- Joined
- Jun 22, 2020
- Messages
- 37
- Motherboard
- Asus Prime Z370-A II
- CPU
- i7-9700K
- Graphics
- RX 580 Pulse
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
tech1eguy's Build:
Gigabyte B360 Aorus Gaming 3 Wifi - i7-9700K - RX 580
Gigabyte B360 Aorus Gaming 3 Wifi - i7-9700K - RX 580
Components
Gigabyte B360 Aorus Gaming 3 Wifi Rev 1.0 (Update bios to F14 for disabling CFG in bios)
Intel i7-9700K (No overclocking)
Sapphire Pulse AMD RX 580 - 8GB (Display ports used)
Be Quiet Base 600 ATX case
Corsair RM750x Power supply
Crucial Ballistix 2666 DDR4 2x8GB RAM
Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVME 500GB drive (PCIe 4x mac OS) - comes with latest firmware
Kingston A2000 NVME 500GB drive (PCIe 2x Windows 10)
Bluetooth/Wifi (Intel Cnvi internal card is removed)
9560 wifi chip - airdrop won't work
LG UHD/Bluray optical disk reader/writer SATA
iClever BK-10 Bluetooth keyboard
Apple Magic 2 mouse (for gestures)
LG 4K HDR 27" Monitor
Dell 4K HDR 27" Monitor
Logitech 4k Magnetic Apple HDR Webcam
Fenvi T919 Wifi/Bluetooth
Already Owned
Altec Lansing VS2320 PC speakers
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000F8V718/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
Comments
What is working:
Dual boot with windows (Used dortania guide with 0.6.6 Opencore bootloader - Big Sur 11.2.1)
Full GPU acceleration, H264/HEVC encoding (Works OOB no kexts other than Whatevergreen needed)
All USB ports full speed (Used hackintool to get usb mapping kext)
USB 3.1 gen 2 (10gbps)
Dual monitors
Bluetooth, Wifi, LAN Internet (Intelmausi kext), Internal Realtek Audio (AppleALC kext with alcid=99)
NVRAM (SSDT-PMC.aml), SSD Trim support for NVME drive (NVMEFix kext for power management)
Power management (Removed cfg lock, added SSDT-Plug.aml, and CPU Friend kexts created using CPUFriendFriend)
Restart, Shutdown, Sleep (Don't disable H_EC controller but add EC and usb power using SSDT-EC-USBX.aml), Hardware monitoring (VirtualSMC with sensors kexts), etc.
imessage, Facetime, Webcam, icloud, connect to iphone, itunes, Handoff, Airdrop, Apple TV+, Prime video trailers only in Safari, etc., Sidecar
CPU Power. management (Added SSDT-PLUG.aml, cpufriend and dataprovider kext)
Gpu power management (Added AGPM Injector kext)
Smbus fix (added SSDT-SBUS-MCHC.aml)
Not working:
Youtube HDR in safari - works in chrome but with high cpu
BIOS Settings:
CSM/CFG Lock/Serial port/Vt-d/SGX/Wake on LAN- Disabled
Above 4G Decoding/XHCI handoff/Platform Power Management/Erp - Enabled
Max link speed = Gen 3 (Everything else default)
Smbios used: Macpro7,1 (Added restrictevents kext for memory error)
SSDT-AWAC.aml RTC fix is not needed for this board.
Link to most kexts used.
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