SeaGrizzly Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 I am trying to put together a parts list for the best possible setup right now using the P55 and an I5 or I7 processor. Can anybody give me a run down of the combo's that they have had the best luck with. I know that nothing is perfect, but things like not being able to sync my iphone isn't a big deal to me. If you can List the Motherboard and Processor you have used and then maybe a quick overview of what didn't work. I plan on using a 1gig 4870 vid card with this as well just in case that makes a difference. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/191942-p55-sl-setup/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
`Black Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 Wait and don't buy a P55 combo at the moment... it's not working with SL and has several problems. I would wait for (at least) 10.6.2 and see if Apple adds Lynnfield support to the kernel. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/191942-p55-sl-setup/#findComment-1298158 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke D Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=189610 http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=185853 The vanilla kernels from the SL DVD won't work with the P55/Lynnfield systems, and no one has had any luck with any of the patched kernels yet, as far as I know. There are a couple of threads on getting P55 to work under various 10.5.7 distributions if you don't have your heart set on SL though. - Luke Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/191942-p55-sl-setup/#findComment-1298638 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeaGrizzly Posted October 14, 2009 Author Share Posted October 14, 2009 Well its not so much that I am intrested in SL, as much as that if I am going to do a refresh on my gaming computer I wanted to use the P55 chipset becausae its pretty much the best around for the price I can afford (as far as I can tell, maybe somebody could point me in a different direction for about 1k that provides the same amout of performance). I guess my point is I would like the best of both worlds and it just might not be possible right now. I would also take a bit of a gamble if we could be pretty sure that the i5 and 7 would be supported in future versions of SL but I am not sure that is going to happen (they would be silly not to jump on it). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/191942-p55-sl-setup/#findComment-1298689 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mainecrab Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 Modbin kernel 7 for AMD works with this processor. I have installed leopard and snow leopard with corei5. It is tricky because there is no real how to. The kernel is not really for AMD but it takes the CPU check out. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/191942-p55-sl-setup/#findComment-1298806 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeaGrizzly Posted October 15, 2009 Author Share Posted October 15, 2009 Modbin kernel 7 for AMD works with this processor. I have installed leopard and snow leopard with corei5. It is tricky because there is no real how to. The kernel is not really for AMD but it takes the CPU check out. Do you think you could elaborate on this for me? I have yet to build a Hack and have lots of exp with PC's and Mac's but not making a pc into a Mac. If you got the 55's to work what was your setup and how did you go about it? Thanks in advance. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/191942-p55-sl-setup/#findComment-1298890 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeaGrizzly Posted October 15, 2009 Author Share Posted October 15, 2009 I see that Gizmodo says that the new Imac's will use the Clarksfield set of Procs, mainly the i7. Is this good news for the hackintosh community? http://gizmodo.com/5382556/new-imacs-get-m...every-new-rumor Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/191942-p55-sl-setup/#findComment-1299910 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke D Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 Modbin kernel 7 for AMD works with this processor. I have installed leopard and snow leopard with corei5. It is tricky because there is no real how to. The kernel is not really for AMD but it takes the CPU check out. Can you tell us what motherboard you are using, and what kexts and/or dsdt you have managed to boot with? As far as I know you are the only person who has ever claimed SL success on an i5/i7, and it would be really helpful for the rest of us who have these boards if you could go into more details. - Luke Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/191942-p55-sl-setup/#findComment-1300831 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mainecrab Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 I am using a Gigabyte P55M-UD2 with a core i5 750 Processor. I have had to compile my own DSDT. The kext used are normal Kext needed for Snow Leopard install. Sound is done via DSDT and Legacy ALC888B Kext in the extra folder. I installed Snow Leopard from Leopard Using this guide: http://www.insanelymac.com/2009/09/install...-pc-hackintosh/ I am using PC EF1 10.3 as well as Chameleon RC3 is how I can inject Nvidia Graphics to use the drive provided with Snow Leopard. Sound was a real {censored} to get working but finally after I got it working in SL I was able to get it working correctly in Leopard itself since the VoodooHDA only gives output but it was messed up output as I needed for AOL Radio to work when that works right I know my GuitarPlug will work with GarageBand correctly. I will try and get a tutorial and you are correct no one has publicly said but me that they have SL working on this specific board and trying to find information is SLIM. The only other working thing I seen is a video of it in safe mode. Basically I follwed that tutorial to get SL installed. Installed Chameleon on the SL drive, copyed the boot from PC EF 10.3 the Modbin Kernel 7 to the drive. Moved kect FakeSMC v2 NullCpu, OpenHalt and one other I cant remember off the top of my head. Oh yeah the ALC888B legacy Kext. I used KextUtility to rebuild the extensions kext for the extra extensions folder. on Boot I use 32 bit mode with arch=i386 no need for busration=20 with this kernel. I also have a drive install for the Realtek 1000 driver that is from Realtek site. It works fine at 10.6.1 right now. It has taken me at least 2 weeks of working on this extensively to get it working fine. As I said ill try to get a tutorial up for this to help everyone else. Here is a screenshot Snow Leopard P55M-UD2 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/191942-p55-sl-setup/#findComment-1300871 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeaGrizzly Posted October 16, 2009 Author Share Posted October 16, 2009 Thats great Maine, I am sure a bunch of people would really be happy if you were to release a tutorial on this guy. I am thinking I may wait a few weeks to find out if they are going to be supported native when the new Imac's are released before I make a decision. Seems like a ton of work for a small amount of processor speed. I guess if I went with the known working configuration of a standard Hackintosh I could then buy a faster vid card insted of spending money on a proc. Probally would end up about the same in the end as far as gaming is concerned. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/191942-p55-sl-setup/#findComment-1301077 Share on other sites More sharing options...
strats37 Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 Have a look through this thread as it has a bunch of information on the P55 chipset and also some help on getting SL going now with a modified kernel. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1299586 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/191942-p55-sl-setup/#findComment-1306513 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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