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- Aug 19, 2016
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- ASUS Prime X299 Deluxe
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- i9-7900X
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- Vega 64
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Hi @djbuddhaThat's the plan ... After my last hack experience, and watching other people have issues, the idea of restoring from a USB SSD to get a machine up and running again after a bad series of upgrades / tweaks is essential.
I'll start posting once I acquire all the hardware to commence.
I feel so appreciative for a lot of you for going through a lot of the hard parts on behalf of people like me (Notably @izo1 for the RAM woes and switching boards).
Thank you to all of you for the work you do, in advance and most likely for the help throughout this process.
In my opinion restoring after issues, etc., as you mentioned is nothing bad, if you prepare it correctly. We have to remember that fact - without tests and failures we couldn't achieve great working systems as now.
For recovery in case of mistake I always use some cheap (for example PNY) SSD 128-256GB. Then I prepare whole installation, system with basic things and whole ACPI patches. If everything works great - I make a final install on main NVMe SSD and put little USB and backup SSD with whole system. If some day I have some troubles, and even if your system can't boot from backup USB drive you have whole great-working system on for example my 128Gb backup SSD (which normally is out of case
for 6moths before next update, what I've done for 14.4 and update on 14.6 after while...)
Of course this kind of backup can take 2-3 hours to prepare, but in my opinion, only like that I can sleep great everyday, without thinking "what if... someday I need some files quickly and my system won't boot". I didn't mention about TimeMachine, but it's a different story...
About your new config - If you have time - it's worth to wait a little and check
how new CPUs will work... maybe we will see new boards, etc. Asus WS X299 SAGE (definitely no-10G) or ASUS PD in my opinion are the best choice at this moment
In my opinion any of Trident Z memory 3200MHz or more will be a great choice
and definitely you should buy 1 or 2 NVMe M.2 drives like 1TB 970 EVO for system
and 1TB of Sabrent Rocket NVMe for your actual projects (etc.). BTW, You make a little mistake I think you can't have actually not-existing 560 version. So maybe its 860 EVO which you use now
About TB3, I remember that kgp mentioned about that in HotPlug in his guide. It worked well in my case (when I used it before, today I don't need that any more). Scarlet 2i2 (2nd gen), which I use, always works OOB with everything. So I simply love it.
Elgato HD60xyz I never used, but it's seem to be some gadget for streamers etc
I you want cheap GPU Vega 56 or Vega 64, but if you have money - Radeon VII is a best choice
At the beginning I will recommend you to use kgp's guide as GUIDE only, but using files from someone who already have the same motherboard (if you buy SAGE motherboard), and then adapt everything to your personal configuration, etc.
Link to "correct" KGP X299 Mojave Guide (not X99 or HS)
2nd one about High Sierra on X299 is OK too, for your build don't even look on X99
- just go directly to X299 with Mojave - link below. (mm2margaret did make a little mistake when he found link in search tool or Google, and sometimes when we don't pay attention we can faster find X99 thread - the same mistake I have done 20-30 times when very fast I wanted to find and check something in KGP guide, then, after 30s, I realized - it was not a good thread. )
BTW: Correct link below:
iMac Pro X299 - Live the Future now with macOS 10.14 Mojave [Successful Build/Extended Guide]
Up and successfully running macOS Mojave 10.14.4 (18E226) on iMacPro Skylake-X/X299 This afternoon @DSM2 advised me that yesterday Apple seems to have added a second special build of MacOS 10.14.4 (18E2034) on swcdn.apple.com, likely for new devices. Abstract and Introduction: This...
www.tonymacx86.com
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