NEW Intel P55 Mobos & Core i7 860 / i5 750 CPU LGA1156

[Fatshenanigans]

Here's my proof of concept picture that showcases my P7P55D-E at stock speeds.

 

In the picture I showed the result panes and readouts of the following:

 

1) Geekbench: Everything is set at "auto" and speedstep is enabled in the bios and I have 14 p-states coded into my DSDT (credit Bchemist for teaching me). So here's some food for thought to those who say that enabling speedstep or having it coded into your DSDT can drop your scores using the 1156 chipset. I don't think it's a Gigabyte thing. I think that those who are having problems are doing something wrong.

 

2) Xbench: I figured it would be interesting to include this

 

3) Temperature monitor (shows my temperature range history). It shows as low as 27C at idle temperatures on one of the cores. When I'm just doing light non-benchmarking tests it runs around 30-32

 

4) Finally MSR to show speed step. Note that the first monitor is showing 60% at 1.7Ghz while the second is still unwinding from Turbo and is showing at 3.2Ghz but they show speed step as "on". I took the screenshot right after the last benchmark so it probably takes a few minutes to go to full idle (temp is also showing at 36) but I was excited and impatient to take the picture after doing my first ever Geekbench run LOL

 

 

So that's all stock speeds. I'll test overclocking in a little while when I have another break from work

 

 

NOTE: The file is a PDF format screen shot so you'll have to right click or option click and select "download linked file" if you are using Safari (for those who are seeing a grey screen and don't know why)

 

 

 

EDIT: I should amend what I said earlier about speed states in the code. As some have mentioned before, C-states and speed stepping will work without p-states or c-states in the DSDT...well it should with our 1156 chipset and not only for ASUS.

Temperature_MonitorScreenSnapz001.pdf

[Fatshenanigans]

 

 

Here's a set of three more demonstrating overclocking and speedstep with the ASUS P7P55D-E

 

 

I can hardly wait until we get some better CPU support so we can push it even harder with greater stability

 

 

Same as above - 2 pdf (no x bench this time) so be sure to save linked file to downloads.

 

The last one is above 12,000

Temperature_MonitorScreenSnapz001.pdf

Temperature_MonitorScreenSnapz003.pdf

[iBruno]

I double checked my user manual before replying here. The Gigabyte raid is a software enabled raid that requires drivers for Windows XP. Therefore the only hardware RAID that will work are PCI or PCIE card based RAID. The mobo-based RAID will not work in OSX due to not being compatible with the XP drivers. Unless I'm all hosed up he's talking about disk utility.

 

Hope this helps

 

Thanks for the reply! I guess that I will have to look into a PCI card based RAID solution. Any idea how much of a performance boost one could get by having the OS on a RAID 0 array?

 

Thanks,

 

Bruno

[Fatshenanigans]

Thanks for the reply! I guess that I will have to look into a PCI card based RAID solution. Any idea how much of a performance boost one could get by having the OS on a RAID 0 array?

 

Thanks,

 

Bruno

 

 

The performance boost depends on what you are running but if you are a photographer or editing video, it's almost like a matter of life and death that you get a boost that at least triples a standard drive

 

Check out this Mac Pro performance guide: http://macperformanceguide.com/index.html

 

It answers just about any question you can think of when it comes to OSX and hard drives and breaks everything down well. Based on drives configured in a RAID that have a 32mb cache, the speed increase is about 500%

[Fatshenanigans]

I forgot to mention a few things in summary (assuming that you boot in 32 bit mode):

 

P7P55D-E requires:

 

fakesmc.kext (modified for iMac11,1 to be released with my guide when I'm finished testing)

VoodooHDA (post install) Poo on Voodo!! I'm making my own strings.

IOACHIblockstorage (possibly may not need this)

 

I haven't really tested the Jmicron controller but I believe it has the same chipset as the 1366 ASUS and from what I understand some of those users can run vanilla (I could be wrong of course )

 

Bluetooth is plug and play and doesn't drop off. In fact you can see the bluetooth icon thingy in the upper right corner of my first screenshot

 

S3 sleep works

 

S3 autosleep works and it wakes up with full usb power and no errors..woohoo! I used an Apple aluminum keyboard with 2 extra USBs plugged into that and loaded up the rest of the system with a digicam, a Wacom, mouse, keyboard, and flash drives. Everything worked after sleep and was identified in profiler.

 

Audio is ok with VoodooHDA "ok" for me to poop on! Dang it was I ever wrong about this when I heard it after I wake it up! At least making your own audio kext isn't as hard as I thought

 

Boot time is around 2-3 seconds...I'm not kidding...after you see the chameleon the splash screen hits and most of the time you don't even get to see the dial spin. If you do, it's maybe a quarter turn. I definitely need a video of that.

 

Firewire works.

 

Then the pictures I posted above are pretty much self explanatory. Next round is thorough software testing but so far so good!

Edited March 8, 2010 by Fatshenanigans

[Leo Telles]

Hi guys. I'm new and pretty lost in here.

 

I want to use this pc:

• Core i5 750
  
• Intel DP55WB
  
• 9400gt 512xfx
  

 

As far i can now everything is comatible. I saw a tutorial for P55 chipset and core i5. I think that no one's better then Intel to make an Intel chipset isnt it? I read many people saying good things about gigabyte mobo with this chipset, so anyone knows if this motherboard i want to use works fine too?

 

The tutorial is this:

http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2009/12/ins...ectly-from.html

 

Looks to work with my pc isnt it?

 

Thanks a lot.

[Fatshenanigans]

Hi guys. I'm new and pretty lost in here.

 

I want to use this pc:

• Core i5 750
  
• Intel DP55WB
  
• 9400gt 512xfx
  

 

As far i can now everything is comatible. I saw a tutorial for P55 chipset and core i5. I think that no one's better then Intel to make an Intel chipset isnt it? I read many people saying good things about gigabyte mobo with this chipset, so anyone knows if this motherboard i want to use works fine too?

 

The tutorial is this:

http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2009/12/ins...ectly-from.html

 

Looks to work with my pc isnt it?

 

Thanks a lot.

 

They are very solid and the DSDT is very clean code...nearly identical to the real iMac11,1.

 

Go to the 10.6 installation forum and look at the P55 Intel post and the DFI lanparty P55 post. The DSDT I edited in the Intel thread will work on your mobo (since all of the DSDT are the same for that Intel brand regardless of the P55 model) and the install technique I outlined for the Lanparty will work on your system also. You can also use the files I attached since they are standard for all P55 systems. Post on the Intel thread if you need anymore help. Good luck!

[Hassan Rai]

Fatshenanigans - Looking at your signature... which board would you recommend to a someone who is about to go out and buy... the Asus P7P55D-E or the MSI P55-GD65?

 

What bluetooth device are you using... it would be nice if you could update your sig with details of your cooling solution.

 

Waiting anxiously for your tutorial.

[Mayorc]

I've bought a Asrock P55 Deluxe3 and should arrive tomorrow. Do you think hachintoshing it would be possible, considering there are a few P55 mobos working at the moment with OSX ?

[Mammoth]

Hello all,

 

I need some help getting my P7P55D Deluxe (see SIG) setup the way I want it.

 

I have a GA-EP54T-DS3R setup perfectly using guides and methods by BlackOSX, and want set up my P7P55D Deluxe as close to that method as possible, but am having some challenges. Here is why I want to set it up this way:

 

- Pure vanilla setup: No (or as close to no as possible), modifications to System/Library/Extensions, greatly reducing the chances for problems with future Apple updates.

 

- Boot files / Chameleon on own partition: The files are always visible and you never have to mess with permission related issues, very easy to maintain.

 

- The most minimal configuration: While using utilities to configure a system is fast to get things up and running in the beginning, future updates and changes can cause problems.

 

So basically I want to set it up as close to a real Mac as possible, just to make it more resilient.

 

I think my issues are: Not knowing exactly which .kext files are needed for a minimal boot and/or may have boot files on other drives confusing the boot process, which I need to remove.

 

Right now I just want to get a stable boot. I'm not worried about video, sound, NIC, etc., (not yet anyway), I just need get a stable, clean boot from the separate Chameleon partition. Once I achieve that, then I will work on getting each device working.

 

I have created a custom DSDT file using DSDTSE, maybe I have made a mistake with it though.

 

Here is what I've got so far:

 

The machine will boot perfectly and seemingly with all devices working properly if I boot using TonyMacX86 boot CD TonyMacX86-[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]. I have been trying to use BlackOSX's method of setting things up on the Cham partition. The machine will start to boot (with -v, you can see things begin to load) but it never gets into the GUI). I would be very happy just to get it to boot into the GUI, nothing else working.

 

On Cham, I have:

boot

[Extra] folder

 

Extra:

com.apple.Boot.plist

DSDT.aml

SMBIOS.plist

[Themes] folder

[Extensions] folder

 

Extensions:

EvOreboot.kext

fakesmc.kext (2.1) v2.5

NullCPUPowerManagement.kext

PlatformUUID.kext

 

 

If anyone can help me with this, that would be great!

 

The first thing I need to know is, what are the MUST have .kext files to allow boot on this board?

 

Thank you very much!

Edited March 28, 2010 by Mammoth

[everdone]

If your DSDT is correct the only gotta have kext is fakesmc. you must also be at 10.6.2 to boot from the HD (i5 and i7 are not supported prior to the 10.6.2 kernel). You will likely need a kext for restart, ethernet and audio.

[el3alamy]

I have an MSI P55-CD53 working pretty well with 10.6.1 and I am currently downloading and installing 10.6.2 using Software Update. I have deleted the SleepEnabler.kext and I am going to likely have to manually copy the new mach_kernel (and old qoopz kernel to be safe to my EFI partition) and I'll let ya'll know what I break. If you don't hear from me within an hour, I broke something with magnificance.

 

hello 386,

I just brought your same board )msi P55-CD53) - Could you zip me the dsdt file and necesary kexts? I would reaaaally be grateful thanks-

ttawakol@me.com

[disneytoy]

I have an MSI P55-GD55, i7 860, 4gb ram, Galaxy GT240, SATA HDD and SATA DVD. latest Bios 1.3.

 

I have tried about 10 different Boot isos. I have Retail SL DVD. Adter I switch the CD ro Snow Leopard DVD, F5 (various combos of -x -V -s -f etc) I get a panic with 4 kext failed. See attached but basically:

 

I can't get to the Install screen. see attached screen shot.

 

But these are the reported errors I get:

 

Failed to load kext com.psystar.driver.OpenhaltRestart

 

 

Couldn't alloc class "AppleACPIPlatformExpert"

Couldn't alloc class "UUID"

Couldn't alloc class "es_osx86_EvOreboot"

Couldn't alloc class "com_psystar_OpenHaltRestart"

 

panic(cpu - caller 0x55aa33): "Unable to find driver for this platform: \"ACPI\".\n"@/Extra/builds/xnu/xnu-1456.1.26/iokit/Kernel/IOPlatformExpert.cpp:1393

Debugger called: <panic>

Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)

 

Kext es.osx86.driver.EvOreboot - library kext com.apple.kpi.iokit not found.

Kect es.osx86.driver.EvOreboot failed to load (0xds00800e)

Failed to load kext es.osx8.driver.EvOreboot (error 0xdc00800e)

Could't alloc class "es_osx86_EvOreboot"

 

Any ideas? (I have tried every bios config suggested) I have read there have been successes with the MSI P55-GD55 and my vid card GT240.

 

Thanks

 

Max

[Dlauth]

what is the most recommended Gigabyte P55 Mobo for ease of install?

[Prachtkeks]

..GA-P55M-UD2.. is very easy to deal with. It is supported by tonymacx86, kakewalk, empire efi and what not. You´ll have the easiest hackintosh build on this planet... ;-)

[timgradywy]

I would go for a P55M-UD4 if you ever think of even mild overclocking. It's fully supported (and the audio is even more supported than the UD2). A few of us, including myself, have blown up the UD2 with mild overclocking of an i7-860 to 3.3 or 3.36 ghz...

 

Tim

[Dlauth]

How would the P55a-UD3 do? I will be running an i5 750 and will be overclocking it.

[MaLd0n]

New 10.4.0 Darwin kernel - all Core i3/i5/i7 now supported- including Core i7 980x!

[semola88]

..GA-P55M-UD2.. is very easy to deal with. It is supported by tonymacx86, kakewalk, empire efi and what not. You´ll have the easiest hackintosh build on this planet... ;-)

 

What about the GA-P55A-UD6?

[tonymacx86]

What about the GA-P55A-UD6?

 

Any Gigabyte H55/P55 is a safe bet.

[MacKonsti]

Hey tonymacx86 and thread guys, I just bought the P55M-UD4 board with Core i7-860 and wanted to know what is the best/most compatible Mac model to use in the smbios.plist file. Choose iMac11,1 or MacPro4,1? Thanks in advance...

[dudedudedude]

tonymacx86 and all thread followers,

 

I have a P55M-UD2 system and have gotten everything to work except sleep using the following strategies:

 

1. [url=&quot;http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/&quot;]#####[/url] on a jump drive as my boot loader. For video, restart, shutdown, drive icons, all i need is Chameleon 3 RC4, fakesmc and IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector. When I try to sleep the computer goes to sleep, but upon wakeup restarts.

 

2. I added graphics card strings to the com.apple.boot.plist on the jump drive. When I try to sleep the it behaves the same way.

 

3. I installed [url=&quot;http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/&quot;]#####[/url] onto the snow leopard hard drive (thinking the USB drive was causing problems as this occurred with an ASUS board I had) and used the [url=&quot;http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/&quot;]#####[/url] option. I did not get graphics acceleration but shutdown and restart works. When I try to sleep the computer behaves the same way.

 

4. I added graphics strings to the com.apple.boot.plist and this resolved the graphics card acceleration but sleep function behaves the same way.

 

5. I used kexthelper to instal the latest sleepenabler.kext. I can shutdown, restart, but now when I put it into sleep mode the monitor turns off, but the fans in the case stay on and I cant get the computer out of this state, requiring a forced shutdown.

 

What could be the issue? My full rig is in my signature. Input would be much appreciated from anyone. Thanks in advance

 

dudedudedude

[dudedudedude]

No one?

[neil43]

tonymacx86 and all thread followers,

 

I have a P55M-UD2 system and have gotten everything to work except sleep ...

 

What could be the issue? ...

 

dudedudedude

 

This is not the answer that you are looking for, but I would redefine the objective and remove sleep from the list. My reasoning is that sleep is not necessary or desired on desktop machines. In fact from my view of things, desktops have two states: off and running.

 

If you can accept my view of things, then you have succeeded where many have failed.

 

neil

[Zoughe]

Hello everybody.

I`m totally new to this Hackingtosh community so please me patient

I`ve just bought a new computer with these specs:

 

Intel i5-750

Asus P7P55-m pro

4 Gig RAM

Radeon HD5770

 

So...Do you think it may work?

 

Zoughe

 

Edit: And if, which guide should I follow?