Hackintosh vs. MacBook -- very bad results

[zalex]

Halo!

 

I am using OSx86 since about 3 days and am very happy about it. But I mentioned that sometimes my system is a bit slow. So I have tested it wit the tool Xbench. I also habe tasted the MacBook of my girl friend. The Hardware of my PC is definitely better than of the MacBook but my system was just half as fast as the notebook according to the test.

 

1) My Hackintosh:

 

Intel Core 2 Duo 2,4 GHz boxed

Gigabyte P35-DS4

4 GB DDR2 800 RAM

Zotac GeForce 7300GT

2x500GB WD HDD SATA2 16 MB Cash

2x320GB Hitachi HDD SATA2 16 MB Cash

IDE Samsung DVD-RW

be quiet 400W power supply

 

Kalyway 10.51 +Vanilla Kernel + ACPIPlatform fix + MBR EFI + Natit.kext + HDA_ICH9_ALC888

 

 

 

2) MacBook

 

2,0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

1 GB RAM

80 GB HDD

DVD+CD-R

 

Tiger ??

 

 

And here are the results, that make me so unhappy

 

1) Hackintosh

 

Results 102.34

System Info

Xbench Version 1.3

System Version 10.5.1 (9B18)

Physical RAM 4096 MB

Model Mac Pro

Drive Type WDC WD5000AAKS-00YGA0 WDC WD5

CPU Test 69.37

GCD Loop 141.80 7.47 Mops/sec

Floating Point Basic 68.38 1.62 Gflop/sec

vecLib FFT 55.94 1.85 Gflop/sec

Floating Point Library 55.24 9.62 Mops/sec

Thread Test 114.76

Computation 107.19 2.17 Mops/sec, 4 threads

Lock Contention 123.47 5.31 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads

Memory Test 120.85

System 108.98

Allocate 119.21 437.77 Kalloc/sec

Fill 99.07 4817.17 MB/sec

Copy 110.54 2283.22 MB/sec

Stream 135.64

Copy 125.12 2584.39 MB/sec

Scale 123.67 2555.07 MB/sec

Add 152.63 3251.35 MB/sec

Triad 145.75 3117.91 MB/sec

Quartz Graphics Test 117.99

Line 93.00 6.19 Klines/sec [50% alpha]

Rectangle 120.93 36.10 Krects/sec [50% alpha]

Circle 97.66 7.96 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]

Bezier 96.09 2.42 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]

Text 369.06 23.09 Kchars/sec

OpenGL Graphics Test 103.97

Spinning Squares 103.97 131.89 frames/sec

User Interface Test 143.61

Elements 143.61 659.10 refresh/sec

Elements 143.61 659.10 refresh/sec

Disk Test 83.75

Sequential 128.81

Uncached Write 129.25 79.36 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 131.19 74.23 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 108.43 31.73 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 154.53 77.66 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Random 62.04

Uncached Write 23.39 2.48 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 196.51 62.91 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 95.96 0.68 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 160.87 29.85 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

 

2) MacBook

 

Results 107.77

System Info

Xbench Version 1.3

System Version 10.4.11 (8S2167)

Physical RAM 1024 MB

Model MacBook2,1

Drive Type Hitachi HTS541680J9SA00

CPU Test 102.17

GCD Loop 235.76 12.43 Mops/sec

Floating Point Basic 113.77 2.70 Gflop/sec

vecLib FFT 79.49 2.62 Gflop/sec

Floating Point Library 73.86 12.86 Mops/sec

Thread Test 199.84

Computation 181.94 3.69 Mops/sec, 4 threads

Lock Contention 221.64 9.53 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads

Memory Test 118.50

System 114.44

Allocate 106.39 390.71 Kalloc/sec

Fill 115.17 5599.84 MB/sec

Copy 122.95 2539.38 MB/sec

Stream 122.87

Copy 111.80 2309.28 MB/sec

Scale 116.26 2401.85 MB/sec

Add 134.84 2872.36 MB/sec

Triad 131.68 2817.06 MB/sec

Quartz Graphics Test 101.99

Line 106.56 7.09 Klines/sec [50% alpha]

Rectangle 114.18 34.09 Krects/sec [50% alpha]

Circle 109.83 8.95 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]

Bezier 116.11 2.93 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]

Text 75.96 4.75 Kchars/sec

OpenGL Graphics Test 241.33

Spinning Squares 241.33 306.14 frames/sec

User Interface Test 295.43

Elements 295.43 1.36 Krefresh/sec

Elements 295.43 1.36 Krefresh/sec

Disk Test 41.00

Sequential 67.50

Uncached Write 79.99 49.11 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 71.20 40.28 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 49.27 14.42 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 80.56 40.49 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Random 29.44

Uncached Write 10.80 1.14 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 58.56 18.75 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 64.34 0.46 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 94.23 17.48 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

 

By the way, the worse work of my PC I can feel sometimes, for example during writing tu a USB flash or searching a pdf document.

 

 

Can somebody make a test with Xbench on his Hackintosh and confirm my results? Is OSx86 really so bad? I have disigned my new PC for this system and see now that it doesn't work the way I expected. It would be a pity.

[clv101]

Here's mine:

 

 

It's an E1260 running at 3GHz, 4GB RAM, 7300GT on a Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R.

 

The HDD is a pretty old Seagate 7200.7 so might pulling the score down a bit...

[zalex]

Oh, this looks much better than my results...

Does somebody have an idea what the reason could be?

 

I find it a bit strange, that Mac recognizes the CPU as 1.2 GHz. But I thought it doesn't matter. Is it possible that my 2,4 CPU works only with 1,2 Ghz? What could be the reason?

 

[Ayanami]

What's odd is that it recognizes that you have a Core 2 Duo, but it only seems to be using one core. (2.4 Dual Core having two 1.2 Cores.....)

 

I mean, I could see if it just recognized one core. That seems what it's doing. But to tell you that you have a dual core, but that it's only using one seems odd.

[Lozzo]

Have you got Speedstep/EIST/Whatever it's called enabled in BIOS? If so, try disabling it and try again. Saying this, Speedstep usually just drops the multiplier by an arbitary amount, for example if your CPU is an E6600 (which is 266x9 usually), speedstep will drop it to a x6 multi, which would still give you a 1.6Ghz core speed. Mine is running 300x9 at the moment (2.7Ghz) and steps down to 1.8 (x6 multi) in idle with speedstep.

 

 

Hmm. Thermal throttling maybe? If I recall correctly, under thermal throttling, the CPU has the ability to throttle itself down to a maxium of 87.5% lower than default speed, in 12.5% steps. If this is the case, yours may be throttled at the 50% step.

 

What are your CPU temps like? Can you test them with temperature monitor (in OSX), or preferably (for reliability) CoreTemp or intel TAT in Windows? Intel TAT is a great diagnostic for this kind of thing, it'll show you current CPU speed and temps, and also allow you to initiate a 100% burn to see what your max core temps are, and if you are experiencing thermal throttling at those temps.

 

 

 

 

What's odd is that it recognizes that you have a Core 2 Duo, but it only seems to be using one core. (2.4 Dual Core having two 1.2 Cores.....)I mean, I could see if it just recognized one core. That seems what it's doing. But to tell you that you have a dual core, but that it's only using one seems odd.

 

 

Intel C2Ds, both cores are at rated frequency. Zalexs's C2D, even if only one core was detected should still show at 2.4Ghz. They are not rated by summing up individual core speeds. It's only AMD who still stick to the "rating" system, for example an AMD 64 X2 4800+ has an actual core speed of 2.5Ghz or thereabouts.

[zalex]

Thank you! I am happy again .

 

The problem was really in the bios settings. I didn't thougt about this because I tried not to change anything, but somehow I did it. So, now I have overclocked my CPU to 2,8 GHz and made the test again. I am very content with the results.