- Joined
- May 3, 2010
- Messages
- 48
- Motherboard
- GA-P55A-UD4P
- CPU
- 875k
- Graphics
- GT 740
Hi,
As an experiment I decided to try to cobble together a hackintosh using some leftover PC parts I had laying around.I used a 2500k processor and a ECS motherboard. Of course there's no dst for this obscure mobo but after installing 10.8.5 using Multibeast without a dst, it surprisingly seems to work. I've got sound, ethernet, and even sleep working fine.From my win 7 boot disk, I managed to overclock this puppy to a stable 4.65 ghz, so I was pretty pleased. The only hiccup I'm experiencing is that when running the Geekbench 3 (64 bit) test on 10.8.5, my scores are abysmally low. 4400 for multicore and 1544 for single core. So I went into the poor excuse for a BIOS that this mobo has and turned off EIST and Speedstep. Then I rebooted and ran Geekbench 3 again. This time the scores were more where they should be: 12877 multicore and 3918 single. The interesting thing is that even with EIST and Speedstep turned on, Geekbench's System Information correctly reported my 4.65 overclock even though it returned the original poor scores. Also when running the first GB3 tests, HWMonitor was reporting my processor speed as constant 1.57 ghz at idle and even while under full load using prime95. After I turned off EIST and Speedstep, HWMonitor displayed my processor fluctuating wildly anywhere between 1.57 and 3.7 at idle and at the correct 4.65 overclock under full load running prime95. So my question is this: do I have to leave EIST and speedstep disabled in order to utilize my processor's full power or are those 2 settings just something that benefits Geekbench scores?? I'd prefer to leave them both on for the power savings and the lower temps on the CPU. But not if it cuts my processor strength by more than half. Are there some Multibeast settings that I need to correct this?? Any thoughts on how to remedy this??
TIA,
jb
As an experiment I decided to try to cobble together a hackintosh using some leftover PC parts I had laying around.I used a 2500k processor and a ECS motherboard. Of course there's no dst for this obscure mobo but after installing 10.8.5 using Multibeast without a dst, it surprisingly seems to work. I've got sound, ethernet, and even sleep working fine.From my win 7 boot disk, I managed to overclock this puppy to a stable 4.65 ghz, so I was pretty pleased. The only hiccup I'm experiencing is that when running the Geekbench 3 (64 bit) test on 10.8.5, my scores are abysmally low. 4400 for multicore and 1544 for single core. So I went into the poor excuse for a BIOS that this mobo has and turned off EIST and Speedstep. Then I rebooted and ran Geekbench 3 again. This time the scores were more where they should be: 12877 multicore and 3918 single. The interesting thing is that even with EIST and Speedstep turned on, Geekbench's System Information correctly reported my 4.65 overclock even though it returned the original poor scores. Also when running the first GB3 tests, HWMonitor was reporting my processor speed as constant 1.57 ghz at idle and even while under full load using prime95. After I turned off EIST and Speedstep, HWMonitor displayed my processor fluctuating wildly anywhere between 1.57 and 3.7 at idle and at the correct 4.65 overclock under full load running prime95. So my question is this: do I have to leave EIST and speedstep disabled in order to utilize my processor's full power or are those 2 settings just something that benefits Geekbench scores?? I'd prefer to leave them both on for the power savings and the lower temps on the CPU. But not if it cuts my processor strength by more than half. Are there some Multibeast settings that I need to correct this?? Any thoughts on how to remedy this??
TIA,
jb