mikedddd Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 Hello, all. I'm working on yet another hackitosh. Its a I7 /P55m-UD2 build. Have been using a e8500/gigabyte setup for quite sometime. The I7 seems to be running fine, and I've transferred most of my aps over. When I made it, I installed Win7 first and ran some of the stress-test aps (prime calculators, ram tests, etc) that brought the CPU usage up to near 100%, pushed the temps to the 60's, and never had a problem. Is there a similar ap to run in macOS to stress the mechanics of the build? Also, when do you all feel comfortable using a hack as your main computer? the e8500 I'm using is strikingly stable. Love the speed of the I7, but still a little leery of jumping off the safe ship as it sails. Best, Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacUser2525 Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 When I made it, I installed Win7 first and ran some of the stress-test aps (prime calculators, ram tests, etc) that brought the CPU usage up to near 100%, pushed the temps to the 60's, and never had a problem. Is there a similar ap to run in macOS to stress the mechanics of the build? Download the MacOS version of the Prime95 program. You need to extract the file then open Terminal and change to the extracted directory and ./mprime -m if memory serves me to start choosing the stress test option then type of test you want to do, using the Control and C key pressed at the same time with Terminal in focus will stop the testing bring you back to the menu where you can quit the program. http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft/ Also, when do you all feel comfortable using a hack as your main computer? the e8500 I'm using is strikingly stable. Love the speed of the I7, but still a little leery of jumping off the safe ship as it sails. Best, Mike Well if it passes all the tests and runs as expected over the next week or two I would say you have a stable system.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coelomate1 Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 Hello, all.I'm working on yet another hackitosh. Its a I7 /P55m-UD2 build. Have been using a e8500/gigabyte setup for quite sometime. The I7 seems to be running fine, and I've transferred most of my aps over. When I made it, I installed Win7 first and ran some of the stress-test aps (prime calculators, ram tests, etc) that brought the CPU usage up to near 100%, pushed the temps to the 60's, and never had a problem. Is there a similar ap to run in macOS to stress the mechanics of the build? Also, when do you all feel comfortable using a hack as your main computer? the e8500 I'm using is strikingly stable. Love the speed of the I7, but still a little leery of jumping off the safe ship as it sails. Best, Mike I can import AVCHD movies into iMovie 09 for 3 hours and immediately run stabilization afterward for 14 hours without a hiccup. I can use the web browser, email, and iTunes at the same time... and not worry about a thing. Bluetooth dongle, audio, and sleep work 100%. I've already erased my 500 GB windows 7 disk and use it as a time machine back-up. The two things that do not work correctly for me is that the machine freezes after a minute when reading from an NTFS disk, and I haven't yet figured out how to get HDMI audio. Everything else is 100% OS X, even on a hackintosh, is far more stable and productive than Win 7 was for me. Of course, it really depends on what your running for hardware. If you want a stable machine then look at TonyMac's setup, or something similar. That is my opinion. HAck- GA-P55M-UD4 4GB OCZ 1600Mhz 600W OCZ power Corei5 750 1TB Samsung F3 XFX 5850 + 2 Macbooks, a Macbook Pro, a mac mini, and an iPhone 3G... all play very well together. IMHO Apple was pretty smart to release a $29.00 SL DVD outside of their hardware sales. MSFT bit back with their 24/7 Win 7 sale for students priced the same and I bought both, but the Win 7 OS just doesn't match up in terms of stability and speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikedddd Posted August 3, 2010 Author Share Posted August 3, 2010 Well, I ran the prime program in stress test mode for 24 hours, pushed CPU temps to 78, no errors. Haven't found any software/driver/odd incompatibilities yet. Think I might transition over. Keeping my Win7 on a separate disk, tossed in a spare blank 1gb, using an external for time machine. Now, trying to talk myself out of putting the system on one of the cheap SSD's that are price dropping all over. My current excuse vacillates between 'they're too small' and 'OSX doesn't support TRIM'. Best, Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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