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

[NorthAmTransAm]

The 590 cometh.

Ah jeez! Theres always a bigger fish.

@Bustycat wow, changing that timer to 999 made my boot FLY.

~13-14 seconds.

 

[djlild7hina]

Actually it's Thunderbolt/USB4 and yes we noticed it couple of weeks ago. It's awesome to see USB4 support and I hope this means we won't need to worry about Thunderbolt Bus ever again. But maybe I'm being too sanguine...

Have you seen any Thunderbolt 4 or USB 4 pcie cards? I know the z590 manuals mention them for boards with the headers but haven't seen any new cards from Gigabyte, ASUS, or ASRock

 

[CaseySJ]

Have you seen any Thunderbolt 4 or USB 4 pcie cards? I know the z590 manuals mention them for boards with the headers but haven't seen any new cards from Gigabyte, ASUS, or ASRock

Good question. Haven’t seen them yet, but there are Thunderbolt 4 docks on the market already.

Nice thing about Z590 chipset is that Thunderbolt is built right into it. So every Z590 board technically supports Thunderbolt if the board vendor adds the ports.

Z590 motherboards also have 2 Thunderbolt headers. Yes two headers!

 

[djlild7hina]

Good question. Haven’t seen them yet, but there are Thunderbolt 4 docks on the market already.

Nice thing about Z590 chipset is that Thunderbolt is built right into it. So every Z590 board technically supports Thunderbolt if the board vendor adds the ports.

Z590 motherboards also have 2 Thunderbolt headers. Yes two headers!

The original 5 pin header and the newer 3 pin right? I vaguely remember seeing that in the GC Titan Ridge V2

 

[Bustycat]

Ah jeez! Theres always a bigger fish.

@Bustycat wow, changing that timer to 999 made my boot FLY.

~13-14 seconds.

999 or similar value (microseconds) means a very short period that the timeout comes almost immediately.

 

[CaseySJ]

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Then I placed my Asrock Ultra Quad M.2 (containing my 970 EVO plus drives) back in the system. This time the crash is back and 0.6.6 won’t show and the computer hangs again.

After that I installed 0.6.5 on the Intel again and it worked fine again.
...

When you say the computer hanged with OC 0.6.6 in combination with either Samsung EVO 960 or EVO 970 Plus, where does the system hang?

• Right after the Gigabyte splash screen, but before OpenCore Picker appears?
• After OpenCore Picker is used to select macOS disk, but before the Apple logo appears on screen?
• After the Apple logo and boot-progress-bar appear on screen, but before the macOS login screen appears?

We can also enable file-based logging for OpenCore as follows:

OpenCore log files should then be in the EFI partition of the boot disk.

 

[CaseySJ]

The original 5 pin header and the newer 3 pin right? I vaguely remember seeing that in the GC Titan Ridge V2

Yes 5-pin and 3-pin headers. I wonder if only one is usable at a time.

 

[dehjomz]

I am sure about the pros and cons, but changing from -1 to 999 does reduce booting time.

Interesting. I’ll have to test as well.

 

[johnvid]

When you say the computer hanged with OC 0.6.6 in combination with either Samsung EVO 960 or EVO 970 Plus, where does the system hang?

• Right after the Gigabyte splash screen, but before OpenCore Picker appears?
• After OpenCore Picker is used to select macOS disk, but before the Apple logo appears on screen?
• After the Apple logo and boot-progress-bar appear on screen, but before the macOS login screen appears?

Right after the Gigabyte splash screen, but before OpenCore Picker appears.

I’ll try the logging option as soon as I am home. In about 2 hours.

 

[Bustycat]

Interesting. I’ll have to test as well.

Sorry I posted too soon that what I forgot adding a ‘not’. Anyway, my experiments showed that booting reduced 10 to 12 seconds on my Hackintosh builds, but my legacy MacBook Pro with OC reduced only 2 seconds.