I have a wrong build. What should I replace? (RTX 4090 i9 13900 Z790)

After years with a Mac, I bought a PC with the best components available today.

I don't get along with Windows and I was looking for solutions and I came to “Hackintosh”.

I understood that a Mac installation does not support Nvidia RTX 4090,

I am considering selling my rtx 4090 and buying a graphic card that will support it instead. Can you help me with the best model that will support?

And also tell me if the other components on the computer are supported?



This is the computer specification I have:

CPU Intel Core i9 13900K / 1700 Tray

Motherboard Gigabyte Z790 AORUS ELITE AX

GPU Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4090 GV-N4090GAMING OC-24GD

Memory Corsair DDR 5 64G (32Gx2) 6000 CL40 Vengeance

SSD Drive Samsung SSD 2TB 990 PRO NVMe M.2

Hard Drive Toshiba 6.0TB 7200 512MB 3.5" Enterprise SATA3

PSU CoolerMaster 1200W V1200 Platinum Fully Modular

CPU Cooling be quiet! Water CPU Cooling Silent Loop 2 360mm

Case Fractal Design Meshify S2 White TG




Thank you

A Navi 21 Card from AMD is the latest supported series with the most GPU power.
These will work with Big Sur (latest . update), Monterey or Ventura. I would get a 6900XT.

trs96 said:

A Navi 21 Card from AMD is the latest supported series with the most GPU power.
These will work with Big Sur (latest . update), Monterey or Ventura. I would get a 6900XT.

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Thanks. What about the other specs? everything will support?

Zoock said:

Thanks. What about the other specs? everything will support?

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Zoock said:

everything will support?

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It will be no different than installing a 6800/6900XT into a 2019 Mac Pro. Everything will work the same that is graphics related. The hard part is making the EFI folder work with Z790 and a 13Th gen Intel CPU. Those don't have native support in MacOS.

I've lost track a little - is the Samsung 990 Pro NVME SSD one which avoids the trim issues?

Perhaps consider a Western Digital model instead?

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Perhaps consider a Western Digital model instead?

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Definitely switch that to a WD_Black SN850X model drive. They have sizes from 1-4TB so plenty of room on the boot drive. No TRIM related, slow boot time issues. Good catch

trs96 said:

It will be no different than installing a 6800/6900XT into a 2019 Mac Pro. Everything will work the same that is graphics related. The hard part is making the EFI folder work with Z790 and a 13Th gen Intel CPU. Those don't have native support in MacOS.

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Thank you. how should make the EFI for z790+13th ?

Zoock said:

Thank you. how should make the EFI for z790+13th ?

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Search the User Builds forum. Study what others are doing to make their Z690/Z790 builds work with Ventura. It will take some time to learn this if it's a first hackintosh for you. Also read the Dortania OpenCore guide.

Definitely read this Gigabyte Z690 Golden Build guide. You'll learn most of what you need to have success.