Got inspiration and install tips from the posts made by Niko and freeubi. Followed the Vanilla guide and many hours pouring over the exact details of the OpenCore guide linked in the Vanilla guide. A huge thank you to all of you .
Hardware
CPU: AMD Ryzen 3900X
MOBO: Gigabyte X570 Aorus Pro WiFi ATX
RAM: 64GB (4x16) Corsair DDR4 3600 RGB
GPU: Gigabyte RX 5700XT Gaming OC 8G
SSD: Samsung 1TB 970EVO+ NVME M.2 SSD (x2, 1 for MacOS, 1 for Windows 10)
PSU: Thermaltake 750W Toughpower Gold
CASE: NZXT H510 Elite
Software
OpenCore 0.5.8
MacOS Catalina 10.15.4
Config
MacPro 7,1
ACPI: SSDT-EC, SSDT-USBX (used SSDTTime to dump DSDT on Windows then build SSDT-EC, and grabbed pre-built SSDT-USBX from the OpenCore guide)
Drivers: HfsPlus, OpenRuntime
Kexts: Lilu, VirtualSMC, AppleALC, MacProMemoryNotificationDisabler, SmallTreeIntel82576, WhateverGreen, AMDRyzenCPUPowerManagement, SMCAMDProcessor
Boot-args: -v keepsyms=1 debug=0x100 agdpmod=pikera
BIOS
Fast Boot: Disabled
CSM Support: Disabled
Above 4G Decoding: Enabled (hence no npci=0x2000 boot-arg)
XHCI Hand-off: Enabled
SATA Mode: AHCI
System Memory Multiplier: 36.00 (I set this after install when I noticed RAM was running at 2133. This set it to the spec'd 3600MHz.)
File System Format
APFS + GUID (I decided against any of the Encrypted / Case-sensitive options)
Benchmarks
Geekbench 5 CPU: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/2160907
Geekbench 5 Compute: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/compute/916618
Known Issues
Sleep
Very occasional system jitters. Usually a 1-2 second stall where mouse works fine, but chrome or other app will stall out.
Notes
This is my second Hackintosh but my first one running AMD or OpenCore. This is already clearly far more stable than my old Intel build from 2014. Awesome to see how far it has come and how much amazing work the Hackintosh community has put in.
I'm using this machine mainly for audio mixing work with Logic Pro. Using a Focusrite 2i4 to drive speakers and some basic inputs.
System runs like a charm.
Hardware
CPU: AMD Ryzen 3900X
MOBO: Gigabyte X570 Aorus Pro WiFi ATX
RAM: 64GB (4x16) Corsair DDR4 3600 RGB
GPU: Gigabyte RX 5700XT Gaming OC 8G
SSD: Samsung 1TB 970EVO+ NVME M.2 SSD (x2, 1 for MacOS, 1 for Windows 10)
PSU: Thermaltake 750W Toughpower Gold
CASE: NZXT H510 Elite
Software
OpenCore 0.5.8
MacOS Catalina 10.15.4
Config
MacPro 7,1
ACPI: SSDT-EC, SSDT-USBX (used SSDTTime to dump DSDT on Windows then build SSDT-EC, and grabbed pre-built SSDT-USBX from the OpenCore guide)
Drivers: HfsPlus, OpenRuntime
Kexts: Lilu, VirtualSMC, AppleALC, MacProMemoryNotificationDisabler, SmallTreeIntel82576, WhateverGreen, AMDRyzenCPUPowerManagement, SMCAMDProcessor
Boot-args: -v keepsyms=1 debug=0x100 agdpmod=pikera
BIOS
Fast Boot: Disabled
CSM Support: Disabled
Above 4G Decoding: Enabled (hence no npci=0x2000 boot-arg)
XHCI Hand-off: Enabled
SATA Mode: AHCI
System Memory Multiplier: 36.00 (I set this after install when I noticed RAM was running at 2133. This set it to the spec'd 3600MHz.)
File System Format
APFS + GUID (I decided against any of the Encrypted / Case-sensitive options)
Benchmarks
Geekbench 5 CPU: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/2160907
Geekbench 5 Compute: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/compute/916618
Known Issues
Sleep
Very occasional system jitters. Usually a 1-2 second stall where mouse works fine, but chrome or other app will stall out.
Notes
This is my second Hackintosh but my first one running AMD or OpenCore. This is already clearly far more stable than my old Intel build from 2014. Awesome to see how far it has come and how much amazing work the Hackintosh community has put in.
I'm using this machine mainly for audio mixing work with Logic Pro. Using a Focusrite 2i4 to drive speakers and some basic inputs.
System runs like a charm.
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