Gigabyte Z490 Vision D (Thunderbolt 3) + i5-10400 + AMD RX 580

[trs96]

What budget priced GPU do you recommend?

For Catalina and Big Sur the lowest cost options right now are Kepler workstation cards. Otherwise you can use something like an RX 560/570 for "future proofing." The Kepler cards lost support in Monterey. What is your budget range in US dollars ?

The Visiontek RX 560 2GB sells for $181.99 on Amazon. If you have good case airflow it won't get too noisy. Gives you the option to add extra monitors later on if need be. Has native support, no drivers to install.

Amazon.com

Note: if your monitor has no DisplayPort input and only HDMI then you'd need to buy an inexpensive min-DP to HDMI cable to connect with. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FBHKKHW/?tag=tonymacx86com-20

 

[trs96]

I can use Catalina but if getting Thunderbolt to work is a real problem but is doable I would definitely need help and instructions.

You can find everything you need in this thread and get help here too. Many people use the Z490 Vision D board and have Thunderbolt fully working.

 

[abc1mce2]

What is your budget range in US dollars ?

I'm trying to stay under $300 for the moment. If I wait a few months I'll probably go as high as $500 or so.
I'll try to use the internal graphics for now but I'll upgrade in the near future.
Thank you.

 

[abc1mce2]

Many people use the Z490 Vision D board and have Thunderbolt fully working.

I assume these people are using Open Core and not MultiBeast or whatever it's called now?

 

[trs96]

I assume these people are using Open Core

Read the guide in post #1 it's all in there.

 

[abc1mce2]

The Visiontek RX 560 2GB sells for $181.99 on Amazon. If you have good case airflow it won't get too noisy. Gives you the option to add extra monitors later on if need be. Has native support, no drivers to install.

I love native support. Will this card work in the latest macOS?

 

[trs96]

Will this card work in the latest macOS?

Yes, works with Monterey. Any of the AMD Polaris cards work natively but not the XFX brand of RX560. Has an incompatible Vbios that would have to be flashed. Most other new RX 560s and 570s cost well over $300 these days.

 

[bruttonero]

@CaseySJ What would be the advantages or disadvantages of using iMac19,1 or iMac20,2?
I have a Vision D with i9-10850K

And can I just change the model or do I also need to change the serial, UUID etc.

 

[abc1mce2]

@CaseySJ​

I have BIOS F21b on my board. I need to use the USB-C for Thunderbolt and not USB purposes. Will I still need to revert back to BIOS F5 or F6?

 

[bruttonero]

It’s a Monterey problem because this port worked properly in Big Sur. Fortunately we can use a USB-C dock or Thunderbolt dock that has an Ethernet port.

I have the Intel I-225v Ethernet port working well for me and Monterey (both ethernet ports working) from the System Information it seems to be revision 0x0002.
My BIOS is F5 (as you described in the initial post)


Bus: PCI
Vendor ID: 0x8086
Device ID: 0x15f3
Subsystem Vendor ID: 0x1458
Subsystem ID: 0xe000
Revision ID: 0x0002
PCIe Link Speed: 5.0 GT/s
PCIe Link Width: x1
Driver: com.apple.DriverKit-AppleEthernetE1000
BSD Device Name: en1
MAC Address: 18:c0:4d:02:cf:9a
AVB Support: No