Sandy Bridge Benchmark/Performance Thread

[Xiola69]

Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD5-B3
i7 2600k @ 4.5Ghz
8GB 2133 Mem
Turbo Enabled / x32 Multiplier / 45 Turbo Enabled

XBench = 298.22

 

[dejongj]

That is flying for a 5770??

 

[Yoga]

Indeed, that's a great Cinebench score Xiola. Grab yourself an SSD for the boot drive (easy to clone/migrate with Carbon Copy Cloner) and your system will fly :¬)

Are you using the 10.6.7 ATI drivers from SB update (most likely if you followed Gordo's guide), or normal 10.6.7 combo update?

Update: ran a bench this morning and somehow I've gained 5000 points, getting 14.5K (consistently) now at 4.2Ghz.

Running apps: Chrome, Mail, Fidelia

 

[Xiola69]

Thank you!

I did get a SDD and tried to reload from scratch but it took 30+ mins to boot and was very Laggy. I also had this problem initially when loading on the Hitachi, but was able to follow Gordo's instructions of reinstalling the combo update, Bridge Helper, and MB (but NOT ATI) however it did not help this time, so I went back to the Hitachi drive as it's working very well there (Other than some Premier PRO CS5 exporting issues, but I have the same issue on the Q6600 HP m8100).

I ended up using the SSD for windows 7 32bit (uhg) install to get my old epson expression 800 scanner attached the the adaptec 2940 scsi controller working as well for my Hauppauge HVR1800 Capture card.

Once I see an edited DSDT my board I will get another SSD and attempt the install from scratch as this was very time consuming for a newbie like myself. In addition, I have alot more to test and learn within this install. Eventually, I would like to achieve some reliable power management capabilities, and a normal multiplier of x34 and will wait (as well as try and help the community) to achieve this.

The video scores are consistently over 53 fps with a Sapphire HD5770 using NO other drivers other than what is installed in the 10.6.7 combo update. I have excluded installing the ATI drives from Gordo's instructions as they cause more problems on previous install attempts, and also followed michnotes guide and installed the 889 Audio Kext's.

I believe the HD5770 drivers are purely native drivers, and what I understand, anything using native mac driver is the most desirable when setting up a hackintosh. ALSO, I think the memory and processor speed have much to do with these numbers as this video card scores are under 24fps on a Q6600 HP desktop with the same video card (Also Q6600 is running 32bit).

I love the SandyBridge i7 2600k Chip. It has amazing speed and over-clock capability. It performs 3X better than the Q6600 chips with the same or less power consumption (approx 150 watts idle and 200 watts under high cpu load). I have this working solid OC'ed to 4.5Ghz, and has totally renewed building a system piece by piece for me.

Also, what has made this a great performing system is the case, cpu cooling, and memory.
Here are more details on my hardware if interested. Most components are from Newegg.

Motherboard GIGABYTE GA-P67A-UD5-B3 LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel (BIOS F3)
CPU i7 2600K 3.4Ghz Unlocked
CPU Cooler XIGMATEK Gaia SD1283 120mm Long Life Bearing CPU Cooler bracket included I7 i5 775 1155
Memory G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 4GB (4 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR 2133 (PC3 17000) Desktop Memory Model F3-17000CL9D-4GBXL
Case COOLER MASTER Storm Scout SGC-2000-KKN1-GP Black Steel / Plastic ATX Mid Tower (AWESOME CASE!!)
Power Supply SILVERSTONE ST50F-ES 500W ATX12V v2.3 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply
HD HITACHI Deskstar 7K3000 HDS723020BLA642 (0f12115) 2TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
Video Card Sapphire ATI HD5770 1GB GDDR5 SKU# 21163-00

MB BIOS settings
hpet=64
ahci
32x Multiplier turbo enabled x45 on all cores

 

[Xax]

Also reinstalled using the native ati drivers instead of what Gordo suggested,

getting much better scores now,

Geekbench 64: 13488
Novabench: 1798
ram 186
cpu 923
gfx 664
hw 25

cinebench opengl: 49.26
cpu 8.21

xbench 532

how are those scores with

2600K @ 42x
gigabyte ga-p67a-ud3-b3
8gb xms3 ram (gonna exchange for vengeance series for more performance?)
ati radeon 5770 oc edition
120gb vertex 2 ssd

cheers,

 

[Gordo74]

Hmm, as far as I know, when you install the native drivers, it breaks OpenGL because a frame buffer is not set and therefore Geekbench cannot run. Yet the guy above me has a geekbench score. Thoughts?

 

[Xax]

I've had problems until I re-installed the Chameleon Sandybridge bootloader, that gave me back the full GFX card capability and about 5 fps more on cinebench

 

[Xiola69]

Gordo,

You also have a 5870 and we have 5770's maybe that is the difference?

 

[Gordo74]

But I'm getting less than you guys in FPS with a much more powerful card, that shouldnt be so.

 

[dejongj]

But I'm getting less than you guys in FPS with a much more powerful card, that shouldnt be so.

I agree something doesn't feel quite right, it is a lot for a 5770. Then again the 5870 score very low in OSX, I get mid nineties in Windows 7.