CaseySJ
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Hello @Giskard,Hi Casey. Thanks for the guide, superb resource. I had a question re intermixing the guide for the Designare Z390 and the Z490. I've been planning my build for a while and already have most of the components but just seen the Z490 get upped from a still tinkering to golden build. I'd love to put those extra threads to use in a 10th gen but I run a mix of Logic Plugins at 32 and 64bit. As such I'm avoiding Catalina. I'm wondering how tricky it would be for me to navigate a middle road between the installs. I've built 3 hacks to date through the uni/multibeast and kexts route. This looks like a tidy solution and I wondered whether I'd be biting off more than I can chew trying to merge the two guides. At the end of the day, dramatic downtime would cost me harder than missing a performance bump I probably won't notice coming from a 5th gen CPU... but plugins do love those threads
We are currently unable to install Mojave on Z490 systems. This might change with the next release of OpenCore and perhaps even the next release of Clover. At this time, therefore, we cannot recommend Z490 for Mojave.
If you have already gathered Z390-based components, that is still a very good choice because Comet Lake-S processors really do not offer any material advantages over 9th Generation Coffee Lake. The additional two cores in the i9-10900 might be the only real benefit over Z390, but there are already so many satisfied i9-9900K users out there!