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I've got to ask this because I see all the time things like "I use MacPro7,1 because it most closely matches my hardware" or "I don't use iMacPro1,1 because its 2 years old" when referring to an X299 build.
I always understood it was best to pick an SMBIOS of a machine that most closely matches your hardware and CPU architecture, and well, all X299 builds, regardless of 7th, 9th or 10th gen CPU's are basically based on Skylake-X. Even 10th gen CascadeLake-X is much closer to Skylake-X than it is CascadeLake-W in the MacPro, despite its name, and we have 4 vs 6 channel amongst other things which is definitely most closely matching the 2017 iMac Pro - should we not be primarily using iMacPro1,1 with X299?
I mean I'm no expert on what MacOS actually does with SMBIOS and how it affects performance, stability hardware support etc, this is a genuine question of curiosity as it just doesn't seem to make sense to me based on my historical understanding of best-practice (if there is such a thing with a Hackintosh).
Actually what I'd really love is if someone could explain exactly how and what MacOS does with the SMBIOS variable - that would be super interesting if anyone knows!
I always understood it was best to pick an SMBIOS of a machine that most closely matches your hardware and CPU architecture, and well, all X299 builds, regardless of 7th, 9th or 10th gen CPU's are basically based on Skylake-X. Even 10th gen CascadeLake-X is much closer to Skylake-X than it is CascadeLake-W in the MacPro, despite its name, and we have 4 vs 6 channel amongst other things which is definitely most closely matching the 2017 iMac Pro - should we not be primarily using iMacPro1,1 with X299?
I mean I'm no expert on what MacOS actually does with SMBIOS and how it affects performance, stability hardware support etc, this is a genuine question of curiosity as it just doesn't seem to make sense to me based on my historical understanding of best-practice (if there is such a thing with a Hackintosh).
Actually what I'd really love is if someone could explain exactly how and what MacOS does with the SMBIOS variable - that would be super interesting if anyone knows!