THE beast 32 core HACKINTOSH is ready.....CS6 vs REDROCKET

[KETCH ROSSi]

Of course Dear Ketch ;) for you no problem..
I also expect new macpro, windows unfortunately does not have the ProRes encoding,television and storage at very important to me like 4k proress 4444, Windows for this is a shit.
We have to wait ... this hack is very good to 32 cores can do better, for now has no problem, missing a good nvidia card, and then it is a bomb.
But I have so much time and it is very difficult in remote desktop ..
Now I'm waiting good news from Jeff for hp z820 ....

Maybe later this month I have to go to Rome if you're up to see you;) MASTER REDMAN.

ciao
Luigi

Cool, lets see how this month plays out, need to figure out timings for my New Zealand trip, as I'm not sure the exact departure date, and even less the return date, as I could stay just couple of weeks or several months... ;)

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Wow!, I want one of this!!!

Whats the cinebench score?, cpu and gpu?. Geekbench is ok, but i prefer cinebench because you can get opengl results, very important for graphics app.

I can wait to see this beast overcloked to 4Ghz!... is possible overclock with super micro motherboards?...

Any problem if I buy and install only one cpu?. Can I install 96GB of memory, or only half?...

The only relevant score for Cinebench is the Render (CPU) score. Just posted above that I got a 31.09. The OpenGL score is mostly dependent on your GPU choice. I'll do some comparative testing when I really get to swapping GPUs in and out of this system. I have a Quadro 6000 in it right now, but I'm also going to try single and dual overclocked GTX580 -- EVGA Classified Ultra -- and have a GTX690 on order, but don't know when I'll get it.

No overclocking features on the SuperMicro boards, they concentrate on stability and reliability for critical workstations and servers. If you want the best overclocking features, then look at the ASUS board, possibly the EVGA SR-X. Unfortunately, the E5-26xx CPUs are multiplier locked and already run super hot, especially the 150W rated ones like the 3.1GHz. They all have the same base clock... So overclocking features are kinda moot. I hear that all the Ivy Bridge engineering samples floating around are not multiplier locked, so that's a promising sign. We should see them hit the market within the next year.

Installing only one CPU cuts your memory capacity and available PCIe lanes in half, as those controller components are integrated into the CPUs. Maximum RAM capacity with the E5's is 256GB per CPU. You will also be limited by the number of memory slots on your motherboard. If you know for sure you won't ever add the second CPU, then there are motherboard options that offer a single CPU socket still tailored for the Xeon E5 platform, such as the SuperMicro X9SRA board. If you're only going to install one CPU, then you're probably better off to go with an i7 desktop CPU and overclock. For that approach, I would recommend the ASUS Rampage IV Extreme motherboard or (can't recall the model) the to X79 motherboard from Gigabyte. You'll be sacrificing two cores and won't have as robust of a memory subsystem among a few other things. But with something like an i7-3960X CPU overclocked to 4.4GHz, it should do better than the single Xeon CPU for most everything. That's the down-side of the Xeons, they're rather expensive.

[Noah Yuan-Vogel]

16 Physical cores though, right? :P

[Jose Lomeña]

The only relevant score for Cinebench is the Render (CPU) score. Just posted above that I got a 31.09. The OpenGL score is mostly dependent on your GPU choice. I'll do some comparative testing when I really get to swapping GPUs in and out of this system. I have a Quadro 6000 in it right now, but I'm also going to try single and dual overclocked GTX580 -- EVGA Classified Ultra -- and have a GTX690 on order, but don't know when I'll get it.

No overclocking features on the SuperMicro boards, they concentrate on stability and reliability for critical workstations and servers. If you want the best overclocking features, then look at the ASUS board, possibly the EVGA SR-X. Unfortunately, the E5-26xx CPUs are multiplier locked and already run super hot, especially the 150W rated ones like the 3.1GHz. They all have the same base clock... So overclocking features are kinda moot. I hear that all the Ivy Bridge engineering samples floating around are not multiplier locked, so that's a promising sign. We should see them hit the market within the next year.

Installing only one CPU cuts your memory capacity and available PCIe lanes in half, as those controller components are integrated into the CPUs. Maximum RAM capacity with the E5's is 256GB per CPU. You will also be limited by the number of memory slots on your motherboard. If you know for sure you won't ever add the second CPU, then there are motherboard options that offer a single CPU socket still tailored for the Xeon E5 platform, such as the SuperMicro X9SRA board. If you're only going to install one CPU, then you're probably better off to go with an i7 desktop CPU and overclock. For that approach, I would recommend the ASUS Rampage IV Extreme motherboard or (can't recall the model) the to X79 motherboard from Gigabyte. You'll be sacrificing two cores and won't have as robust of a memory subsystem among a few other things. But with something like an i7-3960X CPU overclocked to 4.4GHz, it should do better than the single Xeon CPU for most everything. That's the down-side of the Xeons, they're rather expensive.

Thanks Jeff for your detailed reply!

I think I will wait until i can buy both CPU... because i need a lot of pci lanes and ram...

I like to over clock the system, because with not so expensive cpu you can get the top performance. I'm not worried about multiplier, in fact i have a i980x and i used a 21x multiplier ( the stock is 25x and its unlocked). I prefer to go up with bclk, i have it at 200. But for sure i need to tweak voltage.

OpenGL in my case is not only dependent of my gpu. Without over clock and gtx480 i get 37fps (with tiger). With over clock i get 47fps, the over clock is only for the cpu and bclk not pci express. Maybe with windows this is different!

[Michael Thornton]

What are the best compatible rack mount cases for this mother board?

sandy SUPERMICRO mainboard X9DRi-LN4F+ with e2690 dual cpu xeon....

[Joseph S.]

What are the best compatible rack mount cases for this mother board?

This board is not necessarily recommended. It it just a second board I had to test this with.

One really important requirement for the hackintosh is a properly working audio system. This board above has no built in audio as it's a server board. When first testing CS6, and even general quicktime playback, it does not play back the video if you are missing audio. I had to go out and buy a USB audio device for it to work properly.

The supermicro cases that are quiet desktop cases with 8 bays, also have rackmount rail kits you can buy. They convert from a tower to a 4U server with rails.

http://www.supermicro.com/products/s...YS-7047A-T.cfm

Joe

[Michael Thornton]

Thanks Joe,

The Dimensions looks great, especially the Depth of 25.5" (648mm).

I wonder what the rails look like on it.

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Dimensions

Height

17.8" (452mm)

Width

7.0" (178mm)

Depth

25.5" (648mm)

Gross Weight

71 lbs (32.2 kg)

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[Michael Thornton]

The one thing about SuperChassis is the noise, I wonder if you can replace the fans to make them quieter?

Have you heard the sound coming out of this case?

The one I had sounded like a jet taking off when I turn it on.

[Alvise Tedesco]

Luigi, the fking beast!
Always funny to see the beasts you mad pc men build.
Very first time I opened a pc yesterday. Was proud and had real fun (very simple moving hd to optical bay, mounting ssd and swapping memory on the refurbished 2011 17' I just got from Apple).

Thanks for inspiring

[Fabian Benninghoven]

Wow, nice killermachine. But the Xeon E5 2690 got 8 Cores... and 16 threads. Anyhow... good job!