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[jerryy2345]

What does.mean Jerrry? 480 users have to patch with that ID in Clover o replace that values?

It is good news for many. That means if you have been using Gigamaxx's patching scheme, you are still going be able to continue to do so, because things in that regard are still as they were in the last version. This is the place in the kext where you make the changes, if you follow that approach.

 

[Gigamaxx]

It is good news for many. That means if you have been using Gigamaxx's patching scheme, you are still going be able to continue to do so, because things in that regard are still as they were in the last version. This is the place in the kext where you make the changes, if you follow that approach.

Hopefully the Clover patch methods still work as well, they should at least for the CU fix as the values are the same. The Ellesmere fix still doesn't work.

Jerry, have you had any sleep issues in 12.5? It done broke my pentium (Haswell), and the Skylake is acting up a bit as well. I really haven't had any time to mess with either lately.

 

[jerryy2345]

Hopefully the Clover patch methods still work as well, they should at least for the CU fix as the values are the same. The Ellesmere fix still doesn't work.

Jerry, have you had any sleep issues in 12.5? It done broke my pentium (Haswell), and the Skylake is acting up a bit as well. I really haven't had any time to mess with either lately.

If you go trawling through the newest 4100 kext, you will find it is chock full of Ellesmere goodies. Someone will have to take some time to find the necessary entry point.

Sleep began acting strangely some time ago. For me (using Haswell) monitor screen saver to monitor shutdown works fine (10.12.4 and 10.12.5), but after getting the oddities (sound not coming back properly, etc) a while back I switched to a different approach. For long term, I shut down the system. For short term, I open Terminal, and type in the command 'caffeinate' without the quote marks and hit return. It allows the monitor to do its usual thing, but keeps the CPU active (fans keep spinning) so that the CPU part of the system never goes into sleep mode. All of the usual problems (audio, USB, etc.) do not appear. Use the control-c combination to exit the command.

 

[Gigamaxx]

If you go trawling through the newest 4100 kext, you will find it is chock full of Ellesmere goodies. Someone will have to take some time to find the necessary entry point.

Sleep began acting strangely some time ago. For me (using Haswell) monitor screen saver to monitor shutdown works fine (10.12.4 and 10.12.5), but after getting the oddities (sound not coming back properly, etc) a while back I switched to a different approach. For long term, I shut down the system. For short term, I open Terminal, and type in the command 'caffeinate' without the quote marks and hit return. It allows the monitor to do its usual thing, but keeps the CPU active (fans keep spinning) so that the CPU part of the system never goes into sleep mode. All of the usual problems (audio, USB, etc.) do not appear. Use the control-c combination to exit the command.

Maybe for the new RX 580 refresh with higher clocks. Hopefully they get the CU units right this time, but since I still needed to do the fix maybe the next update will help in that regard.

 

[MacPack]

If you go trawling through the newest 4100 kext, you will find it is chock full of Ellesmere goodies. Someone will have to take some time to find the necessary entry point.

Sleep began acting strangely some time ago. For me (using Haswell) monitor screen saver to monitor shutdown works fine (10.12.4 and 10.12.5), but after getting the oddities (sound not coming back properly, etc) a while back I switched to a different approach. For long term, I shut down the system. For short term, I open Terminal, and type in the command 'caffeinate' without the quote marks and hit return. It allows the monitor to do its usual thing, but keeps the CPU active (fans keep spinning) so that the CPU part of the system never goes into sleep mode. All of the usual problems (audio, USB, etc.) do not appear. Use the control-c combination to exit the command.

You can change the "Energy" preference pane back to pre-haswell and set computer sleep to never and monitor sleep to your preference. I do this for my machine as it won't wake from sleep from ethernet and it needs to be awake for plex.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/enab...cs-with-intel-haswell-processors-490731.shtml

No need to caffeinate

 

[Gigamaxx]

Jerry, I've been wondering why nobody has posted any Geekbenches with the new Nvidia drivers for 10x0 series cards. Our RX 460 beats this, they need some serious optimization.

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137247
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12098
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[jerryy2345]

You can change the "Energy" preference pane back to pre-haswell and set computer sleep to never and monitor sleep to your preference. I do this for my machine as it won't wake from sleep from ethernet and it needs to be awake for plex.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/enab...cs-with-intel-haswell-processors-490731.shtml

No need to caffeinate

It is worth a try. Sometimes it is easy to get caught up in things and overlook the obvious.

 

[jerryy2345]

Jerry, I've been wondering why nobody has posted any Geekbenches with the new Nvidia drivers for 10x0 series cards. Our RX 460 beats this, they need some serious optimization.
...

Maybe they are so busy trying to scrub the scorch marks off of their wallets, they have no time to post results.

 

[Gigamaxx]

Maybe they are so busy trying to scrub the scorch marks off of their wallets, they have no time to post results.

I'd be a little bummed at this. My pentium with dual 480s beats this titanXP, this is the king of cards.

 

[Stork]

Try Heaven and Valley as they are GPU benchmark programs, unlike the other benchmark programs.