In the original post you have this note:
Can you elaborate on this? What's exactly turning this off is doing..?
BTW, I am running F12 BIOS on B550I and sleep works just fine. Your experience prevents me from upgrading to later BIOS versions.
Yes, I'm aware of that. I actually found someone's EFI where just that is done.
A while back, while learning how to edit SSDTs, I stumbled upon Maldon's post on InsanelyMac where he says that overriding entire DSDT is the best way for stability if you know what you are doing. That's a big if...
Thus in conclusion — this build works amazingly well for my needs.
I have 3600MHz memory sticks coming in which I plan to try and see how performance changes.
I also want to try running USB-C to DisplayPort cable, to see would be enable 4K 144Hz refresh rate, since macOS is crap regarding DSC...
Finally, USB ports.
I did not map anything here. I simply used USB-reset SSDT generated by SSDTTime in Windows and that's it. Added USBX SSDT to give proper power properties to ports.
All ports work just fine. There is no consequence on sleep/wake. I can't wake up the computer by tapping...
It's interesting to see the naming of the GPU device.
% ./gfxutil -f GFX0
DevicePath not found!
% ./gfxutil -f VGA
09:00.0 1002:73bf /PCI0@0/GPP8@3,1/SWUS@0/SWDS@0/VGA@0
= PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x3,0x1)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)
Not sure if this is what trips-up WhateverGreen...
I was able (after months of trying) to purchase AMD RX 6900 XT directly from AMD.com, for the MSRP price. At the moment, the build is running without WhateverGreen and also without any additional stuff – pure native.
And performance is amazing. For both CPU and GPU.
I am using BIOS version F12. It came with the board and I don't see much reason to upgrade except to use newer AMD CPU AGESA. That would be nice...but sleep / wake works perfectly now thus I am hesitant to upgrade since I've seen multiple reports of that breaking on newer BIOSes.
Fast Boot...
Board has Realtek 2.5GbE LAN chip which is covered with LucyRTL8125Ethernet.kext
There are reports this may not work properly in Monterey, will see when I get to it.
The board uses Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 card. It's an amazing card but will never work properly in macOS. (OpenIntelWireless will never be proper solution).
Thus I moved over the combo below, which offers natively supported WiFi 5 / Bluetooth 4 and worked pretty well for me over the last year or so...
Most of the stuff here are transplanted from my previous build; ASRock's mobo died (probably too many hard-power-offs), I had this board on hand and here you go. I was planning this board for another build but I have to say I'm pretty pleased with it.
Currently running OpenCore 0.7.5 and Big...
I changed my build to B550 recently and loading WEG (all latest kexts) black screens soon after Apple logo is shown. No options, simply adding the kext. I don't really need WEG (don't care about streaming on this build) but interesting to point out.
Another interesting point is this:
%...
Played some games last night and checked this - yep, all like you said. I did not expect any benefit, 570 is way older than SAM but it's nice to know I can leave another option in the BIOS on without any side-effects on macOS.
Still waiting for the mythical MSRP purchase of Ryzen 6000 card.
Set "Resizable BAR" to Enabled in ASRock X570 BIOS and macOS Big Sur boots quite well with ResizeAppleGpuBars=0.
I doubt I will see any performance benefit with RX-570 in Windows but hey - if it doesn't hurt, let it be on.
Thanks for the tip, will certainly look to that thread. Never really considered USB options before.
Speaking of WiFi — it seems AMD decided to produce its own WiFi module and it X570SI board rev 1.1 from Gigabyte uses it. It seems actual hardware is made my Mediatek. Specs do look amazing; if...
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