I used to mine crypto few years back, my rig are now collecting dust. Been looking to purchase Mac Studio M2 Max or Ultra.
After seeing this video it got me intrigued on a hackintosh https://youtu.be/UIbTB0ZVxno?si=Mtgh__QGM-HwJfSb
Still plan on purchasing a Mac Studio, But I thought I try to repurpose these rig. I want to have Mac OS machine with better GPU as I work on Blender and Unity3d project. The 3090 is sufficient for my need in my desktop for window build. Currently I have m1 MacBook Pro and it pretty good too. But Ai need more.
Before m1 Mac I used 2017 IMac with 64 gig ram and recently upgraded to Sonoma with open core. Now I can run Xcode 15 again. But want to have a better GPU. I couldn’t get the power color egpu to work on the iMac. I did get it to work on my 2016 MacBook Pro, but the performance loss due to thunderbolt wasn’t good. My bottleneck right now is GPU on Mac. I need the GPU performance to above 20 core or similar to rtx3090.
Don’t want to spend too much time and money on this hackintosh. Maybe 4-8 hours and under $500 if I need extra parts
My options
Option 1. Just Buy M2 Ultra studio ($3.5-4k)
Option 2. I buy a Mac Pro 2018-2019 and add in video card. (Under $2k)
Option 3. Build hackintosh with part I have ($500)
My parts
(Motheboard) Asus Prime Z290 Asus Prime Z390 MSI B150M BAZOOKA
(CPU)
Intel® Core™ i5-9600KF Processor
Intel® Core™ i5-9500F Processor
(ram) 32gig gSkill ddr 4 2400 32 gig Critical ddr 2400
(Hd) Samsung Pro 950 - 1 Tb Samsung Pro 860 - 512 Gb
(Graphic) Amd vega 64 amd vega 56 Rx580 Rx480 Rtx3090
(Power supply) Evga 1600 watt Evga 1200 watt
(Egpu) Razor Core
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