- Joined
- Apr 16, 2011
- Messages
- 172
- Motherboard
- GA-Z77MX-D3H-TH
- CPU
- i5 3570K
- Graphics
- 7870
- Mac
My set up is working fairly well but with a handful of problems that I want to resolve.
On the website Younow, the saved moments, as soon as I scroll down the page, which would usually make a saved video moment on the page auto play, the computer instead locks up and I have to do a hard reset. I have played around with Safari and Flash settings but nothing works. I find Firefox works in the same situation but would to like to find a solution for Safari.
Moving a Finder window around the screen isn't silky smooth and the computer feels a little slow, responsiveness wise, especially when unfairly comparing it to an overclocked i5 3570K and HD 7870 XT/Tahiti but I would have expected it to be smoother, seem to remember it used to be smoother in the pioneering days when Rehabman patiently helped me figure out how to get the P version of HD 4600 working where seemingly everyone, at the time, said it couldn't be done and I thought I would have to buy a graphics card. It is a long time since I've used this computer and I might not be remembering, well, but I thought it was silky smooth. Might try rolling back to my original EFI folder and see if there are differences. I wondered, though, if there had been an update to Sierra or Clover that might account for this? My present config.plist is now very similar to one that Fatala kindly shared in the post above. Same Xeon E3-1225v3 CPU.
I am using the latest revision of Clover, albeit with an older version of FakeSMC and stat kexts, without which I can't get temp stats of the CPU and SSD and hard drive temps to show up. I am still unable to get Macs Fan Control to detect my out fan, though, which is the only fan that I use (I basically rehoused the motherboard, etc, in a brushed steel circular tube with a 120mm fan at the top, sucking air up from the bottom to the top. Even on the quietest bios setting, even having made a silicone shroud and attached it to the fan and steel tin top via velcro, it's still not as quiet as I would like, though temps are good. I guess I could fit a fan speed reducer but I would rather do fan speed control in software. I am also, again drifting a bit off topic, here, sorry, thinking of lining the tube with towelling material to disrupt the rushing sound of the air, though the thought of breathing in fire-proofed cotton fibres doesn't thrill me and towelling won't deaden the steel, which I had hoped was thick enough not to resonate much.
Sorry, I'm getting off-topic. Any thoughts on my on topic questions are welcome.
On the website Younow, the saved moments, as soon as I scroll down the page, which would usually make a saved video moment on the page auto play, the computer instead locks up and I have to do a hard reset. I have played around with Safari and Flash settings but nothing works. I find Firefox works in the same situation but would to like to find a solution for Safari.
Moving a Finder window around the screen isn't silky smooth and the computer feels a little slow, responsiveness wise, especially when unfairly comparing it to an overclocked i5 3570K and HD 7870 XT/Tahiti but I would have expected it to be smoother, seem to remember it used to be smoother in the pioneering days when Rehabman patiently helped me figure out how to get the P version of HD 4600 working where seemingly everyone, at the time, said it couldn't be done and I thought I would have to buy a graphics card. It is a long time since I've used this computer and I might not be remembering, well, but I thought it was silky smooth. Might try rolling back to my original EFI folder and see if there are differences. I wondered, though, if there had been an update to Sierra or Clover that might account for this? My present config.plist is now very similar to one that Fatala kindly shared in the post above. Same Xeon E3-1225v3 CPU.
I am using the latest revision of Clover, albeit with an older version of FakeSMC and stat kexts, without which I can't get temp stats of the CPU and SSD and hard drive temps to show up. I am still unable to get Macs Fan Control to detect my out fan, though, which is the only fan that I use (I basically rehoused the motherboard, etc, in a brushed steel circular tube with a 120mm fan at the top, sucking air up from the bottom to the top. Even on the quietest bios setting, even having made a silicone shroud and attached it to the fan and steel tin top via velcro, it's still not as quiet as I would like, though temps are good. I guess I could fit a fan speed reducer but I would rather do fan speed control in software. I am also, again drifting a bit off topic, here, sorry, thinking of lining the tube with towelling material to disrupt the rushing sound of the air, though the thought of breathing in fire-proofed cotton fibres doesn't thrill me and towelling won't deaden the steel, which I had hoped was thick enough not to resonate much.
Sorry, I'm getting off-topic. Any thoughts on my on topic questions are welcome.
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