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dnanob's build: Intel Xeon E5-2680 V4 Engineering sample chip - ASrock X99 Extreme6 - 16 GB Corsair DDR4-2400 - EVGA GTX 950 SC+ - 2x Samsung 850 Evo 120 GB SSDs
Components:
ASrock X99 Extreme6 motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157567
EVGA GTX 950 SC+
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA2F84BD0552
2x Samsung Evo 850 SSD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA12K2EV4048
16 GB (2x8) Corsair LPX DDR4-2400 Memory
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1K63TD6891
Intel Xeon E5-2680 V4 Processor (couldn't find Engineering Sample version on newegg)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA62V4HT1263
NZXT S340 case
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811146197
NZXT Hale82 v2 700w Power supply
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817116024
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master 212 EVO
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103099
Comments:
First of all, I'm not an hackintosh expert - this was trial and error basically. There really isn't a reason I built this machine, just for fun/learning purposes and sell later. First day, it won't even boot up because I had an old BIOS version that didn't support V4 Xeon chips. so I had to take the BIOS chip itself to a guy, who has a chip flashing machine (don't remember its name), and update it with latest version.. Then, I had a fully working system (whew!). A few months later, I decided to make it a hackintosh. I have spent almost a whole month trying to get at least to El Capitan setup. Then, it all went smooth and clean. Both Ethernet ports were working at first startup. Video acceleration and audio didn't work. I used voodoohda for audio and Nvidia web driver for VGA. Turbo boost is not working (I think it's because I'm using Haswell kernel patch), speedstep is working. Later, I decided to make it dual boot Windows 10 + El Cap. This was really easy because I have a dual SSD setup (one for Windows and one for OS X).
I had to use iMac 14,2 SMBIOS to get video acceleration working
I had to use FakeCPUid 0x0306A0 --> Ivy Bridge. Otherwise setup and ssd wont boot.
I used Brumbaer's patch for 5960X Haswell-e
Summary:
What's working:
- Audio (VoodooHDA, haven't looked too much into this)
- Video Accel. (Nvidia web drivers & cuda driver)
- HDMI/DVI ports
- Speedstep
- Both ethernet ports
- USB 3.0 ports
- Pretty much everything to make it a really enjoyable Mac experience
- Dual boot is working perfectly
What's not working:
- Turbo boost
- USB 2.0 ports
Benchmark and other screenshots:
I know I'm not getting the score I'm supposed to, but still pretty decent. Yes, it has a very slight overclock - from 2.20 Ghz to 2.26.
