Trying to compare my system with others, how do you rate your performance, I'm thinking about going over to Windows 10 as when using 'CPU core parking utility' my PC flies, 10 Divas, 10 repro-1's, cpu below 30% but when I'm on El Crapitan 4 instances of heavy VST's cranks my cpu up to 60-70%. When not using the parking utility Windows seems to perform about 10% better. I'm not against going over to windoze but would have to find and install all my non legit plugs which would take an age.

Currently running
5820k 6 core over clocked to 4.3 ghz
X99 Gigabyte UD5 Wifi
EVGA GTX 970
32 Gb Corsair Vengeance DDR4 Ram
Samsung evo 850 SSD's

Be interested to hear your thoughts.

 

Last edited: Jan 16, 2017

You should know that Haswell-E CPUs work pretty crappy with Mac OS X, especially with the X99 Mainboards, which I presume you got one. Every X99 mainboard works differently, even if you read a tutorial about a guy who got his system running on a Gigabyte X99-UD4, if you have a UD3 the tutorial is pretty much useless for you.

Consider this on Mac OSX: Is your sleep-mode properly working? Do you have any problems with proper turbo boosting with different core amounts? Did you fixed the USB 3 problem? If you have everything properly running, then your Mac-Ableton should work similar to your Windows-Ableton performance.

I currently have a similar problem with audio spikes while recording and doing playbacks in my DAWs, and I presume it's an issue with the motherboard, guess I have to change it (I have the Gigabyte X99-UD3). I also don't see why you should use this CPU core parking utility, this is maybe suitable for old Core 2 Quads, but not for Haswell Extreme CPUs with Enhanced Intel Speedstep Technoloy.

 

Just optimise the BIOS settings and disable power savings such as EIST and speed step as it is suggested by many DAW manufactures such as NI , Steinberg...

 

Interesting, Why does Haswell- E and x99 work badly, where did you read that?, as all I've read is positivity, more cores = better. But I have read that ableton and many DAW's dont utilise all the cores efficiently
Running Intel power gadget and Geek bench i can see it reaches the 4.3 oc speed
am currently looking into EIST and speed step.

thanks all.

 

X99 was never built and supported by Apple in any device, so I guess they did not updated the Mac OS X kernel in any version for it.

 

Have turned off the power saving settings haven't noticed much change however disabling hyper-threading in Xcode seems to make my system run so much better. but disabling it in BIOS breaks my Machine.

 

Can't wait to build my Hackibtosh!!!!

 

Interesting, works li,e a charm here when i disable eist etc...
However when i disable hyperthreading i get a much lower performance.
I am curios how do you disabled hyperthreading in xcode ?

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/to...x-5830k-and-5820k-1010-10101-yosemite/page-30
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this is what i do seems to improve things:

you have to have Xcode installed.

Search for "Instruments" with Spotlight (cmd+space), open the application and go to the preferences (cmd+,). Select the "CPUs" tab and untick "Hardware Multi-Threading".

However, after restarting your Mac it will be enabled again.

Machine is working much better after I disabled hyperthreading as above and all the throttling and power saving settings in BIOS,
also internet off stops glitching

 

My i7-4790k and my old i3-550 they both perform better under OSX than Windows. Only specialized versions of windows will reduce che differences in performance.

 

X99 hackintosh here too, El Capitan 10.11.6 and Clover to boot, Core i7-5820K paired with 32GB RAM here too (clocked at 4.2GHz and ram underclocked to 2400MHz as it seems more stable during boot stage, although Windows 7 runs fine at 4.3GHz and 2666MHz ram, rig is silence-optimized, cooler Noctua NH-U14S idling around 300rpm, so that's why fairly low clocks), my mobo is ASUS X99-S (basically Deluxe without Wi-Fi), my audio interface is RME HDSPe AIO (flawless Hackintosh support), os drive is 500GB 850 EVO SSD, and performance is amazing,
using Reaper as my DAW, recently made this track and when playing "realtime" with about 9 virtual instruments, 9 edited audio drum tracks, some buses and in total about 60 AU/AUi/VST3/VST3i FX' cpu usage didn't go past 25% and ram usage didn't go over 2.8GB ram

 

Trying to work out whats going on with my Hackintosh, So I disabled all power throttling in BIOS, EIST C3 etc, And running a OC of 4.3ghz. However when running Intel Power gadget I can sometimes see my CPU frequency going up and down and thats when i get annoying pops pauses and general Ableton glitches, however somedays the Frequency stays at 4.3 constant and Live runs like butter. Does anyone know why this is. thanks