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Yea, been there RehabMan (and while I have you - THANKS for all you've done). That's where I came up with the XPS 15. Many in there are not very MBP-like and/or older/not readily available. The Spectre x360 has a nice guide. I honestly can't tell on some of the HPs, given the 465 pages of...

Sure, the new 15" Macbook pro is pretty ... pretty expensive and pretty reliant on dongles that is. Scanning around the Sierra and El Capitain forums, it seems the Dell XPS 15 9550 is a clear contender for a very Macbook Pro like machine (UHD display, lightweight, powerful) that hackintoshes...

Have you gotten TurboBoost running? A number of us have tried to no avail off another mobo (X9DAI): http://www.tonymacx86.com/lion-desktop-support/48926-128gb-ram-16-cores-32-threads-x9dai-21.html

Great to see others joining the E5-2600 fray! I spent some time trying to work up SSDT fixes for the PStates, but never managed to get mine to do anything more than the 1.2/2.6 GHz basics (I've got the 2.6 GHz E5). With these, I've managed 27k GB scores but the chips have more in them as I'm...

The MultiBeast went smoothly to get it booting at least.

Yea, today's announcement has me bummed. I'd hoped a lot for native SB E support, which would make things like TurboBoost easier. The machines lightninghopkins and I have put together really are what Apple should have released today. But, they didn't. Mine is up and largely stable. Well...

Yes, I did go for ECC RAM. It's got Kingston DCC DDR3/1333 Server RAM in there. I've now replicated my ethernet issue - just when XGrid jobs hit it. Same jobs run directly (still spooling tons of data off the network) has no issues. Strange. At the moment, the machine is running in Linux...

It seems stable. I've had it up and running for days at a time and hasn't had any issues running standard or my own task-specific benchmarks. I have hit one ethernet lockup twice when it got hit with a bunch of jobs on XGrid. I've not tracked that down to whether it was load-based or somehow...

Thanks for the advice. I'd already tried the Perl script (AICPMPatch) patch but tried this as well to no avail. The boot goes by quickly, but on video I've captured SSDT with CPU C-States generated successfully P-States: in 12, max 26 Number of P-states generated: 15 SSDT with CPU P-states...

I've got a dual E5-2600 based machine, generally up and going very nicely. The issue so far is that there is no TurboBoost (no enhanced P-states) under OS X (there in Linux). This AM, I grabbed the current SVN Chimera, which I see supports the new processors (Thanks!). I compiled it up and...

Just to keep folks here up to date (lightninhopkins and I have been doing a bit off-board), it's clear that OS X isn't getting TurboBoost operational. MSRDumper.kext on my rig, for example, shows "12 26" meaning I'm getting 1.2 and 2.6 GHz out of my 2.6 GHz processors. We both verified...

Yup - ran that yesterday or so and saw stuck at 2.6 GHz in Linux too. So, no TurboBoost in either OS but Linux still out-performing OS X by a bit. Since my slower processor gets darn near what you're getting, I think our BIOS must be setup a bit different. I'm getting 30k out of Linux. So...

FWIW, it seems as if the CPU speed will throttle down below stock (using SMC Monitor) but it never engages TurboBoost to go up higher.

BTW, I think I've honed in on why my GB scores aren't hitting where they should be on OS X. How to fix it is another matter. Using SMC Monitor, I can see the CPU speed throttling down, but it's never engaging the Turbo Boost to get it above the stock 2.6 clock speed. So, under OS X, it runs...

It seems folks have gotten these going for other chipsets not specifically in Macs, though. So, if there is no new Mac Pro there will never be a way to get Speed Step / Turbo Boost working fully on these chips?

I've come a good way in getting this MacPro-like-beast up and going. My system has a: -SuperMicro X9DAI workstation board -Dual 8-core E5-2670 2.6 GHz processors -64 GB RAM -Quadro 2000 I've gotten the onboard Intel i350 networking going using a kext and the Quadro is going nicely now as well...

The system is getting solid now... The Quadro 2000 is going with OpenCL and OpenGL nicely (thanks to this post http://tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=35148). Lux GPU turns in 279 (beating Linux at 193 and the 24 I started with on OS X) and CPU+CPU turns in 1115. Cinebench on the graphics...

OK, you're blowing folks away with your 40k score... Have a look here: http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/search?utf8=?&q=e5-2690 So, why? The OS is clearly having a huge role. While you're in there at 40k, others are are in the 28k range (Win-32). There are Linux-64's at 30-33k, so it's...

Ayup. With his AppleIGB, worked straight off - no mods needed.

Still at around 26.5k GB in OS X and just at 30k in Linux.