@Leesureon and
@LordHumungus,
Good to know. Thanks. I'll try out various SMBIOS ID's and report back for those who may be curious. (actually, reading some previous posts here, some of you had tried them out and reported back...)
But while I have the ears/eyes of you experts, I'd like to ask another question if I may:
1. Have you guys, or anyone else for that matter, tried using Catalina's 5700xt drivers on Mojave? Would that even work? If anyone can tell me exactly which files I'd need to copy over from Catalina->Mojave, I'm willing to test it out, as my current build is essentially a test machine right now.
I'm finding that Catalina breaks a lot of software that I've come to depend on to the point where I don't think I can use it as a production machine until developers update things. It would be ideal to have Mojave til then, but with 5700xt driver support.
2. Can you guys recommend any Mac stress-testing software that targets only the CPU? And another one that target only the GPU? Call me a masochist, but I'd like to replicate the sizzle-crackle-pop experience that happened to my GPU once when I watched about 2 seconds of 4k Netflix, and recently when running Cinebench R20 in 1080p. I was never able to replicate that with neither Netflix nor Cinebench again. TBH, I'm not even 100% sure if it was the GPU that made the noise. Perhaps it was the CPU.
I'm thinking that those are the only parts that could have made that noise. I'd like to isolate the actual source of the problem before I start the arduous process of RMA'ing.
Thanks!
S