Recent content by SStreet

Thinking out loud, but I wonder how Apple (more specifically MacOS) routes display data from the discrete GPU of the MacBookPro through to the Thunderbolt/Displayport. In Windows this requires the Virtu software bits to copy the frame buffer from the dGPU into the iGPU. Does MacOS have this...

Well, I had a go at this; and much to my surprise, it worked. MSRDumper CoreMulti(36) MSRDumper PStatesReached: 16 23 35 36 37 38 Wow! I'm shocked - my little locked processor is happy to turbo boost to 38x for single threaded load and happily runs at 35x under full load. It seems that...

Re: IMPORTANT: 10.7.4 and Unlocked Sandy Bridge CPUs [TEMP FIX] Tried that, no change in symtoms. Also noticed this in my boot messages (dmesg): P-State Stepper Error 18 at step 2 on CPU 0 P-State Stepper Error 18 at step 2 on CPU 1 P-State Stepper Error 18 at step 2 on CPU 4 P-State...

Re: IMPORTANT: 10.7.4 and Unlocked Sandy Bridge CPUs [TEMP FIX] Confirmed with MSRDumper: CoreCount: 4 ThreadCount: 8 0xE2: 0x1e000402 MSRDumper CoreMulti(16) MSRDumper PStatesReached: 16 Even a tight script loop (while [1 -eq 1 ]; do; echo >/dev/null ; done does not up the PState...

Re: IMPORTANT: 10.7.4 and Unlocked Sandy Bridge CPUs [TEMP FIX] HWMonitor.app (included as part of Multibeast 4.4), multiplier was stuck at 16x. [maxes at 35 with XMP Profile enabled. Board: Gigabyte GA-Z68A-D3H-B3 (BIOS: F13) I updated bios week or so back -- that combined with the...

Re: IMPORTANT: 10.7.4 and Unlocked Sandy Bridge CPUs [TEMP FIX] Macman, I want to add that this problem also effect non-K processors. I also can confirm that the above workaround does also work. Also a curious change: Under 10.7.4: AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: Turbo Ratios 1234 Yet...

Then use iMac12,2 as your system definition. (as an i7 + 6870 is a close to an iMac as you could get with desktop parts). The MacPro definition enables ECC kext, which, unless you have an i7-9xx series, it will panic.

Total B.S. D3 beta has run fine on both of my custoMacs. So has every version of WoW.

This is used to enable power management of the GTX560, without it; the card stays in low power (idle) mode - which is great for being idle, however, even flash animations and desktop effects need to bump the card up a notch, if for even briefly. You can visually notice the card stuck in low...

Power Management! AppleGraphicsPowerManagment.kext needs plist updating. Heaven Bench.tiff (On my core i7-960, GTX470)

It is a USB module from a G4 Macbook Pro, iFixit has them without antennas - being a ham radio geek, I just made my own simple dipole by desoldering the factory micro-coax connector and soldering on two 2.5cm 22-gauge solid copper wires; one to the former shield pad, and the other to the center...

Someone did it... http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=76&t=42147&start=20 now I want to find one ... :shock:

As with all nVidia 4xx and 5xx cards, you must update the AppleGraphicsPowerManagment.kext plist with the values needed to enable power management on your specific card. Search the forums for more details.

Your Welcome! As it turns out, most mechanical drives being manufactured today are going to be 4K sectors. I only know this as I was searching for a replacement drive for my NAS box -- I needed a new 1TB drive and I didn't want to rebuild (not enough time or swing space) to support 4K sectors...

Is that 1TB Seagate drive a 4k (Advanced Format) drive? if so: http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=120&t=53562&start=5 may lead you to the answer you need.