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- Feb 2, 2013
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- Motherboard
- Mac Pro 5,1 (Mid 2010)
- CPU
- Xeon W3565 3.2GHz
- Graphics
- HD 5770
- Mac
Hi All,
This is my first post. I originally installed Hackintosh to my home machine because I needed a bit more power than what decently priced Macs could offer and lacked money to buy a new Mac Pro. That was back in 2012 and all was good until last year when the machine started to experience random freezes and perhaps a problem with SSD or something since booting failed about 30% of the time. I struggled with it until now when I updated to Sierra and was not able to properly boot at all. I had put home folders to two HD's in RAID.
I had no time to hack so I went and bought 2010 5,1 Mac Pro. I did want to avoid all the installation and migration headaches so I just plugged the very same SSD and HDs into the Mac Pro not expecting much success, but to my surprise everything seemed to work all right and suddenly I didn't have to spend all evening re installing everything.
Only "problem" I have is that since the Hackintosh was pretending to be iMac, some hardware description setting is still set to that and when I run for example geekbench it thinks the system is iMac.
So my question is that can I some how change that? Or is there a neat way of getting rid of all the hackintosh changes to system files? like running OS X installer but not actually install anything else than the OS?
P.S. That old 3.2GHz quad core 5,1 Mac pro only looses by 10% to 2015 MacBook Pro in single thread benchmark while being 50% faster in multicore metrics. With about 200 EUR of additional updates it would beat the MacBook Pro with good margin, which enough for me (for now).
This is my first post. I originally installed Hackintosh to my home machine because I needed a bit more power than what decently priced Macs could offer and lacked money to buy a new Mac Pro. That was back in 2012 and all was good until last year when the machine started to experience random freezes and perhaps a problem with SSD or something since booting failed about 30% of the time. I struggled with it until now when I updated to Sierra and was not able to properly boot at all. I had put home folders to two HD's in RAID.
I had no time to hack so I went and bought 2010 5,1 Mac Pro. I did want to avoid all the installation and migration headaches so I just plugged the very same SSD and HDs into the Mac Pro not expecting much success, but to my surprise everything seemed to work all right and suddenly I didn't have to spend all evening re installing everything.
Only "problem" I have is that since the Hackintosh was pretending to be iMac, some hardware description setting is still set to that and when I run for example geekbench it thinks the system is iMac.
So my question is that can I some how change that? Or is there a neat way of getting rid of all the hackintosh changes to system files? like running OS X installer but not actually install anything else than the OS?
P.S. That old 3.2GHz quad core 5,1 Mac pro only looses by 10% to 2015 MacBook Pro in single thread benchmark while being 50% faster in multicore metrics. With about 200 EUR of additional updates it would beat the MacBook Pro with good margin, which enough for me (for now).