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« Thread Started on Aug 4, 2009, 11:25pm » | |
Hi guys this has been a long time coming - but my new G5 hackie "Supercomputer" is nearly done!
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« Reply #1 on Aug 5, 2009, 12:13am » | |
Aqua,
That is SO sick! I'm absolutely floored! I doubt "super computer" is an adequate description but it'll have to do. I can only imagine what apps that can use CUDA will do with this bad boy. Way to raise the bar (again)! 
P.S. That Cooler Master V10 looks like it was meant to go there!
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« Reply #2 on Aug 5, 2009, 12:58am » | |
OMG!!!! That is so sick!!!!!
That's it, i am asking you to make my new Mac.
That is off the hook!!!!!
3 thumbs up!!!
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« Reply #3 on Aug 5, 2009, 8:06am » | |
Thanks for your kind comments guys, I am really enjoying using this and looking forward to the final release of Snow Leopard. Having said that, the latest edition is rock solid and on the right equipment is extremely fast! It does not appear that different to Leo, but the speed boost is worth it, even things like repairing permissions takes around 30 to 40 secs (on this machine).
I do need to get Photoshop CS4 (I love this program!) though as my CS1 runs with rosetta and that is not possible with Snow. Just looked at the price £650!!!!!!! Youre having a laugh adobe surely??
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« Reply #4 on Aug 5, 2009, 2:46pm » | |
WOW. am speechless.. very nicely done and very clean. im thinking of transplanting my rig to a G5 case which im holding on for months now but dont know if ill be able to finish it or even do it nicely.
may i ask a pic without the aluminum "L" cover if you dont mind, i wanna see how the PSU was done 
love that rig!
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« Reply #5 on Aug 5, 2009, 5:07pm » | |
Un-Freaking Believable!!! I'm very impressed Aqua. I can't believe it all fit in there. Are you able to use those two other GTX 280s for purposes other than multi-monitor yet? How many custom kexts are needed for that system?
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« Reply #6 on Aug 5, 2009, 7:34pm » | |
Spooky and Blacknight,
Many thanks for your comments! This was an incredible squeeze, I have the sore wrists to prove it too! The cover was removed from the Power Supply and the base of the supply was mounted vertically in the stainless steel cage. The lower 140 mm fan blows on the supply then the air is routed into the Cooler Master V10 and out of the pack of the case. All fans are revolving at less than 900 rpm according to the bios and the two 140's are revolving real slow just like a real Mac Pro's. This thing certainly draws some power, when I run Geekbench, the APC smartups 1000 Watt complains and a red light starts to flash on the front till it stops running!!!! Even at idle all 5 bars are lit, compared to the last Quad core Mac Pro conversion I did which only lit 3 or a real Mac Pro only 2! Those GTX 280 have afterburners on board!
Not too many custom kexts needed with snow. You need Chameleon 2, but then that will not fully install on Snow yet, so you need to manually install the "Extra" folder and add your custom kexts, then use Extensions.mkext maker to make a custom mkext.
The custom kexts you need are as follows:
NullCPUPowerManagement.kext
OpenHaltRestart.kext
PlatformUUID.kext
VoodooHDA.kext
You also need:
smbios.plist and your com.apple.boot.plist in your extensions folder.
As Snow works with Intel ICH10, set your motherboard to AHCI & you're away. You can run with the vanilla SMBios as the plist corrects that and vanilla Machkernel.
You need to put a few things in your com.apple.boot.plist, mine is as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string>1680x1050x32</string>
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>_x64</string>
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>3</string>
<key>device-properties</key>
<string>8007000001000000030000007c0200000e00000002010c00d041030a00000000010106000003010106000000010106000002010106000000 7fff040014000000400032002c006e0061006d0065000000120000004e5644412c446973706c61792d42220000005600520041004d002c0074006f007 40061006c00730069007a006500000008000000000000401c0000006400650076006900630065005f0074007900700065000000100000004e5644412c 4765466f7263650e0000006e0061006d00650000000f0000004e5644412c506172656e7422000000400031002c006400650076006900630065005f007 40079007000650000000b000000646973706c6179100000006d006f00640065006c0000001e0000004e5649444941204765466f726365204754582032 38302044444c20000000400032002c0063006f006d00700061007400690062006c00650000000e0000004e5644412c4e564d616320000000400031002 c0063006f006d00700061007400690062006c00650000000e0000004e5644412c4e564d616322000000400032002c006400650076006900630065005f 00740079007000650000000b000000646973706c6179220000004100410050004c002c0073006c006f0074002d006e0061006d00650000000a0000005 36c6f742d3314000000400031002c006e0061006d0065000000120000004e5644412c446973706c61792d411e00000072006f006d002d007200650076 006900730069006f006e000000090000003331373261100000004e00560043004100500000001800000004000000000003000c0000000000000700000 0000e0000004e00560050004d00000020000000010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000007c0200000e00000002010c00d0 41030a000000000101060000070101060000000101060000000101060000007fff04000e0000004e00560050004d00000020000000010000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000220000005600520041004d002c0074006f00740061006c00730069007a0065000000080000000000 00401c0000006400650076006900630065005f0074007900700065000000100000004e5644412c4765466f7263650e0000006e0061006d00650000000 f0000004e5644412c506172656e7422000000400030002c006400650076006900630065005f00740079007000650000000b000000646973706c617922 000000400031002c006400650076006900630065005f00740079007000650000000b000000646973706c6179100000006d006f00640065006c0000001 e0000004e5649444941204765466f72636520475458203238302044444c20000000400031002c0063006f006d00700061007400690062006c00650000 000e0000004e5644412c4e564d616314000000400030002c006e0061006d0065000000120000004e5644412c446973706c61792d41220000004100410 050004c002c0073006c006f0074002d006e0061006d00650000000a000000536c6f742d3514000000400031002c006e0061006d006500000012000000 4e5644412c446973706c61792d4220000000400030002c0063006f006d00700061007400690062006c00650000000e0000004e5644412c4e564d61631 00000004e00560043004100500000001800000004000000000003000c00000000000007000000001e00000072006f006d002d00720065007600690073 0069006f006e0000000900000033313732617c0200000e00000002010c00d041030a00000000010106000003010106000000010106000000010106000 0007fff04000e0000004e00560050004d0000002000000001000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000220000005600520041 004d002c0074006f00740061006c00730069007a006500000008000000000000401c0000006400650076006900630065005f007400790070006500000 0100000004e5644412c4765466f7263650e0000006e0061006d00650000000f0000004e5644412c506172656e7422000000400030002c006400650076 006900630065005f00740079007000650000000b000000646973706c617922000000400031002c006400650076006900630065005f007400790070006 50000000b000000646973706c6179100000006d006f00640065006c0000001e0000004e5649444941204765466f72636520475458203238302044444c 20000000400031002c0063006f006d00700061007400690062006c00650000000e0000004e5644412c4e564d616314000000400030002c006e0061006 d0065000000120000004e5644412c446973706c61792d41220000004100410050004c002c0073006c006f0074002d006e0061006d00650000000a0000 00536c6f742d3114000000400031002c006e0061006d0065000000120000004e5644412c446973706c61792d4220000000400030002c0063006f006d0 0700061007400690062006c00650000000e0000004e5644412c4e564d6163100000004e00560043004100500000001800000004000000000003000c00 000000000007000000001e00000072006f006d002d007200650076006900730069006f006e000000090000003331373261</string>
</dict>
</plist>
Note that _x64 means you will boot in 64 bit mode. If you want to boot in 32 bit then you would put _x32.
Putting _x64 does seem to give the system a real boost!
Oh Blacknight, I almost forgot, there is still no support in OSX for SLi so at the moment I will connect 6 flat panels on our next Exhibition stand! But I live in hope. Windows 7 (dare I mention it) runs like a rocket!
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« Reply #7 on Aug 5, 2009, 9:50pm » | |
Just seen the new thread - dude, you've done it again. Legendary build man.
And those benchmark scores are outrageous. Are you seeing the GPU used for general computing in Snow Leopard? Or is the extra boost just in the 64 bit operation?
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« Reply #8 on Aug 6, 2009, 4:48am » | |
Hi Nano,
Mostly down to 64 bit I think as the scores drop down to around 10,000 if I boot in 32 bit. I guess 12 gigs of ram helps in 64 bit too. I am not sure if 10a 421a has all the bells and whistles enabled yet for GPU computing but there is lots of Tesla stuff mentioned in IORegistry Explorer.
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« Reply #9 on Aug 11, 2009, 3:13am » | |
Hey aqua not sure if you already saw my post on the Apple your BIOS thread, can you please kindly post an update on how you got the Apple to show in the BIOS part of the geekbench.
Great new system by the way.... as always.....
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« Reply #10 on Aug 14, 2009, 9:18pm » | |
Jedric,
Put this SMBios.plist in your Extra folder if you are using Chameleon and you need a vanilla AppleSMBios.kext in your Extensions folder. You can edit the file first as it has my details in it.
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« Reply #11 on Aug 18, 2009, 3:08am » | |
Thanks Aqua much appreciated
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« Reply #12 on Aug 22, 2009, 8:39pm » | |
Aqua i'm very tempted to send you an G5 case for modification lol
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« Reply #13 on Aug 22, 2009, 9:40pm » | |
Hi Jaev, thanks for the encouragement,
Trouble is they take so d**n long! Well this one took around 2 months thinking time and around 3 weeks to make on and off, evenings and weekends. Well if anything happens to my day job.....
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« Reply #14 on Sept 21, 2009, 9:53pm » | |
HOLY nuts!!!
Dude, you keep raising the bar. STOP IT!  Its very clean. I need your advice on how to do the cut and shut from a generic case for the back IO. looks truly great.
WOW!
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