themacmeister Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Got given an Acer Veriton M680G yesterday - 3.2GHz Core-i5 650. 4GB RAM etc. etc. Pretty much stock standard machine. Was also given a 1GB NVIDIA 9500 GTX, so I figured I'd build another Hackintosh. Had to recreate a stock boot USB using MyH*ck. I suffered whitescreen issues trying with the built-in GMA graphics. Once I added the 9500 GTX, things went very smoothly indeed. Still have no sound from the ALC888S, but I am looking into solutions for this issue. Networking working fine with the E1000 kext (latest version from MultiBe*st). USB is a bit strange, but using USBBUSFix=Yes seems to have tamed it. During install, I need to detach USB stick and reinsert it in another port... weird! Tried a GeekBench3 benchmark, only was about 5400, but I was using 3 non-matching memory modules (2GB x 2 + 4GB). I will now switch to two matching modules, and hopefully dual-channel will see that score get up over 7000. My Core-i7 2600k score is 12177. Judging from the GeekBench scores, it is only dual-core with hyper-threading, as the multi-core scores are nowhere near 4x the single core speed (more like 3x). I will re-benchmark tonight, and retry sound solutions now I am at 10.9.5 More news as it happens... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themacmeister Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share Posted February 16, 2015 Ouch, benchmark did not improve with matching RAM (better put the other RAM back). I believe the two chips I have (matching) are 1066 DDR3, and the other single 4GB DIMM (which only shows as 2GB - sigh) is 1333. This computer DOES NOT LIKE SLEEPING, actually, it slept quite well, but waking was a disaster (startup/shutdown spinning wheel of death). It the said my CMOS checksum was invalid -- beginning to think I need to patch AppleRTC to stop that occurring. Anyways, unless I can get the benchmark speed up to where it should belong for a 3.2GHz Quad-Core, it may go back to Windows, or even Linux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themacmeister Posted February 19, 2015 Author Share Posted February 19, 2015 I reinstalled Win7, and it only got 6.9 on the CPU in WEI. My Phenom X4 at only 2.4GHz beats that (it is an actual quad-core), not a hyper-threading dual-core. Now I have 10.9.5 reinstalled by itself, and things are looking better. Still only getting 4,900 on GeekBench3, but I can live with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themacmeister Posted March 14, 2015 Author Share Posted March 14, 2015 Passed this PC off to a friend (with Win7), no more updates to this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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