ImaPirate
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- May 26, 2018
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Hello from Newb corner!
I just wanted to give a big thank you to kgp for the installation guide! I can safely say I would NEVER have managed to get it up and running without it...
I made the unwise decision to get the Asus X299-A motherboard, thinking that it would be "close enough" to his configuration and save a couple of hundred dollars... <blush> The guide has mostly worked for this motherboard, but I still have some things to iron out (audio... bluetooth...).
I did also notice that it won't boot when I use the Lilu.kext v1.2.1 -- once I went back to 1.1.7 it started booting happily again.
Thanks to everyone for all your time and great information!
- Nathan
Nathan, if you want to save a few bucks, just get it on eBay for $400. Some guy (who had it for $445 initially) is now selling it for $389.00 (+$12.00 for shipping). Offer him $385.00 (plus free shipping) and see what he says. That's what I did, I got mine for around that much and saved $$$. Just sayin'...
By the way, the Prime X299 Deluxe board and what KGP (and I) went through with the AORUS X299 Gaming 9 board was not good. Pretty glitchy board. But thanks to KGP and his trial and errors he's got close to perfect, it's a very stable system. In the end you may want to do the right thing and go that route. Also, if you have a new AMD Vega card, keep it! That works native to Mac OS X. I tried getting the nVidia drivers installed on my backup drive and booting from there and it's too much work to make make that happen. Then comes into question, what happens one day if nVidia stops supporting Apple's Mac OS X, then what? You're better off staying with a setup that is native to Mac OS X and it looks like Apple is going to stay with AMD with their new systems that they're going to be coming out with sometime in the first quarter of next year. Hope this info helps.
On a side note, all I have to do now is get Monoblock and the water blocks on the AMD Vega Frontier cards installed and put it all back together. I'm sure my CPU temps will increase some with the CPU and both GPUs, as they will be water cooled in one loop. That's okay. If I'm averaging around 32˚ to 34˚ that's pretty typical in a 72˚ room.
My only issue now is the when the monitors goes to sleep (as I have it set to 10 min if I'm not using the system while it's on), that sometimes when I get back on, the middle monitor doesn't wake up and then I have to unplug the DisplayPort and re-plug it and half the time it turns right back on the other time it doesn't. I then have to restart the system. Don't know if there's a work around on that, as I seem to be one of the only ones that is using 2 x Vega Frontier cards with 3 x 28" Asus 4K monitor setup. I just don't want to always keep the monitors on and burn-in whatever is on the screen or shorten the life of these monitors. Any input would be great. If not, such is a Hackintosh I guess?...