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Nice scores, but what are you running?

 

Edit: Nevermind. I see you're running basically the same stuff as Vlad, but with much better results for some reason.

 

Edit again: I don't see your CPU listed. It's interesting that the CPU result wasn't much higher than the E6320 @ 3.0, but the Thread test was twice as high. Is it a Core 2 Quad?

Hi sarahbau, :o

 

A Q6600, an Abit IP35 Pro, and 2 GB of DDR2.

 

Is there a bug in xBench? or is it a driver issue?

 

The score of a single individual test (uncached write), brings the whole score down to an unrealistic value.

 

Does anybody know if there is a fix for this hard disk performance issue?

Maybe the HDD performance is so low because we're using AHCI for SATA mode?

Doesn't explain why the rest of my xBench scores suck.

 

Although this feels like the quickest Mac I've ever used. It will be hard to part with.

 

Ijust tried playing Open Arena & It's fast as Hell - so fast I couldn't keep up with it & I kept getting destroyed @ 1600x1200

Thanks VLAS1966,

 

...for explaining to me how to get my onboard audio working ...for the Abit IP35 Pro.

 

The onboard ALC888 is now working!

 

I actually did not see all of the exact same details within the plist files that you posted, but whatever I ended up doing worked.

 

I have stereo audio out, but no mic or line inputs.

 

I have seen methods or installers to get all 6 ports of a different ALC to work.

 

I wonder if there is a way to do the same for the ALC888 on the Abit IP35 Pro motherboard.

 

I also wonder if there is a way to edit a ICH8R driver to work with the IP35's ICH9R to improve the hardrive performance.

 

I have read posts on this website saying that with the proper driver certain hardisk controllers should operate at full speed.

 

 

 

 

 

This is the geekiest thing I've ever done! :D

Yesterday I put together this system (see my sig for specs).

 

I'm posting this from my new Hackintosh :D

 

Right now I'm running off JaS 10.4.8 Kernel 8.8.1. I've managed

to get ethernet working by using DaemonES's "Gigabyte Method"

Way Cool!

 

Funny thing is, JMicron SMB363 controller is working now "out of the

box" - no hack required, after installing OS from my SATA Burner

(OS X wouldn't recognize it during install). All I did was enabled

the controller in the BIOS & set the mode to AHCI!

I've got a Pioneer EIDE DVD burner connected to it & it's fully

recognized (as a SATA drive) in System Profiler, with burn support.

I just installed Photoshop CS off of it.

 

One lingering problem - Audio. This mobo has an ALC888 chip.

I tried downloading skippyretard's ALC888Audio.pkg, but so far

no-go.

 

Also, my Lite-On SATA burner is flakey - it stops responding sometimes.

I have to hard reboot the system in order for it it re-appear

(relaunching finder won't do it).

 

And I can put the system to sleep, but it doesn't want to wake up.

 

*** I tried installing Uphuck's 10.4.9 v1.3, but it wouldn't work.

It started the install, I chose a bunch of options I thought would

work, but every time the install would fail as soon as 4% of the

install was complete. I might start a seperate post on this problem.

 

Thanks to everyone who contibutes to this site!!!

Couldn't have done this with you!!! :D

 

*** UPDATE: I finally got the ALC888 2-Channel audio working.

After spending about 4 hours trying to get it to work :P

See my sig for details.

 

I now have a fully functional Hackintosh!!! :D

You're Welcome ;)

 

Thanks VLAS1966,

 

...for explaining to me how to get my onboard audio working ...for the Abit IP35 Pro.

 

The onboard ALC888 is now working!

 

I actually did not see all of the exact same details within the plist files that you posted, but whatever I ended up doing worked.

 

I have stereo audio out, but no mic or line inputs.

 

I have seen methods or installers to get all 6 ports of a different ALC to work.

 

I wonder if there is a way to do the same for the ALC888 on the Abit IP35 Pro motherboard.

 

I also wonder if there is a way to edit a ICH8R driver to work with the IP35's ICH9R to improve the hardrive performance.

 

I have read posts on this website saying that with the proper driver certain hardisk controllers should operate at full speed.

Hi Hiriez,As far as I know there is a ich7r and ich8r driver, but not yet a ich9r driver.Another thing I am noticing is that devices I insert to a pci slot do not seem to show up in "About This Mac".Does anybody have any pci or pci express devices, (except a videocard obviously), working... or at least showing up in "About This Mac" on the Abit IP35 Pro? :D

Dont drivers for ICH9R SATA exist already??
There are Generic AHCI drivers that work on the ICH9R of the Abit IP35 Pro, but the performance is poor.There are also AHCI drivers for the JMicron controller as well.
Hi Hiriez,As far as I know there is a ich7r and ich8r driver, but not yet a ich9r driver.Another thing I am noticing is that devices I insert to a pci slot do not seem to show up in "About This Mac".Does anybody have any pci or pci express devices, (except a videocard obviously), working... or at least showing up in "About This Mac" on the Abit IP35 Pro? :D
Hi Hiriez,As far as I know there is a ich7r and ich8r driver, but not yet a ich9r driver.Another thing I am noticing is that devices I insert to a pci slot do not seem to show up in "About This Mac".Does anybody have any pci or pci express devices, (except a videocard obviously), working... or at least showing up in "About This Mac" on the Abit IP35 Pro? :yoji: There are Generic AHCI drivers that work on the ICH9R of the Abit IP35 Pro, but the performance is poor.There are also AHCI drivers for the JMicron controller as well.

 

That's true. I've got a Realtek 8139 NIC in one of my PCI slots and it doesn't show in the System Profiler.

 

As for poor performance, I haven't done an Xbench test on my Intel DP35DP yet. Will post later.

Results 86.15

System Info

Xbench Version 1.3

System Version 10.4.8 (8L2127)

Physical RAM 1024 MB

Model ACPI

Drive Type ST3250620AS

CPU Test 81.68

GCD Loop 189.00 9.96 Mops/sec

Floating Point Basic 91.20 2.17 Gflop/sec

vecLib FFT 62.98 2.08 Gflop/sec

Floating Point Library 59.40 10.34 Mops/sec

Thread Test 159.15

Computation 145.84 2.95 Mops/sec, 4 threads

Lock Contention 175.14 7.53 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads

Memory Test 88.70

System 103.93

Allocate 89.97 330.42 Kalloc/sec

Fill 106.11 5159.48 MB/sec

Copy 120.08 2480.17 MB/sec

Stream 77.37

Copy 73.56 1519.40 MB/sec

Scale 73.16 1511.43 MB/sec

Add 81.14 1728.42 MB/sec

Triad 82.54 1765.74 MB/sec

Quartz Graphics Test 116.84

Line 100.75 6.71 Klines/sec [50% alpha]

Rectangle 117.07 34.95 Krects/sec [50% alpha]

Circle 113.10 9.22 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]

Bezier 105.87 2.67 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]

Text 165.59 10.36 Kchars/sec

OpenGL Graphics Test 116.44

Spinning Squares 116.44 147.71 frames/sec

User Interface Test 272.82

Elements 272.82 1.25 Krefresh/sec

Disk Test 32.64

Sequential 49.30

Uncached Write 85.44 52.46 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 76.43 43.25 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 22.53 6.59 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 83.58 42.01 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Random 24.40

Uncached Write 8.75 0.93 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 50.21 16.07 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 55.41 0.39 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 85.59 15.88 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

Whoa, mine's pathetic LOL! But it sure does feel faster than my previous Hackintosh: a Dell Optiplex GX620 on 2gb of DDR2 @ 533Ghz, a 3Ghz P4, 945G chipset mobo and GMA950.

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I also have an IP-35 Pro and recently got sound up and running using the iDeneb 1.3 10.5.5 install. I wound up selecting the default ALC888 support and the IHCfix. I didn't choose ICHfix on my first install and I think that was causing some of my problems. I didn't see that posted anywhere when I was searching the forums trying to find a solution to my no audio problem. So I thought I'd throw it out there in case it can help someone else.

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