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[mpsOsx]

I've been having hard time installing BigSur on my Asus-Prime-Z590-P (intel 10700k) No graphics card configuration.
I'm getting broken letters on screen during installation.check my another question


I had been researching and found this link on open-core ( Intel GPUs )

Do I have to buy a Graphics Card ?
I believe only UHD 610 is unsupported 10700K has UHD 630

 

[etorix]

The iGPU in your i7-10700K is supported… but only on 400-series, not on 500-series such as Z590. You unfortunately have to get either a dGPU or change your motherboard for a Z490.

 

[mpsOsx]

No.. Please tell me you are joking ...

I actually did not find any such incompatibility info on Opencore website.. I researched before I bought the hardware...I just built this new PC and did not find any such not supported info anywhere earlier...

I can neither return this MOBO now (over 14 days) nor have budget to buy a dGPU.
Is there a workaround to make this work ?

Also, Is this the root cause of the problem in my Other question ?

 

[etorix]

Some information is actually here:

Intel Z590 compatibility with macOS

As I mentioned earlier in the monthly release notes blogpost, over the last weeks we did a great job with @vandroiy2013 in testing Intel Z590 with Comet Lake (10th generation) and Rocket Lake (11th generation) CPUs. While our experience was generally positive it was still full of unexpected...

dortania.github.io

Searching this forum (for say "Z590 iGPU") should confirm that I'm unfortunately not joking.
If there's a workaround, no one has found it yet. You're most welcome to try and beat the developers who have experimented with Z590 so far.
Else, your best option is to resell your motherboard second-hand and get a corresponding Z490 motherboard.

(Although you only have posted three messages so far, a direct link to your "other question" would have been welcome. And, yes, this is obviously the root cause.)

 

[mpsOsx]

Some information is actually here:

Intel Z590 compatibility with macOS

As I mentioned earlier in the monthly release notes blogpost, over the last weeks we did a great job with @vandroiy2013 in testing Intel Z590 with Comet Lake (10th generation) and Rocket Lake (11th generation) CPUs. While our experience was generally positive it was still full of unexpected...

dortania.github.io

Searching this forum (for say "Z590 iGPU") should confirm that I'm unfortunately not joking.
If there's a workaround, no one has found it yet. You're most welcome to try and beat the developers who have experimented with Z590 so far.
Else, your best option is to resell your motherboard second-hand and get a corresponding Z490 motherboard.

(Although you only have posted three messages so far, a direct link to your "other question" would have been welcome. And, yes, this is obviously the root cause.)

I'm sorry I missed that, here is the direct kink

BigSur Instal Asus Z590-P, 10700K,Stops and shows broken letters

I'm trying to Hackintosh a Z590 10700K system using Opencore. Here is GitHub link containing my final EFI folder and the build specs (EFI Folder link) This is a completely new build without any operating system installed When I boot the MacOsInstaller USB, it stops at below screen for Few...

www.tonymacx86.com

Pardon my ignorance, So as per your suggestion, I should

Either
buy a Z490 MOBO, do you have a recommendation ? anything between $150-170$ range.
OR
Buy a graphics card to make it work ? Any recommendation here considering low budget and I don't play games?

 

[Feartech]

I'm sorry I missed that, here is the direct kink

BigSur Instal Asus Z590-P, 10700K,Stops and shows broken letters

I'm trying to Hackintosh a Z590 10700K system using Opencore. Here is GitHub link containing my final EFI folder and the build specs (EFI Folder link) This is a completely new build without any operating system installed When I boot the MacOsInstaller USB, it stops at below screen for Few...

www.tonymacx86.com

Pardon my ignorance, So as per your suggestion, I should

Either
buy a Z490 MOBO, do you have a recommendation ? anything between $150-170$ range.
OR
Buy a graphics card to make it work ? Any recommendation here considering low budget and I don't play games?

your hardware profile should say: Intel UHD 630

either purchase a compatible motherboard or compatible AMD card

 

[UtterDisbelief]

I'm sorry I missed that, here is the direct kink

BigSur Instal Asus Z590-P, 10700K,Stops and shows broken letters

I'm trying to Hackintosh a Z590 10700K system using Opencore. Here is GitHub link containing my final EFI folder and the build specs (EFI Folder link) This is a completely new build without any operating system installed When I boot the MacOsInstaller USB, it stops at below screen for Few...

www.tonymacx86.com

Pardon my ignorance, So as per your suggestion, I should

Either
buy a Z490 MOBO, do you have a recommendation ? anything between $150-170$ range.
OR
Buy a graphics card to make it work ? Any recommendation here considering low budget and I don't play games?

Cheapest option is to buy a nvidia GT710 gpu with maybe gddr3 memory. Some say gddr5 cards work but I have no direct experience with those.

The card is still just about native in Big Sur but artefacts might creep in when Previewing or using Photos. They don't harm the files but can be annoying.

I used a Zotac with my B560 build.

(Don't forget to update your hardware profile as @Feartech suggests).

 

[etorix]

buy a Z490 MOBO, do you have a recommendation ? anything between $150-170$ range.

Anything you can find at an acceptable price while supply lasts and which has the right features for you…
I have not upgraded from 9th gen. so I have no recommendation but others users may help you—and you can search the forum for user builds before buying any particular motherboard.

Buy a graphics card to make it work ? Any recommendation here considering low budget and I don't play games?

See above for the cheapest option.
But @Edhawk explained here why he expects Apple to drop support for these cards very soon. I have no idea if he's right but his rationale makes sense.

Replacing the motherboard is more work, but the UHD 630 iGPU will certainly be supported by future OS X versions until Apple definitely drops Intel support.
Getting a cheap GPU is easiest, but "cheap GPU" is quite an oxymoron these days and GT710 is an old chip (so there may be a risk).
Personally, I'd replace the motherboard, for the sake of peace of mind, but the choice is yours.

 

[mpsOsx]

@UtterDisbelief Thanks for suggestion,

As you said Nvidia GT710 will make the bigSur install work on Z590
BUT with afterEffects which might make system annoying.

I see I can get this in 70$ Gigabyte GeForce GT 710 1GB Graphic Cards
But
is there any slightly better dGPU (in 100$-150$ range) which I can use and not have issues later.
(I will not play games, maximum graphics intensive thing I do is, maybe editing some 4k videos/photos. Which I can still do on my Macbook 13" with integrated Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 from CPU, it just slow but works, programming and running local k8s containers doesn't need any graphics card. that's why I never bothered to get any)


Or if there is no decent dGPU in this range I'll change the MOBO to Z490,
not sure why Z490 are more expensive than Z590, I searched and cheapest Z490 motherboard available for quick delivery is still 200$ GIGABYTE Z490 AORUS Elite.
Is this compatible ?

 

[trs96]

Buy a graphics card to make it work ? Any recommendation here considering low budget and I don't play games?

The only AMD RX560 card available anywhere near retail price is the Visiontek RX560. It will have support in Monterey. See if you can find one under $200 where you shop. A few of the mods here use them and they work OOB with nothing needed to make them work. It's a much better card than any low cost Nvidia if you want to edit videos and photos. I would still go for the Z490 board to use with it. Still too many ??s with Z590 to recommend that.

Z590 compatibility with macOS (from testing by Acidanthera)​

• GOP performance is terrible in some BIOS versions. For unknown reasons both IGPU and dGPU (multiple Polaris and Navi cards) have vey slow rendering in UEFI and XNU kernel 1st stage regardless of the CPU generation. This was mostly addressed by the firmware updates, but in our opinion verbose boot is still visually a bit slower than older boards. Fortunately it does not affect booted macOS performance anyhow.
• XMP is completely broken in early BIOS versions. In most cases the motherboard will simply not boot without a CMOS reset. BIOS updates got that fixed, yet manual overclocking does not seem to be working as stable as in Z490.
• Sometimes the firmware randomly switches the GPU slot to PCIe x8 or x1 with no software solution but with a simple replug resolving the problem. We failed to find a logical explanation, yet always checking the lane count is by all means reasonable anyway.