Krishna21 Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 Hey guys..I recently built a monster computer..it almost cost me 12K Motherboard: EVGA Classified SR-2 Processor: 2x Intel Xeon 568 6 Core Processors (Yeah, this motherboard has dual CPU support - twelve cores ) Memory: 24GB Triple Channel DDR3 Memory by Corsair Video: 4x NVIDIA GTX 480 - each housing 1GB HDD: 1x SATA 2TB - 1x SATA 2TB - 1x Intel 160GB SSD SATA Drive Optical: SATA Blu Ray burner Anyone know how I can go about Snow Leopard on this?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdnz01 Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 Neither the processors nor the Graphics cards are supported I'm afraid, nor is the blueray burner. Your system is way ahead of it's time and anything else Apple offers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VinP14 Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 The GTX 400/Fermi is not supported, You might want to rig up another video card if you need OSx, I don't know about the processor but it was listed before as no good. as for the Board, EVGA does not list the Audio and Lan chips on the board but I called them and they said it's the ALC889 Audio and I forgot the lan, it was Realtek atleast. so it should work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krishna21 Posted June 3, 2010 Author Share Posted June 3, 2010 Neither the processors nor the Graphics cards are supported I'm afraid, nor is the blueray burner. Your system is way ahead of it's time and anything else Apple offers. Oh come on..then how did Pentium 4 users get OS X functional if Apple never released OS X on Pre-Core Duo processors? The Graphics Card..darn. Blu-Ray, I already know it won't work, that's why Ima setup a tri-boot involving OS X Windows and linux. The Blu Ray player will be on Windows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VinP14 Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 drop your RAM to 4GB or less if you try installing, disconnect the Blue-Ray, and remove all extra Hard Drives that are not being used for the install. try running off 1 CPU instead of 2. and of course find another video card see if you can install it like that. otherwise switch the CPU to something else for the install only, if you are lucky there might be a Kext or DSDT Patch for those CPU's, you just need an alternate to install off of. I have not other ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunun Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 the mac pro has a quad core xeon option in the apple store with 6 gigs of ram, are you all 100% sure this won't work ? im curious at this guys results. id download one of the prepackaged iso's first to see where that takes me before i try a vanilla based install. bookmarks thread... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VinP14 Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 the mac pro has a quad core xeon option in the apple store with 6 gigs of ram, are you all 100% sure this won't work ? im curious at this guys results. id download one of the prepackaged iso's first to see where that takes me before i try a vanilla based install. bookmarks thread... the 120mGT is in alot of macs, but they don't work in hacks I was looking at a bootloader for my own install attempt, the Intel Xeon's were not listed but the i7 6 core processor was crossed off the chart. there is a chance it might not work I am not an expert, but I want to help him get this rig. It's a shame thinking somebody spent all that on what is likely a studio comnputer that might NEED OSx exclussive programs in his line of work. my best bet was already listed in the topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 Hey guys..I recently built a monster computer..it almost cost me 12K Motherboard: EVGA Classified SR-2 Processor: 2x Intel Xeon 568 6 Core Processors (Yeah, this motherboard has dual CPU support - twelve cores ) Memory: 24GB Triple Channel DDR3 Memory by Corsair Video: 4x NVIDIA GTX 480 - each housing 1GB HDD: 1x SATA 2TB - 1x SATA 2TB - 1x Intel 160GB SSD SATA Drive Optical: SATA Blu Ray burner Anyone know how I can go about Snow Leopard on this?? Check out this thread for encouragement....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peach-os Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 after I realized that the board´s name now is SR-2, I´ve found this topic. I opened already an other thread here I could install Snow Leo on my Asus Z8NA-D6 easily - read here any progress since the westmeres should be now supported in 10.6.4 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivokik Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 Hey guys..I recently built a monster computer..it almost cost me 12K Motherboard: EVGA Classified SR-2 Processor: 2x Intel Xeon 568 6 Core Processors (Yeah, this motherboard has dual CPU support - twelve cores ) Memory: 24GB Triple Channel DDR3 Memory by Corsair Video: 4x NVIDIA GTX 480 - each housing 1GB HDD: 1x SATA 2TB - 1x SATA 2TB - 1x Intel 160GB SSD SATA Drive Optical: SATA Blu Ray burner Anyone know how I can go about Snow Leopard on this?? Hi Krishna21, did you succeeded with this rig? Did everything went wel? What about the LAN? YOu got it all working? I am planing of building one to. Any ideas are warmly welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaanky98 Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 Hi Krishna21, did you succeeded with this rig? Did everything went wel? What about the LAN? YOu got it all working?I am planing of building one to. Any ideas are warmly welcome. I have Lion running on this Mobo with X5690 xeon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3dadd Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 I have Lion running on this Mobo with X5690 xeon What are your settings? Did you start with a DSDT file first. I've found that using a Mac to install Lion on a fresh disk and then copying and running [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] will get your disk ready. Once you run [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] on the drive. Shut down the Mac and install the drive in PC . It will usually come right up. Neither Network or Audio work. My config: Dual 6 Core XEON 3.4 EVGA 270 SR2 MOBO NVIDIA 4000 Mac card (works no issues) - yes, the Mac worked OK in the PC - I was suprized as well. 12GB RAM (2Gb sticks) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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