pastrychef's build - Asus Maximus VIII Gene - i7-7700K - GTX 1080

[pastrychef]

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Its something with the hardware of the MB. I'll try a different graphics card in case its that or maybe the PCIe slot is bad? I'll also try less memory and try different modules.

You don't have the Maximus VIII with i7-7700k Kaby?

64GB shouldn't be a problem. I had 64GB with my Gene from day one...

No, I no longer have the Maximum VIII with i7-7700K. I sold it and upgraded to Asus ROG Strix Z370-G with i7-8700K (see signature below).

 

[osxfr33k]

64GB shouldn't be a problem. I had 64GB with my Gene from day one...

No, I no longer have the Maximum VIII with i7-7700K. I sold it and upgraded to Asus ROG Strix Z370-G with i7-8700K (see signature below).

I tried a different graphics card an EVGA GT710 on same PCIe slot but its not using all 16 lanes so it could still be a PCIe pin issue or just an issue with my EVGA GTX 770. I have a few of those and never had any issues with them.

 

[pastrychef]

I tried a different graphics card an EVGA GT710 on same PCIe slot but its not using all 16 lanes so it could still be a PCIe pin issue or just an issue with my EVGA GTX 770. I have a few of those and never had any issues with them.

Do you have anything plugged in the second PCI-e slot? If yes, both slots operate at x8.

 

[osxfr33k]

Do you have anything plugged in the second PCI-e slot? If yes, both slots operate at x8.

Just the smaller 1x slot above for my Wifi Card. I just tried an EVGA 8400 and EVGA GT210 which fill the entire lanes and I am getting the latency again. It does not seem to be an issue with any GFX card that partially fills the PCIe 16 channel lane.

Few weeks ago I was playing around with an AMD 580 and possibly it may have affected or damaged the pins in that slot not sure?

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Its working now I pushed it in then with care moved it to around. Maybe the leads need cleaning on the GFX card!

 

[WedgeTail]

Some time ago I was complaining about spinning beachballs in Sierra, and long freezes. I've finally figured out that is was Google Drive Filestream, an app for synching with online Google Drive folders. They'd discontinued the previous Google Drive app. The difference is that Filestream lets you download files on demand, saving disk space. I don't really need that, just use it for files I share with a group I work with, and want them synched to my desktop.
Yesterday and today I've have lags and freezes that made my system virtually unusable.
Anyway, they still have Backup and Sync, an app similar to the old Google Drive app. I've been running that today, and even though it is busily downloading files to me in the background, I've had no beachballs or lags of any sort. Phew!

 

[WedgeTail]

I tried the new Clover Builds, the Clover Emulated NVRAM Uninstaller and then the Clover v2.4k_r4411-UEFI, and they went well. Everything is rock solid.

 

[pastrychef]

Here's a Clover patch that supposedly allows for previously installed versions of Nvidia web drivers to work on versions of macOS it wasn't intended for.

Clover kext patch for Nvidia Web Drivers | tonymacx86.com

This may prove to be extremely useful since I have an ugly feeling Nvidia is not going to address this lag problem.

 

[WedgeTail]

Here's a Clover patch that supposedly allows for previously installed versions of Nvidia web drivers to work on versions of macOS it wasn't intended for.

Clover kext patch for Nvidia Web Drivers | tonymacx86.com

This may prove to be extremely useful since I have an ugly feeling Nvidia is not going to address this lag problem.

I haven't had a lag problem -- not yet anyway.

 

[pastrychef]

I haven't had a lag problem -- not yet anyway.

You are lucky. Many Skylake and newer systems are experiencing the lag. I get it even on a completely clean install...

 

[WedgeTail]

You are lucky. Many Skylake and newer systems are experiencing the lag. I get it even on a completely clean install...

In 10.12.6, my only lags and beachballs were caused by a new version cloud data sharing and backup app, and I got rid of the app.

In a trial of 10.13.3, I did have to use the older Nvidia 156.pkg, installed with an English language version of the Webdriver all versions.app. Other problems, possibly contributed to by the cloud app, led to my abandoning that trial.