Recent content by Adam.Smith

Just got the cpu to 5.1ghz with an avx offset of 2, staying around mid to high 70's fully pegged out on prime95. This hackintosh is blazing :D Spent like 2.6k for the parts and smoking the heck out of a mac pro :D

Just tried that on my Thinkpad running linux at the office... NICE.

I was watching it in hwmonitor while I was running the benchmark, and the multiplier was staying below 50. But to be honest, the temps stayed so low, that I really can't complain too much. This might actually extend the life of the processor by a lot the way it's working. And it seems to kick...

@corint1 I overclocked my cpu to 5ghz in the uefi setup and all, but when I run Geekbench, 99% of the time it's clocked under 5ghz during the bench. Know a way to tell apple to not down clock to oblivion? Though I admit, I did some compiling on the system using all 12 threads and it was just...

I've seen that on stock settings on the 8700k in high sierra. I just installed osx on saturday. I figured it's for power/heat saving. But it ramps up when I'm gaming.

Yeah, I tried the 2 step process for the audio (with the kextbeast and the terminal "touch" command) like... 3 times before I started going through the thread finding that other people were having issues with that too, and followed one of their replies to use lilo.kext and applealc.kext or what...

Love the build guide! My first successful hackintosh build :D Though I did have a few bumps in the road on the way like audio, but I found the solution in this thread. Now Microphone access I didn't get working though, and I kinda cheated on that and used a Logitech audio USB dongle to make my...