lose the isoraxx!

We are now cooking with gas!

http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic....394670#p394670

[temetrepo]

Nice case. Good to hear you're rocking now.


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[DownrightBass]

Back to the iLok issue. I had the same problem on my Hack (PT9 LE on 10.6.8). Thanks to TravisDRS for pointing me in the right direction. It was not an iLok or USB problem; it was network related.

Open About This Mac under apple menu and click More Info... Click on Ethernet Cards. Look for BSD name. If the value is anything other than en0, Pro Tools gets very confused.

My problem was that I hadn't installed the onboard ethernet in my Hackintosh, so my AirPort card was set to en0. I installed the ethernet (in my case using Lnx2Mac's Realtek driver in Multibeast) and reset en1 to en0 by first removing all services from System Preferences/Network, then deleting NetworkInterfaces.plist from Library/Preferences/System Configuration. The plist was rebuilt on reboot, and voila, Pro Tools 9 opens as fast as it does on my MacBook Pro.

Hope this helps someone.

EX-X58A-UD3R rev 2.0 bios FF
i7-950
Asus EN8400GS
6GB Corsair RAM
WD Black 500GB & 1TB HDDs
Corsair TX650 PS
OS X 10.6.8 64-bit
PT 9.0.6

[James Drake]

Hi all,

Just want to put a quick note that I tested Pro Tools 10.2 HD4 Accel on the jetway with OS 10.7.4 (64 bit kernel). No probs so far.

[James Drake]

This is interesting:
http://www.jetwaycomputer.com/NAF93.html