My first Hackintosh - Recording studio computer

[studiooodion]

I've searched, read and thought about building a Hackintosh for my recording studio. I want stability, speed and that the sound of the computer isn't to loud. Doesn't have to be super quite. I don't think I will overclock.
What about these specs:

OS OSX 10.6.8 or if stable 10.7.4
Motherboard Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3 Rev 1.3
Processor Intel Core i7 2600K 3,4GHz
Case Fractal Design Define R3
RAM Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR3 PC3-12800 1600MHz (CMZ16GX3M2A1600C10) (2x8GB)
PSU Cooler Master PowerSupply (PSU) Silent Pro M700 700W
CPU cooler (maybe I don't need this one?) Corsair Hydro H40 CPU Kylare - Socket 775 / 1156 / 1155 / 1366 / AM3 / FM1
OS HDD1 Crucial m4 2.5" 128GB
Audio files HDD2 Don't know, something cheap but quite fast. 500GB is enough.

What should I think of?!?

 

[Mate94]

700W for this system.

Actually it's a kind of HTPC. The Corsair CX430 V2 should be enough for everything for this system.

 

[jester969]

Yeah, since you are looking to use HD3000 700W is way too much. 430 is sufficient as Mate94 stated.

You can purchase the Hyper212+ air cooler and Seagate Barracudas or WD Black.

 

[studiooodion]

Why you call it a HTPC? Isn't this a powerful computer?

Thank you for clearing out the PSU question.

 

[denmanjum]

I've searched, read and thought about building a Hackintosh for my recording studio. I want stability, speed and that the sound of the computer isn't to loud. Doesn't have to be super quite. I don't think I will overclock.
What about these specs:

OS OSX 10.6.8 or if stable 10.7.4
Motherboard Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3 Rev 1.3
Processor Intel Core i7 2600K 3,4GHz
Case Fractal Design Define R3
RAM Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR3 PC3-12800 1600MHz (CMZ16GX3M2A1600C10) (2x8GB)
PSU Cooler Master PowerSupply (PSU) Silent Pro M700 700W
CPU cooler (maybe I don't need this one?) Corsair Hydro H40 CPU Kylare - Socket 775 / 1156 / 1155 / 1366 / AM3 / FM1
OS HDD1 Crucial m4 2.5" 128GB
Audio files HDD2 Don't know, something cheap but quite fast. 500GB is enough.

What should I think of?!?

I'm using 10.8 with 2.67 Ghz i5 8Gbd GB 1333 Mhz DDR3 Gigabyte P55M-UD2 and I was running 17 tracks last night without a hiccup.

As far as a PSU I would not skimp on power. Doing music on your computer can be be very demanding. I had a 550 W fail on me and replaced it with a Rosewill 630 which received the golden award by Hardware Secrets. It's a bit noisy but works great.

I'm running Snow Leopard 10.68 on 250 GB HD and for my music files 650 GB,750GB and 1 TB.
I back up everything. Works like a champ! Your system sounds great!

 

[whiskeynipple0088]

I just built nearly the same that you spec'd just last month - same mobo (kingston ram) but I used a 9600GT for vid - you may want to consider using other than onboard vid for your rig considering the application.

and yeah tracked 15min of 12 tracks of drums in logic pro 8 (still using 10.6.8) no problems - was remote into my hack from a G4 with chicken of the vnc -

but I will say that after having a G5 for 7 yrs in my studio - if I could have afforded it I would have def. got another apple

as far as overclocking I was actually thinking about underclocking as it takes 64 instances of my PSP plugins to max the CPU (i5 2500k)

FWW: what I did when I installed -
installed osx using iboot (had 10.6.3 retail disk - get a real copy!)
once the welcome screen came on I hard booted down the machine and made an image of the HDD before I screwed it up (used another mac using disk utility - do you research of what the proper way to image a drive is)
put the HDD back in and took my chances - -when I would mess it up I would just re-image it (actually I used 2 HDD's - swapping and re-imaging as I needed to)

 

[studiooodion]

Thank you for your tips. I'll get a PSU around 650 och maybe 700 just to be safe.

You think there will be problems with the HD3000 if I use two screens extended desktop 1280x800 ?