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

[DarrenM]

Good to know. What is the make/model of the old RAM? And the new RAM?

I had hyperX Preditor 3600MHz 4x16, I think these should of worked but the sticks might of been corrupt or something.

My new ones are still HyperX Predator 3200MHz RGB it looks cool - slightly cheaper in price also, 4x16GB

 

[tango76]

Hi - I've just installed in my system:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07MVPW8HB/?tag=tonymacx86-21

seeems pretty good.

Noted! Thanks for helping.

I think it's also recommendable to take a look at the Gigabyte memory list for this particular motherboard, they should work flawlessly hardware-wise as they're approved and tested by them

I do have the list, and I noticed that quite a few of them only work with 2 sticks, but not 4. That made me think I should do more research and ask for actual direct user experience building a hackintosh.

Not sure about the 128GB. I have 32GB (4x8GB) of Team Group Vulcan DDR4-3000. It wasn't on the list of memory supported by the designare, but OOB it worked just fine. Googled a bit a while back, and it seems memory compatibility is hardly an issue these days. That said, YMMV. If I were you I'd just buy 128GB from a reputable store with a proper return policy and try your luck!

You're right, memory compatibility seems much better these days... but does hackintosh affect this at all? Could a memory that is validated for this motherboard on Windows or Linux not play ball when installing Mac OS? Or is it just theoretically impossible?

Thanks for helping!

 

[CaseySJ]

I've tried them all, it just won't boot.
It gets stuck at appleacpicpu and won't move forward.
If I put FakeSMC into kext/other and force a kext injection, I'm able to boot the system and revert the changes.
For me VirtualSMC is a no go.
Instructions have been followed carefully 4 times

I see. When the next version of VirtualSMC is released (in about a month or two), let's go through the update once again. Just let me know ahead of time so I can check the before-and-after configuration.

 

[CaseySJ]

Not sure about the 128GB. I have 32GB (4x8GB) of Team Group Vulcan DDR4-3000. It wasn't on the list of memory supported by the designare, but OOB it worked just fine. Googled a bit a while back, and it seems memory compatibility is hardly an issue these days. That said, YMMV. If I were you I'd just buy 128GB from a reputable store with a proper return policy and try your luck!

Noted! Thanks for helping.

I do have the list, and I noticed that quite a few of them only work with 2 sticks, but not 4. That made me think I should do more research and ask for actual direct user experience building a hackintosh.

You're right, memory compatibility seems much better these days... but does hackintosh affect this at all? Could a memory that is validated for this motherboard on Windows or Linux not play ball when installing Mac OS? Or is it just theoretically impossible?

Thanks for helping!

We have seen very good compatibility with any DDR4 XMP 2.0-capable memory, but there have been some hiccups:

• Corsair Vengeance LPX modules have had an unusual failure rate. Replacement modules have worked well, so buy this from a retailer with a good return/exchange policy.
• @DarrenM just reported a problem with HyperX Predator 3600MHz DIMM. This doesn't mean the model itself is incompatible, but his particular module(s) may have been faulty.
• We have seen a number of problems with 128GB memory capacity (32GB modules x 4). Please search this thread for "128GB" or "128 GB" to investigate further.

 

[mobi]

I see. When the next version of VirtualSMC is released (in about a month or two), let's go through the update once again. Just let me know ahead of time so I can check the before-and-after configuration.

I guess that happened updating to VirtualSMC 1.07

 

[CaseySJ]

Hi Casey/Hackers

I have not seen BruceX Scores better than 7s-ish,
I was wondering if this was just coincidence or the test is too short for new systems.

Wanting to upgrade to a Designare / 9900k system, trying to see if it will be any faster.
I recently got two RX580s to work in my old X79/4930k system, and the scores are surprisingly good.

Attached is an updated BruceX Test,Could you please run this
Standard 5k
5K X5 (which is just 5 copies of the original)
New 8k Version

My System (ProRes 422)
Mojave 10.14.6 | Final Cut Pro X 10.4.6 | Dual RX580's
Bruce-X - 5K . <9s
Bruce-X - 8K . <20s
Bruce-X - 5K X5 >41s

Did a quick test:
Intel Core i9 9900K
64GB memory
Samsung NVME 970 Plus 1TB
Radeon RX Vega 56 8 GB

export ProRes422
4K: 16 sec
8K: 1.06 minutes

Almost no CPU and Graphics card load.
The Graphics card has 100% memory load..

Intel Core i9 9900K
64GB memory
Samsung EVO 970 1TB
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8 GB

5K: 0:16
5K X5: 1:10
8K: 0:41

@Ryan Thomas,

Please have a look at the 2 quoted posts that show results from the revised BruceX benchmark.

Thanks @Gompy and @jrebergen.

 

[mobi]

We have seen very good compatibility with any DDR4 XMP 2.0-capable memory, but there have been some hiccups:

Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro DDR4 3200mhz 16gbx2 running great here

 

[pianistslogic]

** Final Cut Pro Users **

We're looking for some volunteers to run the updated BruceX benchmark in Ryan's post here:

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

Hi Casey/Hackers I have not seen BruceX Scores better than 7s-ish, I was wondering if this was just coincidence or the test is too short for new systems. Wanting to upgrade to a Designare / 9900k system, trying to see if it will be any faster. I recently got two RX580s to work in my old...

www.tonymacx86.com

Here goes..

FCPX 10.4.6
Background render: off
Shared as: Master file -> Video/Audio, Apple ProRes 422
Clocked from: press of 'Save' to QuickTime popping up.

5K = 10.3s
5K - X5 = 36.2s
8k = 38.0s

Specs:
iMac 19,1
i9700k
Sapphire Radeon RX 580 8GD5 Nitro+ lite
32GB DDR4 3000MHz
M.2 970 EVO 500GB

A bit surprised by the fact that my 8k is slower than the 5k x5? Haven't really checked anything out about this yet, but so far I've only seen results of 8k rendering faster than 5k x5.

 

[archalys]

Has anyone tried Catalina beta with this board yet?

 

[archalys]

I've tried them all, it just won't boot.
It gets stuck at appleacpicpu and won't move forward.
If I put FakeSMC into kext/other and force a kext injection, I'm able to boot the system and revert the changes.
For me VirtualSMC is a no go.
Instructions have been followed carefully 4 times

I ran into this updating everything the other day. My solution was to downgrade clover back to version 4920. VirtualSMC worked after that.