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i7 3930K LGA 2011 Processor

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there were many TSC synchro errors - that is why i used CPUS=1. Without that flag I wasn't able to boot. That's why I also tried voodooTSC kext with modified plist (number of cpu) - booting was ok, but computer was so slow I was not able to move cursor...
Only with CPUS=1 there were no problems with booting and working, but as you noticed there is only one core used...
 
iStigPL said:
Only with CPUS=1 there were no problems with booting and working, but as you noticed there is only one core used...
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Shouldn't be 1 core, but 1 processor. You should still have all 6 real (12 virtual) cores available. As I understand it, the CPUS= flag tells OS X about the processor count, not the core count. There's a big difference. :)

How can you tell you only have 1 core running?
 
no, cpus=1 forces the system to only use a single CPU core.
You can run eg geekbench which tells you how many cores you have.
 
iStigPL said:
no, cpus=1 forces the system to only use a single CPU core.
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Have you tried forcing it to cpus=12? Or cpus=6?
 
no, but you can try ;-)
as I saw there is no problem with detecting cores, but with TSC sync - you will see.

I am waiting for native support, now it is useless. I'm curious how will your graphics card work - I was not able to get full res...
 
as usual with Gigabyte you will have more problems... Current MSI & Asus motherboards using UEFI are much more like Apple products - ACPI tables are similar so you don't have to modify them by using your custom DSDT. I also started with Gigabyte, but when I understand how all this works I'll not choose Gigabyte again...
Imagine I'm using 100% vanilla Lion retail... no single file was patched.
 
Ok Thank's for the info. That is good to hear.
The MSI boards look good and have a nice price. I am currently using my Hackintosh as a DAW in my studio, and it has been pretty stable. My interest in moving to the new X79 platform is because I need to upgrade my processor (i7 920) to an unlocked preferably 6 core but the 980x and 990x continue expensive and are a EOL product. The 2011 would mean a bit more investment but better performance and be future-proof.

As I understand you are now waiting on the new X79 chipset to be adopted by Apple on MacPro's or iMacs in 2012?
 
MacMend said:
Ok Thank's for the info. That is good to hear.
The MSI boards look good and have a nice price. I am currently using my Hackintosh as a DAW in my studio, and it has been pretty stable. My interest in moving to the new X79 platform is because I need to upgrade my processor (i7 920) to an unlocked preferably 6 core but the 980x and 990x continue expensive and are a EOL product. The 2011 would mean a bit more investment but better performance and be future-proof.

As I understand you are now waiting on the new X79 chipset to be adopted by Apple on MacPro's or iMacs in 2012?
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iMac's will have Ivy Bridge processors, so your only hope are the Mac Pros.
 
I think Apple is waiting for Ivy and will not use Sandy Bridge-E - if they wanted to use them it probably would have supported so they can test them.
 
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