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Greetings from France !
The config itself : Ryzen 5 7500F | ASRock B650i Lightning WiFi | ASUS ROG STRIX LC RX 6900 XT GAMING TOP | Crucial PRO 2x16Gb OVERCLOCKING 6000MHz CL36 | Crucial P3 Plus 1Tb (Windows 23H2), Samsung 970 Evo Plus 250Gb (Sonoma 14.6.1) & PNY CS900 250Gb (Sequoia 15.0 Beta 7) | Intel AX210 | OpenCore 1.0.1.
A little bit of history : Hackintoshes and I. In the past, I used the paid services of HackintoshExpert (Ukrainian guys) to make three Hackintoshes : on a ASUS ROG STRIX B660-I Gaming WiFi, ASUS ROG STRIX Z690-I Gaming WiFi and ASUS ROG STRIX B650E-I Gaming WiFi. I spent a lot. Since, I've learned to do EFI myself, I started to gathered knowledges on my own (thanks to cool people on AMD OSX Discord server). From using prebuilt EFIs to make ones is a great foot step ! I was using OCAT, and re-did my whole B650E-I EFI on my own with ProperTree and here, I started to learn a lot on my own.
From XTX to XTXH RX 6900 XT : today was the day of receiving a new GPU : I sold my AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT reference model for a more punchy ASUS ROG STRIX LC RX 6900 XT GAMING TOP with a XTXH chip inside. I know that I had to spoof the GPU in order to make it fully recognizable under MacOS. The power consumption is... around 380w in War Thunder (1080P Ultra settings + SSAA in Windows) lol ! That's more than my XTX RX and my former RTX 3090 Founders Edition.
The ASRock B650i Lightning WiFi : definitely a great budget AM5 ITX board. Making it working in MacOS was far easier than with my previous (and dead) ASUS ROG STRIX B650E-I Gaming WiFi. The latest BIOS (3.06 right now) works flawlessly without any ACPI patches (some AM5 boards are impacted by ACPI issues on their latest BIOSes).
Storage : I will definitely buy a SN770 or SN850 for my MacOSes instead of the unfamous 970 Evo Plus. The CS900 is still a great value for a SATA SSD. I originally thought that my freezes mentionned above were caused by the Samsung so I bought the SATA to test and had the same issues, until I discovered the faulty SF750.
Troubleshootings and honorable things to mention :
1) I passed tons of days trying to figure out why my Hackintosh still crashed even after reinstalls. The reason ? Just a faulty Corsair SF750 that was very damaged by an electrical shortage one month ago. The poor PSU freezed or crashed my PC everytime I loaded the GPU. Sent back and replaced for now with a Corsair RM650 (noisy but working flawlessly).
2) MacOS Ventura : I had weird mouse issues that I don't have under MacOS Sonoma and Sequoia when dragging files in the Finder.
3) I managed to make a MQUPIN Fenvi T919 working under Sequoia Beta 1 & 2. To have both a PCIe Wifi/BT card and a GPU, I had to use a PCIe bifurcation riser (x8/x8) from C-Payne but it took too much space in a SFF case... The antennas delivered with the card are awful as hell : gigantics and powerless.
4) On the 3.01 BIOS, having Resizable-bar enabled makes the booting of Windows from OpenCore during too much time (around 3-4 minutes)... The 3.06 BIOS fixed that.
5) From USBToolBox.kext + UTBMap.kext to USBMap.kext with Native Classes enabled in USBToolBox app in Windows made everything working better.
6) I prevented MacOS of mounting Windows drive (showed as Untitled).
7) Having a MacBook Air M1 13" made Hackintoshing easier for creating MacOS USB installers, debugging, creating and modifying EFIs, etc.
What's working ?
Spoofing (very proud of), DRM, Hardware Acceleration, iServices, Discord (patched with AMDFriend), Intel WiFi & Bluetooth, sleep, wake-up, ... (ask for specific things I don't remember right now).
What's not ?
Intel Bluetooth in Sequoia (I tried Lorys89 updated kexts but not working anyway), obviously Airdrop / Continuity / and everything related to Broadcom / Apple native cards. It's still a Beta !
Potential uprades : Ryzen 5 7500F to a Ryzen 7 7800X3D or a new 9xxx CPU and new SSDs. A New SFX PSU.
Big thanks to : CorpNewT for his wonderful tools and knowledge, Cerbis and others that I don't forget (I swear). Patience and will rule.
