Custom 2x quad core CPU motherboard etc

[greenthumb]

Hi all,

 

First of all thanks to anyone that replies to this post, your help is much appreciated.

 

I've been a powermac user for around 3 years, i run logic 7 along with an external firewire mixer/controller. I invested in an apple system after 2 months of exploring the idea. I wanted stability and performance and as Logic is the only DAW only designed for any platform i shelled out £2000 for a powermac ppc, only to find that a week later apple switched to intel and lowered their prices significantly. As you can imagine i wasnt best pleased, if alone because i was stuck with a ppc unable to run bootcamp. Anyway, i've decided to make the move to the latest version of logic (pro) and have decided to custom build my own machine which leads me to the following questions:

 

1.> Can anyone provide the model name/number/brand of the motherboard used in the new twin xeon quad core Mac Pro's?

 

2.> Has anyone built a osx86 machine running on this board? If so, where did you purchase the board, how much, did an unpatched licensed disk run?

 

3.> Has anyone succesfully ran osx86 on a twin xeon quad core setup? What hardware etc was used?

 

The plan is to flog my PPC and build an 8core xeon machine btw. For the record i have already sourced low cost xeon's as i work in the i.t field- so cost wise, building is cheaper than going with apple.

 

Many thanks

[frostycomputer]

1.

Here's a dual xeon motherboard aka "logic board" http://www.dvwarehouse.com/Logic-Board-for...19-p-35358.html

 

2.

If you buy a mac motherboard aka a logic board you wouldn't be building a osx86 machine it would be a mac because there would be no need for efi emulation.

 

3. Here's digitalperformer's 8 core osx86 mac http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry729325