Hi everyone, I've been lurking for a while reading tips to get my own build together. I moved to Mac from Windows around 12 years ago and have only just got back into building myself a PC again. Mac hardware is just out of my price range now.
Anyway, here is my system:
AMD Ryzen 3900x
Gigabyte Aorus Elite x570
Sapphire RX 5700
Corsair MP600 Force 1TB M.2
16bg Corsair DDR4 running at 3200
TP-LINK UB4A Bluetooth 4.0 USB Dongle
I finally got to grips with Opencore and now have a fully working (as best I can tell) Mac OS system running 10.15.4
I would have preferred Mojave, but Catalina has the drivers for the RX 5700 so this seemed the be the best option.
I have attached my EFI folder which has the following :
Opencore 0.5.8
Fully working USB (including front) and Sleep
Driver for onboard Intel Networking
Sound Output for Realtek and GPU audio
USB dongle works fine without any additional drivers
RadeonBoost.kext which seem to improve the speed of the 5700 in benchmarks. The docs said you can disable whatevergreen when using this, but it didn't work for me, so that is still present.
Recommended OS : Catalina 10.15.1 - 10.15.4
The following is a list of all kexts
Lilu.kext
SmallTreeIntel82576.kext
AppleALC.kext
WhateverGreen.kext
SMCAMDProcessor.kext
VirtualSMC.kext
AMDRyzenCPUPowerManagement.kext
AMD-USB-Map.kext
NVMeFix.kext
RadeonBoost.kext
I have removed at the SystemUUID etc so you will of course need to replace this with your own info, and you may also want to turn on the debugging if you have problems.
One thing to note is that according to the developer of RadeonBoost, it may cause problems with 10.15.5 so if you are running this, I'd recommend disabling the RadeonBoost.kext
Hopefully this will be of use to someone out there who is trying to build a good Hackintosh with similar hardware.
Anyway, here is my system:
AMD Ryzen 3900x
Gigabyte Aorus Elite x570
Sapphire RX 5700
Corsair MP600 Force 1TB M.2
16bg Corsair DDR4 running at 3200
TP-LINK UB4A Bluetooth 4.0 USB Dongle
I finally got to grips with Opencore and now have a fully working (as best I can tell) Mac OS system running 10.15.4
I would have preferred Mojave, but Catalina has the drivers for the RX 5700 so this seemed the be the best option.
I have attached my EFI folder which has the following :
Opencore 0.5.8
Fully working USB (including front) and Sleep
Driver for onboard Intel Networking
Sound Output for Realtek and GPU audio
USB dongle works fine without any additional drivers
RadeonBoost.kext which seem to improve the speed of the 5700 in benchmarks. The docs said you can disable whatevergreen when using this, but it didn't work for me, so that is still present.
Recommended OS : Catalina 10.15.1 - 10.15.4
The following is a list of all kexts
Lilu.kext
SmallTreeIntel82576.kext
AppleALC.kext
WhateverGreen.kext
SMCAMDProcessor.kext
VirtualSMC.kext
AMDRyzenCPUPowerManagement.kext
AMD-USB-Map.kext
NVMeFix.kext
RadeonBoost.kext
I have removed at the SystemUUID etc so you will of course need to replace this with your own info, and you may also want to turn on the debugging if you have problems.
One thing to note is that according to the developer of RadeonBoost, it may cause problems with 10.15.5 so if you are running this, I'd recommend disabling the RadeonBoost.kext
Hopefully this will be of use to someone out there who is trying to build a good Hackintosh with similar hardware.