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

[jrebergen]

Hi,

Same here!

Installed only in de EFI partition.

1.06 is working
1.07 is not!

Is my older version of Clover the issue? I have 4934.

I have Clover 5033 with VirtualSMC 1.07, no problems. I have just downloaded Clover 5045 but waiting to install, want to get some work done first. Hack runs like a breeze!

 

[CaseySJ]

Gah! It just occurred to me that perhaps I should remove the Titan Ridge TB card and put the Alpine Ridge Card back in to see if I can repower the Apollo 8 Thunderbolt 2 device: Former, pre-hack Thunderbolt device chain:
Mac Mini 2012 [Thunderbolt 10 Gb/s x2] ↔︎ BMD MultiDock (4x SSD) Thunderbolt 2 ↔︎ UAD Apollo 8 Quad Thunderbolt 2. -daisy chained; the UAD is at the end.

I could try this and see if the round trip latency in Pro Tools is the same as when the devices are on separate Thunderbolt ports (using two Apple TB2 ➝ TB 3 dongles.) as the Titan Ridge card. My prediction is that since the outboard devices are both Thunderbolt 2, I may never saturate the bus. Please bump this if you feel it is OT, but I'm in the market for this very build of yours.

On the Z370 AORUS Gaming, you do have the luxury of swapping Thunderbolt controllers. Alpine Ridge has a good chance of working with Thunderbolt 1 devices.

On the Designare Z390, however, we have a built-in Titan Ridge controller and we cannot install an Alpine Ridge card for connecting to external Thunderbolt-PCIe devices. We can, however, install the Alpine Ridge for connecting to Thunderbolt-DisplayPort devices.

 

[CaseySJ]

I have Clover 5033 with VirtualSMC 1.07, no problems. I have just downloaded Clover 5045 but waiting to install, want to get some work done first. Hack runs like a breeze!

It does seem that Clover 5xxx is needed for VirtualSMC 1.0.7. I'll check my system later tonight. Not sure whether I upgraded to Clover 5xxx, but I certainly did upgrade to VirtualSMC 1.0.7 without problem.

 

[Feartech]

It does seem that Clover 5xxx is needed for VirtualSMC 1.0.7. I'll check my system later tonight. Not sure whether I upgraded to Clover 5xxx, but I certainly did upgrade to VirtualSMC 1.0.7 without problem.

works fine on version 4972

 

[CaseySJ]

Thank you! Will let you know if there is any improvement with the RX580. I have three 240mm and one 120mm exhaust fans and two Noctua NF-A4x20 fans blowing into the RX580 (see attachment). I have the AIO cooler mounted on the front of the case blowing through the radiator into the case. Maybe the cooler should be mounted on the top blowing out? I originally had it mounted on top but found that front mounting created cooler CPU temps.

So your moving outside air across the radiator into the case? That's crazy!
Push the heat from the radiator OUT of the case, either out the front or top

It's not as crazy as it might sound. Numerous thermal tests have shown that there is little difference between an intaking radiator mount and an exhausting radiator mount. To be sure, an intaking mount tends to run a little warmer inside, but not substantially.

On my Asus X99 Deluxe II, the Kraken X52 240mm radiator is mounted in an intake configuration! And no thermal issues at all. Because this radiator is mounted on the right side of the case (yes, the side), an exhaust configuration would have sent warm air to the two SATA SSDs located there. So instead, I am pulling cool air over the SATA SSDs and into the case, then exhausting warm air through the top and rear with a total of three 120mm fans. Works very well.

 

[CaseySJ]

Hi @CaseySJ,
Your guide has been awesome, thank you! Trying to wrap up post-installation stuff and for some reason running into two problems (might be related, might not):
-My TB3/USB-C connections are slow! Blackmagic Disk says my USB-C SSD connected to the Designare's USB-C connection is around 84mb/s write, 58.8mb/s read, which seems really slow! I've also attached a TB2 SSD via an adapter and gotten similar slow speeds;
-Both internal HDMI on the mobo and hdmi via USB-C doc is acting funky

Any ideas? I think I followed your instructions to the letter, but I must have missed something! Thanks again.

Hello @BangkokLee, where is this config.plist from? Is it from the USB install disk or the Mojave SSD? There are numerous inconsistencies between it and the Guide, so I'm puzzled by the statement that you "followed [my] instructions to the letter".

I would like to have you re-review the spoiler labeled Final Steps in Post-Installation. You will see that the ACPI settings, boot settings, Kernel and Kext Patches, SMBIOS, etc. are all inconsistent. Please fix these issues first and then we'll check other elements in the CLOVER configuration.

 

[CaseySJ]

Removing the RX580 SSDT did not change the overheating problem.

Please see this post by @zipb:

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

Please try the attached config.plist. Root cause of the problem: Intel iGPU was not configured correctly. IntelGFX was set to 0x3E9B0007, which is platform ID, not device ID Platform ID and connector patch have been added to the Devices --> Properties section Please backup the current...

www.tonymacx86.com

How high does the temperature reach? And do the fans turn on as the GPU approaches that temperature?

 

[YossarianKen44]

Thank you so much again CaseySJ! I have my system for the most part up and running. I was having issues with the WiFi/Bluetooth card/module combo and I then bought the Fenvi card. Right after first install I had my Wifi back.
I have backed up my system via CCC as suggested in your truly awesome notes. I next proceeded to migrate my data from my old Mac Pro over. Everything continued to run.
As I might have stated before, I also purchased one of the suggested PCIe SATA cards. After I tried hooking up an internal SSD with the card. I started having some WiFi issues. Connection was first slow and then it wouldn't connect at all.
From going through the forum I guess another user was having similar type issues and moved the WiFi card from an upper slot to the bottom. I am trying that now and I'm having a bit more success.
Updates to the app store are a bit flakey too. Sometimes they are there and sometimes not. I'm trying to upgrade my Adobe suite so maybe that is having some tug on my connections.
I really appreciate all the help from this forum. I know I am getting closer to my silky smooth Hackintosh. Any thoughts much appreciated.

 

[JingleDjango]

@NoiseCoalition are you still running an Apollo x8? OP lists you as confirming it works.
I'm using one I just purchased. Generally very good performance except:

In Pro Tools, if I set the playback engine buffer to 64 or lower my entire system freezes up when I arm a track for recording. The display status frozen and input devices are unresponsive for about 15 sec on, 15 sec off, until the team is disarmed. This may not be an issue because headphone latency is surprisingly tight at 128sample buffer but I wondered if you'd run into the same issue.

EDIT: If this isn't relevant enough to this thread I can start a new one. I'll leave that to your discretion, @CaseySJ.

 

[elfcake]

Please see this post by @zipb:

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

Please try the attached config.plist. Root cause of the problem: Intel iGPU was not configured correctly. IntelGFX was set to 0x3E9B0007, which is platform ID, not device ID Platform ID and connector patch have been added to the Devices --> Properties section Please backup the current...

www.tonymacx86.com

How high does the temperature reach? And do the fans turn on as the GPU approaches that temperature?

I've seen it at 54c, the fans had not turned on at that point.