Square_Feet Posted November 2, 2013 Share Posted November 2, 2013 Hi guys, I've built and got running my latest build on 10.8.5 - all is well. It's snappy, seems to good give performance in games, and whilst rendering. However when I was researching what parts to buy, I came across a lot of Geekbench scores (for 10.8.5) that are a lot higher than mine. Whilst it's not the end of the world that I have a "low" geekbench score and this build knocks the socks off my old 10.6 setup, I'm just a little disappointed! I'll put as much info below as I can - does anyone have any ideas as to why my score is seemingly a lot lower than other similar/identical setups? I've seen reports of scores in the 17k range for no-overclock builds using same motherboard, cpu, and OS version... For the build, I followed acronator's guide here. Geekbench Score (64bit) Single-core: 3630 Multi-core: 14724 Specs Z87x-UD4h i7 4770k (no overclock) 16GB Vengence RAM GTX770 (Gigabyte Windforce 2GB) SMBios: iMac13,2 Kexts FakeSMC (with plugins, v.5.3.820) HDAEnabler1 ACPISensors CPUSensors GPUSensors LPCSensors GenericUSBXHCI AppleIntelE1000e Boot: Chameleon 2266 GUI=Yes EthernetBuiltIn=Yes GeneratePStates=Yes GenerateCStates=Yes Bios Loaded "Optimized defaults", the applied settings as per acronator's post above. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theconnactic Posted November 2, 2013 Share Posted November 2, 2013 Geekbench 3 results are quite different (and usually lower) than previous versions. All the best! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square_Feet Posted November 2, 2013 Author Share Posted November 2, 2013 Ooh, that's interesting. I'd not even considered the Geekbench version... I'll see if I can get my hands on v2 and give it a shot. That said, it's only numbers... right? I'm currently playing around with making a custom SMBios to match a MacbookAir6,2 since that has Haswell and is fairly recent. Will just try different SMBios configs and see if they make any difference. Cheers. Managed to get my hands on Geekbench 2.2.7. Ran it against v3 (both 32 bit this time) and got these results:v2.2.7: 13981 v3: 13355 So v3 is slightly lower, but still far from what others are reporting. Time to try SMBios fiddling... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square_Feet Posted November 2, 2013 Author Share Posted November 2, 2013 Various SMBios presets only gave me variations in the hundreds of points. Tried iMac13,2; MacPro3,1; MacbookPro10,1. Might try making a DSDT... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theconnactic Posted November 2, 2013 Share Posted November 2, 2013 You problem is lack of proper CPU power management. You should make a SSDT using Pike R, Alpha's script (Google is your friend). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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