What about these HP Z XEON machines that are like $400 and as powerful as 9900k builds?

[nineniner]

There are a ton of older HP Z series machines (z800, z820 etc) that are either single or even dual xeon, and usually come with a ton of RAM for like 4-500 dollars. Some of these score the same, or even higher than modern 9900k builds, but I can find very little on compatibility. Does anyone know which one of these would be hackintoshable?

 

[scottkendall]

There are a ton of older HP Z series machines (z800, z820 etc) that are either single or even dual xeon, and usually come with a ton of RAM for like 4-500 dollars. Some of these score the same, or even higher than modern 9900k builds, but I can find very little on compatibility. Does anyone know which one of these would be hackintoshable?

Not very much but if you do a search you can find some stuff, there are some post about Success:

[10.7.4] HP Z800 Success (64-bit)

Hello, Just thought to contribute my findings so far: Hardware: HP Z800 Workstation PSU: HP 1.1 kW (1100 W) CPUs: 2 x E5620 2,4 Ghz 4 core RAM: 12 GB DDR3 HDD1: 4 x HP SAS 146 GB 15k 3,5" RAID-10 HDD2: 2 TB Western Digital SATA 3,5" HDD3: 128 GB Kingston SSD 2,5" HDD4: 160 GB Toshiba SATA...

www.tonymacx86.com

This is a guide for z600 so it might help.

https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/success-hp-z600-high-sierra-installation-guide.248026/


I would guess you would want to read just about every z800 post and see if you can get enough information together to get a system up and running. You could also use a bare metal VM with Linux as the host.