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Well, so far everything is still working fine. I can't believe that with the setup that I (and quite a few others here on this post), have machines that cost us $2,500 to $4,500, that it literally is on the same par of the new MacPros that cost $12,000 to $25,000+. Just amazing. My particular setup would have cost me around $33,000 for the same machine. And I've had my machine now for over 2.5 years and it's still a working powerhouse. Thanks to guys like you!!! Without you and forums like this, I would be dead in the water. I'm so glad that I have this and 3 x 28" 4K monitors working side, by side, by side. This is just amazing! I'm also glad that I made a backup system identical to my machine (just in case).

I will say that your BIOS setup is mostly like the way KGP set his up with a slight adjustment on two things:

KGP's (Klaus') setup:
b.) AVX Instruction Core Ratio Negative Offset: "2"
c.) AVX-512 Instruction Core Ratio Negative Offset: "3"

@Loloflatsix's setup:
b.) AVX Instruction Core Ratio Negative Offset: "3"
c.) AVX-512 Instruction Core Ratio Negative Offset: "2"

Now I haven't changed anything on mine, so it's the same (as it has been for 2.5 years now), as KGP set it up. So my question to you @Loloflatsix, is there a difference? Let me know. Thanks.

Good question ! ;)

But my settings are according to Kgp's original High Sierra guide here : #1 :

1.) /AI Tweaker/
a.) ASUS MultiCore Enhancement: Auto [optional "Disabled", see important notification below!]
b.) AVX Instruction Core Ratio Negative Offset: "3" [optional "Auto", see important notification below!]
c.) AVX-512 Instruction Core Ratio Negative Offset: "2" [optional "Auto", see important notification below!]
d.) CPU Core Ratio: Sync All Cores [optional "Auto", see important notification below!]
e.) CPU SVID Support: Enabled [fundamental for proper IPG CPU power consumption display]


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Edit some explanations :

AVX Instruction is for 256-bit Integer SIMD (AVX) for example if your CPU speed is 4,8 GHz -2 results —> 4,6 GHz
AVX-512 Instruction is for 512-bit Integer SIMD (AVX-512) for example if your CPU speed is 4,8 GHz -3 results —> 4,5 GHz

More documented explanations can be read here : Gathering Intel on Intel AVX-512 Transitions

Silicon lottery has in the setting for their OC to be stable :
-3 AVX Offset
-5 AVX512 Offset
 
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Well, so far everything is still working fine. I can't believe that with the setup that I (and quite a few others here on this post), have machines that cost us $2,500 to $4,500, that it literally is on the same par of the new MacPros that cost $12,000 to $25,000+.

While that may be true, x86-64 is over on the Mac. Anything beyond most likely Big Sur will require real Macs ;)
I don't want to rain on your parade, but x86-64 is out the door and if you do any professional grade work, those applications are going to drop Intel soon. Adobe does yearly updates, so 2022 will be ARM only.

If anyone remembers, PowerPC > Intel, it took under 2 years and Universal Apps were gone by Snow Leopard.

I personally didn't go the hackintosh route to save money, I went because at the time the iMac Pro was the only high end machine available. And in a sense I really think the Mac Pro is not fast enough for me, even their 28 core. When you start reaching 45k for a computer, it makes you think about it twice. Apple did price out a lot of people.

Things like this do give me positive vibes though:

If Intel is charging Apple $8,000 for a 28c processor, it will cost Apple much less to develop it on their own.
 
While that may be true, x86-64 is over on the Mac. Anything beyond most likely Big Sur will require real Macs ;)
I don't want to rain on your parade, but x86-64 is out the door and if you do any professional grade work, those applications are going to drop Intel soon. Adobe does yearly updates, so 2022 will be ARM only.

If anyone remembers, PowerPC > Intel, it took under 2 years and Universal Apps were gone by Snow Leopard.

I personally didn't go the hackintosh route to save money, I went because at the time the iMac Pro was the only high end machine available. And in a sense I really think the Mac Pro is not fast enough for me, even their 28 core. When you start reaching 45k for a computer, it makes you think about it twice. Apple did price out a lot of people.

Things like this do give me positive vibes though:

If Intel is charging Apple $8,000 for a 28c processor, it will cost Apple much less to develop it on their own.
Thanks for the info, but in all honesty, what do I care. I got my use out of this machine and if I can continue to use it until that time, it'll STILL be useful even beyond 18 - 24 months afterward (before things start not working anyway).

So again, I don't care. Someone will figure out a way to build a better Hackintosh that will be comparable to what we're using right now. So I'm not afraid. All we're going to do is follow what someone else will post on here (or somewhere else), that we can build and use and we will still build our businesses and everything else with what we're going to use it for. Hope with what I shared helped. Again, there will ALWAYS be a work around. You can quote me on this: "YOU CAN'T CONTROL PEOPLE WITH THAT KIND OF PROGRESS OF KNOWLEDGE". Again, hope that makes sense (as you will inevitably benefit from this anyway, in the end, with a better and faster machine).
 
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Intel is developing neural processors that simulate brain function in structure. This architecture will provide much greater agility when processing information, not to mention what this means for AI. While Apple looks at its own navel, with processors that already look obsolete and that base their fluency on the ultra-debugging of the apps. In 10 years we will see Apple try with its processors to imitate what Intel is already developing.
 
Has anyone run into where macOS just hangs then reboots? I can’t even reinstall macOS since it keeps rebooting. I’ve literally tried almost everything

1. Different ssds/slots
2. Removing ram
3. OpenCore 0.6.3/0.6.4
4. Clear CMOS, BIOS Flashback

Doesn’t make sense that it was working fine yesterday and now I can’t get it to work at all....

Works fine on my Samsung 960 EVO but having issues on 970 EVO and 970 EVO Plus
 
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Good question ! ;)

But my settings are according to Kgp's original High Sierra guide here : #1 :

1.) /AI Tweaker/
a.) ASUS MultiCore Enhancement: Auto [optional "Disabled", see important notification below!]
b.) AVX Instruction Core Ratio Negative Offset: "3" [optional "Auto", see important notification below!]
c.) AVX-512 Instruction Core Ratio Negative Offset: "2" [optional "Auto", see important notification below!]
d.) CPU Core Ratio: Sync All Cores [optional "Auto", see important notification below!]
e.) CPU SVID Support: Enabled [fundamental for proper IPG CPU power consumption display]


:thumbup:

Edit some explanations :

AVX Instruction is for 256-bit Integer SIMD (AVX) for example if your CPU speed is 4,8 GHz -2 results —> 4,6 GHz
AVX-512 Instruction is for 512-bit Integer SIMD (AVX-512) for example if your CPU speed is 4,8 GHz -3 results —> 4,5 GHz

More documented explanations can be read here : Gathering Intel on Intel AVX-512 Transitions

Silicon lottery has in the setting for their OC to be stable :
-3 AVX Offset
-5 AVX512 Offset
Thanks for the reply and will look into making these changes and see what happens. I can always change it back to what I've been using later if it doesn't work for me. Again, thanks.
 
Adobe does yearly updates, so 2022 will be ARM only.
You mean hardware from Apple
Software will be both ARM & Intel for much longer, no?
What about the MacPro 2019 Buyers/users ?
If Intel is charging Apple $8,000 for a 28c processor, it will cost Apple much less to develop it on their own.
I didn't know that Apple has to pay an Intel taxe :shifty:
 
You mean hardware from Apple
Software will be both ARM & Intel for much longer, no?
What about the MacPro 2019 Buyers/users ?

I didn't know that Apple has to pay an Intel taxe :shifty:

No, for now main applications (stuff that people use Macs for) ie Adobe software will be Universal (package will contain both ARM and Intel executables) but late 2021 it will be all ARM. For example, Adobe 2022 will completely drop Intel support. Intel is on life support in the Apple atmosphere.

The same thing happened during the PowerPC > Intel transition if anyone remembers. They dropped PowerPC after Snow Leopard was released.

Mac Pro 2019 buyers are screwed as were G5 owners. They will just be stuck using old software and old versions of macOS.

There is a reason Big Sur installer is so big, its 12GB+, Apple really wants to dump the Intel codebase from it asap.

People who are Hackintoshing are delusional if they think Apple isn't accelerating the removal of Intel from it's production line. They literally just dropped 3 lower-tier Macs that are getting excellent reviews. Next on the chopping block is iMac and Mac Pro (probably the last one to get the upgrade).

Also usually people who buy high end Mac Pros are production companies, and they usually have 2 year lease agreements so they will be swapped anyway. No production company buys this stuff outright for $10k+, they will get new ARM Mac Pros.

I honestly WOULD NOT use Rosetta 2 + Adobe Intel software for actual work, it looks like the performance isn't there and it crashes.

So far Adobe has ARM betas for Photoshop, Premiere Pro and After Effects. They all seem buggy and missing a bunch of features, but come next year we're going to see them come out of beta. I'm more worried about After Effects since theres so much old code in there and so many plugins that I personally still use (I had to change my workflow from 32bit to 64bit plugins when they got rid of 32bit support). But Apple and Adobe are somewhat of partners together so I'm hopeful this transition will be smooth.

I am personally waiting for a new ARM iMac next year (which most likely will look like a XDR display). I'm done with Hackintoshes.

And of course Apple has to pay Intel tax, they might get volume discounts, but these Xeon processors aren't cheap to make for Intel. Intel is screwed in general for the next few years. ARM is the future of computing, when manufacturers see how well the Apple M1 chips are doing in the consumer world, they are bound to jump on board to. You are going to see Windows Arm computers coming to town starting late next year, and maybe even early next year at CES. ARM is about to take off in a major way outside of mobile phones.
 
Can anyone help with Shutdown > Rebooting issue?


I looked at the DSDT and it doesn't seem to work properly.

I do have a PCIe USB card and have added that as an SSDT, but still didn't work.

Code:
DefinitionBlock ("", "SSDT", 2, "Slav", "ZPTS", 0x00000000)
{
    External (_SB_.PC00.XHCI.PMEE, FieldUnitObj)
    External (ZPTS, MethodObj)    // 1 Arguments

    Method (_PTS, 1, NotSerialized)  // _PTS: Prepare To Sleep
    {
        ZPTS (Arg0)
        If ((0x05 == Arg0))
        {
            \_SB.PC00.XHCI.PMEE = Zero
        }
    }
}
 
Does anyone still uses a SATA Optical Drive? I have a Pioneer Blu-Ray writer connected to the Sata Port. It was running well in Catalina(Clover), but after updated to Big Sur(Opencore), the connection will dropped when the finder window is opened.... anyone face the same issue?
 
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