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

Certain applications such as (a) Final Cut Pro, (b) iMovie, (c) Firefox, (d) ACDSee Photo Editor for Mac, etc. will crash on launch. Certain web pages will not open in Safari. So use of iGPU is not recommended for daily use.

On-board HDMI broke somewhere around Catalina 10.15.5, but has now been fixed with today's release of WhateverGreen 1.4.1. However, the above listed apps still crash on launch.

Pro Tools is not a GPU intensive application. So a high end GPU will just be idling 99% of the time. I think RX 580 or even RX 590 is a remarkably good choice.

Although you're starting to get into 4K video editing at this time, if this does become a significant activity then a more capable GPU is justified. It might still make sense to start with RX 580 or 590 and upgrade the GPU as your needs evolve. This, after all, is one of the most fundamental value propositions of a Hackintosh: Upgradeability.

Thanks for the insight! I'll see if I can snag a cheap used AMD gpu for now
 
** OFFICIAL: OpenCore 0.6.0 EFI for Z490 Vision D **
Please do not quote this post in its entirely. Use a link instead.​
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I tried using the OC 6.0 EFI folder, everything seems fine except sleep, screen display goes black but system does not sleep
 
I tried using the OC 6.0 EFI folder, everything seems fine except sleep, screen display goes black but system does not sleep
Hello @jbravo14

Please do not quote the entire guide as stated in the 2nd line. Imagine if everyone quoted every guide every time they reported a problem. This thread would be bombarded with repetition, which not only wastes disk and network bandwidth, but visually pollutes the thread. Simply edit your post and remove the quoted guide.

Regarding sleep, please try resetting NVRAM one time from the OpenCore Picker menu by pressing spacebar and selecting Reset NVRAM. If the problem persists, run Activity Monitor and sort the list by % CPU. Is there any process that is taking 100% or more of CPU time? If not, remove USB devices except keyboard and mouse. Does sleep work? If not, have a look at the Sleep Aid.

Finally, if you followed the OC 0.6.0 instructions and installed OC 0.6.0 on a USB Flash Disk first, simply boot the system from the original EFI folder on the Catalina SSD to confirm if sleep does in fact work with the previous EFI folder.
 
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Any functional/performance upgrades if upgrading from 5.9 to 6? Mine's been super solid and just hesitant to mess with it, but down to try if it means better performance
 
Any functional/performance upgrades if upgrading from 5.9 to 6? Mine's been super solid and just hesitant to mess with it, but down to try if it means better performance
Put 0.6.0 on a USB stick and boot from that. Run it for a day or two to see if it’s better, if not, shutdown, pull the stick out and reboot like nothing ever happened. :)
 
Any functional/performance upgrades if upgrading from 5.9 to 6? Mine's been super solid and just hesitant to mess with it, but down to try if it means better performance
There are no speed improvements, only bug fixes and some new features that we may or may not use. Please have a look at the Acidanthera GitHub site where each kext release contains a list of what’s changed.
 
Hello @jbravo14

Please do not quote the entire guide as stated in the 2nd line. Imagine if everyone quoted every guide every time they reported a problem. This thread would be bombarded with repetition, which not only wastes disk and network bandwidth, but visually pollutes the thread. Simply edit your post and remove the quoted guide.

Regarding sleep, please try resetting NVRAM one time from the OpenCore Picker menu by pressing spacebar and selecting Reset NVRAM. If the problem persists, run Activity Monitor and sort the list by % CPU. Is there any process that is taking 100% or more of CPU time? If not, remove USB devices except keyboard and mouse. Does sleep work? If not, have a look at the Sleep Aid.

Finally, if you followed the OC 0.6.0 instructions and installed OC 0.6.0 on a USB Flash Disk first, simply boot the system from the original EFI folder on the Catalina SSD to confirm if sleep does in fact work with the previous EFI folder.

Apologies for the quote :) Yes I had it installed on USB EFI to test, and unplugged it after booting. After reverting back to the Old EFI sleep worked as expected.

Let me try the Reset NVRAM
 
Noob question, what is the setting in the BIOS that would unlock the power limit? I have a non-K 10700 and wanted to get the most performance out of it.

Hi @jbravo14 - did you have any luck with this? I am looking at this option too, compared to a 10700K, and whether removing the power levels and BCLK in the BIOS performs similarly to 10700K in MacOS.

For anyone else with a 104/6/7/900 (non-K) and adequate cooling that could test out this potential performance boost, it would be appreciated. It is essentially overwriting the PL1 and PL2 maximum wattage the chip can run at for extended periods, allowing it to stay in a boosted state, like a K chip would be doing. Relevant reading attached.

 
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Hi @jbravo14 - did you have any luck with this? I am looking at this option too, compared to a 10700K, and whether removing the power levels and BCLK in the BIOS performs similarly to 10700K in MacOS.

For anyone else with a 104/6/7/900 (non-K) and adequate cooling that could test out this potential performance boost, it would be appreciated. It is essentially overwriting the PL1 and PL2 maximum wattage the chip can run at for extended periods, allowing it to stay in a boosted state, like a K chip would be doing. Relevant reading attached.

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I played around with multiple power settings in the BIOS and all resulted to the same max boost frequency of 4.6 GHz. Looking at the bios setting further, I can see that only 2 cores can boost to 4.8 GHz and the rest can only boost to 4.6 GHz.

I did see that the power going as high as 137 - 140 watts when running Cinebench by just enabling multi core enhancement in BIOS.

When Running Cinebench single thread I can see boost clock hitting 4.8 and 4.7 with multi core work load for a few cores

The only other overclock you can do is BLCK overclock setting it to 102.6 mhm for a slight boost but may be risking your NVMe drive
 
I played around with multiple power settings in the BIOS and all resulted to the same max boost frequency of 4.6 GHz. Looking at the bios setting further, I can see that only 2 cores can boost to 4.8 GHz and the rest can only boost to 4.6 GHz.

I did see that the power going as high as 137 - 140 watts when running Cinebench by just enabling multi core enhancement in BIOS.

When Running Cinebench single thread I can see boost clock hitting 4.8 and 4.7 with multi core work load for a few cores

The only other overclock you can do is BLCK overclock setting it to 102.6 mhm for a slight boost but may be risking your NVMe drive

I guess the main benefit is that it can stay at that boosted state for an extended period of time. That is probably more valuable than the few MHz improvements (4.6GHz consistent over 8 cores is still pretty damn sweet). In any testing, did you notice it able to persist at the boosted clock speed, compared to it throttling itself after a couple of minutes and staying lower when the power limits remain at default? I haven't seen any info about that potentially impacting the NVMe - what have you seen?

And, are those PL1 and PL2 settings mentioned quite easily adjustable in the Vision D BIOS?
 
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