[UPGRADED] ASUS Prime B550M-A AC — Ryzen 7 5700X — Radeon RX 6700XT

[craighazan]

Successfully updated Ventura to Public Beta 9 (22A5373b), booting OpenCore 8.5. One new addition is the Ventura screen saver!. Just need to remove GB under Graphics and everything will fit nicely.

 

[craighazan]

Thanks to some help from @Shaneee everything is on one line in the 'About This Mac' window, my typographically challenged brain is fulfilled, no more widows!. Added SSDT-GPU-SPOOF to my ACPI folder. generated pcidevice files in HackinTool to find the address of the VGA compatible controller for my config.

 

[craighazan]

Updated Ventura to Release Candidate (22A379), booting OpenCore 0.8.5. It's good to see small increases in performance with every Beta release of Ventura, these are the best benches so far for this build.

 

[craighazan]

Since updating to Ventura Public Beta 13.1.0 22C5044e, a couple of days ago, Ethernet is proving to be less flaky than before. I've been out all day and when I woke it up Ethernet was still running. I could browse the web, watch video and download various wifi/bt kexts to test on a mysterious BCM_4350C2, I only have the USB Wifi dongles, one from Fenvi the other from EDUP.

Still getting better Benchmarks with each update. Though I'm starting to realize perhaps a 550 or 570 chipset would get much better performance from the 5700X. In single core it runs at 4.6GHz using just 35W with temps in the mid 40's. Multicore runs at 4GHz using 76W and temps in the mid 60's.

 

[craighazan]

Currently booting Ventura 13.2 (22D49) and OC 0.8.8.

CaseySJ talked about the TSC patch for AMD Ryzen,

'I think overall smoothness of macOS on AMD was significantly improved with the TSC patch (time stamp counter) we developed and pull-requested into OpenCore 0.8.7. It didn't just fix audio stutter -- it fixed visual stutter as well.'

Navigating around Finder does seem better, not so artifacty!. But the surprise of the day for me, considering Im using iMac19,1, is being able to edit and play video in QuickTime without 'green screen', sure Apple TV App = red screen.

 

[craighazan]

Just updated Ventura to Public Beta 13.3 via OpenCore 0.8.9. But!, to avoid the dreaded EXITBS it's suggested you update your patches for 13.3 and replace values;

B8000000 0000 with B8<core count>000000 0000
BA000000 0000 with BA<core count>000000 0000
BA000000 0090 with BA<core count>000000 0090
BA000000 00 with BA<core count>000000 00

GitHub - AMD-OSX/AMD_Vanilla: Native AMD macOS via OpenCore

Native AMD macOS via OpenCore. Contribute to AMD-OSX/AMD_Vanilla development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

 

[craighazan]

Updated to Ventura Public Beta 4 (22E5246b) via OpenCore 0.9.0. I still prefer the iMac19,1 SMBIOS to the suggested iMacPro1,1 or MacPro7,1 SMBIOS.

 

[craighazan]

Just happened to check the ASUS website and noticed a new BIOS update was released a couple of days ago. Will install later and report back, not much info other than Mitigates security vulnerabilities!.

PRIME A320I-K｜Motherboards｜ASUS Global

ASUS Prime series is expertly engineered to unleash the full potential of AMD and Intel processors. Boasting a robust power design, comprehensive cooling solutions and intelligent tuning options, Prime series motherboards provide daily users and DIY PC builders a range of performance tuning...

www.asus.com

 

[craighazan]

I've been neglecting this build for while, I rarely play games on it, though my 9yr old does and he's enjoying them. So while I've been having fun with the H310T, the A320 has mostly been unused. Ethernet has been behaving itself this week, my only complaint about this board and I've appreciated modeling my Mac Pro Cube on the 42" 4K screen. The beginning of the month usually signals an update for OpenCore!, I'm a bit late to the party but everything was painless using HackinDROM, kexts updated too.

I can't wait for Apple, I'm printing my own cube pro case.

When we do finally see the new Mac Pro, hopefully mine will be finished ahead of schedule!. Sure, the H310T isn't a pro build, but it's small and I can't keep it naked forever, it needs a home, I can't see my iMac mod being finished soon.

www.tonymacx86.com

 

[craighazan]

B450M DS3H WIFI motherboard installed, had to remove the fan guard completely to fit it, but I have working WiFi.