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I want to thank everyone for making this a great forum. This will be my last post on TonyMacX86. We all made a great team and produced a thread here that has served up 144,000 views at the time of this post. I hope that's an indication of how many it helped. Happy hacking everyone!

If I remember correctly, I sold my Sapphire Pulse RX580 4GB for close to $400 USD. Glad to see graphics card prices coming back down.

Everyone - there are recent posts that have been deleted, because apparently, they violated TonyMacx86 policy. One of these posts added information about the PL1 / PL2 limits and a potential way to increase these limits. I'm sorry that they are now gone from this thread and won't attempt to...

@logyon - hoping for a speedy recovery for you. Continue to use your judgement about what should be posted - you're doing great.

@rafale77 I performed the steps in my previous post on my HackMini8,1 (HP EliteDesk 800 G5 Mini 65W, i9-9900, BIOS 02.12.00 Rev.A, Big Sur 11.6.5, OC 0.7.9). HP's programmed PL2 is 95 Watt. Even with HP's reduced PL2, I think you might be on to something with your 150W PSU. Looking forward to...

@rafale77 The PL1 and PL2 values that you cited are Intel's recommended. Manufacturers are free to set these in their device firmware and they do change these routinely. Many mfgs actually exceed Intel's recommended limits to maximize performance. I'm still interested in seeing your test...

Can we expect the return of the 3.5mm audio jack on iPhones? ;)

The only way to know the affect of the PSU power on a given HP Mini's real and synthetic benchmarks is to test. We'll know soon when @rafale77 tests the G5 Mini / i9-9900 with a 150W PSU and compares to tests with a 90W PSU. The 150W and 90W PSUs are "interchangeable" (one of my Mini's also...

Upgrade to Big Sur 11.6.5 was smooth.

If you don't figure it out, post your sanitized config.plist.

@rafale77 Sounds like a good theory. Let us know what you find. I do have a 150W PS around here somewhere. I'll see if I can find it.

@miliuco Great post as always! Where do we find AirportBrcmFixup 2.1.5 (the version released with OC0.7.9, not the nightly build)? EDIT: I don't think a new AirportBrcmFixup.kext was released with OC 0.7.9.

@rafale77 At $1600 for your rig, I'd say you got a killer deal. This link might give you an idea of what to expect when comparing performance of the g5 mini / i9-9900 to your i9-10900 Tiny. The G5 mini in the comparison is an i7-9700K and the G6 is an i9-10900K, so not quite the same...

@tonymacx86 created a very informative thread here to encourage discussion of the new Apple Mac Studio and the M1 Ultra. Apple is making technological leaps with its own silicon that have to make us question just how much longer we're going to invest time and money in hacks. Personally, I will...

My last commentary on USBX SSDT and USBPorts.kext is here. There's more than one way to do this. If you have both USBX and USBPorts.kext like I do, I'd suggest making sure the properties are the same in both. EDIT: @rafale77 If the replaced EFICheckDisabler.kexts are truly identical, maybe...

@rafale77 Both sets of conflicting USB power properties appear in your IORegistry. I'd recommend making the properties the same in your USBX SSDT and USBPorts.kext. Your USBPorts.kext has the USB power properties from a real MacMini8,1 which are the properties I use in both my USBX and...

@rafale77 Thanks! I will review. I noticed that your IORegistry shows that com_apple_driver_eficheck is loading: It looks like your EFICheckDisabler.kext or your RestrictEvents.kext is not loaded properly (depends on which one you use). See more about it here. I use EFICheckDisabler.kext...

@rafale77 I see that you have conflicting USB current limit values in your USBX SSDT and your USBPorts.kext. I have the same values in mine (my SSDT and Kext USB current limits match each other). I'm curious about which takes precedence (the SSDT or the Kext). Would you mind posting your...

I upgraded my HackMini8,1 EFI to OC 0.7.9. The manual upgrade steps are listed below. OC0.7.9-EFI-r001 is now attached to Post #1. Upgrade to OC 0.7.9 from OC 0.7.8 EFI/BOOT: Update BOOTx64.efi EFI/OC: Update OpenCore.efi EFI/OC/Drivers: Update OpenRuntime.efi, Update AudioDxe.efi...

@mamomamo The Amazon reviewer specifically mentioned starting with Catalina 10.15.4 (not a later version of macOS). I have no experience with this and am only reporting what I read.