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Recently I was live streaming my work (software development) on my 2019 MacBook Pro 2.4ghz. It was really struggling to keep up and sounded like it was about to take off. I felt it was a little sluggish before but this time it was really noticeable. So I decided to take the plunge and go Hackintosh for the first time. I'm hoping to get some advice here.
I was already configuring a new gaming PC so I'm planning to make it a dual boot setup. Unfortunately with Mac OS the options are limited, although I'm happy to see Ryzen CPUs are apparently an option nowadays, while 10th gen Intel Comet Lake-S isn't yet, am I right? I want the best single core performance I can get, because I run a lot of Node.js which is single threaded.
As for graphics I would've preferred an Nvidia card but it looks like AMD Radeon is the way to go here. Since I intend to use this for VR I need the fastest card available which I think is the RX 5700 XT.
As for the motherboard I would love to get some advice on that, specifically regarding WiFi and Thunderbolt 3. One major limitation is that it must be a mini ITX board because I'll be building this inside a Dan A4 SFF case. I heard for dual boot it's best to have separate drives because of the MBR location, so I think I'll be looking at 2x 500gb M.2 SSDs. Or is a partitioned 1TB drive going to work just fine? With two M.2 slots it looks like I need an X570 board? Or maybe a B550?
This brings me back to WiFi. ITX boards don't usually have a PCI-E 1x slot, and I'll be using two M.2 slots for storage already. So what's the best solution to get WiFi going? Maybe use a SATA SSD for Windows (disk performance doesn't really matter in games)?
Here's what I've configured thus far:
I was already configuring a new gaming PC so I'm planning to make it a dual boot setup. Unfortunately with Mac OS the options are limited, although I'm happy to see Ryzen CPUs are apparently an option nowadays, while 10th gen Intel Comet Lake-S isn't yet, am I right? I want the best single core performance I can get, because I run a lot of Node.js which is single threaded.
As for graphics I would've preferred an Nvidia card but it looks like AMD Radeon is the way to go here. Since I intend to use this for VR I need the fastest card available which I think is the RX 5700 XT.
As for the motherboard I would love to get some advice on that, specifically regarding WiFi and Thunderbolt 3. One major limitation is that it must be a mini ITX board because I'll be building this inside a Dan A4 SFF case. I heard for dual boot it's best to have separate drives because of the MBR location, so I think I'll be looking at 2x 500gb M.2 SSDs. Or is a partitioned 1TB drive going to work just fine? With two M.2 slots it looks like I need an X570 board? Or maybe a B550?
This brings me back to WiFi. ITX boards don't usually have a PCI-E 1x slot, and I'll be using two M.2 slots for storage already. So what's the best solution to get WiFi going? Maybe use a SATA SSD for Windows (disk performance doesn't really matter in games)?
Here's what I've configured thus far:
- Sapphire Radeon RX 5700 XT Pulse 8GB
- AMD Ryzen 7 3700X (or an upcoming Matisse refresh)
- Kingston HyperX Fury Black 32GB DDR4-3200 CL16 kit (2x 16GB)
- 2x Kingston A2000 SSD 500GB (M.2 2280)
- Is this setup going to reliably work?
- What motherboard would you recommend? (must be mini-ITX)
- What's the recommended approach to enabling WiFi?
- Is sleep / wake from sleep still an issue or can that be fixed somehow?
- Is it true that I can't safely have two OSes on the same (partitioned) SSD?
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