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Xeon E5 - 16 Cores/ 32 Thr Z9PE-D8 WS 12TB GeekBench 28,000

What would you use this computer for?

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10.11.6 update works fine :) It will drop back to default Apple Nvidia Drivers, but Nvidia Control App will allow Update Now, do the update and all works !

Martin
 
My Hackintosh macOS Sierra
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Paradigm99 said:
Xeon E5 - 16 Cores/ 32 Thr Z9PE-D8 WS 16TB GeekBench 28,000

Paradigm99's Build: 2x Xeon E5 2680 - Asus Z9PE-D8 WS - XFX Radeon 6870
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Components

2x Xeon E5 2680
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117262

Asus Z9PE-D8 WS Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131817

Case Labs STH10 Case
http://www.caselabs-store.com/magnum-sth10/

2x Corsair H100
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0051U7HMS/

Vertex 4 128GB SSD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227791

Corsair AX1200 Power Supply
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003PJ6QVU/

XFX Radeon 6870 2GB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150563

Corsair Vengeance 32GB RAM (4x 8GB)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233232

ASUS DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS Black SATA 24X DVD Burner
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827135204

SILVERSTONE SST-FP32-B Front I/O Panel
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813999356

8x 120mm Case Fans
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00552Q8IG/

Apple OS X Lion @ Mac Apps Store
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/os-x-lion/id444303913?mt=12


Already Owned

4x 3TB HDD (Seagate and Western Digital)
(Already owned) (Purchased from Costco as external drives and stripped to bear drive) $130 ea.!!!!


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My build was slightly different than the conventional Hackintosh for a few reasons… Please keep this in mind when attempting this yourself (in other words don't follow these first few steps unless you own another Apple computer - not another Hackintosh)

After the "updated" Mac Pros were released in early June, I began to think about alternatives to handle my film and graphic intensive work load.
I did some research and found that my Mac Pro's config could be sold and fully if not almost fully offset the cost for my hackintosh build!
I spent about 2 weeks looking for all of the right parts, as I will not be needing to buy a new computer for a very long time as Apple's Mac pros will still not surpass my new builds power for at least another year and a half.

Thoughts on the build:
After I had received all the parts from Newegg and Amazon (check both because I got some really good deals on Amazon that were not on Newegg - ex. saved $60 on my Power supply!) I attached my vertex 4 SSD to a Seagate Go-flex portable hard drive adaptor cable (I use this for my Macbook Air time machine and bought from Costco - 1.5TB for 150 bucks!). I then copied the base OS from my Macbook air and everything required to boot. I then booted off of the SSD (still on my Macbook air) and installed the EASYBEAST tool from Multibeast. I then proceeded with the actual Hackintosh build.
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I had used the Case labs STH10 case for the build (I wrote a review on the case -its by John)
http://www.caselabs-store.com/magnum-sth10/
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- note my Mobo was SSI-EEB form factor (not officially supported by the STH10 however it is, and was confirmed when it fit =D). The case needed to be assembled which I enjoyed it took about 2 hours to complete (pay attention to the pictures if you build this case!) I then tested everything OUTSIDE THE CASE to make sure there were no problems with any of the components before I installed them in the case.

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OSX Booted without a problem, and after some fine tweaking, ethernet, onboard audio Realtek 898, USB 2.0 etc works fine. Still haven't found a working USB 3.0 driver but haven't given it much time yet, as all my storage is internal =D.

Here are the kexts I used get get my system working:
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Geekbench 64BIT scored at approx. 28,000 which is still great compared to my 8 Core 2.4Ghz 5,1 Mac Pro. http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/796405

I have the 4, 3TB HDDs in 2 Raid configs, both in Raid 0 with one as a backup. I chose not to use raid 10 because I still like the archive feature of a normal backup.
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Cinebench Comes in at just under 20 PTS! Idle temps for the system are approx. 30 degrees C, and 39 degrees C UNDER FULL LOAD!!!! The system is not super loud, but it is still noisy… the is due to the cheap 120mm fans I bought for the case. As time goes by i'll upgrade the fans one at a time, so I'm not spending 150 bucks on case fans. In the future I think I will also get another set of RAM to utilize quad-channel supported by the XEON E5's.

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A VERY GOOD thing to keep in mind is:
After your system is bootable, before you install extra kexts to get everything working (unless you use a DSDT) is to enable a screen sharing application. Either Logmein or the Mac version (both work fine). I had accidentally disabled by USB ports by improperly installing the next. Luckily I had screen sharing enabled for this very reason!

If anyone is thinking about building a super computer similar to this one, and has any questions, please feel free to ask!

As time goes on I will continue to post updates etc regarding this build.


A VERY BIG THANK YOU TO TONYMACX86 FOR IMPROVING MY PRODUCTIVITY BY 3X FOR THE SAME COST AS MY MAC PRO =D
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Hello,

I try to install the almost same system (enjoying the ridiculous low XEON E5 Ebay rates).

I look for help because i'm not able to access install process. I tried Clover and Chimera whitout success.

Somebody still has a tuto? The ones i found out on the web are incomplete.

Does it work with Clover or Chimera? Both? Wich OS revision?

Thank you.

Z9PE-D8 WS / GTX 610 (waiting a working system)
 
Works with clover - SMBios MacPro6,1 - Xeon CPU's need to be v2 Ivy Bridge type

Martin
 
Hello again.
At last i have time to play with this m/b.

One question: is it possible somehow to set correct auto memory detection w/o manual editing config.plist?
 
Il.F said:
Hello again.
At last i have time to play with this m/b.

One question: is it possible somehow to set correct auto memory detection w/o manual editing config.plist?
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As far as I know that is set by smBIOS - The old MacPro's 3,1/4,1/5,1 had up to eight memory/expansion slots but even then I think the best I got was 4 automatically filled and that was with Chameleon/Chimera and not with Clover which always appears to detect the first two memory slots only no matter the smBIOS selected.

Martin
 
I had no problems with memory in Mavericks (with MacPro6.1 id) and Yosemite (with MacPro5.1 id) with Chameleon/Chimera.
But El Capitan and Sierra with Clover have this bug:(:crazy:.
 
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