What is Best Vega 64 for Hackintosh!

[pastrychef]

So, at least you've eliminated the possibility of it being a defective card.

I took a look at your EFI. As far as I know, you don't need the NullCPUPowerManagement.kext. You may want to try without that.

Also, in your config.plist, you are using drop tables and generating C states and P states. Again, as far as I know, with Skylake and newer, that is not necessary. All you need is PluginType=true for power management.

Lastly, you may want to try renaming GFX0 to IGPU and PEGP to GFX0.

 

[scottkendall]

So, at least you've eliminated the possibility of it being a defective card.

I took a look at your EFI. As far as I know, you don't need the NullCPUPowerManagement.kext. You may want to try without that.

Also, in your config.plist, you are using drop tables and generating C states and P states. Again, as far as I know, with Skylake and newer, that is not necessary. All you need is PluginType=true for power management.

Lastly, you may want to try renaming GFX0 to IGPU and PEGP to GFX0.

1. I am not using NullCPU anymore I think that came from someone else EFI that had a working Vega I just must have left it in there. I have since changed my EFI back to the one I had at the very start of this adventure. It worked the best for everything but the Vega and it is attached here!

2. I have unchecked the boxes C & P; does setting plugintype to true just mean to check the box?

3. What does changing GFX0 to IGPU and PEGP to GFX0 do I have had those keys in there and I have taken them out with no noticeable change. They are currently in the config.plist that is in the attached EFI.

 

[pastrychef]

1. I am not using NullCPU anymore I think that came from someone else EFI that had a working Vega I just must have left it in there. I have since changed my EFI back to the one I had at the very start of this adventure. It worked the best for everything but the Vega and it is attached here!

2. I have unchecked the boxes C & P; does setting plugintype to true just mean to check the box?

3. What does changing GFX0 to IGPU and PEGP to GFX0 do I have had those keys in there and I have taken them out with no noticeable change. They are currently in the config.plist that is in the attached EFI.

This is all you neeD for power management:


The renames just renames devices to what macOS expects them to be. It can only help.

 

[scottkendall]

The renames just renames devices to what macOS expects them to be. It can only help.

Yea I assumed that is what you meant so I did that still crashed after about 30 mins.


Is this your card?

https://www.frys.com/product/9526182

 

[pastrychef]

Yea I assumed that is what you meant so I did that still crashed after about 30 mins.


Is this your card?

https://www.frys.com/product/9526182

Yes, that's the one I'm currently using. Btw, it's cheaper at newegg.com.

 

[scottkendall]

Yes, that's the one I'm currently using. Btw, it's cheaper at newegg.com.

Yea I saw that I might be able to get Fry's to hook it up for at least the base price without the $30 rebate. But right now what I really want is my system to be running and done so an extra $100 no big deal.

After reading my post about the issues I have been having with the Vega 64 do you think that this card will work or do you think I will end up with the same issues? Or should I just get a Nvida since currently with an 970 it is running without issues other then streaming video does not seems to work.

 

[pastrychef]

Yea I saw that I might be able to get Fry's to hook it up for at least the base price without the $30 rebate. But right now what I really want is my system to be running and done so an extra $100 no big deal.

After reading my post about the issues I have been having with the Vega 56 do you think that this card will work or do you think I will end up with the same issues? Or should I just get a Nvida since currently with an 970 it is running without issues other then streaming video does not seems to work.

To be very honest, I expected your Vega 64 to work correctly... I have seen quite a few inconsistencies with video cards and am not confident in giving any reassurances to anyone as to what will work for them. All I can say for sure is what's working for me and I can confirm that everything has been extremely smooth for me with the MSI Vega 56 Air Boost.

If Fry's is friendly towards returns, it might be worth a try. I believe that Newegg has a restocking fee unless you are returning something that's defective.

 

[scottkendall]

To be very honest, I expected your Vega 64 to work correctly... I have seen quite a few inconsistencies with video cards and am not confident in giving any reassurances to anyone as to what will work for them. All I can say for sure is what's working for me and I can confirm that everything has been extremely smooth for me with the MSI Vega 56 Air Boost.

If Fry's is friendly towards returns, it might be worth a try. I believe that Newegg has a restocking fee unless you are returning something that's defective.

Fry's is not friendly and my GF has expressed interest in the Vega 64 so if Newegg gives me hassle and they likely will, she will just get a new card and I can tell her there goes your processor/MB upgrade.

 

[scottkendall]

Yes, that's the one I'm currently using. Btw, it's cheaper at newegg.com.

So after some 20 mins of trying to not give me the price match even though when they scanned the UPC in newegg's site and the card popped up for 660 or what ever, they gave me the price match in addition they actually still gave me the mail in rebate! So far it appears to be functioning without any freezes for 4 hours.

Now to try and get Newegg to take back the 64 or at least give me a different one. I think there is a problem with the card but windows 8.1 can account for the errors. When I tried to install driver on Windows 7, it would lock up with the driver from AMD.

I did notice that after about 40 mins of watching a movie it just stops and will not resume even if I close iTunes out it will play another movie though for about 40 mins then crash.

Also the Fans go into almost quite state when under lighter loads.

 

[pastrychef]

So after some 20 mins of trying to not give me the price match even though when they scanned the UPC in newegg's site and the card popped up for 660 or what ever, they gave me the price match in addition they actually still gave me the mail in rebate! So far it appears to be functioning without any freezes for 4 hours.

Now to try and get Newegg to take back the 64 or at least give me a different one. I think there is a problem with the card but windows 8.1 can account for the errors. When I tried to install driver on Windows 7, it would lock up with the driver from AMD.

I did notice that after about 40 mins of watching a movie it just stops and will not resume even if I close iTunes out it will play another movie though for about 40 mins then crash.

Wow. $660 is a great price. I think I paid about $820 just a month and a half ago. But I also sold my GTX 1080 for over $600 at the time. I doubt I'd be able to get that much for it now...

It's great to hear that the card is working without crashes. I think should also run a fair bit cooler.

I don't know about the iTunes issues. I use my AppleTV to stream videos from either (1) my NAS, (2) the internet, or (3) AirPlay from one of my hacks. I know that getting hacks to play any sort of DRM content in iTunes was very challenging for a long time. Shiki.kext may be able to help you.