[How To] Dual-head Dual-boot Silent BadAxe2/Core2Duo/GeForce 7600/10.4.9 Build

[sir mac alot]

OK, I fixed the FSB issue. I followed the directions too closely. The <key>kernel flags</key> must be upper case.

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

 

Now my processor shows at 2.39 GHz. Not sure why not 2.40.

xbench now shows faster results.

this also fixed the clock time being too fast so time was not right.

 

not sure, but there now seems to be a half second lag when loading or swtiching to a app that started after fixing the FSB. anyone notice this?

[z4t0]

10.4.9 Upgrade:

 

The very first thing to do is run the "JaS.10.4.9.Combo.Update.Intel.SSE3.pkg" app. The install is very straightforward, just select your OSX partition and click "Install". You'll be prompted for your password.

 

The installer sets a default front-side-bus (FSB) speed of 200MHz, but for an e6300 it should be 266. Use your favorite technique to edit /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist. I open Terminal and use vi. Change the "Kernel Flags" section so it looks like:

 

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string>fsb=266</string>

 

While you're in there, if you want to be able to choose which OS to boot, add the following lines to give a 4-second boot menu:

 

<key>Timeout</key>

<string>4</string>

 

After saving the file, reboot. I've been through this process about 6 times, and a few times I was able to continue on to the below steps without rebooting, but the last two tries, I got a crash when trying to mount the MPIP image if I didn't reboot first, so better safe than sorry.

 

Firstly thanks for a wonderful Guide gdog

 

This is my very first Hackintosh,

so this tutorial have been so helpful

 

But I am having a little trouble understanding how i am supposed to fix this fsb 200 > fsb 266

 

 

this is as far as i got,

first i open my "Mac Os X" drive.

then i find my way down to

 

/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

 

when i get to the "com.apple.Boot.plist" folder

 

i get confused as to what i should do next..

 

i have tried opening this folder

 

but i do not know what application to use..

have OpenTerminalHere

but i am not sure if it is the right one or how to use it????

 

z4t0

 

 

Edit. Kiko and Ramm sent me on the right track with the use of TextEdit

so problem is solved

[sir mac alot]

gdog, what are you using for sound in?

[BJMoose]

Gdog, I just built my second osx86 system, this time, following your specs with the exception of I'm using an ATI X1600XT pci-e video card that works great with ATIRadeonX1000. Very painless...Thanks! The only two things not working appear to be the 'mic in' and the 'marvell sata buss'. Any ideas on how to get them both working? So far, this board works great under Windows. The first system I built was around a GA-965P-DQ6, and OSX86 worked well, but I wasn't happy with the boot time when in AHCI mode. The BAD AXE2 is much improved. BTW, it does seem very necessary to do the Bios update that you mention.

 

I thought I would add that I took advantage of the lower prices for Ram at Newegg.com and installed two sticks of the following on this motherboard. It appears to be very stable while rendering in Adobe Premiere Pro. The full 4gb appears in the bios, 3.25gb under WinXP Pro32, and 4gb under Vista Ultimate 64 and Mac OSX 10.4.9. Hope this helps someone else considering a Ram purchase.

 

Also, this ram did not play well with an ASUS P5B Premium Vista motherboard. Bios would only pick up 3gb. It was stable, but only showed 2.93gb under WinXP Pro32 and a little over 3gb under Vista Ultimate 64 and Mac OSX 10.4.9.

 

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Brand: G.SKILL

Model: F2-5300CL4D-4GBPQ

Type: 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM

Capacity: 4GB(2 x 2GB)

Speed DDR2 667 (PC2 5300)

Cas Latency: 4

Timing: 4-4-4-12

Voltage: 1.8V - 1.9V

Heat Spreader: Yes

[rhalls]

I also buit a system nased on a bad axe 2, with a Core2Quad q6600. I just copied my installation on my asrock Conroe945DVI Core2Duo based OSX 10.4.8 (JaS) and am running into some troubles: VERY very poor HD performance. Connected to the black connectors. Here my XBench:

Results 121.53

System Info

Xbench Version 1.3

System Version 10.4.8 (8L2127)

Physical RAM 4096 MB

Model ADP2,1

Drive Type SAMSUNG SP2504C

CPU Test 124.39

GCD Loop 282.56 14.89 Mops/sec

Floating Point Basic 136.95 3.25 Gflop/sec

vecLib FFT 99.40 3.28 Gflop/sec

Floating Point Library 88.85 15.47 Mops/sec

Thread Test 480.14

Computation 439.35 8.90 Mops/sec, 4 threads

Lock Contention 529.26 22.77 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads

Memory Test 154.53

System 151.70

Allocate 124.05 455.54 Kalloc/sec

Fill 161.36 7845.81 MB/sec

Copy 181.26 3743.76 MB/sec

Stream 157.46

Copy 145.56 3006.40 MB/sec

Scale 144.39 2983.08 MB/sec

Add 172.67 3678.14 MB/sec

Triad 171.95 3678.41 MB/sec

Quartz Graphics Test 177.05

Line 145.00 9.65 Klines/sec [50% alpha]

Rectangle 182.69 54.54 Krects/sec [50% alpha]

Circle 176.89 14.42 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]

Bezier 160.44 4.05 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]

Text 251.00 15.70 Kchars/sec

OpenGL Graphics Test 167.95

Spinning Squares 167.95 213.05 frames/sec

User Interface Test 450.78

Elements 450.78 2.07 Krefresh/sec

Disk Test 36.79

Sequential 76.78

Uncached Write 93.39 57.34 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 84.39 47.75 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 55.46 16.23 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 86.90 43.67 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Random 24.19

Uncached Write 7.53 0.80 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 88.62 28.37 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 81.11 0.57 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 110.84 20.57 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

UI is nice with 450 but disk is AWFUL.

What to do ????

 

I also buit a system nased on a bad axe 2, with a Core2Quad q6600. I just copied my installation on my asrock Conroe945DVI Core2Duo based OSX 10.4.8 (JaS) and am running into some troubles: VERY very poor HD performance. Connected to the black connectors. Here my XBench:

Results 121.53

System Info

Xbench Version 1.3

System Version 10.4.8 (8L2127)

Physical RAM 4096 MB

Model ADP2,1

Drive Type SAMSUNG SP2504C

CPU Test 124.39

GCD Loop 282.56 14.89 Mops/sec

Floating Point Basic 136.95 3.25 Gflop/sec

vecLib FFT 99.40 3.28 Gflop/sec

Floating Point Library 88.85 15.47 Mops/sec

Thread Test 480.14

Computation 439.35 8.90 Mops/sec, 4 threads

Lock Contention 529.26 22.77 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads

Memory Test 154.53

System 151.70

Allocate 124.05 455.54 Kalloc/sec

Fill 161.36 7845.81 MB/sec

Copy 181.26 3743.76 MB/sec

Stream 157.46

Copy 145.56 3006.40 MB/sec

Scale 144.39 2983.08 MB/sec

Add 172.67 3678.14 MB/sec

Triad 171.95 3678.41 MB/sec

Quartz Graphics Test 177.05

Line 145.00 9.65 Klines/sec [50% alpha]

Rectangle 182.69 54.54 Krects/sec [50% alpha]

Circle 176.89 14.42 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]

Bezier 160.44 4.05 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]

Text 251.00 15.70 Kchars/sec

OpenGL Graphics Test 167.95

Spinning Squares 167.95 213.05 frames/sec

User Interface Test 450.78

Elements 450.78 2.07 Krefresh/sec

Disk Test 36.79

Sequential 76.78

Uncached Write 93.39 57.34 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 84.39 47.75 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 55.46 16.23 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 86.90 43.67 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Random 24.19

Uncached Write 7.53 0.80 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 88.62 28.37 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 81.11 0.57 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 110.84 20.57 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

UI is nice with 450 but disk is AWFUL.

What to do ????

[BJMoose]

Our systems are fairly similar...you can check out my specs in my sig. Here are the results of my Xbench test. Not all that dissimilar to yours:

 

Results 142.81

System Info

Xbench Version 1.3

System Version 10.4.9 (8P2137)

Physical RAM 4096 MB

Model ADP2,1

Drive Type SAMSUNG SP2504C

CPU Test 136.29

GCD Loop 314.62 16.58 Mops/sec

Floating Point Basic 151.87 3.61 Gflop/sec

vecLib FFT 105.61 3.48 Gflop/sec

Floating Point Library 98.83 17.21 Mops/sec

Thread Test 534.75

Computation 489.49 9.92 Mops/sec, 4 threads

Lock Contention 589.25 25.35 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads

Memory Test 166.91

System 165.94

Allocate 142.63 523.77 Kalloc/sec

Fill 172.02 8363.91 MB/sec

Copy 190.34 3931.49 MB/sec

Stream 167.89

Copy 155.19 3205.43 MB/sec

Scale 155.03 3202.90 MB/sec

Add 182.82 3894.51 MB/sec

Triad 183.09 3916.78 MB/sec

Quartz Graphics Test 197.64

Line 162.08 10.79 Klines/sec [50% alpha]

Rectangle 207.21 61.86 Krects/sec [50% alpha]

Circle 197.24 16.08 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]

Bezier 177.44 4.48 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]

Text 277.96 17.39 Kchars/sec

OpenGL Graphics Test 212.67

Spinning Squares 212.67 269.78 frames/sec

User Interface Test 522.04

Elements 522.04 2.40 Krefresh/sec

Disk Test 45.17

Sequential 99.34

Uncached Write 139.67 85.76 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 131.70 74.52 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 55.16 16.14 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 135.41 68.06 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Random 29.23

Uncached Write 9.23 0.98 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 116.26 37.22 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 81.43 0.58 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 130.38 24.19 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

 

Rhalls, I also tried just copying my GA-965P-QD6 image to this Bad Axe 2 system and had less than desirable results. The results published above are the result of a fresh install following Gdog's instructions to the letter (except for the graphics card). I admit results could be better. Also, under OSX86, not too much difference between q6600 and qx6700.

[sir mac alot]

Here are my results. My hard drive is a 7200.10. Have not really compared to see if it was good or bad. One drive is PATA and the other SATA.

 

CPU Test 124.06

GCD Loop 282.04 14.87 Mops/sec

Floating Point Basic 136.07 3.23 Gflop/sec

vecLib FFT 99.30 3.28 Gflop/sec

Floating Point Library 88.68 15.44 Mops/sec

Thread Test 235.52

Computation 215.63 4.37 Mops/sec, 4 threads

Lock Contention 259.45 11.16 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads

Memory Test 172.82

System 158.56

Allocate 131.08 481.37 Kalloc/sec

Fill 167.43 8140.61 MB/sec

Copy 188.04 3883.81 MB/sec

Stream 189.91

Copy 177.43 3664.65 MB/sec

Scale 184.86 3819.08 MB/sec

Add 200.24 4265.48 MB/sec

Triad 199.08 4258.72 MB/sec

Quartz Graphics Test 180.76

Line 145.84 9.71 Klines/sec [50% alpha]

Rectangle 187.55 56.00 Krects/sec [50% alpha]

Circle 180.33 14.70 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]

Bezier 164.22 4.14 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]

Text 260.60 16.30 Kchars/sec

OpenGL Graphics Test 179.68

Spinning Squares 179.68 227.93 frames/sec

User Interface Test 487.00

Elements 487.00 2.24 Krefresh/sec

run again

User Interface Test 556.88

Elements 556.88 2.56 Krefresh/sec

 

Drive Type ST3320620AS

Disk Test 56.57

Sequential 79.93

Uncached Write 88.93 54.60 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 132.57 75.01 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 41.04 12.01 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 145.19 72.97 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Random 43.77

Uncached Write 15.89 1.68 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 94.61 30.29 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 90.26 0.64 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 146.77 27.23 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

Drive Type ST3400620A

Disk Test 55.10

Sequential 121.40

Uncached Write 135.14 82.98 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 117.78 66.64 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 111.72 32.70 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 123.33 61.98 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Random 35.63

Uncached Write 11.67 1.24 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 112.09 35.89 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 93.85 0.67 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 143.50 26.63 MB/sec [256K blocks]

[gdog]

OK, I fixed the FSB issue. I followed the directions too closely. The <key>kernel flags</key> must be upper case.

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

Good catch! I updated the original post with the upper casing.

 

gdog, what are you using for sound in?

I haven't tried any kind of sound in -- I just haven't had the need. I found an old microphone lying around so I'll try it out and see what happens...

 

I have a SATA optical drive in my old hackintosh. It worked fine with Jas 10.4.8 and the upgrade to 10.4.9. I've been running the system I built following your tut for 3 weeks as my main system. Only boot XP 2/3 times a week to get something off it. Apart from some USB mass storage problems that seem to have gone away, it's been 100% solid. Great choice of hardware. Thanks.

Something I've noticed on several different machines I've built is that the USB ports on the front of the case (i.e. those connected to the motherboard via cable) are much less reliable than the USB ports on the back (i.e. those built-in to the motherboard). The problem is especially bad for devices which need to get power over USB.

 

If I hook my iPod to the front connector, the sync fails after a couple minutes. On the back, it's fine. Same with my Secure Digital card reader for my camera. However, if I hook my camera itself to the front USB via the cable that came with the camera, it works fine, I'm assuming because the camera has a big battery, but the SD card reader isn't powered.

[danalog]

I built a machine like this following this guide and it works perfectly!

 

Sys:

Bad Axe 2

Core 2 Duo E6000

Corsair 2048MB 6400PRO Twin2X 5-5-5-12

Club 3D 7600GT 256GB

1x Seagate 74GB for OSX and backups

2x raptor 36GB striped (raid0) for Applications and User account

 

Things I need to do:

- Frontrow with mouse (tried Backrow but that doesn't play nice with my applications on another volume)

- Install my watercooling for overclocking the E6600

 

I only had to buy the Bad Axe, E6600, 7600GT and Ram since I already had everything else.

Costs: 750 euro

 

=============

 

xbench on the OSX disk:

Results	113.50	
System Info		
	Xbench Version		1.3
	System Version		10.4.9 (8P2137)
	Physical RAM		2048 MB
	Model		ADP2,1
	Drive Type		ST380013AS
CPU Test	93.84	
	GCD Loop	212.61	11.21 Mops/sec
	Floating Point Basic	102.69	2.44 Gflop/sec
	vecLib FFT	75.61	2.49 Gflop/sec
	Floating Point Library	66.85	11.64 Mops/sec
Thread Test	181.19	
	Computation	165.77	3.36 Mops/sec, 4 threads
	Lock Contention	199.77	8.59 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test	125.67	
	System	120.71	
		Allocate	100.33	368.46 Kalloc/sec
		Fill	126.10	6131.14 MB/sec
		Copy	143.76	2969.35 MB/sec
	Stream	131.05	
		Copy	121.63	2512.17 MB/sec
		Scale	125.04	2583.35 MB/sec
		Add	139.77	2977.32 MB/sec
		Triad	139.87	2992.15 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test	133.89	
	Line	111.65	7.43 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
	Rectangle	135.80	40.54 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
	Circle	130.38	10.63 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
	Bezier	119.95	3.03 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
	Text	199.34	12.47 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test	129.19	
	Spinning Squares	129.19	163.88 frames/sec
User Interface Test	360.65	
	Elements	360.65	1.66 Krefresh/sec
Disk Test	30.13	
	Sequential	51.13	
		Uncached Write	62.39	38.31 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Write	61.44	34.77 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Uncached Read	31.70	9.28 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Read	69.51	34.94 MB/sec [256K blocks]
	Random	21.36	
		Uncached Write	7.34	0.78 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Write	48.25	15.45 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Uncached Read	54.69	0.39 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Read	83.36	15.47 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

 

xbench on the raid0:

Results	138.86	
System Info		
	Xbench Version		1.3
	System Version		10.4.9 (8P2137)
	Physical RAM		2048 MB
	Model		ADP2,1
	Drive Type		Applications
CPU Test	93.85	
	GCD Loop	213.33	11.25 Mops/sec
	Floating Point Basic	102.64	2.44 Gflop/sec
	vecLib FFT	75.65	2.50 Gflop/sec
	Floating Point Library	66.78	11.63 Mops/sec
Thread Test	177.50	
	Computation	163.75	3.32 Mops/sec, 4 threads
	Lock Contention	193.79	8.34 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test	121.36	
	System	113.49	
		Allocate	87.94	322.93 Kalloc/sec
		Fill	125.42	6098.00 MB/sec
		Copy	141.06	2913.64 MB/sec
	Stream	130.41	
		Copy	125.35	2589.03 MB/sec
		Scale	128.96	2664.21 MB/sec
		Add	134.01	2854.76 MB/sec
		Triad	133.73	2860.89 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test	145.27	
	Line	111.18	7.40 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
	Rectangle	135.81	40.55 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
	Circle	127.42	10.39 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
	Bezier	121.04	3.05 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
	Text	512.56	32.06 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test	135.03	
	Spinning Squares	135.03	171.29 frames/sec
User Interface Test	352.25	
	Elements	352.25	1.62 Krefresh/sec
Disk Test	86.42	
	Sequential	120.47	
		Uncached Write	189.88	116.58 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Write	167.70	94.89 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Uncached Read	66.56	19.48 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Read	143.88	72.31 MB/sec [256K blocks]
	Random	67.38	
		Uncached Write	29.05	3.08 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Write	151.31	48.44 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Uncached Read	94.14	0.67 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Read	129.61	24.05 MB/sec [256K blocks]

[hirschkuh2000]

**wow** thanks for that nice tutorial...!!

 

but i have a question - from where do i get that jas.10.5.9 combo update? torrent? please pm me a link or post it here... i got the bad axe 2 with e6600 running at 2x 3009.6MHz - nice machine... but i can't get sound and dual monitoring working because of that missing jas10.4.9 update.

 

so please help me, to join you all with a nice running machine..!

 

thank you..!

[reghost]

Here are my results.. i honestly expected more. im using an Nvidia Quadro FX 4300 now but i have a 7950gt on its way.

 

but for now:

 

Results 122.70

System Info

Xbench Version 1.3

System Version 10.4.9 (8P2137)

Physical RAM 4096 MB

Model ADP2,1

Drive Type WDC WD2500JS-60MHB5

CPU Test 122.05

GCD Loop 282.19 14.88 Mops/sec

Floating Point Basic 136.70 3.25 Gflop/sec

vecLib FFT 93.98 3.10 Gflop/sec

Floating Point Library 88.70 15.44 Mops/sec

Thread Test 231.07

Computation 205.57 4.16 Mops/sec, 4 threads

Lock Contention 263.80 11.35 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads

Memory Test 163.06

System 159.49

Allocate 133.52 490.34 Kalloc/sec

Fill 166.55 8098.08 MB/sec

Copy 188.10 3885.08 MB/sec

Stream 166.79

Copy 157.64 3255.97 MB/sec

Scale 163.70 3381.91 MB/sec

Add 173.20 3689.46 MB/sec

Triad 173.75 3716.91 MB/sec

Quartz Graphics Test 95.41

Line 83.59 5.57 Klines/sec [50% alpha]

Rectangle 83.32 24.88 Krects/sec [50% alpha]

Circle 82.11 6.69 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]

Bezier 110.93 2.80 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]

Text 138.01 8.63 Kchars/sec

OpenGL Graphics Test 128.84

Spinning Squares 128.84 163.44 frames/sec

User Interface Test 200.82

Elements 200.82 921.66 refresh/sec

Disk Test 65.90

Sequential 105.09

Uncached Write 115.50 70.91 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 101.77 57.58 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 92.12 26.96 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 114.63 57.61 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Random 48.00

Uncached Write 17.49 1.85 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 125.31 40.12 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 91.71 0.65 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 137.20 25.46 MB/sec [256K blocks]

[gdog]

hirschkuh2000, sound and dual-display should have nothing to do with 10.4.9, so that shouldn't be holding you up. However, 10.4.9 is just a torrent. I just entered the filename (JaS.10.4.9.Combo.Update.Intel.SSE3) in google and had no trouble.

[reghost]

update: Test Dummy Machine

 

All test

 

Results 145.93

System Info

Xbench Version 1.3

System Version 10.4.9 (8P2137)

Physical RAM 2048 MB

Model ADP2,1

Drive Type WDC WD2500JS-60MHB1

CPU Test 124.12

GCD Loop 282.36 14.88 Mops/sec

Floating Point Basic 135.69 3.22 Gflop/sec

vecLib FFT 99.47 3.28 Gflop/sec

Floating Point Library 88.78 15.46 Mops/sec

Thread Test 237.19

Computation 215.11 4.36 Mops/sec, 4 threads

Lock Contention 264.31 11.37 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads

Memory Test 153.88

System 143.50

Allocate 121.25 445.26 Kalloc/sec

Fill 166.60 8100.50 MB/sec

Copy 150.25 3103.32 MB/sec

Stream 165.88

Copy 157.46 3252.34 MB/sec

Scale 159.66 3298.62 MB/sec

Add 174.30 3712.87 MB/sec

Triad 173.53 3712.32 MB/sec

Quartz Graphics Test 172.54

Line 141.92 9.45 Klines/sec [50% alpha]

Rectangle 176.24 52.62 Krects/sec [50% alpha]

Circle 169.75 13.84 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]

Bezier 156.33 3.94 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]

Text 251.81 15.75 Kchars/sec

OpenGL Graphics Test 172.98

Spinning Squares 172.98 219.44 frames/sec

User Interface Test 472.96

Elements 472.96 2.17 Krefresh/sec

Disk Test 64.50

Sequential 98.32

Uncached Write 114.64 70.39 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 102.64 58.07 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 74.90 21.92 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 112.77 56.68 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Random 47.99

Uncached Write 17.78 1.88 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 122.35 39.17 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 88.61 0.63 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 130.57 24.23 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

Test minus disk

Results 185.49

System Info

Xbench Version 1.3

System Version 10.4.9 (8P2137)

Physical RAM 2048 MB

Model ADP2,1

Drive Type WDC WD2500JS-60MHB1

CPU Test 122.19

GCD Loop 282.51 14.89 Mops/sec

Floating Point Basic 136.10 3.23 Gflop/sec

vecLib FFT 94.58 3.12 Gflop/sec

Floating Point Library 88.69 15.44 Mops/sec

Thread Test 238.90

Computation 217.18 4.40 Mops/sec, 4 threads

Lock Contention 265.43 11.42 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads

Memory Test 149.00

System 135.93

Allocate 107.31 394.08 Kalloc/sec

Fill 163.65 7956.86 MB/sec

Copy 150.60 3110.61 MB/sec

Stream 164.84

Copy 157.46 3252.34 MB/sec

Scale 156.12 3225.46 MB/sec

Add 174.81 3723.79 MB/sec

Triad 172.71 3694.61 MB/sec

Quartz Graphics Test 188.32

Line 142.73 9.50 Klines/sec [50% alpha]

Rectangle 175.41 52.37 Krects/sec [50% alpha]

Circle 170.20 13.87 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]

Bezier 155.31 3.92 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]

Text 653.86 40.90 Kchars/sec

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[Hirez]

Does everyone get the marvell 4 sata ports to work??

 

Otherwise i might as well get any MB with 4 ports, its cheaper

[sir mac alot]

i have read you cannot use the marvel ports, but I have not tested it totally. I did plug into those the marvel connectors because the manual does not really tell you that the blue connectors are marvel and black are the other sata connectors. The blue did not work, only the black sata connectors.

 

most people in these forums will say that the badaxe2 is the best choice for really using it as your main machine and not just playing around.

 

my experience. rock solid stability. gigalan works great. no sound in. so you have have to get a firewire or usb sound in.

start up is not as fast as I would like, be mostly due to the nait drivers. supposedly the Titan drivers don't slow the startup.

 

temp monitor does not show the correct CPU temp. seems to be off by 10 to 12 degrees.

first I was concerned because the CPU was going over 60 degrees sometimes. Intel support said that there is nothing to worry about. the bios will shut the computer down if it gets too hot. has not happened, so all good.

[jaminmc]

Does everyone get the marvell 4 sata ports to work??

 

Otherwise i might as well get any MB with 4 ports, its cheaper

 

Seems to work fine for me....

[gdog]

Haven't tried. Didn't want 8 SATA, but chose this MB because of its compatibility and stability running OSX. If you find and build with a cheaper stable MB with working gig-e, sound, etc., let me know! I'll keep it in mind for next time...

 

Does everyone get the marvell 4 sata ports to work??

 

Otherwise i might as well get any MB with 4 ports, its cheaper

[gdog]

FYI I've just recently gotten around to doing some overclocking of my original config. Starting from the default 1,860 MHz, I moved up to 2,004 MHz for a few days, and am currently running at 2,100 MHz. I'm using the heat sink / fan that came with the Core2Duo, so I'm paying a lot of attention to my temperatures and am not planning on going any higher than 2,100 MHz. According to TemperatureMonitor I'm idling around 47C and am in the mid-50s if I'm doing a lot of work on the machine. I think I can safely lower the vCore a bit more to cool things off another degree C or two.

[gdog]

FYI I just updated to 10.4.10 using the netkas/PascalW package. Everything went smoothly. Two things: do NOT check the box for "install 10.4.10 graphic kexts", and after the install, re-run the AppleHDAPatcher for the Sigmatel audio.

 

I meant to make a partition clone so I could try out the koolkal 10.4.10 update too, but forgot. Oops.

[sir mac alot]

gdog, did you also install the apple audio update for 10.4.10? have you noticed any audio issues?

notice any speed improvements? this update was suppose to provide intel chip speed improvements.

[gdog]

That's next. Need to clone my working config again before messing with it.

[sir mac alot]

I had originally purchased a SONY NEC 7170A DVDRW drive, but an NEC ND-3550A dvd drive that I had for a little over a year died and I decided to return the new NEC drive and got a Pioneer.

 

The Pioneer DVR-112D is much quieter running, almost silent. The drive tray opening and closing is also super quiet.

 

They both work with Toast and boot the OS and speed seems comparable.

Neither work with Retrospect. So I installed an older Sony CDRW drive I had that did work.

 

A couple weeks later I needed to boot using the DVD and could not get the system to boot.

Got an error about the missing boot file on the DVD; com.apple.Boot.plist not found.

 

I did several hours of testing and trying different things. The only thing that fixed it was to disconnect the CDRW drive from the IDE and have only DVD drive connected to the IDE. Then it booted from the DVD disk fine.

[sir mac alot]

gdog, also, did you get your USB reader issue solved? I have a San Disk ImageMate 8 in 1 USB 2.0 that works fine when connected to the front usb. It transfers fast and have not had any issues.

[wiregen]

Anyone getting stability problems? I keep having applications crashing or I get the shutdown screen at times just doing occasional web browsing or watching a movie. I followed this guide step by step except I check the nVidia ktexts with th JAS 10 so I can get the native QE 1920x1200 other than that everything is the same....

[sir mac alot]

My system is very stable. when I first setup my OZ memory it was suppose to be 4-4-4-15 at 1.9v. I had to manually set because the system was seeing the memory at 5-5-5-15. The system was a little unstable with those memory settings, so I set it back to auto and 5-5-5-15 because I did not want to set the memory to 2.1v as OZ forums indicated.