It's funny I just went the opposite way, I'll pick up my cMP later this afternoon.
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The Hackintosh Thread
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I hadn't looked at anything hackintosh for about 2 years and when I noticed my room was getting super warm last month from having both a 2012 12 core cmp and my gaming pc running simultaneously I went on tonymacx86 to read up on everything new. Installed 10.10.4 and really tested out everything. The next day I ebayed my cmp.
Hopefully the honeymoon feeling will last a long time.
I had the same problem with the 2006 Mac Pro. The 2008 Mac Pro isn't much different. A fully loaded x5690 cMP with dual CPUs would only run even hotter as those draw a lot more power.
Granted, during the winter, the Mac Pro did serve as a nice heater for my feet.
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I have to say that with the specs of some of the new Z170 boards with multiple M2 x4 slots and NVME support then a hackintosh is starting to look interesting. Hopefully once new iMacs are out the the hack community can start getting this stuff to work.
Most ProBooks are EXCEPTIONALLY hackable. Check out the TonyMac Laptop Forums here: http://www.tonymacx86.com/el-capita...-hp-elitebook-probook-others-clover-uefi.html
Good luck with that. I took advantage of some holiday sales to buy the parts for a Hackintosh but am unsure now if I should go ahead with the build or return them. (I did the same thing last year and ended up doing the latter.) I opted for a 4790K - seemed easier for a potential first-time Hackintosh.
My cMP has more than enough raw power for my needs (Lightroom and Photoshop), and there are a few upgrades I could still do, but realistically it's a dead platform with no obvious replacement for those who value internal storage and GPU upgradeability. Meanwhile on the Hackintosh side, the advances with Clover are really impressive and from the outside look pretty stable.
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Your Devil's Canyon is just as fast as a 6700K, just consumes more power.
Just finished the build and installing software. With a safe 4.5Ghz overclock, with no case, only the CPU fan, and just four cores I got this in Geekbench...
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Wow, lot's to wade through there on tonymac's site. Sounds just what I need. Many thanks for the heads-up.
I am very tempted to build myself a hackintosh. I've had a skylake build specced out for awhile but can't quite pull the trigger on it. I still am not very interested in doing the legwork to get OS X running and maintained on unsupported hardware. Guess I'm waiting until apple gets around to updating the mac pro.
Yep, Skylake is a really nice platform. I'd recommend running OS X 10.11.2 for maximum Skylake compatibility (it fixed some issues related to Intel xHCI; however, I don't think USB 3.1 works yet). What motherboard & GPU are you using?
Gigabyte Gaming 7 Thunderbolt 3 GTX980. Some people have it at Insanely but only get the basics working, even then some of it is not direct support. Wish people would post complete cloned system images online. It would save so much time.
Completed the build with an NZXT H440 case. It has the minimalism and same height of the cMP along with a mirrored door, space for 8 drives, four large quiet fans, LEDs at the rear so you can see the ports, and front mounted USB 3 ports perfect for Oculus. You can see I'm using the water pipe holes to pass through a security lock. This Skylake system is around 21-22c idle temperatures.
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4.7Ghz is the safest overclock you can get with 6700K and standard air cooling. At 4.8Ghz it will freeze and reboot. I have seen only one reviewer achieve this speed with regular liquid cooling. But anyway, almost 20K on Geekbench with just four cores. The single core result is almost twice as powerful as the X5690 Westmere.
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Looks like it should work fine, LAN is Killer E2400 (will work with AtherosE2200Ethernet by Mieze) + Intel i219-V (will work with updated IntelMausiEthernet by me + jsmcconn). However, there are various things that might take some more work, like the Creative Sound Core3D codec. USB will probably need an injector kext (for USB 3.0, USB 3.1 status is currently unknown). TB3 is probably never going to work in OS X until Apple adds it to their Macs.
OSX doesn't currently support any USB 3.1 10gbps Asmedia or Alpine Ridge chipsets. I don't think it supports the integrated Intel graphics in the Skylake either. So I'm trying to find out how they boot into El Capitan to install and enable the Nvidia web drivers.
iGPU support is somehow there but making heavy artifacts. You should be able to boot El Capitan with any OOB supported GPU (or Maxwell GPU /w nv_disable=1) as long as Pikes APIC patch is in place.
Since you have a standard UEFI motherboard you'll have basic video output even without any drivers in place.
Since you have a standard UEFI motherboard you'll have basic video output even without any drivers in place.
Thank. So when I do this I will remove the GTX980 first and try to install El Capitan with basic video before installing Nvidia drivers. But I really need a straight forward guide to know what needs patching first. Or maybe just wait for El Capitan's successor Nacho Libre which should have support for more features.
Going to follow this thread a bit 
chuckle at Nacho Libre.
Seeing this thread made me realise how many computers I have at home. I've got a problem. One of the beasties is what I call a Big Hac. When I broke my 2006 iMac by trying to remove dust from under the screen I replaced it with a Hackintosh (budget...) which has two issues:
1. broken sleep (sometimes it gets memory leaks and sometimes not, hoped Capster would fix that, but it didn't)
2. NVidia card (for example after 10.11.2 update I had to run it off internal Intel graphics, which irritatingly will give me 2560x1440 on loading screen but not on the actual system screen), download NVidia driver, install, restart.
That's it. I scratch my head sometimes reading horror stories from people with "real" Macs having all sorts of problems. I have the infamous wifi issue on every Mac except the 2011 iMac (why?), the Hackintosh has it too, but I don't think it's because it's a Hack, it's just Apple being Apple. Other than what I listed the experience is smooth (and fast). But it's not thin at all and you can update components
chuckle at Nacho Libre.Seeing this thread made me realise how many computers I have at home. I've got a problem. One of the beasties is what I call a Big Hac. When I broke my 2006 iMac by trying to remove dust from under the screen I replaced it with a Hackintosh (budget...) which has two issues:
1. broken sleep (sometimes it gets memory leaks and sometimes not, hoped Capster would fix that, but it didn't)
2. NVidia card (for example after 10.11.2 update I had to run it off internal Intel graphics, which irritatingly will give me 2560x1440 on loading screen but not on the actual system screen), download NVidia driver, install, restart.
That's it. I scratch my head sometimes reading horror stories from people with "real" Macs having all sorts of problems. I have the infamous wifi issue on every Mac except the 2011 iMac (why?), the Hackintosh has it too, but I don't think it's because it's a Hack, it's just Apple being Apple. Other than what I listed the experience is smooth (and fast). But it's not thin at all and you can update components
You can keep the GTX 980 installed and boot with nv_disable=1 as a boot argument to prevent the default NVIDIA drivers from loading. I'm currently working on getting GenericUSBXHCI to work on 10.11...perhaps I could add xHCI 1.1 (USB 3.1) support...
I've seen that video before - it helped convince me to start down the Hackintosh path. Hope to assemble mine this upcoming weekend.
I really like the EVGA case too, though I opted for a Fractal Design Define R5 and full ATX mobo.
Define was my first choice but I couldn't find one in store and needed a case ASAP