Saturday, March 26, 2011

Intel Xeon X3440 2.53 GHz Quad Core

Today I replaced the Intel Core i3 550 3.20 GHz on my Hackintosh build with an Intel Xeon X3440 2.53 GHz Quad Core. At first, the system did not recognize the processor right away, and kept identifying it as a Core i7.  Putting the following key on smbios.plist fixed the problem:


<key>SMcputype</key>
<string>1281</string>


After the fix, here's how "About This Mac" looks:



I am enjoying every minute of this project, and can not wait to proceed to the next part.  More to come..

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