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I'm not sure if you've been paying any attention to the monstrous thread that Tutor has started about CPU power, but in it are lots of sub-discussions regarding 2-processor motherboards (primarily from Gigabyte) that seem to work fine with OS X. I think the assumption you're making when you read the phrase "Hackintosh" is that it's going to be an inexpensive Core i7 or i5, single processor build. While the large majority of Hack builders do use those chips, doing Xeon-based dual-processor Hacks isn't out of the question.

Jason is bang on there, as a hobbyist you can choose to spend a fraction of a nMP base price to make a single CPU i7 Hack with a GTX770 4 GB card to drive CUDA based software or go the dual 2011 socket route and spend as much as a nMP config but have a pair of 6 core i7 or E5 Xeons with a choice of GFX cards, storage and ports. A pair of 8 core E5s would set you back a small fortune ofc.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00D13R97U/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=tonymacx86-21 Standard Haswell i7 £245.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00681D9ZI/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=tonymacx86-21 i7 2011 socket 6 core £422 each.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0085GJFXY/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=tonymacx86-21 E5 Xeon 8 core £2000 each. :eek:
 
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