[Success] Asus TUF Gaming H470-PRO WIFI - i9-10850K - Saphire Radeon RX590 Nitro+

[GeraldB]

Planet X - Comet Lake Beast - OpenCore Big Sur 11.0.1
Asus TUF Gaming H470-PRO WIFI - Intel Core i9-10850K - Saphire Radeon RX590 Nitro+ SpecialEdition

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Components
Asus TUF Gaming H470-PRO WIFI
https://www.amazon.de/ASUS TUF Gaming H470-PRO WIFI

Intel i9-10850K Comet Lake 10 core 3.6 Processor
https://www.amazon.de/Intel i9-10850K-Processor

Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO DDR 4 32GB C15
https://www.amazon.de/Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO 32GB C15

Samsung SM961 256GB PCI Express 3.0
https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-SM961-Polaris-256GB-M-2-2280

Samsung 970 EVO SSD 512GB PCIe M.2 NVMe
https://www.amazon.de/Samsung 970 EVO SSD 512GB PCIe M.2 NVMe

Addlink S70 NVMe PCIe Gen3x4 M.2 2280 SSD, S70 1 TB
https://www.amazon.de/Addlink S70 NVMe PCIe Gen3x4 M.2 SSD, S70 1 TB

Saphire Radeon RX590 Nitro+ Special Edition 8 GB GDDR5
https://www.amazon.nl/Saphire Radeon RX590 Nitro+ Special Edition

Thermaltake Core V41 Mid-Tower Gaming case
https://www.amazon.de/Thermaltake Core V41

Sharkoon SATA QuickPort intern multi 2.5/3.5 sata
https://nl.sharkoon.com/product/12640

Be quiet! Pure Power 11 600W Power Supply
https://www.amazon.de/Be quiet! Pure Power 11 600W

Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML240R RGB
https://www.coolermaster.com/catalog/coolers/cpu-liquid-coolers/masterliquid-ml240r-rgb/

LG 27UD68-P Black UHD 4k Monitor
https://www.amazon.de/LG 27UD68-P Black

References

• Jeipiika [Success] - Asus ROG Strix Z490-E Gaming + i9 10900K + OC
  
  

  [Success] ASUS ROG Strix Z490-G + i7-10700K + RX 580 + OC [now runs 12.3.1]

  UMS Typhoon-I 20L Mega Neko Scuderia, aka Yuudachi Core i7-10700K - ASUS ROG Strix Z490-G Gaming - 32GB DDR4-3200 - RX 580 UPDATED 23/04/22 @ 1352 BST New Components Motherboard: ASUS ROG Strix Z490-G Gaming https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08826PLTH/?tag=tonymacx86-21 CPU: Intel Core i7-10700K...

  www.tonymacx86.com
• Jergoo's ROG Strix Z490-I guide
  
  

  GitHub - jettmars/Hackintosh-ROG-STRIX-Z490I: Hackintosh on Asus ROG STRIX Z490-I

  Hackintosh on Asus ROG STRIX Z490-I. Contribute to jettmars/Hackintosh-ROG-STRIX-Z490I development by creating an account on GitHub.

  github.com
• scope666's ROG Strix Z490-E guide
  
  

  [Success] - Asus ROG Strix Z490-E Gaming + i9 10900K + OpenCore

  I wanted to post my config if it helps anyone else. (full EFI folder attached) Motherboard: Asus ROG Strix Z490-E Gaming CPU: Intel 10900K RAM: CORSAIR Vengeance RGB Pro 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3200 GPU: ASRock Phantom Gaming Radeon RX 560 + Gigabyte 4090 Gaming OC (disabled in...

  www.tonymacx86.com
• OpenCore, Lilu, WhateverGreen, AppleALC, VirtualSMC from Acidanthera
  
  

  Acidanthera

  Acidanthera has 47 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

  github.com
• Dortania's OpenCore guide, and the myriad resources therein
  

  OpenCore Install Guide

  Current supported version 0.9.1

  dortania.github.io

The Build
After a lot of trying with different posted EFI and OC config.plist files I have got my Asus TUF Gaming H470-PRO WIFI with an i9-10850K to work.
Everything works great. The system is Rock Solid and also does sleep very well.
Sound and Graphics and Bluetooth and Wi-Fi is working fine. The CPU is scaling too from 800MHz to 5,2GHz.
I use the Intel Power Gadget and iStat Menus for monitoring my system. That also shows me the Fans and a lot of worthy information.
The Acidanthera team has done a great job to prepare the Installation Guide for us and they do maintaining the kext updates in a monthly schedule. Kudos for that.

Install
These are the BIOS settings I have used:

Disable

• Fast Boot
• CSM
• Set the secure boot config to Other OS
• Serial/COM Port (not present)
• VT-d (left it enabled you can set DisableIoMapper in OC to Yes - but even that isn't needed)
• Thunderbolt (not in use)
• Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX - has no use in macOS)
• SR-IOV (no use on macOS)

Enable

• Intel (VMX) Virtualisation Technology (VT-x)
• Intel SpeedStep
• Intel Shift Technology
• Above 4G decoding
• Hyper-Threading
• Execute Disable Bit
• EHCI/XHCI Hand-off
• OS type: UEFI Mode (Other OS under Secure Boot)
• SATA Mode: AHCI
• Graphics Configuration > PCIE only

CFG Lock is disabled by default. There is no CFG Lock setting in the BIOS anymore on the 400 series ASUS boards.

Wi-Fi and Bluetooth does work with the Intel Bluetooth kexts and the Airport itlwm kext from the OpenIntelWireless project for macOS. But it creates a lot of wake from sleep issues and sometimes it takes a few minutes before my Magic Mouse is working agin after boot. So I don't use it anymore. I have already ordered a FV-T919 BCM94360CD BT4.0 card which is natively supported by macOS.

• OpenIntelWireless Guide
  

  OpenIntelWireless | OpenIntelWireless

  Documentation for OpenIntelWireless

  openintelwireless.github.io
• FV-T919 BCM94360CD BT4.0
  
  Amazon.de

After the installation of the Fenvi FV-T919 BT/Wi-Fi card I have to say it makes my build complete. AirDrop started working immediately and even with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth enabled the PC sleeps and wakes as it should be. Wi-Fi is very fast and reaches the full speed of my internet connection.

OpenCore is my preferred Bootloader. The EFI is attached below.

I have created a USBMap.kext with the help of the Dortania guide. With the help of Hackintool I have made a dump of my DSDT and have used SSDTime tool to build my ACPI SSDT patch files. See below.

I have to use the following files in OpenCore:

USBInjectAll.kext is in there but not enabled, as I might have to use it later to do changes to my USBMap.kext.
I use iMacPro 1,1 as SMBIOS as that has no problems with DRM. It's also the best SMBIOS to use when you're only using a dedicated graphics card. It has also the opportunity that the CPU idle frequency is scaled @800MHz, which is the default for the Intel CPU.

Unfinished - Work in progress
There is one more thing which is kind of apita. My PCIe Express adapter with a Samsung 970 EVO NVMe on it is always shown as a Mass-Stroragecontroller in the Menubar. I can delete it from there but it does return with every reboot. I didn't had this behaviour on my previous build. The NVMe drive is working great but I don't like to have that icon in the menubar.

Is there something I can do about this to make it disappear forever? Look here:

To make the drive show as internal I have added it with "built-in <01000000>" in DeviceProperties > Add of my Config.plist. You can use Hackintool and OpenCoreConfigurator tool for adding the device first.
See here:

Hackintool PCIe:

Sleep settings:

A first benchmark:

Just for fun I have created a new SATA-unsupported.kext file which does a rename of the Generic SATA to Intel 400 series Chipset. It's added to the downloads below. (It does not work on Big Sur anymore. Apple has somehow stripped the AHCI kext for Big Sur. You can add a patched Catalina Intel AHCI kext but that would only make things worse and unstable.)

I couldn't resist to do the upgrade to Big Sur 11.0.1. I have to say I love my Hack again. It boots much faster than ever. I did put SecureBootModel to Disabled for the installation. It went through without a hick. After the first boot I did change it back to Default again.
<key>SecureBootModel</key>
<string>Default</string>
This is only needed for OpenCore 6.2. On OpenCore 6.3 it does work without switching the SecureBootModel string.
I have the updated OC6.3 EFI for ASUS H470 attached below.

What I also had to learn was the fact that Big Sur doesn't like a disk Volume HFS+ with Backup as name. I have had that for years, but now, on Big Sur, my Time Machine backup was failing. I couldn't even unmount the disk as it is in use by the kernel. That did tell me that it will have to do with Time Machine. So I did start Catalina from a backup disk and did erase the Backup Volume. After that I have created an APFS Volume with a new name and added a second Volume with the name Backup to the same disk. Now Time Machine does work fine again and I finally have my last NVMe drive also APFS formatted. Thank you Apple.

Because we have the possibility to have Linux on macOS as well I did install Homebrew and neofetch.
Doesn't it look great?

Just updated the OpenCore EFI to 6.4. This time I have also disabled the Kernel patch F1 for RTC as you can also use a OC Kernel Quirk DisableRtcChecksum and set to Yes. See attachments.

Because of I was never able to fix the Mass storage icon issue I did recreate my build with a new mainboard on Z490 chipset. In fact almost the same board from Asus, the ASUS TUF Gaming Z490 PLUS. And that really did it. The icon has disappeared for good. The drive is shown as internal on it's own. So lessons learned is don't save money on the mainboard if you want to have a perfect build.

The new thread is located here:

[Success] ASUS TUF Gaming Z490-PLUS - i9-10850K - Saphire Radeon RX590 Nitro+

Planet X - Comet Lake Beast - OpenCore - Big Sur 11.1 ASUS TUF Gaming Z490-PLUS - Intel Core i9-10850K - Saphire Radeon RX590 Nitro+ SpecialEdition Components ASUS TUF Gaming Z490-PLUS https://www.amazon.nl/ASUS TUF Gaming Z490-PLUS Intel i9-10850K Comet Lake 10 core 3.6 Processor...

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[centraljava]

thx @GeraldB for sharing
am just wondering why the Opencore documentation discourages H470 chipset boards
Been running another one for a about a month & it's all well today

is the system is running smoothly ?

 

[GeraldB]

thx @GeraldB for sharing
am just wondering why the Opencore documentation discourages H470 chipset boards
Been running another one for a about a month & it's all well today

is the system is running smoothly ?

Also I was skeptical first. But it's not much different from Z490 chipset. The system is running without any issues. I have to say that it's my most real Mac experience ever. That also might come through the upgrade of the Envi FV-T919 BT/Wi-Fi card. No sleep issues anymore. Most of the times BT was waking my Computer after some time. It's the best spend 70 Euro ever.

 

[centraljava]

Also I was skeptical first. But it's not much different from Z490 chipset. The system is running without any issues. I have to say that it's my most real Mac experience ever. That also might come through the upgrade of the Envi FV-T919 BT/Wi-Fi card. No sleep issues anymore. Most of the times BT was waking my Computer after some time. It's the best spend 70 Euro ever.

just saw foto of your board
looks just like Z490 one!
my Asus H470 is mATX, doesnt come near that

 

[GeraldB]

Because of I was never able to fix the Mass storage icon issue I did recreate my build with a new mainboard on Z490 chipset. In fact almost the same board from Asus, the ASUS TUF Gaming Z490 PLUS. And that really did it. The icon has disappeared for good. The drive is shown as internal on it's own. So lessons learned is don't save money on the mainboard if you want to have a perfect build.

The new thread is located here:

[Success] ASUS TUF Gaming Z490-PLUS - i9-10850K - Saphire Radeon RX590 Nitro+

Planet X - Comet Lake Beast - OpenCore - Big Sur 11.1 ASUS TUF Gaming Z490-PLUS - Intel Core i9-10850K - Saphire Radeon RX590 Nitro+ SpecialEdition Components ASUS TUF Gaming Z490-PLUS https://www.amazon.nl/ASUS TUF Gaming Z490-PLUS Intel i9-10850K Comet Lake 10 core 3.6 Processor...

www.tonymacx86.com