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- Jan 13, 2010
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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Aorus X570 Elite
- CPU
- Ryzen 7 5800X3DX
- Graphics
- RX 6800XT
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
Heyas folks, just thought that I would share my success story! I had been using a rock solid i7 3770K Z77X-UD5H system for the past 8 years but decided to switch to Team Red after the boot loaders now patch AMD CPUs on-the-fly as they do Intel. My first ever Hackintosh back in the day was an AMD 64 X2 that I found in the trash. From there I moved on to an Athlon and eventually settled with a Phenom II before switching to Intel's (then new) Core i platform. I must say, things have come a very very long way since the early days of Chameleon and patched AMD Kernels.
System Specs:
System:
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X w/ Deepcool Gammaxx l240
Gigabyte Aorus X570 Elite
Gigabyte RX Vega 64 OC Gaming
2x8GB Thermaltake 3600MHz CL18 DDR4 Thoughram
Storage:
500GB WB Blue PCI 3.0 NVME (Mac OS)
500GB ADATA XPG Spectrix S40G PCI 3.0 NVME (Windows 10)
4x WD Black 1TB
1x WD Black 1.5TB
1x Segate 3GB (hot'n noisy... typical)
Peripherals:
Corsair K70 Lux RGB Cherry Brown
Corsair M65 Pro (Black)
Logitec K400 wireless keyboard/mouse
XBOX One wireless controller
Displays:
Samsung C27JG5x 27" WQHD 144Hz Curved (Main display)
Samsung Syncmaster 2443BW 24" WUXGA (Secondary display)
Samsung Q60R 49" 4K HDR QLED (Couch Gaming)
Hitachi 46LTV 46" LED (Basement Gaming)
Case: Thermaltake Level 20 XT
EFI:
(EFI folder attached below)
Bootloader: Clover version 5120
ACPI:
SSDT-EC-USBX-AMD
SSDT-NVME
SSDT-PLUG
Kexts:
AMDRyzenCPUPowerManagement.kext
AppleALC.kext
Lilu.kext
SmallTree-Intel-211VA-PCIe-GBE.kext
SMCAMDProcessor.kext
VirtualSMC.kext
WhateverGreen.kext
Install method is simple. Use the UniBeast install method to make a USB installer and copy over my Clover folder to the EFI, replacing the one that's created. Easy breezy! For more info on Clover, see below.
Make sure to disable Above 4G Decoding in the BIOS!
99.9% ROCK SOLID performance! Everything works except sleep. Despite having a custom SSDT for USB (not necessary though as all ports work OOB), sleep only works if it is set to auto and no USB devices are plugged in/active. Not that much of an issue as scheduled startup and shutdown work fine and are what I use normally, regardless if sleep works or not. It still irks me that I am so close to having working sleep but something eludes me. Even turning off my RGB Unicorn vomit has no effect. Ah well, this same issue persisted on Intel for years and still plagues many users on newer Z390/490 systems so I have faith that someday the community will find a solution for us AMD users. #AMDSLEEPMATTERS
Oh, one last thing! Clover! Yes, you read that correctly. I am using Clover as a boot loader, and it works as always: FANTASTIC! I am not sure which version started including AMD CPU on-the-fly patching of the Kernel, but hey, it works and best of all you don't have to tear out your hair and want to ram your first through the screen trying to manually configure both the config.plist and reconfiguration with each new OpenCore release. Yup, Clover works, Clover Configurator works. Hell, Clover even now has a patch that emulates NullIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext! Booya! All-in-all, you can get a fully working vanilla install of Mac OS using Clover. In terms of speed, Mac OS CPU and OpenGL benchmarks results mirror that of Windows down to margin of error.
Oh, one last niggle. Adobe products may or may not NEED PATCHING. It seems Adobe doesn't like AMD's version of MMX, MMX+. Click here for the fixes.
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