i9-14900K Monster Hackintosh! | Music Production and Video Editing PC | with New Benchmarks

[@punknugget561]

I have the same exact set up, and I actually delidded my CPU and use the EK direct die specified waterblock to shave off about 13 to 15°C. I’m really excited to see what kind of benchmarks I’ll be able to reach as well. By the way, congratulations on you being one of the first people making it happen here on KZbin!

[@zemekiel]

Maybe you should put some midi notes on those tracks so the plugins actually do some work.

[@thomas0101]

[@punknugget561]

Wow! Even with my 5 year old X299 Hackintosh with my 6900XT GPU, I"m still getting 114296 OpenCL and 203137 Metal Score. I'm super impressed that it's right up there with the BEST Mac Pros!

[@ChristianoRodríguez-h3k]

Have you tried uhe Diva vst synth? it draws a lot of power from the processor I wonder how much he can get

[@CrisPearson]

I had this question but found it in the video. The buffer size is set to 128. 8.9ms roundtrip latency. I wonder how it handles it with a lower buffer size. How low can it go without choking?

[@marioskarageorgiou6758]

Yesterday I built my system 14900k, Asus Proart z790, 64Gb DDR5 6600mhz and my old gpu Rx580 (Im researching for a good deal of 6900xt). My GB and Cinebench scores are a little higher and it is because MacPro 7.1 uses all the cores! Imacpro1.1 uses only the performance cores. Just a mention if you want to try it out. Great build gz!

[@oldtimer666]

I have the exact same build except i went with 192gb ram

[@Richkeyricks]

AMAAAAZIIING..!!!! THANK YOU.. Be Healthy & Long Life...

[@Richkeyricks]

How About External Vst? Heavy one, Like Waves or Ozone 11 ?

[@sjay4673]

Great work as always, TechNolli! 👍

[@TechNolli]

Thanks syay!

[@JamesArthurHurley]

Just FYI: your UADx plugins are "DISABLED" meaning they aren't processing any code. So you are still only using the piano and limiter.

[@JohnSchiavoneJrBSEERN]

Awesome video Mike! Much better scores!!!

[@TechNolli]

Thanks 👍

[@huancuc1492]

@@TechNolli your score on i9 14900k is equal to my hackintosh i7 14700k hahaa

[@LabworksVapes]

This machine is a beast

[@TechNolli]

Yes it is!

[@thayermorgan445]

Much better performance. Last video seemed odd with the numbers. I don’t see a Broadcom-based WiFi/BT module, so safe to assume Airdrop is not working?

[@arozendojr]

In which position of the Xcode Benchmark is your setup located or how long does it take for your setup to finish the Xcode Benchmark?

[@paradis2]

Would love to see more "how-to videos."

[@huancuc1492]

your track is so light with some trivial plugins, testing the kontakt library track and you feel the difference :))))

[@oldtimer666]

Yeah you right but it is still faster than the all speced out mac studio ultra

[@huancuc1492]

@@oldtimer666 I'm in love with i7 14700k hackintosh:)). it beast ultra m2 :))

[@punknugget561]

For Cinebench with my existing 5+ year old X299 Hackintosh system, I'm getting 24,210 for a CB score. Can't wait to see how this is going to work with a delidded / direct-die waterblock?

[@acidtechno]

please run a logic test with audio files playing on the tracks to saturate the disk io . and double up till lags . thanks great setup . tip , please use separate audio files so duplicate a metronome click , and individualise before hand. record the output and compare recording to time line sync click when no load, see zoom compare gitter . where can i dl your efi . 👍

[@oldtimer666]

Im on 192gigs ram and same config as him i can with 100% confidence say that its faster than the m2 ultra

[@girotto5467]

can u do a test with abeton live with Diva synth, please?

[@joelarkin9614]

Do you have any sleep issues with this pc? I have the same setup and mine will crash right after it goes to sleep.

[@sandrvoxon]

but as i know UAD interface has own DSP, and plugins should not put a load on the processor

[@mikepol1889]

I have an Apollo twin Thunderbolt 1 device. Would the Thunderbolt 3 to 1 adapter work with this Thunderbolt 4 on the motherboard ? Read many posts that pc motherboards only Thunderbolt 3 devices are supported with z790

[@TechNolli]

I haven't tested it, but I would use a real Apple adapter.

[@mmo2991]

Sadly with Sonoma you loose Wifi and BT Support for Airdrop and such ...

[@oldtimer666]

Buy a fenvi and everything works

[@huancuc1492]

I'm runing intel wifi with z790 in sonoma now hahaha

[@trevgood4171]

Can u please make an updated tutorial of building a efi and the whole install everything been a long time fan

[@khainguyen9887]

Hello, i have a question. I completed the EFI that almost fully support my PC 14900K Z790 Rog Maximus Hero. The Only one problem is that the Thunderbolt did not native support hotplug. I need to plugin before turn on the machine. If fi plug after the OS load, system not found out My Thunderbolt device. Any idea to fix it? Thanks

[@TechNolli]

You need SSDTs for hotplug.

[@Ghost69s]

Work on ultra gen ?

[@jinxypoes1]

when everything plays with midi you will see big difference

[@Jonas-r1f]

Which Graphics Card would fit best with the setup for a hackintosh like the one one your Page Till 1200 eur

[@torrenttv7567]

amd rx 6600 is a good choice

[@j340_official]

Crazy that a laptop m3 max is faster than or keeping up with the 14900K.

[@thugfromeu]

What’s the cost of the embedded M3 Max compared to the socketable i9 which can be resold after many years of use.

[@j340_official]

@@thugfromeu you talk about upgradability but fail to mention that this particular i9 is on a dead platform z790, it won’t work in z890 or an lga1851 motherboard. It won’t support thunderbolt 5 and also won’t support 4 direct to cpu pcie5 lanes for nvme storage. Instead, nvme pcie5 bandwidth must be shared with the GPU. The apple iGPU is much faster than the Intel iGPU. Apple has been upgrading its iGPU ever since Apple silicon debuted, but the Intel iGPU in the 14900k is the same iGPU that debuted in alder lake. The key point for me though is that the m3 max consumes far less power than raptor lake refresh for similar levels of performance. It is embarrassing that a laptop chip of 30-35W is keeping up with raptor lake refresh which officially consumes 253W in its PL2, but by default in most performance z790 motherboards, will consume 280W or more. Of course there are cons to apple’s system, lack of upgradable storage and ram. And the cost that Apple charges for additional storage and ram is ridiculous. Also, no native windows on arm support. Also, no AAA gaming yet on Macintosh. But from a pure technological point of view, the difference in performance per watt is so stark. I hope arrow lake addresses this issue. Because arm is coming. More efficient AMD chips are coming. Risc-v is coming to the data center. Can intel keep up?

[@cheogalindez229]

Great! I believe UA plugins make all the processing in the audio interface its dsp. Not sure

[@dnalyen]

They do! Maybe he’s running them native. I doubt the audio interface could handle 30 tracks

[@MrAbrantes1]

All plugins are disabled@@dnalyen

[@raj-bu2mq]

my audio interface steinberg ur44 work with sonoma??

[@TechNolli]

I know it works with Ventura, so I think Sonoma would work as well.

[@donaldsuggett7775]

Would love to see some FinalCut X performance numbers. 😊

[@Jonas-r1f]

Nvme Slot?

[@junovue]

the music production test isn't proper to see how powerful the device is. i'd recommend another follow up video where each instrument track has 5-10 plugins and create up to 1000 tracks. in your video you're utilizing the UAD plugins that rely on the interface for power and not the computer so you were really only loading the limiter and the piano. realistically engineers would probably have up to hundreds of tracks with lots of plugins etc going on. would love to see the set up running mac to get proper data.

[@mohanshiva_musical]

Suggest any processor cpu for running 300 tracks vst

[@oldtimer666]

Running vsts more depends on the ram than the cpu, get a 14900k with atleast 128gb ram

[@jinxypoes1]

if there is no audio or midi you cant test it out

[@GigaStudio]

you have pc , how its possible to get logic ?

[@JimCamorongan]

Hackintosh

[@GigaStudio]

@@JimCamorongan THIS IS PROGRAM? OR THIS NORMAL FOR WINDOWS?

[@MrAbrantes1]

All plugins are disabled!!!!

[@Maax_555]

This looks nonsense to me. I'm no expert but watched many similar videos and have my own setup. Why use UADs, these have there own processing power. You are not stressing the system in an everyday normal use way. You should be running a real project with around 40 to 50 tracks of VSTs like Omnisphere, kontact, serum, all the usual stuff that we all use. Stick 30 audio tracks on, make sure you actually have data in the tracks with a minimum of 4 notes playing simultaneously on each track. Stick a couple of compressors, reverb, de Esser, delay etc and run that. Then start duplicating. And for the audio tracks don't duplicate as it just runs the same audio file again. You need to make them unique.

[@passsacaglia]

Word. Still think the M chips destroys the multi core intel cpus what I read

[@gamerturniton3081]

Why would you do that? did you know the performance is lower when trying to run a Mac withing a PC? it is a waste of an i9

[@dodikteguh8767]

Please share efi files😂

[@srliveevents6213]

ur video qualty is very Low sir Plz post high Qualty videos Only

[@LabworksVapes]

You are kidding?

[@TechNolli]

Did you check your resolution in KZbin? This video is 1080p.

[@Naked4FunTV]

I was almost crying last video, cause I have similar custom pc on the way last pieces to arrive, but now you made me happy again hahahahha you better then santa 😍 by the way I've tried to contact you :) but... you are probably busy

[@TechNolli]

Try me at [e-mail]

[@allkindsofthings673]

i9-14900K is not optimized for macos. You should use Windows 11 for this CPU if you want all it's power.