[SUCCESS] Gigabyte Designare Z390 (Thunderbolt 3) + i7-9700K + AMD RX 580

[CaseySJ]

First of all, thanks Casey for the fantastic guide and continued support! Finally convinced me to upgrade the old Z68 2600K system!

Glad to hear it!

After two attempts I've been able to get the system up and running with headless IGPU functionality (H264 and HEVC working).

However I seem to be having two issues. Firstly, just before loading the login screen, the fans seem to rev up to really high (and noisy) speeds for a second or two. Secondly, the system only goes to sleep for a few seconds before it wakes itself up (again with high/noisy fans ). Any thoughts as to what may be causing this?

Sleep/wake issues can be tricky to solve.

Step 1: On this motherboard we seem to get better sleep/wake reliability when installing all third-party kexts to /Library/Extensions and setting Inject Kexts to Detect in the last page of Clover Configurator. The USB SSDT along with USBInjectAll.kext must be installed as well. And in System Preferences --> Energy Saver disable Wake for network access and, optionally, Power Nap. For headless operation, use latest Lilu and WhateverGreen, and set Platform ID to 0x3E980003 (for 10.14.4).

Step 2: Please try this.

[SUCCESS] Gigabyte Designare Z390 (Thunderbolt 3) + i7-9700K + AMD RX 580

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Step 3: When the system suddenly wakes from sleep, open Terminal and type pmset -g log | grep -i wake. And also pmset -g assertions.

 

[CaseySJ]

I can confirm that the MOTU 16A also works with the apple tb3->tb2 adapter. Which makes me very happy, because it was kind of a risk building this system. But I just finished it and everything seems to work. Thanks very much for your extensive post and work!

Glad to hear it! And thank you for letting us know about the MOTU 16A via TB3-to-TB2 adapter. Will add this to Thunderbolt 3 Experiences shortly.

 

[MACAK]

@CaseySJ - I ordered a Gigabyte Designare Z390 for the Thunderbolts built in. I do have a Fractual Design Focus G case already, so I will put this MB in it. I will be building it with my Sapphire RX580, and i9-9900K. So most of everything you have supplied will help. I will be building this next week hopefully. Looking for to this motherboard.

 

[CaseySJ]

@CaseySJ - I ordered a Gigabyte Designare Z390 for the Thunderbolts built in. I do have a Fractual Design Focus G case already, so I will put this MB in it. I will be building it with my Sapphire RX580, and i9-9900K. So most of everything you have supplied will help. I will be building this next week hopefully. Looking for to this motherboard.

Good choice!

May I ask what made you decide to switch from the Gigabyte Z390 UD?

 

[MACAK]

Good choice!

May I ask what made you decide to switch from the Gigabyte Z390 UD?

One is the UD is my backup MB, and I prefer the Designare due to needing the onboard ports it has. It’s a great MB.

I also have the Gigabyte Z390 Aorus WiFi mb.

 

[mlheintz13]

Ok. Thanks again to @CaseySJ for the updates and continued support of this guide. I'm still writing up my build notes and will post the link this weekend. However, I wanted to note that I finally got my WiFi card and was able to connect to the net and do some benchmarking. I'm screaming along at a Geekbench score of 39189 without OC'ing my i9-9900k.

 

[Hackintoshron]

Ok. Thanks again to @CaseySJ for the updates and continued support of this guide. I'm still writing up my build notes and will post the link this weekend. However, I wanted to note that I finally got my WiFi card and was able to connect to the net and do some benchmarking. I'm screaming along at a Geekbench score of 39189 without OC'ing my i9-9900k.

That's a great score Mlheintz13! Questions...(1) what is the single core score and (2) what speed RAM did you buy. I'm thinking your multicore score is higher than mine because of the RAM speed I bought which is 3000 Mhz instead of the 3200 Mhz in the guide.

 

[mlheintz13]

That's a great score Mlheintz13! Questions...(1) what is the single core score and (2) what speed RAM did you buy. I'm thinking your multicore score is higher than mine because of the RAM speed I bought which is 3000 Mhz instead of the 3200 Mhz in the guide.

Single core was just over 6691. You are correct on RAM speed. I've got 64GB of Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB DDR4 3200 (PC4-25600) C16 1.35V Desktop Memory.

 

[sparkyboy767]

Sleep/wake issues can be tricky to solve.

They certainly can. I followed all your instructions but had no luck. Was going a little crazy trying to work out why I couldn't make sleep work. Then it occurred to me that it could be an external peripheral causing the wake issue. So I unplugged all the USB devices and of course sleep worked! So I then reconnected them one at a time, each time testing sleep functionality. This eventually revealed that the culprit was my PreSonus iOne USB Audio Interface. Apparently the sleep issue is a bug with the firmware and it occurs on actual Macs (https://forums.presonus.com/viewtopic.php?f=220&t=20649). Thankfully I have a second USB Audio Interface - an Audient i4 - which works perfectly fine with sleep.

Issue with the fans spinning loudly seems to have gone for now, but will keep monitoring.

Thanks once again for all your awesome work. So good to have a fully functioning beast of a system!

 

[Mochimino]

In internal are listed all my hard drives (2 HDD, 2 SSD, 1 nvme) and nothing else. i displayed "show all devices"

i installed 10.14.4

Any input for my problem?