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EX58-UD5 Install
  • mk97000
    Hi to all! and a very speacial thank you to all those involved in Kakewalk!! The easiest installation ever and this kills rebel-efi! And its free. Thank you so much.

    I have made an UPDATE here I have discovered changing a few minor things in Bios could make such a big difference
    to my GeekBench score and feel proud. When I have some more time I will post on here what the changes were
    but till then have a browse.

    Now these are my specs:

    Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 Bios V13
    Intel i7 930 2.8ghz ( Now OC to 3.67Ghz ) Note: I had OC the 930 to 4.4Ghz at one stage, and was powered by an old 430Watt Thermaltake PSU )
    Gigabyte 9800GT Silent Cell 1GB GDDR3
    Hard Drive Corsair SSD F120 (120gig) For boot and apps
    x5 Sata internal
    PSU Coolermaster Silent Pro Gold 1000W
    Case CoolerMaster HAF X 942 ( One big sweet tower )
    [attachment=0]GeekScore.jpg[/attachment]

    Model Name: Mac Pro
    Model Identifier: MacPro4,1
    Processor Name: i7
    Processor Speed: 2.80 GHz
    Number Of Processors: 1
    Total Number Of Cores: 4
    L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB
    L3 Cache: 8 MB
    Memory: 6 GB
    Bus Speed: 533 MHz
    Boot ROM Version: MP31.00C1.B00
    SMC Version (system): 1.30f3

    GeForce 9800 GT:

    Chipset Model: GeForce 9800 GT
    Type: GPU
    Bus: PCIe
    Slot: Slot-1
    PCIe Lane Width: x16
    VRAM (Total): 1024 MB
    Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
    Device ID: 0x0614
    Revision ID: 0x00a2
    ROM Revision: xx.xx.xx - internal
    Displays:
    SyncMaster:
    Resolution: 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz
    Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
    Main Display: Yes
    Mirror: Off
    Online: Yes
    Rotation: Supported
    Display Connector:
    Status: No Display Connected

    All went good from first go.. Had audio, ethernet, graphics, and like I said all, but one thing I noticed and this is where I hope some one can help me. I went into
    about this mac and I noticed for my bus speed it shows 533mhz <<< Shouldnt it be 1600 bus speed? if so can some one please help me? thank you in advance.
  • Burger
    Sorry I can't be of much help but I'm not convinced it's running at the wrong speed. Just reporting it wrong. The Apple software gets confused on all these boards (unsurprisingly) and so they are subject to tweaking in the install. I don't have that board though so I don't know from experience. This machine I'm on used to do that on my ideneb install 10,5,8 but Kakewalk fixed that.

    If the bus is really that speed then geekbench should show slow results - compare it to another EX58 hackintosh.
  • mk97000
    [quote="Burger"]Sorry I can't be of much help but I'm not convinced it's running at the wrong speed. Just reporting it wrong. The Apple software gets confused on all these boards (unsurprisingly) and so they are subject to tweaking in the install. I don't have that board though so I don't know from experience. This machine I'm on used to do that on my ideneb install 10,5,8 but Kakewalk fixed that.

    If the bus is really that speed then geekbench should show slow results - compare it to another EX58 hackintosh.

    JUst wanna say thanks for being the only one to have responded to my help!
  • renerene
    [quote="mk97000"][quote="Burger"]Sorry I can't be of much help but I'm not convinced it's running at the wrong speed. Just reporting it wrong. The Apple software gets confused on all these boards (unsurprisingly) and so they are subject to tweaking in the install. I don't have that board though so I don't know from experience. This machine I'm on used to do that on my ideneb install 10,5,8 but Kakewalk fixed that.

    If the bus is really that speed then geekbench should show slow results - compare it to another EX58 hackintosh.

    JUst wanna say thanks for being the only one to have responded to my help!
    Sorry for responding so late.
    But here's what you can do:
    1. Download CPU-X: http://www.box.net/shared/ozx81sm55x
    Run it and you can see de FSB. This is the speed OSX is using, just like Burger said.
    OK, now you know that, you will like to change it for cosmetic.
    Download smbios.plist: http://www.box.net/shared/tnafvvgadt
    Put it in /Extra and the rest will go automatic.

    Explanation:
    In this smbios.plist you can put some info, just cosmetic, nothing will change your hardware.

    This is what you are lokking for:

    	&lt;key&gt;SMbusspeed&lt;/key&gt;
    	&lt;string&gt;1600&lt;/string&gt;

    and we can also add the i7 to show up right and not as a Xeon.

    	&lt;key&gt;SMcputype&lt;/key&gt;
    	&lt;string&gt;1793&lt;/string&gt;


    Restart after you have put smbios.plist in /Extra

    Look what System Profiler says now.

    I have done this before and after a Geekbench, hardy any difference (Old=9245) and (New=9221):
    http://browse.geekbench.ca/user/rene/profile

    Good luck ;)
  • mk97000
    Thank you so much Rene !!! the info you provided helped in solving this puzzle. Looks like I also got confused between Bus Speed and FSB speed which is showing me 1600 Mhz.
    NIce little program CPU-X. I also must say till now my whole configuration has been sweet with no issues! I just hope apple brings out support for Trim very soon.
    Oh.. Does anyone know how to boot Tech Tool Pro 5 on a Hackingtosh? can it be done? Now one last thing im left with is getting a Cooler Master v10 and OC my 930 to 4.4 or more depending on temp and PSU.

    Once again thanks Rene! and to all those that offer kind help.
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