Recent content by worshipmaestro

Without a guide?? There is a comprehensive guide on the Dortania website for all manner of different CPUs and chipsets. I suggest you grab an unused hard drive and practice your install on that until a successful install and satisfaction with performance (including a successful USB map). I cut...

I've used AIO water coolers for many years on my builds, but probably won't again since I decided to give Noctua a try on my latest AMD Hack. 15 degrees Celsius cooler than the Wraith cooler AMD provides with the CPU, which itself is a definite step up from the normally bundled Intel coolers.

These are curious claims. I use Cubase and Waves daily on my Asrock x570/Ryzen 3700X/OSX 10.15.4 Ryzentosh and they have worked flawlessly. My daughter prefers to work in Logic and has experienced no issues. DaVinci Resolve also works well. Can't speak to Reaper as I use those other serious...

Yes, yes, and yes

What a tedious, pointless discussion that went on a bit too long! If one needs a new computer today, why would they give a rip what company might be on top of the CPU wars 5 years from now? The smart money would buy the CPU that gives them the most performance and value TODAY. Years ago I used...

I'm so sorry. This was a computer I built for my work. I am no longer in that job and don't have access to it anymore so I can't check config files, etc. Check to make sure that the TB settings in the BIOS are set to "Legacy", not "Secure" or something else. Also if you have success, be aware...

Hey, sorry! I just saw this post, almost a year later. Guessing it is moot now, but the answer is "yes", I did have to "wake up" the TB via Windows as has been widely reported for Hacks w/TB. I have since installed Win8.1 as my main system on this machine but am once again toying with OSX on...

Thanks for the suggestion. My Hack is once again stable and rocking a great Geekbench score, as well as reliably connecting to TB so I'm going to leave well enough alone. BIOS version F12b is beta code BTW, so technically not the latest officially supported firmware.

This is not entirely true. See my post above (#341) for the issue (and solution: latest BIOS) I was having with a build based on a Z370XP SLI.

Thanks for the idea, BoomR! Honestly, I don't know whether it did or didn't solve the issue. Here's why: I followed your procedure to the letter with no difference; I still needed to boot into Windows to connect to my Apollo, then restart and warm boot into my Mac installation. But......the...

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Hey all, an issue just cropped up for me on my latest build. I've built a Hack using a Gigabyte 370-SLI mobo with the Alpine Ridge card using BoomR's guide and it has been working wonderfully with my UAD Apollo TB interface for the past 6 months. All of the sudden I had some kind of system...

General system benchmarks from Geekbench 4 Sweet build, but I wonder if something is amiss in your setup. I have a similar build with the same processor and a GTX 970 video card. My GeekBench scores (and others I've seen on tonymac) are significantly higher. Try running Geekbench in 64 bit mode.

The TB3 ports DO work, but a system report indicates no drivers are loaded. Don't know why. I have this mobo, i5820K CPU and a Universal Audio Apollo audio interface connected to the TB port via a Kanex TB3 to TB2 adapter. It works, but the BIOS needs the Thunderbolt to be set to Legacy or it...

Wanted to let everyone know that I was able to successfully install 10.12.5 on a GA-X99P-SLI/i5820K combination. And the USB-C/Thunderbolt works! Now, this is NOT a guide. Think of it as more of a report of a work in progress. HARDWARE: Gigabyte GA-X99P-SLI motherboard i5920K CPU GTX960...