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Stork's Thunderball II Build: ASUS ProArt Z490 Creator (Thunderbolt 3) - i5-10400 - RX 580

@hisartwork, I’d wait for the next series of motherboards coming out this Spring which will have Thunderbolt 4 and USB-C combined. :thumbup:
 
Stork said:
Updated Post #1's Installation section to document how to get the Ethernet to work. Phew!

Thanks to @dolgarrenan and @CaseySJ for their help/advice.
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Dear @Stork, are you still sticking by your affinity toward Asus motherboards?
I hardly see a working Thunderbolt solution from that manufacturer (esp in the Z490 chipset, also extending to the AMD platform).
CaseySJ, our TB guru, seems to avoid it as well.
:) :)

Thanks.
 
centraljava said:
Dear @Stork, are you still sticking by your affinity toward Asus motherboards?
I hardly see a working Thunderbolt solution from that manufacturer (esp in the Z490 chipset, also extending to the AMD platform).
CaseySJ, our TB guru, seems to avoid it as well.
:) :)

Thanks.
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Well, I do have an Asus X99 Deluxe II (listed in my signature below). It's a lovely system with a flashed GC-Titan Ridge card. :)
 
@centraljava,

I review my motherboard choices each "season". Gigabyte and Asus have been the most usable of the the makes of motherboards. The Creator was a fun project, and I have a working Thunderbolt 3 capability using my OWC TB3 dock and OWC TB3 external NVMe SSD enclosure.

As @CaseySJ has stated numerous times, the AMD motherboards are not a trivial project to get working, and Thunderbolt 3 doesn't work with macOS on the AMD systems, IIRC.

BTW, CaseySJ has an X99 system with the Gigabyte Titan Rigid TB3 card, all working.
 
thx, i respect you both's opinions
intel 6th gen, that's many-many 'seasons' ago :)

seeing this more as a hobby (in this pandemy), am more & more drawn to the Red camp
 
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centraljava said:
thx, i respect you both's opinions
intel 6th gen, that's many-many 'seasons' ago :)

seeing this more as a hobby (in this pandemy), am more & more drawn to the Red camp (AMD)
they maintain the same socket, thru 5 generations of CPU's
some of the mb's could even accommodate (with updated BIOS) *all* the chips frm 1st thru 5th gens; pretty impressive.
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On-board Thunderbolt on the B550 Vision D (AMD Ryzen) works quite well with most devices, especially after flashing it with a modified version of the Designare Z390's NVM 33.

For a hobbyist, an AMD Ryzentosh is a great choice. I have two:
  • Gigabyte B550 Vision D with Ryzen 7 3700X (8 cores, 16 threads)
  • ASRock X570 Taichi with Ryzen 9 3800X (12 cores, 24 threads)
 
CaseySJ said:
On-board Thunderbolt on the B550 Vision D (AMD Ryzen) works quite well with most devices, especially after flashing it with a modified version of the Designare Z390's NVM 33.

For a hobbyist, an AMD Ryzentosh is a great choice. I have two:
  • Gigabyte B550 Vision D with Ryzen 7 3700X (8 cores, 16 threads)
  • ASRock X570 Taichi with Ryzen 9 3800X (12 cores, 24 threads)
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I am quite aware of those two you got CaseySJ :)
 
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Just discovered that, if your Ethernet port is active, my Thunderbolt 3 dock with a NVMe external SSD is shown on the Desktop upon boot up. If the Ethernet port is not active (you're using WiFi), then you have to hot-plug the TB3 device(s).
 
Any notes on USB mapping? I'm assuming you're using USB InjectAll with "Kernel -> Quirks -> XhciPortLimit -> True" since there is no mention of your USB mapping in the guide.

I'm curious now that @dolgarrenan said he had to disable the SSDT-RHUB to correctly map the ports, If I boot without SSDT-RHUB then none of my USB ports work, thus making it impossible to do any mapping.

I've successfully made a usb map by excluding a few ports since this goes way over the 15-port limit on the XHC controller. I'm unsure how to map the thunderbolt ports correctly though, if I plug in an iPhone with a usb-c to to lightening (usb2 speeds) it will show up as a HS device on the XHC controller (not the thunderbolt controller). And I don't have a thunderbolt device handy to see what happens in USBmap

For the Thunderbolt controller are you guys just setting the type to 'USB-C with switch' or are you leaving it out of your USB map altogether?

Thanks guys, can''t wait to get the last bit of my build done (USB map)
 
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