X8DTi-F - Dual Xeon x5650 "Cheap" 21068 Geekbench score build.

[njdifoq]

Hi I'm trying to build with a similar configuration. Are you running 10.8 or 10.9 or 10.10?

Thanks a lot!

 

[enactg]

Hi I'm trying to build with a similar configuration. Are you running 10.8 or 10.9 or 10.10?

Thanks a lot!

I was running 10.10. I believe, based on the dates, that kareldc would have been running 10.9 originally. 10.8 may or may not work (I'd guess it would since the hardware is about 4 years old), but isn't really relevant anymore. It's DSDT-free, so just make a USB drive for the version you want and give it a try.

 

[njdifoq]

I was running 10.10. I believe, based on the dates, that kareldc would have been running 10.9 originally. 10.8 may or may not work (I'd guess it would since the hardware is about 4 years old), but isn't really relevant anymore. It's DSDT-free, so just make a USB drive for the version you want and give it a try.

Awesome. Thank you so much for your information. It's relieve to know that 10.10 would run on it. I have a HP 1U server with 2x x5650 and would like to take them out to make a workstation.

Again, thank you for the information!

 

[zonar1982]

I'm pretty sure the boot issue has something to do with my memory. I'm using a kit from Kingston because it was cheap at the time. But it's not in the supported memory list for this board.

Also it is only recognizing 5 sticks out of 6. I only noticed this now because I just changed my system definitions to the Mac Pro 2010 model. Upon boot I got a message my memory slots were not configured properly. There is a screenshot in the attachment.

I'm planning to order some supported memory and see if that solves my issues.

K.

 

[zonar1982]

I Just replaced my 24GB Kingston kvr1066d3d4r7sk3/12g memory with the Hynix HMT31GR7AFR4C-G7DB memory. 2 kits of 24GB for 48GB in total in sticks of 8GB.

I still boot in 2 stages with the supermicro splash screen showing up a couple of times.

But at least my bios now detects all the 48GB of memory.

Before it never detected all sticks and the amount it detected was always different. Sometimes 20GB then 16GB sometimes even 4GB. I had to reboot every time in order for it to detect a decent amount.

At least that problem is gone now.

The only weirdness I have now is that the 3 sticks in memory banks BANK 0-5 (1A-3A) show up as 1064 Mhz,
and the 3 others in BANK 6-11 (1A-3A) show up as 1333Mhz.

The sticks in BANK 6-11 are also not recognized properly, as the part number is N/A.

K.

 

[HJRR]

Guys the double boot of this motherboard is because of the BMC / LightOut Management controller. Any cold boot will first initialize the IMPI module then "warm reboot" and boot up the system. IS THIS WHAT YOU ARE EXPERIENCING?