our last hackintosh video an attempt to build the fastest mac in the world using
virtualization to simplify the hackintosh process was a huge success
except for the awkward timing where it ended up coming out the very day that
apple finally announced their new mac
pro which turned out to be faster than ours
but we're not beat yet ladies and gentlemen
hello yeah it's time
so our goal now is to go bare metal hackintosh on the
same 28 core CPU that we used last time
water cool it and overclock it before
apple releases their new mac pro to the
public which gives us
what uh three months or so well considering that apple's had six
years to work on theirs i'd say we've got a lot of work to do
i'm here all right
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just the usual reminder we are not endorsing the use of macOS on anything
other than a mac in any way
no especially in a commercial environment if you want to run mac at
work buy mac oh yeah that in that case it is much better to buy a mac because
then you actually get support in order to build a hackintosh that can compete
with the new mac pro we're going to need to do a few things in preparation
first and foremost we need a motherboard that is comparable in terms of expansion
to the one that apple is shipping in their new cheese grater and also one
that is likely to be compatible with macOS
unfortunately that means that our ASUS dominus board with its mere four pci
express 16x slots is out we turned
instead to Gigabyte c621 aorus extreme they refer to this thing
as monster gaming motherboard and i think
they're pretty close to the mark it's rocking seven pci express slots for
expansion and 12 ddr4 dimm slots this
should give us plenty of room to maneuver and if we decide to liquid cool
our GPU setup it'll actually potentially
give us even more internal expansion
than apple's big passive GPU coolers
will allow one area where we will be making
compromises though is external expansion
our board does have a header to install a titan rich Thunderbolt 3 card right
around here and if we were in so inclined we could
pass through a displayport signal from our GPU for the full mac experience but
we're limited to just two of those right instead of what is it six or something
like that yeah there's like two on the front and like four on the back
another difference for us is our gpus so
we are stuck with the Radeon 7 the fastest available card that is still
compatible with the latest version of macOS mojave
we intend to install more than one of these but
guys we're still kind of in the proof of concept phase here so we're gonna grab
one or two more when the time comes is this the slot you wanted for it this one
right here perfect next up is the memory now our CPU falls
well short of the up to 1.5 terabytes of
memory supported on the new mac pro but
it still does pretty well up to 512 gigs
and we want to have a pretty rocking config for it but for today
well we're just validating so we slotted in six sticks of ddr4 3200 trident z RGB
modules from g skill that's more than enough for the test that we're going to
throw at it while also actually being a fair bit faster than what apple will be
shipping for the final build the plan is
384 gigs of the fastest 32 gig modules
that we can get our hands on yeah fully deck it out finally for our CPU we've
got the xeon w 3175x from a previous
video but this time we're not allocating cores to our host os or dealing with
virtualization overhead because we're going to boot macOS directly
to cool this thing well we've got some plans for something really crazy that
might take a little bit of engineering know-how from alex
but for now we've gone with the Noctua nhu14s on top of the motherboard box
which is fine for a case right i mean we
didn't really have much of a choice actually it's uh the the board is physically too large
for any of the test benches that we have here at the office
okay so enough preamble are we ready to do it i think we're
ready okay hopefully i didn't break off the SATA connector when i uh
that would be bad yeah punch it chewy
theoretically this just works and it just goes right to macOS right yeah
all right uh-oh uh-oh cloverboot manager oh oh
i think this is fine it was supposed to boot up did you hit the keyboard by any
chance no okay
well you do you don't trust me you need brandon to validate it
uh okay so that's it i'm i'm a mac bare
metal okay so if you guys are wondering how we got
this done guys this is not a tutorial but maybe walk them through some of the
steps that we had to go through yeah again not a tutorial but i found that
using our previous vm based clover install as a baseline Gigabyte's
hardware and firmware here actually basically was compatible with macOS out
of the box now i did have to install using usb 2.0
and i had to grab fake smc to get past some acpi errors while booting the
installer but once we got it on there everything basically just worked
now everything needs a bit of an asterisk imessage and facetime do not
currently work on our hacc pro but we
intend to solve that one way or another before the conclusion
all right well do you want to see us in a bit of friendship yeah i want to see a cinematic question is that
let's do it i think last time we cracked 10 000
how high do you think it'll go now i would expect it to be at least a touch
higher because we're ditching the virtualization overhead
and we got a couple more cores because we don't have to leave anything for our
host os yeah so four extra threads okay so we got eleven thousand four
hundred thirty nine yeah we're looking at results that are about five percent
faster in the multi-threaded test and nearly twenty percent faster single
threaded so as much as we love virtualization we
were actually leaving a fair bit of performance on the table yeah well why
don't we fire up geekbench next let's do it
well that number looks a lot higher than last time that's nearly 80 000. yes
multicore we're at about 23 higher in
single threaded and nearly nine percent higher in multi-core like it's a big
difference overall in CPU curiously though our opencl and metal
scores don't look like they gained quite as much
so why don't we do luxmark next and see what that's looking like okay so now
we've got a pattern here it looks like in our GPU bound tests our
virtualization overhead wasn't hurting us nearly as much as it was in the CPU
bound tests fascinating so now we want to hit it with some
non-synthetic CPU tests um where do you want to start let's go with blender
blender sounds good wow
that's a lot of threads there it is
so 116. we saved a couple of seconds on the bmw
test but more impressively we saved nearly half a minute on the classroom
i think this is the fastest we've ever seen a mac run these tests
and i did the mozilla firefox compile test off camera and it went 40
faster wow it literally only took 9 minutes
that's crazy i think the only test left to run from
last time are then final cut pro and hand brake good
so let's fire up final cut so this looks promising
did we save sorry three minutes on our final cut
protest yeah and nearly half a minute on handbrake
too which is actually really impressive when you consider that it took under six
minutes to begin with wow
all right so how about them apples then now
keep in mind guys that this is actually
above the level of performance that we would expect out of the new mac pro for
these workloads because while the xeon w
3275 that apple's using on the high end
has a slightly higher single core boost clock it also has a much lower base
clock and a more conservative TDP with
the same core and cache layout as our xeon w 31 75
oh and uh don't forget that these tests were all done at stock clocks too
our CPU only ever got to 80 degrees under blender while we boosted a 3.8
gigahertz all day long if apple's mac pro stops boosting
basically at all they lose on everything but memory capacity
so actually this is looking like a really good start to the project um
it would appear that knocking on all the wood i can find well
i don't know if anything yeah okay it would appear that nothing's going to prevent us from seeing it through to the
end with that said it's going to take some time because if
we're going to do this thing right we need to go all the way
i want a custom monoblock for this board as much of the fastest RAM we can muster
at least one more Radeon 7 an all core
overclock of 4 gigahertz minimum i expect it to be damn near silent and
i want it all in a cheese grater stay tuned guys
because success or failure this is going to be
one hell of a ride
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