Golden motherboard, anything out there?

[willio]

Was on a last leg of research and the Z390 Designare (team blue) came up strong. That's when I decided to revisit Snazzy's X570 Creator build that brought me here. Someone at this r/hackintosh thread wrote "running a semi-professional audio workload on AMD. Bulletproof. No latency issues, none of the compatibility issues that were reported maybe 2 years ago."

I know it won't be as simple as that, but that gave me a little hope. So is it worth a shot if I were to build a Creator-based Ryzen build? All I want is TB3-readiness and no sleep/wake issue.

Current line ups:

• ASRock X570 Creator for AMD
• Ryzen 5 3600 (most bang for buck today)
• BCM94360xx Wi-Fi/BT Card for AirDrop/Continuity/Watch Unlock
• 2x Samsung Evo 970 Plus NvME for triple boot (Mojave/Catalina + Win 10)
• 2TB SATA SSD
• 10GBpe Network Card (if needed)

I got half of the desktop ready and running (full-motion bracket mounted LG Ultrawide, Mech keyboard, etc), all I need is the brain under it.

 

[Aluveitie]

There was a 31 pages long thread about this build in the old forum trying to get TB3 to work: https://amd-osx.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=9645

As far as I understood it he more or less gave up and switched to a Gigabyte board after frying the ASRock Creator since the recently released revision 1.1 of some Gigabyte boards added TB3 headers.

 

[agent2]

There was a 31 pages long thread about this build in the old forum trying to get TB3 to work: https://amd-osx.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=9645

As far as I understood it he more or less gave up and switched to a Gigabyte board after frying the ASRock Creator since the recently released revision 1.1 of some Gigabyte boards added TB3 headers.

That was @iGPU who had that happen but until now Thunderbolt on the X570 Creator has been working without Hot-Plug, so you need to see if it will work at all @willio but it's worth giving it a try if you follow the thread well.
Oh yeah btw I see you want to use two M.2 SSDs to put OSes on there. You should be aware that because of X570 lane sharing when you enable Thunderbolt and populate the PCIe x4 lane at the bottom one M.2 slot is disabled, so if you want that M.2 SSD and TB3 then that slot has to be left free. But that will be no problem for you as you have that on-board 10Gb Aquantia chip.
Cheers!

 

[willio]

That was @iGPU who had that happen but until now Thunderbolt on the X570 Creator has been working without Hot-Plug, so you need to see if it will work at all @willio but it's worth giving it a try if you follow the thread well.
Oh yeah btw I see you want to use two M.2 SSDs to put OSes on there. You should be aware that because of X570 lane sharing when you enable Thunderbolt and populate the PCIe x4 lane at the bottom one M.2 slot is disabled, so if you want that M.2 SSD and TB3 then that slot has to be left free. But that will be no problem for you as you have that on-board 10Gb Aquantia chip.
Cheers!

Good to know this. Does it mean that if I want to use the onboard TB3, I can only use 1x M.2 SSD?

 

[Aluveitie]

Good to know this. Does it mean that if I want to use the onboard TB3, I can only use 1x M.2 SSD?

It means if you enable TB3 and want to use two M.2 SSDs you must not use the bottom PCIe x4 slot.