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

[VVK]

Not related to Hackintosh, sorry, but is it normal that this board boots quite slow? And there is no info during POST too. All disks, USB and graphic card are physically removed.

 

[elfcake]

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[z4k]

Hello guys, reporting in with the latest results of my Hackintosh build. Brand new components, OpenCore 0.5.5, OSX 10.14.6 tweaked exactly by @CaseySJ files and guides.

I'm thrilled to report my build is rock solid 3 weeks in. I'm enjoying working on it SO MUCH!! No crashes, no bugs on anything and running as smooth as a similarly specced Mac across the board. I actually sold my old 2012 MacBook pro once I saw how good this machine works.

System integrity Protection Enabled from installation, Vaulting setup on OpenCore (EFI security feature), FileVault also enabled successfully at some point for testing, Carbon copy done (again, thanks Casey for the script+guide).

Working on heavy Logic Pro, FCPX projects with zero issues or unexpected behaviour of any kind. Huge huge huge thanks to Casey and everyone in this thread. I'm reading the new posts daily and its great to see how many people get awesome machines this way.

Leaving my latest benchmarks here (NO overclocking on those at all) and I hope everyone gets great working Macs out of this thread as well. Cheers!!

 

[wado729]

You are partially right, I was using other version of OcQuirks, but now I tried with your version (-4.efi witch 26,208 bytes) and the problem still exists if I dont use MemoryAllocation.
Re-checking:

• slide=0
• OcQuirks-4.efi 26,208 bytes
• FwRuntimeServices.efi 5,184 bytes

I think for me this MemoryAllocation.efi with this other 2 .efi solved the problem, btway I only used this build for less than 1 day without heavy load, if any problem related with memory allocations appears (freezes or wake from sleep problems) I will put a comment down here.
By now everything appears to be smooth as it should be

You are a godsend! I've been trying to free myself of the free2000.efi for months and this did it. OC (Github) + FW + MemAllo + slide=0 let me boot!

 

[CaseySJ]

Not related to Hackintosh, sorry, but is it normal that this board boots quite slow? And there is no info during POST too. All disks, USB and graphic card are physically removed.

Are you sure that's a Gigabyte Designare Z390? In any case, the boot time in the video seems quite normal.

 

[VVK]

Are you sure that's a Gigabyte Designare Z390? In any case, the boot time in the video seems quite normal.

I’m sure. So your board shows some information during post?
As for booting time, right after build it was like 3 sec. from MB beep sound till Windows desktop background picture. Then I installed Hack to another nvme, couple of ssd’s, and now post time is 12 sec even with all the peripheral removed

 

[sakoula]

Hi everyone,

I am on 10.15.3 with clover using this amazing thread with an RX580 and a Z390 designare. I have a question: I have iStat Menus which I really like. Up to now I have been using FakeSMC and on the Catalina upgrade I started using VirtualSMC. I understand that VirtualSMC is missing some GPU sensors and I cannot see any more the temp and GPU RPM Fan. Has any one found a solution on this?

I would like to thank everyone on this thread and particularly @CaseySJ !!!

 

[zipb]

What's the latest news on the Thunderbolt front? Kind of quiet lately...

 

[CaseySJ]

I’m sure. So your board shows some information during post?
As for booting time, right after build it was like 3 sec. from MB beep sound till Windows desktop background picture. Then I installed Hack to another nvme, couple of ssd’s, and now post time is 12 sec even with all the peripheral removed

It seems as though BIOS is not configured correctly. Try reconfiguring it -- start with Load Optimized Defaults then make the changes shown in Post #1.

 

[VVK]

It seems as though BIOS is not configured correctly. Try reconfiguring it -- start with Load Optimized Defaults then make the changes shown in Post #1.

Did that many times. Moreover - cleared cmos, reflashed bios, changed every parameter in Boot section, removed everything including memory sticks. No avail.
Can somebody tell me if your Z390 Designare shows detailed info during POST, like any other MB does, or not?