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03-09-2008, 08:21 PM
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This is a post to hopefully help someone trying to install osx86 on a SSE2 processor.
After one long month of trying to fix various issues with my system such as the dvd player crashing instantly, Quicktime crashing playing divx movies, Toast hanging on launch, system alert sounds sounding scratchy (something related to sample rate conversion I think) – as a last ditch attempt I went out and bought an Athlon X2 4200+ with SSE3 support. This magically fixed all the problems i've been having straight away! I'm glad to report that my system is now rock solid, with all programs now working as they should. I'm now contemplating removing Vista from my system completely...  Mac OS X 10.6.4 Retail || Intel Core2 Duo E8200 2.66GHz || Gigabyte G31M-ES2L || GeForce 6600 GT 128MB || Realtek ALC883 Audio || Realtek RTL8169 LAN || Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB HD || Sony Dual Layer IDE DVD RW DW-D22A || Apple Aluminium Keyboard || Mighty Mouse MacBook Pro || 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo || 200Gb HD || 2Gb Ram || NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT iPhone 4 || 16Gb 
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#2
03-11-2008, 11:21 PM
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The newest (latest) Mac OSX was specifically (especially) designed for those processors that have SSE3 capability.
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03-11-2008, 11:54 PM
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I thought as much, obviously the SSE3 emulation in Netkas's kernels isn't perfect either!
Mac OS X 10.6.4 Retail || Intel Core2 Duo E8200 2.66GHz || Gigabyte G31M-ES2L || GeForce 6600 GT 128MB || Realtek ALC883 Audio || Realtek RTL8169 LAN || Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB HD || Sony Dual Layer IDE DVD RW DW-D22A || Apple Aluminium Keyboard || Mighty Mouse MacBook Pro || 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo || 200Gb HD || 2Gb Ram || NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT iPhone 4 || 16Gb
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03-12-2008, 01:02 AM
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Hi,
well, i actually am thinking of upgrading my amd 64 to one with venice sse3 kernel. (hopefully i might get one at ebay). I don't know if that would really help to avoid crashes, so thanks for your posting. My experiences are crashes in Quicktime/Video in general/iCal/iMail/etc. from time to time, so it's now a reliable system i would give up my xp for. I'm gonna give it a try then and will tell you if it also fixed these issues. thanx, p
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#5
03-12-2008, 01:34 AM
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worth a try, good luck, and do let us know =)
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03-14-2008, 10:31 PM
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peppi, do u have Socket 754 or 939? If it's 939, the 4000+ is so cheap, it's about 33 Eur in Germany - new! It brings up to 86 in xbench cpu test.
2 Opteron systems: OSx86 10.5.8, Andy's 9.8.0 kernel, Asus A8N-SLI Premium, Opteron 185 o'clocked @ 2 x 2,95 GHz (2nd system 2.6 GHz), ATI Radeon HD2600XT 256MB Dual-Monitor 2x HP L2035, 4 GB RAM, Griffin FireWave as main audio device, Marvell + nForce LAN, Asus U3S6 USB3/SATA6 card, 5,5 TB harddisk, Firewire 800 card, Apple Remote + eHome IR receiver, 2x Wacom serial graphics tablet, Canon Pixma iP4700, Logitech Internet Navigator wireless keyboard/mouse combination. My Audio stuff: M-Audio Transit USB (default audio), M-Audio ProFire 610, M-Audio ProFire Lightbridge (34 channels) using Creamware A16 ADAT converter • MIDI: M-Audio Midiman 4x MIDI interface • Behringer Audio Mixers: Xenyx 1002, Xenyx 1002FX, Xenyx 1202FX, Eurorack UB1002FX, Eurorack MX1804FX, Eurorack MX262A • FX devices: Lexicon MPX100 DSP, Behringer DSP-1000 Virtualizer, Behringer MiniFEX 800 DSP, Behringer Multicom Pro MDX4400 compressor • RETRO: MSSIAH midi/sequencer/synthesizer cardridge for the C64 (Dual-SID), Steinberg M.S.I. MIDI Interface for C64
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03-15-2008, 02:47 AM
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I'd rather prefer X2 (dual core now) since its cheaper too. ;-)
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#8
03-15-2008, 04:08 AM
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Then I would recommend Opterons - they have 1 MB Level-2 Cache, the Athlon X2 only 512 per cpu. AMD uses 200 MHz more cpu clock to get a similar performance.
2 Opteron systems: OSx86 10.5.8, Andy's 9.8.0 kernel, Asus A8N-SLI Premium, Opteron 185 o'clocked @ 2 x 2,95 GHz (2nd system 2.6 GHz), ATI Radeon HD2600XT 256MB Dual-Monitor 2x HP L2035, 4 GB RAM, Griffin FireWave as main audio device, Marvell + nForce LAN, Asus U3S6 USB3/SATA6 card, 5,5 TB harddisk, Firewire 800 card, Apple Remote + eHome IR receiver, 2x Wacom serial graphics tablet, Canon Pixma iP4700, Logitech Internet Navigator wireless keyboard/mouse combination. My Audio stuff: M-Audio Transit USB (default audio), M-Audio ProFire 610, M-Audio ProFire Lightbridge (34 channels) using Creamware A16 ADAT converter • MIDI: M-Audio Midiman 4x MIDI interface • Behringer Audio Mixers: Xenyx 1002, Xenyx 1002FX, Xenyx 1202FX, Eurorack UB1002FX, Eurorack MX1804FX, Eurorack MX262A • FX devices: Lexicon MPX100 DSP, Behringer DSP-1000 Virtualizer, Behringer MiniFEX 800 DSP, Behringer Multicom Pro MDX4400 compressor • RETRO: MSSIAH midi/sequencer/synthesizer cardridge for the C64 (Dual-SID), Steinberg M.S.I. MIDI Interface for C64
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#9
03-20-2008, 03:50 PM
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Hi well,
unfortunately it's 754, didn't get it at eBay, someone was bidding more....,-( Not easy to get such an old one with sse3 as they are all different. I'll try on! Thanks for your suggestions anyway, P 💡 Deploy cloud instances seamlessly on DigitalOcean. Free credits ($100) for InfMac readers.
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