Supermicro X8DAH

[MaxM357]

Hi!
I am looking to build a dual CPU hackintosh. and I am really leaning towards the Supermicro X8DAH but i do not know how hard it will be to get up and running and whether it is worth it to even make it a hackintosh. I am going to buy one either way as i need a xeon workstation. but I would like your guys perspective and constructive criticism on whether I should do it or not. and what type of GPU and PSU I should get with it. I have already decided on the CPU's , 2x X5677 Quad Core 3.47GHz. but the RAM is still undecided. I have some leftover 4x2gb ECC memory ram which i will throw in there to get her up and running but will need to upgrade / install more later on.
And in advance, Thanks for all your help

 

[chicago_mike]

Careful, the mods will accost you for posting a question around here.

Anyways. I have two similar setups with X8 series boards. X8DTi and X8DT3.

A vanilla install works, but I can't get any bootloader to work properly.

Though I did get the intel lan ports to work and the LSI SAS controller. I have that on Target device rather than RAID.

Both pc's I built have 750watt psu's. with dual 12v 8 pin headers for the boards. 650 Ti gpu's. Working OOB.

I also get the boot0 error and all attempts found here have no affect in correcting that issue. I have to leave the unibeast stick in the pc to boot to mac.

There are a few guides, but my experiences have not been as kosher. therefore I cannot say 100% those threads are defacto way to go.

Ram, I am using Kingston ecc ram in both machines. 82 gigs and 128 gigs. They run pretty good.

 

[zonar1982]

Have you managed to get the booting to work?

I'm upgrading from 10.9 to 10.10 but it keeps hanging on boot.

Unless I boot from the USB install disk...

10.11 seems to work but it's buggy as hell so I left it...

Thanks!
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