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I recently started to wonder if I was really getting 100% from my system running 10.8.2. I looked in the Console system.log and noticed:
Dec 13 23:39:24 Andys-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: P-State Stepper Error 18 at step 2 in context 2 on CPU 0
Dec 13 23:39:24 Andys-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: P-State Stepper Error 18 at step 2 in context 2 on CPU 1
Dec 13 23:39:24 Andys-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: P-State Stepper Error 18 at step 2 in context 2 on CPU 2
Dec 13 23:39:24 Andys-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: P-State Stepper Error 18 at step 2 in context 2 on CPU 3
Dec 13 23:39:24 Andys-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: P-State Stepper Error 18 at step 2 in context 2 on CPU 6
Dec 13 23:39:24 Andys-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: P-State Stepper Error 18 at step 2 in context 2 on CPU 7
Dec 13 23:39:24 Andys-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: P-State Stepper Error 18 at step 2 in context 2 on CPU 4
Dec 13 23:39:24 Andys-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: P-State Stepper Error 18 at step 2 in context 2 on CPU 5
This told me my power management wasn't right. So I tried this kext tip: http://www.tonymacx86.com/247-how-test-speedstep-socket-1155-cpus-using-msrdumper.html and it reported that my PState never went above 16:
Dec 14 00:01:33 Andys-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: MSRDumper CoreMulti(16)
Dec 14 00:01:33 Andys-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: MSRDumper PStatesReached: 16
This is even while rendering a 720p movie in Final Cut Pro X. I installed the i7 SSDT from MultiBeast and still getting the same thing. Is there something else I'm missing?
Also just tried Geekbench and scored a super low 5591.
Thanks for the help!
Dec 13 23:39:24 Andys-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: P-State Stepper Error 18 at step 2 in context 2 on CPU 0
Dec 13 23:39:24 Andys-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: P-State Stepper Error 18 at step 2 in context 2 on CPU 1
Dec 13 23:39:24 Andys-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: P-State Stepper Error 18 at step 2 in context 2 on CPU 2
Dec 13 23:39:24 Andys-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: P-State Stepper Error 18 at step 2 in context 2 on CPU 3
Dec 13 23:39:24 Andys-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: P-State Stepper Error 18 at step 2 in context 2 on CPU 6
Dec 13 23:39:24 Andys-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: P-State Stepper Error 18 at step 2 in context 2 on CPU 7
Dec 13 23:39:24 Andys-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: P-State Stepper Error 18 at step 2 in context 2 on CPU 4
Dec 13 23:39:24 Andys-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: P-State Stepper Error 18 at step 2 in context 2 on CPU 5
This told me my power management wasn't right. So I tried this kext tip: http://www.tonymacx86.com/247-how-test-speedstep-socket-1155-cpus-using-msrdumper.html and it reported that my PState never went above 16:
Dec 14 00:01:33 Andys-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: MSRDumper CoreMulti(16)
Dec 14 00:01:33 Andys-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: MSRDumper PStatesReached: 16
This is even while rendering a 720p movie in Final Cut Pro X. I installed the i7 SSDT from MultiBeast and still getting the same thing. Is there something else I'm missing?
Also just tried Geekbench and scored a super low 5591.
Thanks for the help!