kurisukun Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 well, sounds like a joke. but it's true. basically my core i7 hackintosh is doing fine. used iPC plus additional kexts from digital_dreamer's post. i ran voodoo 9.5 first and then voodoo 9.7, updated 10.5.7 now on a Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P with 12 GB ram and, of course, the i7 920 D0 system runs fine and stable, all sound, network, 8800gt stuff working perfectly. almost. the thing is: everything is a bit too fast. when booting, the little wheel spins too quickly, starting an application makes the icon bounce faster than normal in the dock, the beachball is too quick, and VLC plays a 2 hours-movie in 20 seconds (no picture and no sound of course). UT2004 won't launch at all funny thing is: geekbench reports lousy 4700 points on stock speed (2.66 GHz) and lousy 4700 points overclocked to 3.33 GHz. but the test finishes quicker! haha! even when starting from iDeneb-DVD, iPC-DVD or whatever, the wheel-thinggie spins quciker during boot than normal. and yes, i have used busratio=20, fsb=133 or 166 (depending on bios settings), cpu=1 bootflags, as the install DVDs wouldn't boot without it anyway. oh, and the system clock needs to be put on a lead by setting time and date automatically by an online server. otherwise i would get old way too fast. i've been reading countless forum posts about even the most vaguely related (though never identical) problems, but i never ran across a solution. anyone experienced that before? please remember, i read a lot of forum these days. i may have missed that crucial one post in a million, but i definitely tried all the common suggestions already. so i would appreciate useful comments from people who have had the same quirk on their system. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/166726-i7-running-too-fast/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurisukun Posted May 18, 2009 Author Share Posted May 18, 2009 found it now. installed chameleon 2.0 which handles the RTC nicely. now the i7 behaves well. geekbench 32bit scores more probable 7900 points (i don't give much on benchmarks, but they provide a general idea about system strength) actually, i made one more clean install following exactly digital_dreamer's method with those ready-to-use-patches. thanx a lot for that, great work! http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=149505 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/166726-i7-running-too-fast/#findComment-1158672 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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