I have an i7-5960x overclocked to 4.5 GHz on an ASUS X99 Deluxe. I followed all of the instructions and Sierra boots just fine, but in About This Mac it says "3GHz Unknown" and the Power Gadget show the CPU pegged to 3 GHz all the time.
Both X86PlatformPlugin and X86PlatformShim are loaded but sysctl -n machdep.xcpm.vectors_loaded_count returns zero (even after running the FrequencyVector script) and sysctl -n machdep.xcpm.mode returns 0 (even with an SSDT.aml file generated by ssdtPRGen.)
I'm not even sure where to begin troubleshooting... stupid question; where do I find the verbose boot and kernel logs in Sierra? The Console app only seems to show OS/userspace logs, dmesg does not have any boot-time information and there is not /var/log/kernel.log file at all.
83C3C483FB22 83C3C183FB22 xcpm_bootstrap Sierra © Pike R. Alpha 10.12
I found the problem. The xcpm_bootstrap patch for Haswell-E is:
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Saving 10w @ idle and losing cpu max doesn't make much sense... You might try these:I've successfully installed Sierra using an X99 UD4 5820k o/c at 4.3ghz and used what Chiechi posted which fixed the freqVectorsEdit.sh - " sysctl -n machdep.xcpm.vectors_loaded_count returns 0 " error, I now get - returns 1
Since this I'm now better power results using Intel Power Gadget averaging 5 to 6W, before I was getting 15W + at idle.
But now my frequency result doesn't flat-line at max when running Geekbench, it jumps about from 2 to 4.3ghz....
Apart from this issue everything runs smoothly!
Does anyone know of a solution to this Turbo Drop problem?....
Noodlez
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Saving 10w @ idle and losing cpu max doesn't make much sense... You might try these:
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I've successfully installed Sierra using an X99 UD4 5820k o/c at 4.3ghz and used what Chiechi posted which fixed the freqVectorsEdit.sh - " sysctl -n machdep.xcpm.vectors_loaded_count returns 0 " error, I now get - returns 1
Since this I'm now better power results using Intel Power Gadget averaging 5 to 6W, before I was getting 15W + at idle.
But now my frequency result doesn't flat-line at max when running Geekbench, it jumps about from 2 to 4.3ghz....
Apart from this issue everything runs smoothly!
Does anyone know of a solution to this Turbo Drop problem?....
Cheers
Noodlez