Although this might be more suited for hackintoshing boards, i'm just curious if anyone here either shares this interest or knows off of the shelf examples or has any relevant advice to the topic...
I want to hackintosh a sandy bridge or ivy bridge era workstation board - i'm pretty sure this has been done before (I remember reading of one or two), tho builds are rare, so i'm pretty sure the chipset is supportable - the question is more about everything else on the workstation whether any of it is supportable or not.
My guess is this is largely unknown territory and nobody will know anything and that's okay. That i'll have to trailblaze myself buying a few different workstations and experimenting, so it's just a shot in the dark to see if any time can be saved... else i'm probably wanting to start with an HP Z420/Z620/Z820 range when I find one and see what happens. I'm assuming those era Xeons and ECC ram are still cheaper than anything and nothing else really comes close. (cuz newer stuff uses far less cheap DDR4 RAM isnt it?)
One goal is 'threadripper on a budget' - alot of cores for ProTools specifically to keep latency down and be able to run alot of plugins. (I have to build about 5-7 workstations for different purposes over the next year so you'll see alot of semi overlapping questions)
I want to hackintosh a sandy bridge or ivy bridge era workstation board - i'm pretty sure this has been done before (I remember reading of one or two), tho builds are rare, so i'm pretty sure the chipset is supportable - the question is more about everything else on the workstation whether any of it is supportable or not.
My guess is this is largely unknown territory and nobody will know anything and that's okay. That i'll have to trailblaze myself buying a few different workstations and experimenting, so it's just a shot in the dark to see if any time can be saved... else i'm probably wanting to start with an HP Z420/Z620/Z820 range when I find one and see what happens. I'm assuming those era Xeons and ECC ram are still cheaper than anything and nothing else really comes close. (cuz newer stuff uses far less cheap DDR4 RAM isnt it?)
One goal is 'threadripper on a budget' - alot of cores for ProTools specifically to keep latency down and be able to run alot of plugins. (I have to build about 5-7 workstations for different purposes over the next year so you'll see alot of semi overlapping questions)