- Joined
- Dec 24, 2016
- Messages
- 6
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Designare
- CPU
- i5-6600K
- Graphics
- GTX 970
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
After some hours of frustratingly switching settings on and off in Clover Configurator and the BIOS, I finally gave up and put back an old copy of the config file, some mindless BIOS tinkering and suddenly it all worked! Both nVidia graphics and audio worked like they should!
The annoying thing is that I do not know what I messed up, but I wrote down all BIOS settings and made extra backup copies of the EFI partition... Just in case...
Some minor points remain:
- when I shutdown the machine, it powers up again after a few seconds.
- sleep does not seem to work (yet).
- Clover graphics is missing some icons [?].
USB 3 seemed to work fine, I do not have 3.1 type-C devices, so could not test that.
I tested the Thunderbolt3 interface with a Promise RAID setup and Apple's Thunderbolt3 to TB1/2 adapter. It did not work out of the box, but thanks to information on this forum (thanks!) I figured I needed to update the Thunderbolt firmware to revision 18. To do this I installed Windows on a spare drive and performed the update. After this, the Promise drive mounted in macOS Sierra without a glitch. It is not hot swappable, but for now I can totally live with that.
Thanks again guys!
I have now a water-cooled Core i5 6600K running on 4.4 Ghz, 3000 Mhz RAM, an EVGA water-cooled GTX970 and some regular SATA SSDs (Geekbench single core score: 5641, multi-core: 16242). System stays cool (CPU max 47°C, GPU < 50°C under full load).
Everything feels quite snappy.
The annoying thing is that I do not know what I messed up, but I wrote down all BIOS settings and made extra backup copies of the EFI partition... Just in case...
Some minor points remain:
- when I shutdown the machine, it powers up again after a few seconds.
- sleep does not seem to work (yet).
- Clover graphics is missing some icons [?].
USB 3 seemed to work fine, I do not have 3.1 type-C devices, so could not test that.
I tested the Thunderbolt3 interface with a Promise RAID setup and Apple's Thunderbolt3 to TB1/2 adapter. It did not work out of the box, but thanks to information on this forum (thanks!) I figured I needed to update the Thunderbolt firmware to revision 18. To do this I installed Windows on a spare drive and performed the update. After this, the Promise drive mounted in macOS Sierra without a glitch. It is not hot swappable, but for now I can totally live with that.
Thanks again guys!
I have now a water-cooled Core i5 6600K running on 4.4 Ghz, 3000 Mhz RAM, an EVGA water-cooled GTX970 and some regular SATA SSDs (Geekbench single core score: 5641, multi-core: 16242). System stays cool (CPU max 47°C, GPU < 50°C under full load).
Everything feels quite snappy.
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