My configuration

Mother Board - Asus P7P55D-E PRO, Socket 1156

Model Identifier: MacPro3,1
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2.94 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 4

BANK0/DIMM0:

Size: 2 GB
Type: DDR3
Speed: 1337 MHz
Status: OK
Manufacturer: Corsair
Part Number: CMX4GX3M2A1600C9
Serial Number: 00000000


BANK1/DIMM1:

Size: 2 GB
Type: DDR3
Speed: 1337 MHz
Status: OK
Manufacturer: Corsair
Part Number: CMX4GX3M2A1600C9
Serial Number: 00000000

GeForce GT220:

Chipset Model: GeForce GT220
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
Slot: Slot-1
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 1024 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0a20
Revision ID: 0x00a2
ROM Revision: 70.16.69.00.50

WDC WD5000AADS-00S9B0:

Capacity: 500.11 GB (500,107,862,016 bytes)
Model: WDC WD5000AADS-00S9B0
Revision: 01.00A01
Serial Number: WD-WCAV9K564304
Native Command Queuing: Yes
Queue Depth: 32
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk0
Medium Type: Rotational
Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified

I bought this following the tutorial from Lifehacker - Lifehacker, tips and downloads for getting things done

It works great but sometimes I feel that the i7 can run better. For example, I have a MacBook Air ( core 2 duo ), and when I open activity manager I see applications taking from 0 to 200% of processor. But in my Hackintosh, I never seen a app taking more then 100% ( yet I think the max should be 400% since it's quad core ). And when firefox takes 95%, everything runs mega slow...


My xBench - http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc...setCookie=true :|

Another Hackintosh xBench ( same config, just SSD instead of HDD ) - http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc2=501551

Any tips on this ? Or just the usual - disable dashboard, run less then 100apps at the same time etc..

Thank you!

you should try retail version, they are more stable