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I have a tyan 5396 mobo and I had problems with my audio too. I went through every possible kext and finally figured out I needed to erase the original apple kext to get the new kext to work.

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I tried 10.5.5 combo update from apple and it screwed my install. But I had it backed up.

 

My GeekBench Score

http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view/78347

 

My hardware is as follows:

 

Tyan s5376 dual 771 motherboard with Intel 5100 Northbridge and ICH9R Southbridge

 

2 -5410 Xeon processors(quad)

 

onboard 82573 Lan( 2port by intel)

 

8gig DDR2-667 ECC ram,

 

4- 500gig SATA-2 hard drives

 

1- 1Terabyte SATA-2 hard drive

 

1-Pioneer Blu-Ray Rom drive(SATA)

 

GeForce 7800gt(256mb)

 

usb wireless keyboard and mouse

 

AMI Bios Version 3.03 build date 8/2008.

 

G4sho

 

Other systems

 

2.4 ghz opteron system w/2gig ram, 6600gt, 2-200gig drives

Mac Mini 2.0ghz core2 duo, 7200rpm 120gig hard drive 2gig ram

MacBookPro 2.4 ghz 4gig ram, 8600gt graphics, 7200rpm 180gig Sata drive

Zalman 2.4ghz(overclocked to 3.4ghz) core2 duo Media Center Pc with 6.5 inch touchscreen case 2gig ram 2.5 terabyte of storage ati 2600xt 512mb

3.0 ghz Pentium4 system server, Stacker 810case, 8 ide hard drives 1.2 terabytes of storage, dvd-r burner 2gig ram

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That Geekbench score seems very low for your system. I get that with my system in the 32bit benchmarks and in the 64bit benchmark I get just over 8000. Granted, the clocks on my Q6600 are over a GHz higher than yours but I just thought Geekbench was more sensitive to multiple cores than that. At least, it seems to be with genuine Mac Pros. Anyone have any thoughts about that?

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Yeap nice piece of work. If you already have this setup. If not then you can get a mac pro from apple with the 8800GT card and buy the rest from elsewhere.

 

The 4 RAID drives are about $80 from newegg

highpoint makes a 4 drive RAID card for $169

2GB ECC Buffered memory is $40 stick at newegg

 

$2900 for the macpro

$ 320 for the drives

$ 169 for the RAID controller

$ 160 for 8GB RAM = 10GB total RAM

$3549 for a real mac pro with 10GB RAM, 8800GT, 1.6TB RAID 5

 

pocket the other $1300 or throw away the 2x1GB of RAM from apple and add another $160 and end up with 16GB RAM for a total of less than $3800 and pocket the $1000

 

oh and get a warranty ;-)

 

On the high end I don't see any savings of money, cool to do but if your starting from scratch you might as well get the MAC. I see the $$ savings in the midrange and maybe a few $$ at the low end.

 

my $0.02

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I was wondering if anyone was able to get their octo-core hackintosh to make the Snow Leo Leap yet.... thanks....

 

Tyan S5396A2NRF - running perfectly under SL 10.6.2. ;) this are my specs:

 

Mainboard: TYAN Tempest i5400XT

CPU: 2 x Intel Xeon DP 5405 2,0 GHz

RAM: 4 x 4096 MB Kingston FB-DIMM 667 MHz

Graphics: Sparkle nVidia Geforce 9600 GT PCIe 512 MB passive cooled

DVD: 2 x LG GH22LS50

HD: WD5000AALS 500 GB (OS X 10.6)

HD: WD7500AALS 500 GB (OS X DATA)

HD: WD3200AAKS 320 GB (Windows XP MCE 2005)

HD: WD7500AAKS 750 GB (My Documents)

Keyboard: Apple USB-Keyboard from iMac

Mouse: Microsoft IntelliMouse 1.1

Sound: 2 x RME Audio RayDAT

SCSI: Symbios Logic LSI 21320-R

 

everything is working fine, including hibernate. :(

 

 

future_former

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I have a similar build I used to run 10.5 on that I'm trying to do a clean install of 10.6.x on, but I'm having some trouble getting it to boot...

Can you give me any tips as to what you did to get it to work?

 

Right now I'm hanging at the ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin waitForService(resourceMatching(AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement) message....

 

Thanks!

 

 

Tyan S5396A2NRF - running perfectly under SL 10.6.2. :D this are my specs:

 

Mainboard: TYAN Tempest i5400XT

CPU: 2 x Intel Xeon DP 5405 2,0 GHz

RAM: 4 x 4096 MB Kingston FB-DIMM 667 MHz

Graphics: Sparkle nVidia Geforce 9600 GT PCIe 512 MB passive cooled

DVD: 2 x LG GH22LS50

HD: WD5000AALS 500 GB (OS X 10.6)

HD: WD7500AALS 500 GB (OS X DATA)

HD: WD3200AAKS 320 GB (Windows XP MCE 2005)

HD: WD7500AAKS 750 GB (My Documents)

Keyboard: Apple USB-Keyboard from iMac

Mouse: Microsoft IntelliMouse 1.1

Sound: 2 x RME Audio RayDAT

SCSI: Symbios Logic LSI 21320-R

 

everything is working fine, including hibernate. :)

 

 

future_former

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Hey guys i need help finishing off my build i'm kinda of a noob to this. So i bought thesse parts like 2 years ago and never finshed bulding.

 

1 x Tyan Tempest i5000XT (S2696) S2696WA2NRF

2 x intel xeon quad core 2.66ghz clovertown 8mb processors

8 x ADATA 2GB 240P PC2-5300 CL5 18C 128X8 FULLY BUFFERED ECC DDR2-667 FBDI

1x antec P190

1x NZXT Sentry LXE

 

 

so i finally have some time to do it but i don't know what would be the best set up for me as far as hard drive and raid. i want to run leopard and xp on separate partisions and have 4 tb scratch drive raid that i'll be able to see in both os's. what do you guys think would be the best hard drive setup? Also my primary use is going to be for audio would the built in video card be sufficient? of should i get the one that's recommended in the wiki the "GeForce 8800GT 512MB"?

 

 

also what would be a compatible firewire 800 card?

 

thanks i would really appreciate some input.

 

 

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Please any help on this?

Hey guys i need help finishing off my build i'm kinda of a noob to this. So i bought thesse parts like 2 years ago and never finshed bulding.

 

1 x Tyan Tempest i5000XT (S2696) S2696WA2NRF

2 x intel xeon quad core 2.66ghz clovertown 8mb processors

8 x ADATA 2GB 240P PC2-5300 CL5 18C 128X8 FULLY BUFFERED ECC DDR2-667 FBDI

1x antec P190

1x NZXT Sentry LXE

 

 

so i finally have some time to do it but i don't know what would be the best set up for me as far as hard drive and raid. i want to run leopard and xp on separate partisions and have 4 tb scratch drive raid that i'll be able to see in both os's. what do you guys think would be the best hard drive setup? Also my primary use is going to be for audio would the built in video card be sufficient? of should i get the one that's recommended in the wiki the "GeForce 8800GT 512MB"?

 

 

also what would be a compatible firewire 800 card?

 

thanks i would really appreciate some input.

 

 

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Please any help on this?

 

I'm running the S2696 with the same CPU.

Don't know if you found your answer, but look around the forums....

 

Lots of Nvidia cards work, you don't have to get the 8800GT - if you want to save some bucks get a lower one.

(in this particular rig I have an 8800GT with 256MB, works great)

 

For a FW 800 card, I'm using one from SIIG with 3 ports: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...0-151-_-Product

 

Good luck!

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