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I do have an AMD Hackintosh, I don't see any reason you wouldn't be able to use these as a dev Hackintosh machine. It's gorgeously fast with my Ryzen 2700x, eats compilation time like no one's business and it's stable. And it's something around 1/4th the price of the same horsepower from native Intel Macs. I can't imagine the cost delta of a EPYC Rome Hackintosh to its Intel counterpart. It's not like I cheaped out e…
How was it getting things working on your AMD hackintosh? I’m very, very tempted to switch to AMD when the new Ryzen chips land but obviously want to be able to run macOS.
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I clearly mentioned it is an XEON 8280 _QS_. You can buy from ebay.
Looking this up it seems like Engineering and Qualification samples are loaned by Intel, so the people selling them don't actually have the legal right to do that. They also might have other issues and limitations because they're not the final product, and you don't have any warranty on them. That's a lot of caveats to hide behind two letters.
I do have an AMD Hackintosh, I don't see any reason you wouldn't be able to use these as a dev Hackintosh machine. It's gorgeously fast with my Ryzen 2700x, eats compilation time like no one's business and it's stable. And it's something around 1/4th the price of the same horsepower from native Intel Macs. I can't imagine the cost delta of a EPYC Rome Hackintosh to its Intel counterpart. It's not like I cheaped out e…
I do have an AMD Hackintosh, I don't see any reason you wouldn't be able to use these as a dev Hackintosh machine. It's gorgeously fast with my Ryzen 2700x, eats compilation time like no one's business and it's stable. And it's something around 1/4th the price of the same horsepower from native Intel Macs. I can't imagine the cost delta of a EPYC Rome Hackintosh to its Intel counterpart. It's not like I cheaped out e…
Do you have power management (and sleep) working on amd?
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How about those adobe applications? I heard that PS, Pr, or Ai need special patch to run on amd machines
I'm actually a designer, but I stopped using Adobe a very long time ago for unrelated reasons — when they switched to the subscription model. For that reason I didn't even try to run them. I do realise that might be an untenable position for someone in Hollywood since FCPX is not a match for Premiere / After Effects at that level, however, there are plenty of other things that do the job of Photoshop and Illustrator,…
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They are stuck with intel because of thunderbolt.
actually Asrock release X570 for ryzen2 with PCIE4 and thunderbolt 3 ( https://www.anandtech.com/show/14455/asrock-x570-aqua-heavie... ).
I do have an AMD Hackintosh, I don't see any reason you wouldn't be able to use these as a dev Hackintosh machine. It's gorgeously fast with my Ryzen 2700x, eats compilation time like no one's business and it's stable. And it's something around 1/4th the price of the same horsepower from native Intel Macs. I can't imagine the cost delta of a EPYC Rome Hackintosh to its Intel counterpart. It's not like I cheaped out e…
Pray tell, where are the docs for AMD hackintoshes? Running on Intel atm but the time for an upgrade is coming close. Do you have power management (and sleep) working on amd?
> Do you have power management (and sleep) working on amd?
Yes (null-power-mgmt.kext) and yes. Though mind that this is a desktop, so power mgmt. / sleep needs are much less demanding than a laptop.
Specifically, the kext works by disabling power management from within OS X. However I have a kill-a-watt and the the power from the plug varies based on the CPU load, so it seems to be behaving correctly.
That said, I would not do this on a laptop. Just buy a MacBook Pro if you need that. My hackintosh needs are strictly because Apple (until a week or two ago) just didn’t make a computer as powerful as I needed. I’ll probably just go buy a Mac Pro in the first chance.
Or perhaps they are trying to hurt Intel by selling it at a price where Intel can't make a profit if they lower their prices to be competitive?
Or, maybe it has to do with trying to quickly grab market share. Maybe AWS and other purchases of servers have a somewhat fixed budget, so cheaper chips translates directly to more chips sold?
Both those explanations seem unlikely to me.
I'm curious why they aren't charging more for it. Wouldn't that be free profit margin? Or perhaps they are trying to hurt Intel by selling it at a price where Intel can't make a profit if they lower their prices to be competitive? Or, maybe it has to do with trying to quickly grab market share. Maybe AWS and other purchases of servers have a somewhat fixed budget, so cheaper chips translates directly to more chips so…