astroguy Posted May 21, 2018 Share Posted May 21, 2018 (edited) I built my first Hackintosh two years ago, and I'm looking at a potential upgrade. In particular, one capable of running a lot of threads simultaneously. I am pretty unhappy with Apple's deliberate throttling of the W-2155 CPU in the iMac (specs: 3.3GHz which Apple throttles to 3.0GHz, and under heavy loads it's supposed to turbo up to 4.5GHz but to save a few dB on fan speed Apple throttles it >10% down). My understanding is that Hackintosh building is much, much easier when you're using a CPU that Apple uses in its line, so I'm looking at the W-2155 as opposed to the i9-7940X (though I would prefer to use the i9 based on cost, threads, and OC ability). I did a forum search and couldn't find any mention of using this CPU -- has anyone had success with it? Edited May 21, 2018 by astroguy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loloflat6 Posted May 21, 2018 Share Posted May 21, 2018 Take a look here with W-2175 CPU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted May 22, 2018 Share Posted May 22, 2018 Take a look at this topic: Help installing HighSierra on Xeon W-2175 and Asus WS C422 mobo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astroguy Posted May 23, 2018 Author Share Posted May 23, 2018 Thanks! Looks like it was not easy but eventually worked out. I will likely wait until the iMac refresh on the off-chance that Apple uses an i9 chip in that sucker. It's a cheaper chip with more threads ... but it's good to know this is a viable alternative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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