Gigabyte Z490 Vision D (Thunderbolt 3) + i5-10400 + AMD RX 580

[trs96]

I would suggest avoiding Western Digital Black (WD Black)

Why ?

 

[PoloX]

Hello @PoloX,

Welcome to the forum, and good choice to build a Vision D Hackintosh!

The Samsung 970 EVO Plus is compatible now because of new firmware. In the rare event that your EVO Plus comes with old firmware, it can be upgraded through a self-booting USB flash disk or by using Samsung Magician software for Windows.

At this time I would suggest avoiding Western Digital Black (WD Black) NVMe SSD. Other than that you should be okay.

Thank you Casey !

 

[CODYQX4]

Why ?

In my personal experience they didn't work with Linux due to something with the APST and required special boot flags just to even boot. I had 2-3 of them at one point and sold them to buy Samsung 970 Evo Plus.

I don't think macOS had this issue, but Ubuntu definitely did. I wasn't even trying to install Ubuntu to the WD Black but the installer would panic at the same point if one was present.

 

[trs96]

In my personal experience they didn't work with Linux

OK, thought there might be some problem with macOS but that isn't the case.

 

[CaseySJ]

@cocoman0311,

Any progress on installing Catalina on your Western Digital (WD) NVMe SSD? Is the installer still failing?

 

[CaseySJ]

Why ?

Please see the posts by @cocoman0311 in this thread. We’re unable to start the Catalina installer. Haven’t identified the root cause though. We suspect the WD NVMe, but it’s just a suspicion.

 

[jimbojingle]

Good choice. Big Sur is buggy. On my Z490 Vision D, for example, Safari is unable to load most websites:
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Try going to System Preferences --> Startup Disk and selecting (or re-selecting) the Catalina disk.

That doesnt seem to work. Tried it twice now. Where would the name 'parallels' be stored to come up like that?

 

[CaseySJ]

That doesnt seem to work. Tried it twice now. Where would the name 'parallels' be stored to come up like that?

Try this:

• Run Disk Utility and select View --> Show All Devices.
• Then look at the left sidebar.
• What disk names do you see?

In the example below we see that:

• The two Catalina drives are named consistently (yellow box)
• The two Big Sur drives are not named consistently (magenta box)

If you see an inconsistent name, you can right-click on that name in Disk Utility and select Rename to change it.

 

[PoloX]

@CaseySJ ,

I have 2 others questions .
The first one is about Serial Ata HDD :
- Can i use HDD Serial Ata 6 Gb/s for data storage for the hackintosh ?
- Is Seagate Barracuda it a good choice ? https://www.ldlc.com/fiche/PB00254175.html
- I want to use Dual boot with Windows 10 . So can i share this Data HDD for the both SSD OS ?( one for windows, one for Catalina )

The Second question is about the speed of the RAM :
- The Gigabyte Z490 vision D should accept 4400 Mhz DDR4
- So Why ( except for the money cost ) nobody use more than DDR4 3200 Mhz ?
- What is the best for Z490 vision D DDR4 in Mhz ? 2933 ? 3000 ? 3200 ? or More ??!!

Thank to you in advance !

 

[CaseySJ]

@CaseySJ ,

I have 2 others questions .
The first one is about Serial Ata HDD :
- Can i use HDD Serial Ata 6 Gb/s for data storage for the hackintosh ?
- Is Seagate Barracuda it a good choice ? https://www.ldlc.com/fiche/PB00254175.html
- I want to use Dual boot with Windows 10 . So can i share this Data HDD for the both SSD OS ?( one for windows, one for Catalina )

Sure you can use SATA HDDs. To share this HDD with both macOS and Windows, you will need to initialize the drive using a format that both macOS and Windows can read and write. However, you can buy software that allows macOS to read/write NTFS, and software that allows Windows to read/write HFS+.

The Second question is about the speed of the RAM :
- The Gigabyte Z490 vision D should accept 4400 Mhz DDR4
- So Why ( except for the money cost ) nobody use more than DDR4 3200 Mhz ?
- What is the best for Z490 vision D DDR4 in Mhz ? 2933 ? 3000 ? 3200 ? or More ??!!

Higher memory speeds do not provide any meaningful improvement in system performance. They may, however, provide some benefit to hard-core competitive gamers who require every little bit of advantage in order to defeat competitors. If you're not a competitive gamer, I don't see the need to spend that much money on the fastest RAM.

Fact: The fastest RAM in real Apple Macintosh computers has been 2933 MHz. The new 2020 10th-Gen MacBook Pro 13", however, has 3733 MHz LPDDR4X (low-power DDR4 for mobile computers).