MacMan's Build: ASUS TUF Z390-PRO GAMING - i9-9900K - Vega 64 - Updated for 10.14.6 and NVRAM Support

[Lazzari89]

If you're happy with Mojave (I am), stay with Mojave as MultiBeast for Catalina is what you need and it's not ready, yet. It's obvious from your post above, you are not experienced enough to do a "Vanilla" install. I, too, am a fan of the Beasts and depend upon Uni/MultiBeast to get my macOS builds to run properly. So, wait awhile before upgrading.

Hello Stork

Thanks for your reply, I wanted to update because since I'm dual booting I wanted to get a GPU for gaming, that's why I wanted the 5700.

Best regards.

 

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I installed the ASUS_ACPI file correctly. (At least via timestamp I saw changes to the EFI directly on the USB drive.)

However, the install still ends in the forbidden sign. I tried verbose and safe mode, and, ultimately, the forbidden sign shows up with most of the text in the background garbled as soon as the forbidden sign appears.

I've triple checked to enable/disable anything applicable from the install guide within my BIOS. I would appreciate any other advise, including which mono to go with if I do ultimately return the GIGABYTE Z390 AURUS PRO WIFI.

GIGABYTE Z390 AURUS PRO WIFI
i5-9600K
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580
32GB RAM (16GBx2)
Samsung 500GB 860 EVO SSD

The motherboard in the title of this thread worked for me, but you will probably have more luck following the specific instructions from a thread about your Gigabyte motherboard instead of this which is about an Asus. Try searching on
GIGABYTE Z390 AURUS PRO WIFI

there are at least two "success" threads with detailed instructions for the motherboard you have, like

[Success] Mini-ITX build GIGABYTE Z390 I AORUS PRO WiFi + i9 9900K

benmingli'S Build: Gigabyte Z390-I AORUS PRO WiFi - i9-9900K - UHD 630 - AMD RX 570 Components Intel Core i9-9900K Desktop Processor https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B005404P9I/?tag=tonymacx86c0c-20 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005404P9I/?tag=tonymacx86com-20...

www.tonymacx86.com

 

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Any reason why my benchmark results would be lower with identical rig (minus the RAM)?

iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) - Geekbench Browser

Benchmark results for an iMac (27-inch Retina Early 2019) with an Intel Core i9-9900K processor.

browser.geekbench.com

The geekbench results on the first page are from geekbench 4, in the current version (5) they use a whole different scale. Also, my single core results went from 1000 to 1375 by quitting my web browser and all programs then running it.

Single core: 1375
Multi core: 7908
then I did the ez-tune thingy in bios which *should* make it faster, and it went to 1296 single core, 8872 multi core. So there's some wide variability in results.

 

[solidsnake19]

Thanks my friend!

Although at the beginning, I did not know how to apply the patches. After a while, I managed to do it. Now I have my new TUF Z390-PRO GAMING i9-9900K build, although I will keep my old EP45-UD3P Core 2 Quad lifehacker's build with High Sierra that served me enough to install my new hackintosh

Gigabyte Vega 64 Gaming OC installed and working correctly with graphics acceleration

Note: it was necessary to add the NoVPAJpeg kext in "clover/kexts/others" to solve the jpg image preview issue

My TUF Z390-PRO GAMING i9-9900K build

Update with an FSP HydroG 1000w PSU

Saludos a mi buen amigo Manuel Fariñas de la comunidad de Spartan Geek

 

[telepati]

@MacMan did you try OpenCore on this board? The last two days I am trying but I cant never boot.

 

[MacMan]

I haven't had time due to my day job and this is my MultiBeast development system.

 

[MacMan]

Updated build guide for native NVRAM Support.

 

[Friso]

Thank you @MacMan. Completed this build the other day, running OC'ed @ 5.0 on a PRIME Z390-A. Can confirm it completely works with the same procedure!

 

[EdwardG]

Is it too difficult to update from 10.14.5 to 10.14.6 (18G3020)???

 

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Updated build guide for native NVRAM Support.

Deleted files ( is a typo, /Volumes/EFI/EFI/CLOVER/drivers/UEFI/EmuVariableUefi-64.efi should be /Volumes/EFI/EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI/EmuVariableUefi-64.efi )
Updated clover and rebooted, all is well!
Thank you!