roddoart Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 Hello, This is my first post on the forum. I'm using a low cost hackintosh with the following spec : - Abit I-45C motherboard - Pentium E5200 2.5GHz CPU, recently upgraded from 1.8 GHz Celeron M430. - 2x 1GB DRR5300 Kingston RAMs All is working fine, except that I find the computer rather slow. I used Geekbench on my previous CPU (celeron), and I got around 1770. Looking to the submitted score sounds OK for this type of CPU. Now I upgraded to a new dual-core E5200 CPU, and my geekbench score is .... still 1770 :-( Other benches run on the new CPU : Cinebench R10 : around 2450 (dual CPU), when all tests on the web say that this CPU reach above 5000 ! Xbench : I currently get a poor overall 105 score, with only 91 for the CPU ( Of course I made some search on the forum, and I carrefuly read this topic : http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=98581 But I cannot find any working solutions. Here are my different tests : - SMBIOS output do not report any potential issue with FSB. I tried the smbiosresolver kext to force a fsb setting, but no impact on the benches. - I did not find any valid patched SMBIOS for my motherboard, with hardwired fsb settings, that's why I use the (now deprecated) smbiosresolver. - hacked kernel : I'm using voodoo 9.6 (andy version), with kernel boot flags : fsb=200 busratio=125 busratiopath=0 -notscverify with this options, it seems I can correctly set the system fsb, and even overclock the system by passing fsb = 210, 220, 225, etc... BUT, my benches are still SLOW. I certainly miss something, but I do not undertand what. Can anybody help ?? - Here is my current xbench result : Results 132.13 System Info Xbench Version 1.3 System Version 10.5.6 (9G55) Physical RAM 2048 MB Model iMac7,1 Drive Type Maxtor 6Y120L0 Maxtor 6Y120L0 CPU Test 91.67 GCD Loop 164.39 8.67 Mops/sec Floating Point Basic 76.67 1.82 Gflop/sec vecLib FFT 62.93 2.08 Gflop/sec Floating Point Library 116.06 20.21 Mops/sec Thread Test 171.36 Computation 265.85 5.39 Mops/sec, 4 threads Lock Contention 126.43 5.44 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads Memory Test 138.02 System 144.75 Allocate 158.92 583.61 Kalloc/sec Fill 126.21 6136.55 MB/sec Copy 153.60 3172.65 MB/sec Stream 131.90 Copy 125.23 2586.53 MB/sec Scale 124.81 2578.58 MB/sec Add 141.36 3011.30 MB/sec Triad 137.85 2948.93 MB/sec User Interface Test 159.14 Elements 159.14 730.35 refresh/sec - Here is my geekbench score (CPU @2812 MHz instead of 2500) : Platform: Mac OS X x86 (32-bit) Compiler: GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5484) Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5.6 (Build 9G55) Model: MacBookPro5,1 Motherboard: http://www.abit.com.tw/ I-45C(Intel i945GC-ICH7) 0.2 Processor: Pentium® Dual-Core CPU E5200 @ 2.50GHz Processor ID: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6 Logical Processors: 2 Physical Processors: 1 Processor Frequency: 2.50 GHz L1 Instruction Cache: 32.0 KB L1 Data Cache: 32.0 KB L2 Cache: 2.00 MB L3 Cache: 0.00 B Bus Frequency: 796 MHz Memory: 2.00 GB Memory Type: 0 MHz DDR2 SDRAM SIMD: 1 BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG Processor Model: Pentium E5200 Processor Cores: 2 Integer (Score: 1479) Blowfish single-threaded scalar -- 947, , 41.6 MB/sec Blowfish multi-threaded scalar -- 1901, , 77.9 MB/sec Text Compress single-threaded scalar -- 1040, , 3.33 MB/sec Text Compress multi-threaded scalar -- 1839, , 6.03 MB/sec Text Decompress single-threaded scalar -- 944, , 3.88 MB/sec Text Decompress multi-threaded scalar -- 1753, , 6.98 MB/sec Image Compress single-threaded scalar -- 967, , 8.00 Mpixels/sec Image Compress multi-threaded scalar -- 1831, , 15.4 Mpixels/sec Image Decompress single-threaded scalar -- 782, , 13.1 Mpixels/sec Image Decompress multi-threaded scalar -- 1523, , 24.9 Mpixels/sec Lua single-threaded scalar -- 1500, , 577.9 Knodes/sec Lua multi-threaded scalar -- 2726, , 1.05 Mnodes/sec Floating Point (Score: 2634) Mandelbrot single-threaded scalar -- 1007, , 670.2 Mflops Mandelbrot multi-threaded scalar -- 1865, , 1.22 Gflops Dot Product single-threaded scalar -- 1847, , 892.5 Mflops Dot Product multi-threaded scalar -- 3663, , 1.67 Gflops Dot Product single-threaded vector -- 1478, , 1.77 Gflops Dot Product multi-threaded vector -- 3189, , 3.32 Gflops LU Decomposition single-threaded scalar -- 394, , 350.6 Mflops LU Decomposition multi-threaded scalar -- 787, , 690.7 Mflops Primality Test single-threaded scalar -- 1849, , 276.3 Mflops Primality Test multi-threaded scalar -- 2642, , 490.5 Mflops Sharpen Image single-threaded scalar -- 2724, , 6.36 Mpixels/sec Sharpen Image multi-threaded scalar -- 5204, , 12.0 Mpixels/sec Blur Image single-threaded scalar -- 3505, , 2.77 Mpixels/sec Blur Image multi-threaded scalar -- 6729, , 5.29 Mpixels/sec Memory (Score: 1930) Read Sequential single-threaded scalar -- 2211, , 2.71 GB/sec Write Sequential single-threaded scalar -- 2229, , 1.52 GB/sec Stdlib Allocate single-threaded scalar -- 1098, , 4.10 Mallocs/sec Stdlib Write single-threaded scalar -- 2137, , 4.42 GB/sec Stdlib Copy single-threaded scalar -- 1975, , 2.04 GB/sec Stream (Score: 1571) Stream Copy single-threaded scalar -- 1591, , 2.18 GB/sec Stream Copy single-threaded vector -- 1718, , 2.23 GB/sec Stream Scale single-threaded scalar -- 1762, , 2.29 GB/sec Stream Scale single-threaded vector -- 1727, , 2.33 GB/sec Stream Add single-threaded scalar -- 1108, , 1.67 GB/sec Stream Add single-threaded vector -- 1987, , 2.77 GB/sec Stream Triad single-threaded scalar -- 1206, , 1.67 GB/sec Stream Triad single-threaded vector -- 1475, , 2.76 GB/sec - Here is the freq setting from dmesg, showing that kenel options seems to be OK : 21/04/09 21:02:16 kernel TSC: Frequency = 2812.500001MHz, FSB frequency = 225.0000MHz, bus ratio = 12.5 - Here is the report from sysctl : hw.ncpu: 2 hw.byteorder: 1234 hw.memsize: 2147483648 hw.activecpu: 2 hw.optional.patcher_opts: 0 hw.optional.x86_64: 1 hw.optional.sse4_2: 0 hw.optional.sse4_1: 0 hw.optional.supplementalsse3: 1 hw.optional.sse3: 1 hw.optional.sse2: 1 hw.optional.sse: 1 hw.optional.mmx: 1 hw.optional.floatingpoint: 1 hw.packages: 1 hw.tbfrequency: 1000000000 hw.l2cachesize: 2097152 hw.l1dcachesize: 32768 hw.l1icachesize: 32768 hw.cachelinesize: 64 hw.cpufrequency_max: 2499000000 hw.cpufrequency_min: 2499000000 hw.cpufrequency: 2499000000 hw.busfrequency_max: 796000000 hw.busfrequency_min: 796000000 hw.busfrequency: 796000000 hw.pagesize: 4096 hw.cachesize: 2147483648 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 hw.cacheconfig: 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 hw.cpufamily: 2028621756 hw.cpu64bit_capable: 1 hw.cpusubtype: 4 hw.cputype: 7 hw.logicalcpu_max: 2 hw.logicalcpu: 2 hw.physicalcpu_max: 1 hw.physicalcpu: 1 hw.cputhreadtype: 1 I'm available to send other info if needed to understand my issue. Thanks for your help, Romain A new test : if I remove the SMBIOSResolver kext, I got the same bench results, but sysctl reports : hw.cpufrequency_max: 4000000000 hw.cpufrequency_min: 4000000000 hw.cpufrequency: 4000000000 hw.busfrequency_max: 1660000000 hw.busfrequency_min: 1660000000 hw.busfrequency: 1660000000 hmm, it seems that SMBIOS tweaks change the way the system see the hardware... Any idea ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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