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i7 950 seems to be running half speed [El Capitan]

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Motherboard
Gigabyte X58-USB3
CPU
i7-950
Graphics
GTX 960
Mac
  1. iMac
Hello,

I've been getting an awful feeling that something is just not right with my machine's performance and decided to run Geekbench on it. Looking at their official reports for my processor as well as another hackintosh user here:

http://www.tonymacx86.com/general-help/23649-post-your-geekbench-scores.html

I am seriously wondering what is the deal here?!

Can somebody help please with this?

Attached my current config.plist and aml (downloaded from here).

I also tried overclocking CPU to 3.5Hz but the results the precisely the same!

Most obvious speed issue when trying to resize windows with content (like Mail) that needs to re-arrange and re-render. GPU seems to be working fine (I think).
 

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Turns out some overclocking was in place plus the comparisons for Geekbench give Windows a completely higher score (mine was about 10284 on Windows 10... go figure)
 

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After considerable effort my Hackintosh is still running horribly slow (compared with Win 10).

Again, I get 10002 Multicore on Geekbench in Win and 5240 Multicore in Mac

Somewhere I picked up that it might be a case of configuring clover (speedstep?) but I have no idea where to even start!

Anyone please able to get my OSX install work at expected performance?
 

Looking at the docs the i7 950 "bloomfield" CPU type is not in the options for ssdtPRGen and it returns Unknown processor model when I run it.

I managed to overclock to 3.69 and HWMonitor reported the right values through Clover config but in essence it was overheating too much. Now I cant get HWMonitor to report CPU core at X24 and 3.20 GHz as it is reporting x12 and 1.60 GHz which is annoying to say the least cause it is not just figures here, it seems to be capping the CPU based on computational speeds. sysctl correctly reports 3.07 though. Go figure.

So I am working in my mind in a "crippled" system (still)
 
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