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themacpronovice2022

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Jul 7, 2022
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Hello, im looking to build a hackintosh based off of this motherboard. thease specs below basicly an equivalent to a mac pro 4,1 5,1.

~ Motherboard - Supermicro X8DTL-i
~ 96gb ddr3 1333mhz ram Samsung
~ 1300 watt thermal take psu
~ CPU Dual Intel Xeon X5670's 3.10ghz
~ Case Corsair 200R
~ Dual Optical Drives x16 speed
~ Dell Perch H310 Sas raid controller with sas to 4 port sata break out cable
~ Usb 3.0 expansion card compatible with mac os
~ Usb 2.0 expansion card compatible with mac os (Currently Looking For)
~ Graphics Card Nvidia Quadro K5200 8gb Gddr5 OR Nvidia Quadro K6000 12gb gddr5

In this system id like to make a power full hackintosh that will compete with my mac pro that i have.

my mac pro current specs are single tray x5675 6core 12 threads 2.66ghz 32gb ddr3 dual 256gb ssd's amd r9 390x 8gb gddr5

im looking on how i would go about building this hackintosh to see if anyone has prior experience on the x58 platform on this system?
Im looking to run with open core in legacy boot mode or possibly clover, un sure yet. id like to dual boot the follwowing mac os.

~ 10.4.11
~ 10.6.Latest
~ 10.9.Latest
~ 10.13.8
~ Big Sur

Windows Operating systems

Windows xp
Windows vista
Windows 7
Windows 8/8.1
Windows 10
Windows 11.


can i chain load clover boot loader and open core? just like i can chain load open core and refinde? or can i use refind on a pc hardware to?

any help would be grate. thank you!
 
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