First Hackintosh - building for Music Production only. Parts critique and advice would be much appreciated!

Hey all, Hackintosh newb here. I've been squeezing the last bit of life out of my early 2008 cheese grater and I think I'm finally due for an upgrade. I used to build gaming PCs when I was younger and love the idea of building my own Hackintosh for work.

"Charlie" (as it will be named) will only be used for music production+mixing in Pro Tools and Logic, and I won't be running anything too demanding graphics-wise. I do use a UAD PCIe card and Apollo as an audio interface. My brother has an old video editing rig he's willing to part with, so I'm hoping to save some money by using his PSU, GPU, and case. I listed those below in the PCPP table below.

I loosely based these parts from this build on tonymacx86. I read somewhere that the Gigabyte Titan Ridge is more stable than the EX3 so I went with that. Does anyone have any experience with it and the ASUS Z390-A? Should I just stick with the EX3?

Also, I'm planning on running High Sierra as long as possible, but in case I absolutely have to upgrade to Mojave, could I possibly just swap a new GPU later?

Many thanks for any help/suggestions!

PCPartPicker Part List

Type Item Price
CPU Intel - Core i7-8700K 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor $369.99 @ Newegg
CPU Cooler Corsair - H60 (2018) 57.2 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler $59.99 @ Newegg Business
Motherboard Asus - PRIME Z390-A ATX LGA1151 Motherboard $182.49 @ SuperBiiz
Memory Crucial - Ballistix Sport LT 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory $92.89 @ OutletPC
Memory Crucial - Ballistix Sport LT 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory $92.89 @ OutletPC
Storage Samsung - 970 Evo 1 TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive $263.69 @ Amazon
Video Card EVGA - GeForce GTX 580 1.5 GB Video Card -
Case Silverstone - FT02B-USB3.0 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case $274.12 @ Amazon
Power Supply Corsair - Professional Gold 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply -
Wireless Network Adapter TP-Link - Archer T6E AC1300 PCI-Express x1 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi Adapter $34.89 @ OutletPC
Other Gigabyte GC-Titan Ridge (Titan Ridge Thunderbolt 3 PCIe Card Component) $98.99 @ Amazon
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total $1469.94
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