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

CaseySJ said:

Can you describe your monitor setup?

• Do you have 3 monitors connected to the Hackintosh:
  • Monitor 1 -> DP Cable -> GPU on Hack
  • Monitor 2 -> DP Cable -> GPU on Hack
  • Monitor 3 -> HDMI Cable -> HDMI on rear IO panel
• Or do you have 1 monitor connected 3 times to the Hack:
  • Monitor 1 -> DP Cable -> GPU on Hack
  • Monitor 1 -> DP Cable -> GPU on Hack
  • Monitor 1 -> HDMI Cable -> HDMI on rear IO panel

And are you saying that the HDMI connection works (monitor wakes up from sleep and displays a picture on HDMI if you power cycle the monitor after wake)?

What is the make and model of each monitor?

What is the make and model of the GPU?

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Well I'm not correct about waking in Ventura. That doesn't wake the monitor either (USBMap) vs Sonoma (SDDT-UIAC-VISION-D2_INTEL-BT.aml). I have one monitor Dell 27" model AW2720HF monitor connected via HDMI to HDMI iGPU port on motherboard. I also have a DP cable plugged into the DP port of the GPU RX 5700XT. (I did try removing the DP cable from the GPU to no avail). When I put the monitor to sleep, the screen goes black and at this point I can rewake it by moving the cursor or space on keyboard. If I let it go into Power Saving Mode, it doesn't wake unless I turn it off and on.

I thought I had found the issue. There is an option on the monitor call "USB on/off during Standby". It was off. I turned it on. In "power saving mode" it doesn't turn on and I see no way yet to change that configuration. I suspect if the monitor would wake up then it would find the signal and display the picture. Thanks for your help.

Maybe others can chime in. Is 10th gen the best experience to stick with? Debating going to a newer gen cpu. Is it a hassle to maintain a newer gen processor like 13th-14th gen? Is 10th gen just going to be the best compatible cpu for best Mac experience. Ultimately I jsut want reliable and less hassle. From what I read, the only major issue is that MacOS can't handle E cores and there is no gpu quick sync support? Is this a major disadvantage though? What issues and frustrations would one expect to notice going to a newer gen CPU? I think things like sidecar is another issue. I appreciate peoples thoughts.

@tyns,

Apple used Intel 10th gen CPU's in the final generation of Intel based Macs so from a compatibility point of view, yes 10th gen is the most compatible. However much work has been done by the OpenCore dev team amd support for newer Intel gen processors is pretty good these days.

The only downside is that the MacOS CPU scheduler has to treat P cores and E cores as equal. So you can choose to either disable the E cores and just run the P cores at their full clock speed, or run both P and E cores however in this mode P cores will be limited to the max E core clock.

So you will have to make a compromise one way or anther .. for most people this wont be too much of an issue. You just need to understand that when running MacOS you will never be able to unlock the full performance of a mixed core (P cores + E cores) Intel CPU.

As you noted there is no IGPU support in CPU's newer than 10th gen but thats really not an issue ifor most people if you pair the system with a decent AMD dGPU such as RX 6800 XT. That being said some MacOS exclusive features do require a working IGPU such as SideCar and Universal Control as these features need Intel Quick Sync or a Apple T2 chip.

Finding new stock of 10th gen Motherboards is getting very difficult so if you choose to go the 10th gen route then you will most likely be looking at the used market which comes with its own risks, the most common issue with used 10th gen motherboards is bent or broken pins on the CPU / Socket.

Cheers
Jay

jaymonkey said:

Finding new stock of 10th gen Motherboards is getting very difficult so if you choose to go the 10th gen route then you will most likely be looking at the used market which comes with its own risks, the most common issue with used 10th gen motherboards is bent or broken pins on the CPU / Socket.

Cheers
Jay

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Thanks Jay. I actually have 2 10th gen systems. One with a Z490 Vision-D 10900K and last year I picked up another Z490 Aorus Master on blow out for $100 and paired it with another 10900K (haven't assembled that one yet though)... I feel like I am getting behind the times reading everyone working on 13th and now 14th gen. I still want to keep ultimate compatibility so maybe running the 10th gen is still the best for now. I still use my 3770K (12 years old now) and I have no real complaints other than it can't run past Monterey. Thanks for clarifying the pros and cons. I was contemplating the 11900K a few months back just to get the PCIe4 support... it always comes back to the compatibility.

@CaseySJ @jaymonkey @trs96 @Feartech Any thoughts on this? - post

thomasjudge said:

I have a Z490 Vision D build, running Ventura 13.6.3. Opencore 0.92. I also flashed the Thunderbolt chip and am successfully running with the Apple Thunderbolt Display and Intel 630 graphics.

What I have problems with: the camera on the Thunderbolt display works fine, and I can run with that for hours. However, if I use display audio, it will work for a while (5-10 min) and then something happens and it seems to completely lose the USB hub in the display. Some bad interaction with the kernel, the audio stack, and the USB stack. I have streamed the log grepping for USB and audio and can’t identify a specific event. I am wondering if someone can take a look at my IORegistry explorer and EFI and see if I have any obvious USB-related misconfiguration. The IORegistry export was taken before the audio disconnect

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Most of Thunderbolt behavior is beyond our control so there are very limited options we can try when something does not work quite right. In your case the first thing I would recommend is:

• Disable XhciPortLimit kernel quirk as shown below in screenshot 1
• Disable existing USB SSDT as shown in screenshot 2
• Add and enable the new USB SSDT (attached) as shown in same screenshot 2
• Reboot and check if audio on Thunderbolt display is more reliable

CaseySJ said:

Most of Thunderbolt behavior is beyond our control so there are very limited options we can try when something does not work quite right. In your case the first thing I would recommend is:

• Disable XhciPortLimit kernel quirk as shown below in screenshot 1
• Disable existing USB SSDT as shown in screenshot 2
• Add and enable the new USB SSDT (attached) as shown in same screenshot 2
• Reboot and check if audio on Thunderbolt display is more reliable

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Thank you! I will try it and let you know!

trs96 said:

Yes, you should be at least booting from an NVMe. Even a smallish 500GB boot drive will make a big difference in how fast your system runs. With one of these you should be getting 3,000 MB/s read and write speeds.

Amazon.com

The QLC/QVO drives are not suited for use as a macOS boot drive. For storage they'll get the job done.

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Massive thanks @trs96 & @Feartech - an $80 upgrade took me from 50MB/s to 3500MB/s.

All this time I thought it was just a quirk of my build cos those SATA SSD's were solid!

I am having issues with Building a ventura hakcintosh with a Gigabyte Vision D, AMD rx580, and Intel i5 10600k, and Fenvi Wireless card. I have Catalina running on it currently. I cannot get passed this screenshot. I uploaded my EFI.

magnetswork said:

I am having issues with Building a ventura hakcintosh with a Gigabyte Vision D, AMD rx580, and Intel i5 10600k, and Fenvi Wireless card. I have Catalina running on it currently. I cannot get passed this screenshot. I uploaded my EFI.

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why not follow the guide from post 1?