Yes, i'm booting with all core all core are enabled in the bios and the hyper threading too..... 4 core X2 = 8

The computer restart and shutdown properly, (boot time is really quick, and shut down when no application running is about 3sec...

Temperature of hard drives are around 55 degree Celcius
Temperature of processor is about 55 to 60 degree Celcius
I'm using a termaltek water cooling, but it's mostly for a noise reduction than to try to overclock my computer, I love apple, they have the best product, and all of them are so quiet, it's huge challenge with a Hackintosh..... when i will have the money, i will buy a mac, no doubt, and it's green.....

I think that booting in 64bit is one the sexyest stuff about Snow Leopard, i noticed a gain in performance while opening a session of Logic Studio in 64bit even if i stay at 12gb of ram

About NVEnabler, it was the only way to get full resolution with my EVGA 8800gt
adding the EFI string in the com.apple.Boot.plist wouldn't work...

I didn't bother changing the com.apple.Boot.plist since it worked, i haven't try to boot without the line GraphicsEnabler=Yes....

Here is my com.apple.Boot.plist


<key>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>-force64 GraphicsEnabler=Yes</string>
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>3</string>
<key>Legacy Logo</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>
<string>Yes</string>


Joeboxer said we need JMicronSATA with this Motherboard.... I haven't try to boot without this kext yet



About the Kernel, i'm using a retail osx leopard DVD so i want to keep it Vanilla, i didn't mess with that.... and all update went fine....


I hope i answerd all questions, and please, i'm still learning about all of that, so feel free to had any comments or advises....

All the forums and post i've read before helped me a lot, so if i can help someone, that's great, but i'm not a Guru, and still need to learn a lot

Here is a couple screen shots and geekbench....