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pastrychef's Asus ROG Strix Z370-G Gaming (WI-FI AC) build w/ i9-9900K + AMD 6600 XT

I don't know if empty slots show in System Information. I have all four slots populated.

Can anyone with two sticks of RAM confirm?

I can confirm that if the slots are empty they show up empty on a Gigabite board, the Strix z370 is kind of temperamental with memory.
 
I don't know if empty slots show in System Information. I have all four slots populated.

Can anyone with two sticks of RAM confirm?
See attached

All 4 slots show on my system with a Z370-G MB, although I'm using DIMM0 (So A1 and A2), instead of DIMM1

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There was a guy a post back on sunday saying after 10.14.3 update his vega is at full load all the time.
He replied to one of my posts.

Pastry you can download Da Vinci for free and test Apple API by exporting something to H264/H265.
But even ProRes exports are slow. It's something much more fundamental.
Pixelmator Pro has issue and anything that uses acceleration.
But the app you mentioned still shows green dots. FCPX doesn't quit or causes a panic it's simply zombie.

zzmadd,

I came across this thread and another post in the Graphics forum. I have a week old Lenovo X1 Extreme laptop instead but looking at your profile is your graphics card UHD630 or the AMD Vega? My system is using the UDH630. I updated it straight to 10.14.3 and installed FCPX because that is the application I use the most, and I experience extreme slowness when rendering. I have to cancel the rendering running in the background in order to edit my clips. Takes forever to export. Compressor (Another Apple rendering program) takes forever as well. My 2014 Macbook Air is faster :(
Did you get the issues running 10.14.0 or 10.14.2? My Clover USB Mojave install is still 10.14.2 so I can reinstall back to 10.14.2 if you had no issues.
 
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Hi Pastrychef! Thanks to this incredible build and all the great advice, my build has been performing fantastically, and I'm a happy camper - thank you again :)

Question:
If I'm updating to the current version of EFI folder, Clover, etc after a long gap - the first and last time I did an update was July 10 (Update #13)

I've just updated Clover (from r4586 to r4862).

My current EFI version is r3.5. (a backup of it was made by Clover when I updated to r4862 today)
Before updating Clover, I didn't make a note of the Serial/Board Serial/UUID in the config.plist - but it appears that I can simply "generate new" Board Serial Number and UUID from within Configurator under r4862. In fact, if I make a change to the Model, all the serial numbers change, and the numbers are freshly generated randomly each time.
So I'm wondering what the value is in copying over the serial information from the earlier release, and what can go wrong since I didn't?


Sorry for the long post, I just want to be clear before I make some system-killing error!

Thanks,
Art
 
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Hi Pastrychef! Thanks to this incredible build and all the great advice, my build has been performing fantastically, and I'm a happy camper - thank you again :)

Question:
If I'm updating to the current version of EFI folder, Clover, etc after a long gap - the first and last time I did an update was July 10 (Update #13)

I've just updated Clover (from r4586 to r4862).

My current EFI version is r3.5. (a backup of it was made by Clover when I updated to r4862 today)
Before updating Clover, I didn't make a note of the Serial/Board Serial/UUID in the config.plist - but it appears that I can simply "generate new" Board Serial Number and UUID from within Configurator under r4862. In fact, if I make a change to the Model, all the serial numbers change, and the numbers are freshly generated randomly each time.
So I'm wondering what the value is in copying over the serial information from the earlier release, and what can go wrong since I didn't?


Sorry for the long post, I just want to be clear before I make some system-killing error!

Thanks,
Art

Not much can go wrong. You just end up with another Mac attached to your Apple ID. You can go to System Preferences > iCloud to see all the computers attached to your account and remove the old ones.
 
Not much can go wrong. You just end up with another Mac attached to your Apple ID. You can go to System Preferences > iCloud to see all the computers attached to your account and remove the old ones.

Ah, that's a relief! Thank you for the info. I'm going to reboot and ensure everything's working using your ver.4.3.2/High Sierra, then upgrade to Mojave.

Do I install ver. 4.52 first and THEN Mojave, or the other way around?

Thanks again!
 
Ah, that's a relief! Thank you for the info. I'm going to reboot and ensure everything's working using your ver.4.3.2/High Sierra, then upgrade to Mojave.

Do I install ver. 4.52 first and THEN Mojave, or the other way around?

Thanks again!
  1. Backup your existing EFI folder to the EFI partition of a USB flash drive in case of emergency.
  2. Copy your Serial, Board Serial, UUID.
  3. Download either EFI r4.5.1 or 4.5.2 (there's really very little difference between the two. 4.5.1 is a tiny bit more stable while 4.5.2 is more experimental due to the Clover teams work on startup chime).
  4. Replace the EFI folder on the EFI partition of your main system drive.
  5. Paste in your Serial, Board Serial, and UUID to the new config.plist.
  6. Update to Mojave.
  7. Done.
 
zzmadd,

I came across this thread and another post in the Graphics forum. I have a week old Lenovo X1 Extreme laptop instead but looking at your profile is your graphics card UHD630 or the AMD Vega? My system is using the UDH630. I updated it straight to 10.14.3 and installed FCPX because that is the application I use the most, and I experience extreme slowness when rendering. I have to cancel the rendering running in the background in order to edit my clips. Takes forever to export. Compressor (Another Apple rendering program) takes forever as well. My 2014 Macbook Air is faster :(
Did you get the issues running 10.14.0 or 10.14.2? My Clover USB Mojave install is still 10.14.2 so I can reinstall back to 10.14.2 if you had no issues.

As I was saying...but nobody listens, Mojave 10.14.3 breaks hardware acceleration for the iGPU, at least for the UHD 630.
Functionally it works but it has become unusable as it is very slow.
It could be broken even for all the other PC that have a discrete GPU but you would notice less as the discrete graphics card acceleration would still be functional.
In my opinion we need a team work to find the issue. Another possibility is it's an Apple bug.
Mojave 10.14.2 works great.
The same issue I believe is with the latest High Sierra update.
 
  1. Backup your existing EFI folder to the EFI partition of a USB flash drive in case of emergency.
  2. Copy your Serial, Board Serial, UUID.
  3. Download either EFI r4.5.1 or 4.5.2 (there's really very little difference between the two. 4.5.1 is a tiny bit more stable while 4.5.2 is more experimental due to the Clover teams work on startup chime).
  4. Replace the EFI folder on the EFI partition of your main system drive.
  5. Paste in your Serial, Board Serial, and UUID to the new config.plist.
  6. Update to Mojave.
  7. Done.
Agh, as soon as the progress bar under the Apple logo completes, the gpu sends a quick spritz to the screen, and the system resets.
I’m using the integrated Intel graphics. Is there some tweak to the config.plist that I need to’ve done? I can only imagine something in the Gpu section of config.plist is off, something I need to have checked.
Sorry to be a bother. Am getting the hang of all this, funny how getting into trouble motivates a person to understand:)
 
Agh, as soon as the progress bar under the Apple logo completes, the gpu sends a quick spritz to the screen, and the system resets.
I’m using the integrated Intel graphics. Is there some tweak to the config.plist that I need to’ve done? I can only imagine something in the Gpu section of config.plist is off, something I need to have checked.
Sorry to be a bother. Am getting the hang of all this, funny how getting into trouble motivates a person to understand:)

If you are using UHD 630 only, change system definition to iMac18,1.
 
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