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The use of iMac15,1, iMac17,1 and Mac Pro 6,1 don't have all that much to gain for Skylake; we've test them all. The a fore mentioned System Definitions require kext modification(s) after each updates, and, quite frankly, their use falls more into the folk lore realm than actually benefit.

I use iMac 14,2 on all my systems because it works w/o a lot "patting the head and rubbing the tummy" at the same time effort. MacMan prefers Mac Pro 5,1 for his SysDef on his Skylake build although, it, too requires a modified kext (AppleTyMCEDriver) but MultiBeast takes care of that when you select that SysDef. (See MultiBeast Changes-9.01 file that came with MultiBeast, Internal Changes for v9.0.0.)

So, unless there's a very good performance reason to select the iMac15,1, iMac17,1 and Mac Pro 6,1, go with either iMac14,2 or Mac Pro 5,1. Don't make more work for yourself.
 
Stork said:
The use of iMac15,1, iMac17,1 and Mac Pro 6,1 don't have all that much to gain for Skylake; we've test them all. The a fore mentioned System Definitions require kext modification(s) after each updates, and, quite frankly, their use falls more into the folk lore realm than actually benefit.

I use iMac 14,2 on all my systems because it works w/o a lot "patting the head and rubbing the tummy" at the same time effort. MacMan prefers Mac Pro 5,1 for his SysDef on his Skylake build although, it, too requires a modified kext (AppleTyMCEDriver) but MultiBeast takes care of that when you select that SysDef. (See MultiBeast Changes-9.01 file that came with MultiBeast, Internal Changes for v9.0.0.)

So, unless there's a very good performance reason to select the iMac15,1, iMac17,1 and Mac Pro 6,1, go with either iMac14,2 or Mac Pro 5,1. Don't make more work for yourself.
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I see, well I have already installed that files for the black screen on iMac 17.1 which it worked, now I have overclocked my cpu to 4500Mhz and genererated a custom .asml but I didn't saw any improvement on the geekbench, but on the hwmonitor I see the clocks of 4500 happearing but they are not always there. I don't know whats wrong...
 
1.42v seems to high, I'm stable at 4.6 at 1.30V
 
markusberger83 said:
I only use 1.42 for benchmarking - nice, then you got better silicon ;)
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So I've run some tests with the Mac Pro 6,1 and iMac 17,1 SMBIOS with same patched .aml, and the iMac 17,1 scores higher on the Geekbench (about 100 over on single and multi core), have you tried both?
 
Interesting! I have, but I didn't Geekbench the last "iMac" installation - have you noticed any other differences as far as stability and Bluetooth goes? It might just be a coincidence, but with my last "iMac" installation I had the impression that Bluetooth worked more reliable, not sure, if it's that though...
 
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markusberger83 said:
Interesting! I have, but I didn't Geekbench the last "iMac" installation - have you noticed any other differences as far as stability and Bluetooth goes? It might just be a coincidence, but with my last "iMac" installation I had the impression that Bluetooth worked more reliable, not sure, if it's that though...
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I don't use Bluetooth, so I can't answer that. As far stability, I did notice an improvement, like really minor. I also tested a browser benchmark on both SMBIOS and on the iMac; it's higher, about 50-120 higher on average (used Basemark Web 3.0), used Chrome and Safari. Chrome for some reason scores a lot higher than the native Safari, about 300-400 on average. I remember that, when was on El Captain, Safari scored higher than Chrome, now it's the opposite. Safari sometimes also doesn't load images like on FaceBook, for example. Chrome is much more fluid and faster but might drain more battery than Safari, not sure.
 
Samekas said:
I don't use Bluetooth, so I can't answer that. As far stability, I did notice an improvement, like really minor. I also tested a browser benchmark on both SMBIOS and on the iMac; it's higher, about 50-120 higher on average (used Basemark Web 3.0), used Chrome and Safari. Chrome for some reason scores a lot higher than the native Safari, about 300-400 on average. I remember that, when was on El Captain, Safari scored higher than Chrome, now it's the opposite. Safari sometimes also doesn't load images like on FaceBook, for example. Chrome is much more fluid and faster but might drain more battery than Safari, not sure.
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Seems like it actually might be worth trying iMac 17,1 then, once I have some time to do proper testing I'll post some comparisons here!

arehep said:
For better Powermanegement using SMbios iMac 17,1 try this #63
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9751/examining-intel-skylake-speed-shift-more-responsive-processors
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Thanks for this!
 
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Z370 AORUS Gaming 7 |  i7 8086K |  HD 630
Stork said:
prefers Mac Pro 5,1 for his SysDef on his Skylake build although, it, too requires a modified kext (AppleTyMCEDriver) but MultiBeast takes care of that when you select that SysDef. (See MultiBeast Changes-9.01 file that came with MultiBeast, Internal Changes for v9.0.0.)
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Can I ask if using clover configurator for changing sysdef to macpro has the same effect? Or would I have to use multibeast again to get AppleTyMCEDriver to function properly when using macpro sysdef.

I'm still not completely sure if I actually understand the "correlation" between the respective smbios and the actual hack-hardware features, especially when I use extra kexts. Shouldn't the effect be the same?

I might have to do some research I guess ;)
 
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Z370 AORUS Gaming 7 |  i7 8086K |  HD 630
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