thashef said:
I am thinking about doing this build, have you guys had success with getting Sleep to work??? Also how are the geekbench scores for this build.
brisc0, I saw in the other thread that you had issues with your geekbench score being in the 11k-12k range instead of 16k, were you able to get it resolved.
Thanks
1.) Sleep works fine, bluetooth using my adapter doesn't wake with the machine so you have to restart to get bluetooth back. Alternatively the onboard bluetooth works fine but doesn't support the magic trackpad and if your using lion without a magic trackpad, your not really using lion so whats the point? Solution, I don't use sleep.
2.) Geekbench: I used that auto DSDT maker to create one for this board and it bumped my bench from 11.2 to 13.5ish. I don't over clock and I could likely get this higher but honestly its in the 13K range so again, I don't really care to spend the hours dissecting it to squeeze out another couple drops of performance I won't taste anyways.
Lastly, my general thoughts on the board. This board is great. It makes an awesome hackintosh and an equally monstrous Win7 gaming machine which is pretty much the total package for me. If you have 4 or 5 builds under your belt this will be pretty easy for you. Any OSX86 you build is going to have a learning curve. Your going to try to install, its going to fail, or stuff isn't going to work and your going to spend hours whittling the 5 or 6 big problems down to 1 or 2 you can live with. Thats the nature of the beast. I would say total build/tune time to get this running well is 8-12 hours and then if you don't fuss with it, it will work great. I think this is my 9th or 10th OSX86 and maybe 20-25th time to build a PC so the hurdles felt a little more like speed bumps. But there were a couple challenges to overcome to get it gold.
Bottom line, if you want a lion machine that you can put to sleep, get perfect benches out of, and never feel like you haven't got it 100%, go get a Mac, its worth the extra thousand bucks. If you want a pretty easy build with minor frustration (assuming you know your way around the community, dark, shady, back alleys included) this is your board. If you want something similar, yet much more widely support on here, consider the P8P67 Pro or Deluxe. I also run one of these and its a rock. I encoded 60 movies over 22 hours 3 days ago and it didn't break a sweat.
Wish I could tell you that if you buy this gear its going to make your dream Mac, but thats just not how it works. On a scale of 1-10 this was a 3 for me to build and get to a happy place (milage may very from my happy place to yours), if your a perfectionist this might be your white whale. Finally, to close this much more long winded post that I intended, if you have the success I had with this board, you really won't realize its a PC 95% of the time. Remember just because someone else got a geek bench of eleventy billion doesn't make yours any less badass at 11.5K. Its all a matter of personal preference and what you can call good.
Hope this helps,
Brisc0
