CaseySJ
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Hello @hamzab,Hi @CaseySJ
Before I buy this motherboard I just want to check, does everything work once installed? So things like sleep, audio after sleep, full hardware and gpu acceleration etc?
This is going to be the most expensive motherboard I’ve ever purchased, and your guide is one of the few on the golden build section that has a motherboard you can still buy brand new.
Thanks
We do not make any guarantees of any kind. Unlike a real Mac that comes with warranty, money back guarantee and technical support, a Hackintosh is 100% the responsibility of its builder. We provide guides and guidelines, and we provide a forum in which users can share their experiences, report problems, and work as a community to solve those problems.
If you read a random sampling of this thread you will get a good sense of what to expect. Everyone uses slightly or significantly different components. Everyone uses different peripherals. Some use multiple monitors. Some use projectors. Some use flatscreen TVs. Some use old monitors without DisplayPort 1.1/1.2 or HDMI 1.4/2.0. Some simply don't want to shut down their machines and expect it to sleep and wake tens or hundreds of times. Others always shutdown their system after every session. Some use very high speed memory. Some use low speed memory. Some use MSI RX 5700 XTs. Some use Samsung EVO Plus NVMe SSDs. Some use Corsair H110i connected to internal F_USB header. The list of variations goes on and on, and reflects the very diverse needs and wishes of a very diverse audience.
All of these variations can and have caused problems for their owners. Most of those problems have been resolved either through solutions or workarounds. Use of multiple monitors may be an ongoing issue, but it depends on the type of monitor and whether you are using discrete GPU or internal GPU.
By contrast, Apple uses a very small number of cherry-picked components for each model they sell. A 2020 MacBook Air, for instance, might sell in the hundreds of thousands or even in the millions. But every single copy of that MacBook Air will use the same motherboard, the same CPU, the same memory at the same speed, the same WiFi/BT chip, the same CPU cooler, the same GPU, the same everything. So if Apple can fix sleep/wake issues on one MacBook Air, they fix it on all of them. If Apple can fix audio or hardware acceleration on one MacBook Air, they fix it on all of them... But what if each of those millions of 2020 MacBook Airs had different components??
I can only vouch for my own two Designare Z390 systems, both of which have AMD GPUs and only one (current generation) monitor (not TV) connected via the AMD GPU. I turn both systems off each time I end a session, but I have occasionally left them sleeping for hours without any problem. But I don't do repeat sleep-wake-sleep-wake-sleep-wake cycles. Never have. Both of my systems exhibit none of the problems you described under the circumstances I described.
I encourage you to read a random sample of users' experiences in this thread. The decision to build this system -- and the full responsibility of making that decision -- lies with you. We make no promises, no guarantees, no assurances. We only describe our experiences so others can judge for themselves whether they're worth copying.
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