deeveedee Posted 2 hours ago Author Share Posted 2 hours ago Just stumbled upon an interesting situation that might be helpful to others... I'm swapping CPUs between EliteDesk 800 Mini motherboards to prepare for a test of i5-8600 performance with a 65W HP EliteDesk 800 G4 Mini motherboard. After initially assembling the new CPU/motherboard combo, my Geekbench 6 multi-core CPU scores were dismal at 2500-3000 (when I was expecting over 5700. Simply re-seating the CPU (completely removing it from the socket and re-installing it), fixed the problem. ChatGPT says that there are multiple reasons why this could be the case (e.g., poor pin connection, poor thermal connectivity, etc.). Now that I have a working i5-8600/G4 Mini 65W system to test, I should have updated GB6 results for this post. 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/343937-guide-catalina-big-sur-monterey-ventura-sonoma-sequoia-tahoe-on-hp-elitedesk-800-g4g5-mini-the-perfect-macmini81-hackintosh/page/46/#findComment-2851554 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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