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- ASUS Pro WS X299 Sage II
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- i9-10980XE
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Thanks. I've done a bit of search for a CPU with a higher frequency than the 10900x, but I can't find anything X299 that has lots of PCIE lanes. Am I missing something? If not, I think I've decided to go with a 10920X and ASUS Pro WS X299 SAGE II Intel X299 MB. The 10920x is actually cheaper than the 10900x for some reason and I also have other workflows that do utilise many cores better than photoshop. I
In terms of the install, I've found this: https://github.com/nadenf/ASUS-X299-Hackintosh. It seems suggest that it can be used on all Asus X299 boards. Or am I misunderstanding? If I'm not, won't I be good to go, given that my broken board is an Asus x299 Deluxe?
One other thing is that I seem to recall having to enter the number of threads on the CPU as part of the install process. The 10920x has a few more than my old 7900x. Do you know where I update this?
Sorry for all the questions. It's ages since I last did a build, and I can't remember how I did it!
Thanks in advance!
Nick
If you decide to go with X299, I personally think the Sage boards are the best choice with Sage/10G being the most popular for hackintoshing. However, it uses two plx chips to achieve the 7x pcie slots and I don’t think they support bifurcation that the hyper m.2 card uses. So you’ll most likely have to put each m.2 card in a separate pcie slot. (Not 100% on this). I've had the Sage, Sage/10G, and Sage II (don't ask my why I had a problem with buying mobos) and I generally liked the Sage II the best since it was the newest and had more USB ports than the Sage/10G. It also has 3 U.2 ports that you can convert to M.2 if you wanted to.
That GitHub is actually mine but someone made a fork or cloned it. Here is mine https://github.com/shinoki77/ASUS-X299-Hackintosh and yes it works with all Asus boards granted you update to one of the most recent revisions with Resizable BAR support.
And no you don’t have to edit how many cores you have anymore with CpuTSCSync
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