- Joined
- Sep 6, 2021
- Messages
- 17
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Z490 Aorus Ultra (rev 1.1)
- CPU
- 10700K
- Graphics
- UHD 630
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
Thanks, so to be clear you are recommending to,The only AMD RX560 card available anywhere near retail price is the Visiontek RX560. It will have support in Monterey. See if you can find one under $200 where you shop. A few of the mods here use them and they work OOB with nothing needed to make them work. It's a much better card than any low cost Nvidia if you want to edit videos and photos. I would still go for the Z490 board to use with it. Still too many ??s with Z590 to recommend that.
Z590 compatibility with macOS (from testing by Acidanthera)
- GOP performance is terrible in some BIOS versions. For unknown reasons both IGPU and dGPU (multiple Polaris and Navi cards) have vey slow rendering in UEFI and XNU kernel 1st stage regardless of the CPU generation. This was mostly addressed by the firmware updates, but in our opinion verbose boot is still visually a bit slower than older boards. Fortunately it does not affect booted macOS performance anyhow.
- XMP is completely broken in early BIOS versions. In most cases the motherboard will simply not boot without a CMOS reset. BIOS updates got that fixed, yet manual overclocking does not seem to be working as stable as in Z490.
- Sometimes the firmware randomly switches the GPU slot to PCIe x8 or x1 with no software solution but with a simple replug resolving the problem. We failed to find a logical explanation, yet always checking the lane count is by all means reasonable anyway.
For sure change Motherboard to Z490, and if possible add a dGPU.
What if ,I do not add a dGPU,
If I just buy a Z490 (GIGABYTE Z490 AORUS Elite), use it with 10700K having iGPU.
Is will there be a problem in hackintosh performance with this setup ?