Asus X299 - Support

[djlild7hina]

I have a short question regarding the difference between the X299 A II and the X299 Deluxe II boards.

On the following site it's stated, that the A II has only 1 memory channel vs 4 channels for the Deluxe II. However I cannot find this information on the ASUS website. Is this true?

Asus X99-A II vs Asus X99-Deluxe II: What is the difference?

What is the difference between Asus X99-Deluxe II and Asus X99-A II? Find out which is better and their overall performance in the motherboard ranking.

versus.com

Prime X299-A II｜Motherboards｜ASUS Global

www.asus.com

PRIME X299-DELUXE II｜Motherboards｜ASUS Global

www.asus.com

The first link also states that both boards support only 128GB of RAM, where ASUS itself claims that they support 256GB. So maybe that website is just crawling wrong information?

Also is there any considerable reason why I should prefer the Deluxe II over the A II, other than having more PCI slots, WiFi etc.?

Thanks a lot in advance!!

Your first link is comparing the X99 boards not X299. The deluxe board has more bells and whistles built in like you stated so it's up to you.

The PCIe layout looks the same but the deluxe has some nice additions like built in Wifi/BT, OLED screen, and Thunderbolt 3 built in. However, the built in Wifi/BT is not compatible with macOS (unless you use the beta intel drivers). You could replace the built in card with a compatible one though.

We'll be back shortly.

www.asus.com

 

[curry36]

Your first link is comparing the X99 boards not X299. The deluxe board has more bells and whistles built in like you stated so it's up to you.

The PCIe layout looks the same but the deluxe has some nice additions like built in Wifi/BT, OLED screen, and Thunderbolt 3 built in. However, the built in Wifi/BT is not compatible with macOS (unless you use the beta intel drivers). You could replace the built in card with a compatible one though.

We'll be back shortly.

www.asus.com

Oh.. what a stupid mistake, sorry for that.

And thank you for making clear the differences between those boards. I won't bother with internal TB3 and WiFi, I'll go with PCI cards for both of these.

 

[PhantomHelix]

Oh.. what a stupid mistake, sorry for that.

And thank you for making clear the differences between those boards. I won't bother with internal TB3 and WiFi, I'll go with PCI cards for both of these.

in my experience TB3 is far better when its built in especially on the ASUS boards, TB in general is kind of a finicky B%#$ lol

 

[Lapseart]

Hi,

I talked with Bjango company for supporting new Mac Pro and they sent a new version via mail. (Istat Menus 6.41)

It seems to work fine on Mac Pro 7,1

Here is the link;

https://cdn.bjango.com/files/istatmenus6/1135.zip

 

[djlild7hina]

Hi,

I talked with Bjango company for supporting new Mac Pro and they sent a new version via mail. (Istat Menus 6.41)
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It seems to work fine on Mac Pro 7,1
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Here is the link;

https://cdn.bjango.com/files/istatmenus6/1135.zip

Are you using VirtualSMC or FakeSMC?

 

[Lapseart]

Are you using VirtualSMC or FakeSMC?

Sorry for late, i used with FakeSMC, it is not working correctly with opencore 0.6.0 and VirtualSMC

 

[relic27777]

Is it possible to run an nvidia card on the x299 deluxe in windows and have an ssdt disable that port under macOS so we can run a Radeon GPU?

 

[djlild7hina]

Is it possible to run an nvidia card on the x299 deluxe in windows and have an ssdt disable that port under macOS so we can run a Radeon GPU?

Yes, you can create a SSDT.

Disabling unsupported GPUs · GitBook

dortania.github.io

 

[curry36]

Hi,

I am trying to install 10.14.6 with Clover but find myself getting stuck with End RandomSeed no matter what I try.
I've got 4x32GB Ram sticks and tried all the possible solutions I could find, but nothing seems to work for me. (Tried different speeds, lower size 4x16GB, 8x16GB, also downloaded the AptioMemoryFix.efi)..

Any ideas? :/

 

[djlild7hina]

Hi,

I am trying to install 10.14.6 with Clover but find myself getting stuck with End RandomSeed no matter what I try.
I've got 4x32GB Ram sticks and tried all the possible solutions I could find, but nothing seems to work for me. (Tried different speeds, lower size 4x16GB, 8x16GB, also downloaded the AptioMemoryFix.efi)..

Any ideas? :/

Did you flash your BIOS with UEFITool? Above 4G Encoding enabled in BIOS? I saw that you have the SSDT-AWAC.aml so that's good. I'm not familiar with clover anymore but have you tried OpenCore?