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- Feb 26, 2011
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- Motherboard
- Asus ROG Strix Z390
- CPU
- i9-9900K
- Graphics
- Vega 64
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
Krys' code build:
ASUS ROG Strix Z390-F Gaming - i9 9900k - VEGA64
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ContentsASUS ROG Strix Z390-F Gaming - i9 9900k - VEGA64
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Components
Peripherals
Already Owned
Comments
The BuildInstallation
Preparation
Bios Configuration
Basics
Tweaks
Installing Mojave
Configuring Continuity
Post Install Notes
What WorksKeeping Your System Updated
Repairing Your Current Install
Benchmarks
Components
ASUS ROG Strix Z390-F Gaming Motherboard LGA1151 (Intel 8th and 9th Gen) ATX DDR4 DP HDMI M.2 USB 3.1 Gen2 Gigabit LAN
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J53J483/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX Vega 64, 8 GB, overclocked, 2048-Bit, HBM2, PCI Express 3.0, HDCP-Ready
https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-ROG-STRIX-RXVEGA56-O8G-GAMING-Ready-Gaming-Graphics/dp/B0788BTQKQ
Corsair Obsidian Series 500D RGB SE Mid Tower Premium tempered glass and aluminium LL120 fans and Commander Pro
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07C46L1D8/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
Corsair HX850i, 850 Watt (850 W), Fully Modular, 80 + Platinum certified
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01NARQ2QU/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
Corsair Hydro Series h150i Pro RGB 360 mm Radiator Triple 120 mm ML Serie PWM Fans Advanced RGB Liquid CPU-Cooler
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077FZPCRH/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
Corsair HD Serie, HD120 RGB LED, 120 mm High Performance RGB LED-PWM including Lighting Node pro
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075VGN4M1/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
Corsair CMW64GX4M4A2666C16 Vengeance RGB PRO 64GB (4x16GB) DDR4 2666 (PC4-21300) C16 Desktop Memory Black
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GSJHVPB/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
INTEL Core i9-9900K Desktop Processor 8 Cores up to 5,0 GHz Turbo unlocked LGA1151 300 Series 95W TDP
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005404P9I/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
Samsung 970 EVO Plus Series PCIe NVMe M.2 interne SSD
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07M7Q21N7/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
Peripherals
Matias FK318B-DE Aluminium Erweiterte USB Tastatur/Keyboard für Apple Mac OS | QWERTZ | Deutsch | mit reaktionsschnellen Flachen Tasten und zusätzlichem Ziffernblock | Space-Grey
https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B07M7JXBTV/?tag=tonymacx8603-21
Samsung C34H892 86,4 cm (34 Zoll) Premium Curved Monitor (HDMI, DisplayPort, USB Type-C, USB 3.0 HUB, 3,5mm Audio, 4 ms Reaktionszeit (G/G)) dunkelsilber
https://www.amazon.de/dp/B07H1KPMSX/?tag=tonymacx8603-21
Already Owned
Sandisk CZ48 USB-Speicherstick (32 GB, USB 3.0)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KYK2AKO/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
Comments
1985 I started with my father's Apple Macintosh 512ke to enjoy the heaven of Apple. Later a Macintosh SE 1/40 came, my Father upgraded this to 4 MB of RAM, different Ataris from ST series I owned too etc. My first own Mac was an Macintosh IIsi with tremendous 17 MB of RAM, 500MB HDD and 3MB graphics Card driving a 17" Display in my early days.
I started working in Computer Business and soon the first clones have been allowed and licensed by Apple. So I had a UMAX with a huge amount of RAM for this time. Later owned a G3, different PowerMacs G4 and G5. Starting with the second Apple iMac on Intel I switched to this Modell. A Macbook Air 13" was my latest original Mac I bought.
Since this time, I have been Building different Hacks, very soon I started Building them with help of tonymac and those Tools. My last build was an i7-4790k on an ASUS Z97K Board. The experience on ASUS was as good, so I decided to do it again. After more than 4 years, moving from Mavericks to Sierra, to High Sierra and Mojave. It still runs like powerful Workstation, but my fingers wanted to build up a new one. Maybe I sell this "old" rig once my new build is running well completely.
The Build
Case
Searching for a case on my new "MacPro" I found Corsair's Obsidian 500D Special Edition, a case of tempered glass nearly all around, enough space for Long graphic Cards, water cooling and many colorful lighting even inside the fans. It's made very good, as many of those products by Corsair. I know Corsair products for a Long time with a very good reliablity. I never had to Exchange one part before.
Mainboard
The ASUS ROG Strip Z390-F is not only Beautiful, it's powerful as well. As I build my rigs for 4-5 years, I wanted to have one of the best ones. I think it is. Coming with many possibilites in tweaking and overclocking, I decided to run it as usual as possible. And it was on tonymacs buy list. So I bought it. So this wasn't risky on my opinion, but I should later know, it will be many figures to adjust to work properly.
CPU
Okay, as much power as I can have on a 1151 socket. My decision was clear: i9-9900k. No processor in time does have more power than this.
Cooling
Good results of my former rig with a Corsair H60 made my decision very easy. The Obsidian 500D SE was shown on constructors page with a Corsair H150i pro. The colourful fans of the Obsidian 500D will put the air stream into the chiller, the non-coloured but powerful fans of the H150i pro will pull the air out of the chiller into the case. So 6 fans will cool down the liquid in the chiller even on high loads.
Graphics Card
As NVIDIA is still not providing any Mojave-Builds of their web-Drivers, I was please to run a AMD RX 580 in my former rig. But the new one should be a bit more powerful. What else than a 8GB overclocked Version of a VEGA64 you can buy? I guess nothing. So I decided to by the ASUS ROG Strix Vega64 8GB OC.
Memory
Due to good experience on Corsair's RAM, and the already colourful case, fans and water cooling, it should be Corsairs Venegeance RGB Pro line. Upon Knowledge, that Mojave likes to deal with XMP, I decided to run RAM on normal by Intel selected speed.
Drives
What else Money can buy faster than a Samsung 970 Evo? 2x Samsung 970 Evo plus. Since the board has to PCI-E Slots for M2, this was very soon my decision. Once I have my rig running with a Basic Mojave, I will try to run it as a NVMe Raid.
Power Supply
In my old rig a AX750 worked well for years. But now I wanted to have a power supply with cable Management, 80plus Gold certification and again, Corsair is good supplier.
WiFi & Bluetooth
Yes - it's OnBoard, I don't know if it will do if not I'll disable it and try some other Options.
Peripherals
First, the monitor is About to arrive today. But as I had 3 Monitors side by side before, I just want to have one very big one.
The Keyboard is as myself a German one, Looking excatly like the old slim Keyboard incl. numeric pad from Apple, which had a USB Connector. The Apple Version did had Problems with USB 3.0, the Matias one not. And it's in space Grey. I unpacked it this morning, and was completly Flash how beautiful it is. And it has 2 USB 2.0 ports on its internal hub. My Logitech's mouse USB key works like a charm again inside the USB connector of the Keyboard, next to the mouse but hidden down below the Keyboard.
Installation
Preparation
Preparation is everything. So first of all check the latest firmware for your Samsung 970 EVO Plus drives. An old firmware may break or interrupt your installation!!!
Now prepare a 16GB+ USB (3.0) key like in the guide for Mojave explained. After that copy "Clover Configurator" and latest MultiBeast to the key.
Clover Configurator is the tool you want to use for the next steps, as you easily can follow all steps. Mount EFI partition from the new installation key, open config from /Volumes/EFI/EFI/CLOVER/config.plist file with TextEditor and adopt the lines from this article of tonymacs' forum. Be sure to save for edits.
After that choose install drivers from Clover Configurator and add in the section of "Drivers UEFI 64 BIT":
- EmuVariableUefi
- OsxAptioFix3Drv
Now open the prior edited config.plist file with Clover Configurator, switch to the section "devices" and check USB inject and FixOwnership. At FakeID put the IntelGFX value to 0x0.
It's time to prepare personalization of your system. Go to section "SMBIOS". In the right corner of upper area you will find a popup menu with different system types. I had chosen MacPro6,1 (iMac 19,1 is possible as well). Push the button "generate" next to serial number first, after that the "generate" button next to SmUUID.
Step over to section "System Parameters" and generate as well a new Custom UUID and check "Inject System ID". This will make your system unique, as you only use this stick for this rig.
Don't forget to save your edits with Clover Configurator.
Last step in preparation is to install some kexts. Therefor go to the section "Kext Installer" within Clover Configurator.
From OS Version please chose "Other". Now check ...
- AppleALC
- Lilu
- USBInjectAll
- WhateverGreen
and press the button "download".
On this step you're finished now. Don't forget to securely remove the key from current system.
BIOS Configuration
Basics
- Load Default Settings
- Enable XMP I
- Enable Intel Virtualization
- Disable Intel VT-d
- Disable Fastboot
- Disable CSM
Tweaks
(this is what I need to do right after this update of my rig description)
Installation
Insert your prepared key, boot up with F8, chose Install Mojave from key and let it start. Prepare your system drive with the disk utility, when partitioning chose GUID schema and APFS filesystem, as it fits best for this NVMe disks.
Start the installation (3 minutes in first step) and wait until reboot. Press F8 again and chose "Install Mojave on your disk", it will take another 13 minutes to finish as displayed.
Do another reboot, press F8 again and chose your newly done installation to run first time.
Post installation Notes
Execute Clover Configurator from key and mount the EFI partition from stick and from your newly installed OSX drive. Just simple copy the EFI folder from key to your drives EFI partition.
Open the config.plist file from your your newly installation EFI partition with Clover Configurator and go to the section "boot". Copy the name of your OSX drive and enter it to "Default Boot Volume". Don't forget to save config and reboot your system, meanwhile ejecting the key.
Enter your bios and make your new Installation booting with UEFI.
What works
Currently everything works. I'm trying to find a solution for all those aura-stuff in my rig, but it's more a playing with colors. If you do the migration assistant of MacOS, it might be helpful to run MultiBeast after next reboot and install newest "intelimaus"-driver from network section.
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