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anybody know how i would go about doing these directions under linux or windows?
i dont currently have access to osx, any help would be welcome! im mostly looking for where to put the device drivers. and stuff so that it will boot the SL installer. |
Benchmark of quad core vs dual core on G31M-ES2L
I took the plunge and ordered a quad core Q8300 and fitted it to replace my E6300 dual core. I do a lot of video rework and wanted multiple cores.
The older dual core is 2.8GHz, the newer quad core is 2.5Ghz. I figured the slight loss in outright speed is made up by the fact I now have four cores. I know I can overclock CPU's but that is absolutely not on the cards, so it'll stay at 2.5Ghz. I benchmarked the dual core first. Summary Section Description Score Geekbench Score Geekbench 2.1.6 for Mac OS X x86 (32-bit) Integer Processor integer performance 3249 3979 Floating Point Processor floating point performance 5838 Memory Memory performance 2897 Stream Memory bandwidth performance 2194 System Information Operating System Mac OS X 10.6.3 (Build 10D578) Model Hackintosh Motherboard Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L x.x Processor Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E6300 @ 2.80GHz Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10 Processors 1 Threads 2 Cores 2 Memory 4.00 GB 1066 MHz DDR2 SDRAM Processor Frequency 2.83 GHz Bus Frequency 1.06 GHz L1 Instruction Cache 32.0 KB L1 Data Cache 32.0 KB L2 Cache 2.00 MB L3 Cache 0.00 B BIOS Apple Computer, Inc. MP31.88Z.006C.B05.0802291410 Integer Section Section Score 3249 Blowfish single-threaded scalar 1964 86.3 MB/sec Blowfish multi-threaded scalar 4141 169.7 MB/sec Text Compress single-threaded scalar 2182 6.98 MB/sec Text Compress multi-threaded scalar 4113 13.5 MB/sec Text Decompress single-threaded scalar 1976 8.12 MB/sec Text Decompress multi-threaded scalar 3929 15.7 MB/sec Image Compress single-threaded scalar 1999 16.5 Mpixels/sec Image Compress multi-threaded scalar 3790 31.9 Mpixels/sec Image Decompress single-threaded scalar 1756 29.5 Mpixels/sec Image Decompress multi-threaded scalar 3561 58.1 Mpixels/sec Lua single-threaded scalar 3220 1.24 Mnodes/sec Lua multi-threaded scalar 6363 2.45 Mnodes/sec Floating Point Section Section Score 5838 Mandelbrot single-threaded scalar 2091 1.39 Gflops Mandelbrot multi-threaded scalar 4192 2.74 Gflops Dot Product single-threaded scalar 3833 1.85 Gflops Dot Product multi-threaded scalar 7993 3.64 Gflops Dot Product single-threaded vector 3065 3.67 Gflops Dot Product multi-threaded vector 7044 7.33 Gflops LU Decomposition single-threaded scalar 808 719.6 Mflops LU Decomposition multi-threaded scalar 1628 1.43 Gflops Primality Test single-threaded scalar 4599 687.0 Mflops Primality Test multi-threaded scalar 6982 1.30 Gflops Sharpen Image single-threaded scalar 5868 13.7 Mpixels/sec Sharpen Image multi-threaded scalar 11668 26.9 Mpixels/sec Blur Image single-threaded scalar 7389 5.85 Mpixels/sec Blur Image multi-threaded scalar 14580 11.5 Mpixels/sec Memory Section Section Score 2897 Read Sequential single-threaded scalar 3653 4.47 GB/sec Write Sequential single-threaded scalar 3183 2.18 GB/sec Stdlib Allocate single-threaded scalar 2503 9.34 Mallocs/sec Stdlib Write single-threaded scalar 2536 5.25 GB/sec Stdlib Copy single-threaded scalar 2610 2.69 GB/sec Stream Section Section Score 2194 Stream Copy single-threaded scalar 2137 2.92 GB/sec Stream Copy single-threaded vector 2365 3.07 GB/sec Stream Scale single-threaded scalar 2274 2.95 GB/sec Stream Scale single-threaded vector 2269 3.06 GB/sec Stream Add single-threaded scalar 1959 2.96 GB/sec Stream Add single-threaded vector 2526 3.51 GB/sec Stream Triad single-threaded scalar 2153 2.98 GB/sec Stream Triad single-threaded vector 1874 3.51 GB/sec and then benchmarked the quadcore, same hardware expect the CPU Summary Section Description Score Geekbench Score Geekbench 2.1.6 for Mac OS X x86 (32-bit) Integer Processor integer performance 4489 5417 Floating Point Processor floating point performance 8575 Memory Memory performance 3065 Stream Memory bandwidth performance 2324 System Information Operating System Mac OS X 10.6.3 (Build 10D578) Model Hackintosh Motherboard Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L x.x Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q8300 @ 2.50GHz Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10 Processors 1 Threads 4 Cores 4 Memory 4.00 GB 1066 MHz DDR2 SDRAM Processor Frequency 2.56 GHz Bus Frequency 1.33 GHz L1 Instruction Cache 32.0 KB L1 Data Cache 32.0 KB L2 Cache 2.00 MB L3 Cache 0.00 B BIOS Apple Computer, Inc. MP31.88Z.006C.B05.0802291410 Integer Section Section Score 4489 Blowfish single-threaded scalar 1760 77.3 MB/sec Blowfish multi-threaded scalar 7378 302.4 MB/sec Text Compress single-threaded scalar 1946 6.22 MB/sec Text Compress multi-threaded scalar 7270 23.8 MB/sec Text Decompress single-threaded scalar 1759 7.23 MB/sec Text Decompress multi-threaded scalar 7028 28.0 MB/sec Image Compress single-threaded scalar 1784 14.7 Mpixels/sec Image Compress multi-threaded scalar 6846 57.6 Mpixels/sec Image Decompress single-threaded scalar 1550 26.0 Mpixels/sec Image Decompress multi-threaded scalar 5837 95.2 Mpixels/sec Lua single-threaded scalar 2886 1.11 Mnodes/sec Lua multi-threaded scalar 7831 3.01 Mnodes/sec Floating Point Section Section Score 8575 Mandelbrot single-threaded scalar 1867 1.24 Gflops Mandelbrot multi-threaded scalar 7476 4.89 Gflops Dot Product single-threaded scalar 3420 1.65 Gflops Dot Product multi-threaded scalar 14288 6.51 Gflops Dot Product single-threaded vector 2732 3.27 Gflops Dot Product multi-threaded vector 12267 12.8 Gflops LU Decomposition single-threaded scalar 733 652.9 Mflops LU Decomposition multi-threaded scalar 2714 2.38 Gflops Primality Test single-threaded scalar 4103 612.8 Mflops Primality Test multi-threaded scalar 12516 2.32 Gflops Sharpen Image single-threaded scalar 5223 12.2 Mpixels/sec Sharpen Image multi-threaded scalar 20498 47.2 Mpixels/sec Blur Image single-threaded scalar 6564 5.19 Mpixels/sec Blur Image multi-threaded scalar 25653 20.2 Mpixels/sec Memory Section Section Score 3065 Read Sequential single-threaded scalar 3604 4.41 GB/sec Write Sequential single-threaded scalar 3581 2.45 GB/sec Stdlib Allocate single-threaded scalar 2236 8.35 Mallocs/sec Stdlib Write single-threaded scalar 3087 6.39 GB/sec Stdlib Copy single-threaded scalar 2818 2.91 GB/sec Stream Section Section Score 2324 Stream Copy single-threaded scalar 2473 3.38 GB/sec Stream Copy single-threaded vector 2628 3.41 GB/sec Stream Scale single-threaded scalar 2350 3.05 GB/sec Stream Scale single-threaded vector 2569 3.47 GB/sec Stream Add single-threaded scalar 1835 2.77 GB/sec Stream Add single-threaded vector 2787 3.88 GB/sec Stream Triad single-threaded scalar 1978 2.73 GB/sec Stream Triad single-threaded vector 1975 3.70 GB/sec As can be seen the single threaded stuff is all slightly slower on the quad core as the CPU speed is slightly slower, and the multi threaded stuff is a lot, lot faster as I have two more cores to play with. There doesn't appear to be any major different in me using the quad core, nothing appears any quicker on the user interface, which is much as I'd expect. I hope Final Cut and Handbrake see the benefit though. If not then the quad core will go into a VMWare esxi server and I'll drop the dual core back in. Hope this helps somebody, Rob. |
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Successful updated to 10.6.4
I have updated from 10.6.3 to 10.6.4 rev 1.1 mobo.
Remove sleepenabler, updated to 10.6.4, then installed sleepenabler from http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...owtopic=196466. Works great! Sounds works fine, use AppleHDA(don't know what version, may be 10.6.2) on 10.6.3 and it works after update with no problems. |
PCI-E Firewire cards
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I need to add a PCI-Express Firewire card to my G31 Motherboard. I currently have an Asus 9400GT graphics card which spans over my PCI slots only leaving me with one spare one. I use the one spare PCI slot for an Ethernet card. I have a couple of Firewire devices, i.e. a Video camera and a Eldirol sound system and would like to keep them hence the need for a PCI-E card. Searching around shows some cards that *may* work, but it's not clear if they work with Snow Leopard on this particular motherboard. I'll take a punt on a £20 card but not on a £35 pound card (x 1.5 for dollars). Cards that have some success include the Belkin F5505 http://uk.shopping.com/xPO-Belkin-BE...PRESS-CARD-NIC and the Sonnet http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Sonne...ology/FW400AE/ and the Dynex DX-PCI2PF None are that cheap and I will not get my money back if they don't work. So can anybody confirm that any of these cards will work in a PCI-E slot? Thanks, Rob |
PCI-E x1 Firewire cards - or PCI-E x1 GigaBit Ethernet cards
PCI-E x1 Firewire cards are rare and tend to be expensive. Nevertheless, almost all regular PCI Firewire cards work on hackintoshes much more often than not. It's easier to replace your PCI NIC with a PCI-E x1 NIC and then buy a regular PCI Firewire card for $10 (delivery included) on eBay. The following PCI-E x1 NIC works like a charm on 10.5.8: TP-Link TG-3468. I'm sure it works on 10.6.4 as well, but you may need to check it. It's a very inexpensive NIC.
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Rats, an excellent idea, why didn't I think of it :) ? I'm wholly unclear about PCI Express as it's yet another new format to find out about.
However I have now ordered a PCI-E Firewire card but I think I'll order one of these as well, they're cheap so it shouldn't be an issue. I'll try them both out and report back. I now have a spare G31 MB and system so can play more without blowing up my main hackintosh. Thanks for taking the time to answer, Rob |
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I have never managed to get Sleepenabler to recover from going to sleep, everything else works really well, but this is the one function that eludes me. I have downloaded multiple sleepenablers, played with the BIOS settings, added and removed PleaseSleep and other software without it ever working. I can sometimes get it to suspend, but have never got it to come back to life. Can you go through what configuration settings you have that makes your sleepenabler config work? The sort of things I was thinking about are:
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