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ASUS Prime H310T R2.0 — i5-9600K — RX560/UHD630
ASUS Prime H310T R2.0 — i5-9600K — RX560/UHD630
Components: New
ASUS Prime H310T R2.0 motherboard — Newegg
Intel® Core™ i5-9600K 6 Core Processor 3.7GHz (9MB L3 Cache, Boost up to 4.60 GHz) — Newegg | Amazon
8GB (2x4GB) G-Skill DDR4 2400 MHz SO-DIMM — Newegg | Amazon
Akasa Low Profile Intel CPU Cooler - Mini-ITX and Micro-ATX — Newegg | Amazon
Intel Dual Band Wireless-Ac 8265 w/Bluetooth 8265.NGWMG — Newegg | Amazon
Components: Recycled
Combined Pre-Built — eBay
Components: Already Owned
TeamGroup 250G M.2 SSD — Newegg | Amazon
Fenvi USB3.0 802.11ac 1200M Adapter — Newegg | Amazon
Power Brick Dell 180W 19.5 V
Radeon RX 560 4GB
ADT Link R53SR
Comparable Mac
This one has a Radeon Pro 580X installed.
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Background: Two years and 13K views later since starting my 2006 20" iMac mod I finally found the motherboard I was looking for. Other builds and much procrastinating later I found 'The One' on eBay, I watched it for weeks until the price dropped, then clicked 'BUY IT NOW'. It was a package, Mobo, CPU, CPU fan, RAM and Intel wireless/BT card included. I was unsure, could this board really handle a i5-9600K?, that CPU cooler surely can't keep that 'K' cool, If it was someones gaming build in a previous life, is it burnt out?. Luck was on my side, When it arrived I plugged in my Windows 11 SSD and breathed a sigh of relief as it loaded up, it worked.
ASUS Prime H310T R2.0: The *10 chipset motherboards have recently fascinated me since the discovery of the 'Thin Mini ITX' platform. I already own a Gigabyte H110MSTX, I like the stacked M.2 slots, it's 140mm X 140mm form factor but most of all, the M.2 socket, E key, which you can plug a GPU into via an ADT Link R53SR cable, an RX 560 is perfect for this. The H310T is classed as a 'business' motherboard, I think that means it has a range of applications from digital signage to... I'm not sure. But 'business' is reflected in the variety of ports and headers, like an onboard LVDS slot, low profile ram and a moisture resistant coating to protect it from harsh environments, like say an office, David Brent's office.
*110, 310, 410, 510 and 610
i5-9600K: This would be the most powerful intel chip I've owned, six cores and six threads, pure gaming. Intel UHD Graphics 630, compatible with macOS Ventura no less and 4K 4096x2304 @60Hz with DP and eDP - integrated flat panel, but only @24Hz for HDMI. While I had Windows 11 installed I tried out Destiny 2 and was impressed with the performance, good frame rates, nice textures and smooth. Can the CPU cooler handle it?, Idk, it's quiet and gets the temperature down quickly, but I did abort a 10 minute CineBenchR23 run when the temperature hit 98 C.
Fenvi USB Wifi: This is where things start to get interesting. I already planned to use Ethernet for my network connection, my RX560 was plugged into the M.2 E key which didn't leave me many options for Wifi. My Fenvi and EDUP USB3 Wifi adapters hadn't worked since Catalina, sure there is a way to do it by disabling SIP in Recovery and I have done it, but I'm not happy with compromising my builds security and it was a headache. I had a backup M.2 SSD that I used for my Mini Cube with Catalina 10.15.7 installed and I got it to boot with Clover 5119. The Fenvi AC1300U driver was already installed and both Wifi Adapters worked. I put together a EFI based on my H110MSTX folder and installed it onto my Monterey 12.3.1 USBs EFI, after getting to the installer, instead of opening Disk Utility and easing the disk for a clean install, I went straight to installation, upgrading from Catalina and saving important data!. When Monterey finished installing, I updated to 12.4 through system preferences and rebooted, the Fenvi turned on half way through boot and has been working nicely for the past few days. Below is an image from HackinDROM showing the RtWlanU 1830.32.b12 as 'Running', but it's not in my EFI folder it's somewhere in the System, and the result from the grep command in Terminal.
Update 6/15. You still have to disable SIP for it to work!, after some fiddling about with my plist and OpenCore's 0.8.0 > 0.8.1 differences, I realized that disabling SIP in OC boot picker, booted the USB WiFi. We still have the necessary kext in some folder some where, but it only works when disabling SIP.
Installation
BIOS: Always a good idea to refer to Dortania's OpenCore install guides, especially useful BIOS info. I pretty much found all of these in my BIOS settings, even CFG Lock and DVMT. Having DVMT available meant I just needed to add two lines to 'device properties' in my config.
AAPL,ig-platfrom-id — Data — 07009B3E
framebuffer-patch-enable — Data — 01000000
Installation: Never a problem, I booted Catalina from Clover 5119 and Updated to Monterey 12.4 from OpenCore 0.8.0. Progress was quick, a couple of missteps at the beginning but after that straight forward, just like a real Mac.
EFI: My folder structure.
SMBIOS: I chose iMac19,2, (accidentally), even though the 9600K is officially iMac19,1. I might change it and see what it benches. iMac17,1 benched at Sc 1081/Mc 5207.
[Update 6/10] Changed the SMBIOS to iMac19,1 and noticed improvements on boot, looks better also.
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Network: This has surprised me, both BT and Wifi are available through USB3 dongles, (if you disable SIP in OC boot picker). But Ethernet works perfectly.
Sound: I haven't tested yet, will get back to you.
Sleep/Wake: Nothing to see here.
Temperature: The only time I got concerned was during a CineBenchR23 run, when it hit 98 C and I aborted the Bench. Other than that this little CPU fan is holding up well.
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Asus Thin Mini-ITX platform
This!, this is seducing me, (via TomsHardware and I don't mean Tom is seducing me, that would be silly, let's stop there, and back to script!). I'd never heard of 'Thin Mini-ITX platform' before!, the H610 Pro has a Intel LGA 1700 Socket and low profile ram. But what excited me the most, was the...
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[SUCCESS] ASUS Prime H310T R2.0 — i5-9600K — OpenCore 0.8.0
Using OC-genX to create an EFI for a coffee lake build, filled in device properties but I'm still stuck. Noob mistake I'm sure, EFI below with SMBIOS removed.
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[WIP] 2006 20" iMac Intel case mod.
It's just an idea at the moment!, earlier I purchased a 3D printer specifically for modding purposes. It's 1st task will be to print a rear IO for the 2009 Mac mini, I have a lot of learning to do. My BluEye / Dell 7010 / Mac mini6,2 is a plucky Hackintosh, the motherboard, i7-3770, CPU Fan...
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Open Frame i9-9900t system with High Sierra
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