MacVampire Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 Hi I'am new in here, well i just wanna find out dat is it possible OS X to install on odinary Intel Xeon processor??????? And does any one ever tried???? Please let me know and how to do it Thanks Fellas! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kernalzero Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.4.7#:Xeon this example didn't work but check the rest of the wiki i'm sure there are examples there of working or non-working processors http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph....4.6#Processors working xeons are listed here at the bottom of the processor list. also check if your processor is atleast sse2 and hopefully sse3. SSE2 is a must though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 The Mac Pro's have Xeons, so yes, a regular Xeon would work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 Hi I'am new in here, well i just wanna find out dat is it possible OS X to install on odinary Intel Xeon processor??????? And does any one ever tried???? Please let me know and how to do it Thanks Fellas! I hope two points are clear enough: 1)You'll need a hacked version of OS X 2)When it comes to compatibility the motherboard is more important than the CPU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacVampire Posted April 25, 2007 Author Share Posted April 25, 2007 yes i do have OS X 10.4.6 Goatseck, the thing is that i have successfully install on Mobo:Asus,945 Intel P4 HT,3GHz RAM:512MB,DDR2 hard drive : 40 Gb more over i want to know more on installing on Intel Xeon processor??????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 more over i want to know more on installing on Intel Xeon processor??????? Maybe you want to read this thread: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...c=26508&hl= and this one: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...387&hl=xeon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OMX-Knuckles Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 The single-socket 30x0 series Xeons are simply Core 2's that have been re-labeled. To get a Xeon system working with OS X you'll really want to have Nocona or newer Xeons (think Prescott). The minimum will be Foster (think Willamette) or Prestonia (think Northwood). For Foster/Prestonia/Nocona/Irwindale/Paxville Xeons (any Xeon with a 400, 533 or 800mhz FSB) your best bet for compatibility will probably be an ASUS PC-DL or NCCH-DL or IWill DH-800 motherboard- all of these use the i875 chipset and are workstation boards so they'll have an 8x AGP slot. For newer Xeons (Dempsey/Woodcrest) and an x5000 chipset board you'll most likely enjoy excellent support as this is the platform that the Mac Pro is based on. Keep in mind that building a Woodcrest system will be orders of magnitude more expensive than putting together an older Netburst system- i5000 boards run at least $350 and the procs are at least $200 apiece. A PC-DL or NCCH-DL can be found for under $150 if you look around and it's common to see a pair of procs for under $200. You also won't need expensive FB-DIMMS or even registered memory. You could take a risk and pickup an E7520 board and you'd get PCI-e slots. EDIT- to make things a bit more clear and to help identify- Foster Xeons= any Xeon with a 400mhz FSB has SSE2 only Prestonia= 533Mhz FSB, SSE2 Nocona= 800mhz FSB has SSE3 Paxville= Dualcore, 667 and 800mhz FSB, SSE3 Irwindale= 800mhz FSB, SSE3 Dempsey (50x0 series)= Dualcore, 667mhz FSB, SSE3 Woodcrest (51x0 series)= Dualcore, 1066 and 1333Mhz FSB, SSE3 Clovertown (53x0 series)= Quadcore, 1066 and 1333mhz FSB, SSE3 Woodcrests and Clovertowns will be the fastest as they're multicore *and* Core-based so they'll be lower power as well. Dempseys will offer a future upgrade path to Clovertown or Woodcrest and they're dirt cheap anymore. I'd stay away from Fosters (too slow, no SSE3) and Paxvilles (too expensive for what you get). Get a pair of Noconas if possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luv2rip Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 I successfully installed Hacked ToH Leopard 9A581 on Dell PowerEdge SC1430, that has dual Xeon 3GHz No Sound, No Internet , just plain Leopard NEwork: BroadcomNX1 Gigabit card Soundcard: Creative X-FI SB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshbillions Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 I have 10.5.2 running on a Dell PowerEdge SC1420 with Dual Dual-Core Xeons @ 3.0 GHz. EFIv8. Everything working beautifully. Only major problem was installing my 7300GT, but luckily I found a solution: http://tkdan.com/SC420/ Nothing a blowtorch and a steady hand couldn't handle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socal swimmer Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 this is so massively the wrong forum that its not even funny. i dont know why you guys are even helping him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superhai Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 Xeon is a wide variety of cpus. The original poster is not around anymore, so waking up this thread was necessary? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 Shouldn't this be in the Hack forum??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j33p33 Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 Xeon is a wide variety of cpus. The original poster is not around anymore, so waking up this thread was necessary? Hewwwwwww, more than a year later here i am, running OS-X on my dual quad core xeon server board anyone else here been sucessful with that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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