hecker Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 (edited) Dear community, I recently finished installing my Hackintosh 10.4.8 (JaS's AMD Intel SSE2 SSE3 W/PPF1 + DiskUtil fix) and it's been working great except for a few very minor glitches. This is my current hardware with working status: 2GHz AMD Athlon 64 3000+ CPU (no SSE2). EDIT!!: should read (no SSE3) MSI K8TNeo2-FIR Mainboard (K8T800 chipset): OnBoard Realtek Gigabit LAN with 8110S chipset (working 100%) OnBoard 7.1 Channel SoundCard RealTek ALC850 (working 100%) OnBoard IEEE 1394 (status pending, untested) OnBoard VIA VT8237 IDE Chip: IDE (working 100%) Serial ATA (working 100%) OnBoard Promise 20579 SATA and IDE Chip (status pending, untested) OnBoard 8 USB 2.0 Ports (working but needs to be thouroughly tested) ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB video card (working 95% with QE/CI and QE2D but a little mouse tearing) I have 2x512 MB (1024 total) of Generic RAM at the moment Now I would like to upgrade my system and I have the choice between (both cost the same): - a new 2GHz AMD64 3200+ with SSE3 support CPU - a new (probably corsair or infenion) 512MB Ram module I haven't seen any benchmarks comparing SSE2 AMD's vs SSE3 AMD's but It would certainly increase the system performance since I would not be using SSE3 emulation any more. The question is, how much? I have been working with Photoshop CS2 (which is not a universal binary) and Dreamweaver 2004 at the same time with a rather moderate to small amount of disk swapping. OSX 10.4.8 system seems to manage memory very well! So you see, It's really a tough call and It would be great to get some feedback from you guys. Thanks, hecker Edited February 5, 2007 by hecker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41222-help-me-decide-sse3-amd64-cpu-vs-15gb-ram-upgrade/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 i'd probably go SSE3 if it was me, but thats just me. the closer you can get to a real intel mac the less patching you have to do, and the less compatability problems you will face. btw, you should use the public beta of Photoshop CS3 - its a universal binary and SCREAMS on an intel mac, when compared with CS2... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41222-help-me-decide-sse3-amd64-cpu-vs-15gb-ram-upgrade/#findComment-294588 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted February 5, 2007 Author Share Posted February 5, 2007 btw, you should use the public beta of Photoshop CS3 - its a universal binary and SCREAMS on an intel mac, when compared with CS2... Sounds great, I'll give that a try. And I think you're right about the CPU. I hadn't taken all the patching into consideration. Specially if we will be getting new kernel versions in the future. Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41222-help-me-decide-sse3-amd64-cpu-vs-15gb-ram-upgrade/#findComment-294602 Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 hecker: check your PM inbox Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41222-help-me-decide-sse3-amd64-cpu-vs-15gb-ram-upgrade/#findComment-294611 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted February 5, 2007 Author Share Posted February 5, 2007 (edited) Wow, I just came back from the store and I'm totally psyched because I found the last remaining Venice CPU they had, hahaha. Was pretty cheap for 55 Euros too. I wrote a detailed journal of my experience with Mac OSX and my first non SSE3 CPU. Now that I have the new one I would like to run a few benchmark tests before I do the switch. I will run XBench and Cinebench 9.5. I would also like to benchmark using Photoshop CS2 and CS3 but I'm not sure how. Guess I'll have to google a bit. Post here if you have any benchmarking wishes. hecker Edited February 5, 2007 by hecker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41222-help-me-decide-sse3-amd64-cpu-vs-15gb-ram-upgrade/#findComment-294652 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignorantcow Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 That's silly- why would you want to bench a non-unibin CS2 vs. a unibin CS3? It's painfully obvious which one would come out on top Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41222-help-me-decide-sse3-amd64-cpu-vs-15gb-ram-upgrade/#findComment-294728 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted February 5, 2007 Author Share Posted February 5, 2007 (edited) That's silly- why would you want to bench a non-unibin CS2 vs. a unibin CS3? It's painfully obvious which one would come out on top You're right, but you misunderstood what I said. What I want is to benchmark my old CPU with SSE3 emulation against the new CPU with native SSE3 using Photoshop. I would run the tests on one CPU and then on the other. I'm interested in finding out how much the SSE3 emulation really impacts the performance of my PC. Other than that, I'm sticking with my shiny new CPU and JaS release sans SSE3 emu of course I am really looking forward to working with this baby. Man, how I love my Hackintosh. I have shown it to a few "normal" PC users, mainly office users, and they all want one now! A big hug to the Apple developers and an even bigger hug to the people that made this OS for PC possible! Cheers, hecker Edited February 6, 2007 by hecker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41222-help-me-decide-sse3-amd64-cpu-vs-15gb-ram-upgrade/#findComment-294853 Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 if you want something to compare to, i've got my geekbench scores in my sig, and my MBP cinebench scores are: CPU Benchmark - Rendering (1 CPU) == 283, Multiple CPU == 528, Multiprocessor speedup : 1.87 Graphics Benchmark - C4D Shading - 326 CB, OpenGL SW = 1244, OpenGL HW = 2328, OpenGL speedup: 7.14x (Cinebench scores originally posted here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...=35118&hl=) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41222-help-me-decide-sse3-amd64-cpu-vs-15gb-ram-upgrade/#findComment-295265 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted February 6, 2007 Author Share Posted February 6, 2007 Ok, now I don't know why I even considered getting more RAM instead of the new CPU :0 Thanks for the great tip! hecker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41222-help-me-decide-sse3-amd64-cpu-vs-15gb-ram-upgrade/#findComment-295377 Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 heh.. you're welcome. want to post your scores? i'd be interested to see how my MBP compares Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41222-help-me-decide-sse3-amd64-cpu-vs-15gb-ram-upgrade/#findComment-295399 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyZ Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Unless you put another GB of RAM, SSE3 CPU upgrade should be more appropiate. 2GB vs 1GB of RAM is totally a different experience, on real Mac, 1GB RAM is just workable, 2GB RAM really makes you see the beauty of OSX~~~ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41222-help-me-decide-sse3-amd64-cpu-vs-15gb-ram-upgrade/#findComment-295404 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted February 6, 2007 Author Share Posted February 6, 2007 Unless you put another GB of RAM, SSE3 CPU upgrade should be more appropiate. 2GB vs 1GB of RAM is totally a different experience, on real Mac, 1GB RAM is just workable, 2GB RAM really makes you see the beauty of OSX~~~ I guess I'll be busy doing staring contests with my online banking system this whole week then, hehe. hecker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41222-help-me-decide-sse3-amd64-cpu-vs-15gb-ram-upgrade/#findComment-295412 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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