vic3d Posted December 15, 2012 Report Share Posted December 15, 2012 Does anyone here use a Hackingtosh? Does EIAS work with hackingtoshes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supernovavfx Posted December 15, 2012 Report Share Posted December 15, 2012 im going to be adding an Nvidia 570 card to my Mac Pro in January and following 'directions' lol... to make my 2008 mac pro accept it and start up fine. This will make my Mac, technically a 'Hackintosh' and I cant imagine EI not working even better with this card given the memory and speed. The reason these cards work is because Apple 'secretly' supports them anyway. Other "hacks" I have not heard anything about other hacks... ill report back in about a month or so... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidwu67 Posted December 16, 2012 Report Share Posted December 16, 2012 EI works fine with hackintoshes, I have a couple hackintosh slaves and they are great! However, try to stick with snow leopard, as I am getting lots of OSX crashes on lion and mountain lion, even on real macs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maher Posted December 17, 2012 Report Share Posted December 17, 2012 im going to be adding an Nvidia 570 card to my Mac Pro in January and following 'directions' lol... to make my 2008 mac pro accept it and start up fine. This will make my Mac, technically a 'Hackintosh' and I cant imagine EI not working even better with this card given the memory and speed. I also have a MacPro early 2008 and I'm very interested to learn how functional is your hack. Please, let us know about it when it will be done. Maher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supernovavfx Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 the "expert" on this according too a number of web sources is a guy on ebay known as MACVIDCARDS he provides the 'hacked' nvidia cards for macpros 3.1 4.1 and 5.1 mine is the 2008 8 core 3.2 ghz machine with 32 gigs of ram and the nvidia 8800 gx card.... he offered me 80 bucks for that. He marks up the cards about 80 - 100 bucks for his work on them and he provides the instructions those of us non programmer types can follow to get it working on our machines. He has sold a ton of these and even had them benchmarked on the site Barefeats.com great customer satisfaction from my research... you just need to know what monitors your driving.... I need a dual dvi version of the card for example. I wish I was more techie with this stuff but I cant do it all. I use AE HEAVILY and its new ray tracer is 'cuda' accelerated greatly among several plug ins... I am running 10.7 and nobody has reported any issues with this set up. I am only commenting on the video card aspect. The guy also has a website... just google him or find him in ebay.... he returns emails pretty well... that and the accelsior card from OWC are the top two things you can do IN MY OPINION to squeeze some nice new life out of our machines... another 12-24 months in my case i hope. Im waiting to start a new project in Jan and im going to follow through with the upgrade... ill report back and of course im hoping for a much more responsive EI experience as well.... not render times obviously, but overall zippiness I expect that.... going from 512 ram to 1.5 gig of ram should do SOMETHING better... i hope... but for around 350 - 400 you cant beat the bang for the buck.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verb Posted February 18, 2013 Report Share Posted February 18, 2013 I set up a hackintosh a few weeks ago with a 3770k processor for $680 to use as a render box. In terms of rendering it's only a tiny bit slower than my 2010 8 core Mac Pro so I couldn't be happier. It's been sitting there for 3 weeks smashing away frames with no complaints what so ever - running mountain lion 10.8.2. Anyone interested, I used this guys build and guide as a basis (including the nice bitfenix prodigy case) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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