Wall mounted X570 Aorus Pro build

[cdp1522]

Hi everyone, I'm new to the forums. Nice to meet you all!

Just thought I would share my recently completed hack. Have had this system for a while running Win 11 - mostly used for gaming by the kids. Now dual-booted with Mac OS Ventura!

(I do have a better keyboard and mouse including a magic mouse 2 and magic keyboard 2 - just using these temporarily as I moved the computer from my daughters room to the dining room )

Opencore 1.0.4
SMBIOS - MacPro7,1





Specs:

• X570 Aorus Pro motherboard
• AMD Ryzen 5 5600x
• MSI MAG Coreliquid 360R V2 AIO (originally had the V1 which was RMA'd a couple of years ago due to well documented issues!)
• 32GB (2x16GB) Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR4 3200MHz Ryzen tuned
• Asus ROG Strix Radeon 5700 XT
• Corsair RM750X PSU
• Crucial P3 Plus 1TB NVMe PCIe 4.0
• WD Blue SN550 500GB NVMe PCIe 3.0
• Fenvi T919 WiFi/Bluetooth
• Thermaltake Core P3 TG case

ACPI (utilising SSDTTime):

• SSDT-HPET
• SSDT-EC
• SSDT-USBX
• SSDT-PLUG
• SSDT-SBUS-MCHC
• SSDT-XOSI

Drivers:

• HFSPlus.efi
• OpenRuntime.efi
• OpenCanopy.efi
• ResetNVRAMEntry.efi

Kexts:

• Lilu
• VirtualSMC
• AppleMCEReporterDisabler
• WhateverGreen
• AppleALC
• RestrictEvents
• AMDRyzenCPUPowerManagement
• SMCAMDProcessor
• USBMap - using custom USB map by AudioGod on his build with the same motherboard, see here

Patches:

• AMD Kernel Patching with latest AMD Vanilla patches

Bios Settings
BIOS Revision - F38
Load Optimized Defaults, then:

• CSM Support -> DISABLED
• Fast boot -> DISABLED
• Secure boot -> DISABLED
• Above 4G Decoding -> ENABLED
• Resize BAR -> ENABLED
• Legacy USB Support -> AUTO
• SVM -> ENABLED
• IOMMU -> DISABLED
• XMP -> PROFILE 1

What Works:

• Sound
• WiFi / Bluetooth
• All USB Ports including Type C
• AirDrop
• iCloud
• Hardware Acceleration
• iMessage
• Facetime
• Sleep & Wake
• Handoff
• Continuity
• Apple Watch Unlock

What Doesn't Work:

• SideCar
  • Ethernet will be upgraded to Asus XG-C110C 10GbE (Aquantia AQC-107 chipset) next week.

I'm currently in work and I'm sure there's bits I've forgotten. Happy to answer any questions and share my EFI if anybody's interested
Chris

 

[Edhawk]

Try adding FeatureUnlock.kext for Sidecar functionality.

GitHub - acidanthera/FeatureUnlock: Add Sidecar support to unsupported models

Add Sidecar support to unsupported models. Contribute to acidanthera/FeatureUnlock development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

For Aquantia 10G Ethernet use patches provided by @CaseySJ

GitHub - CaseySJ/Aquantia-macOS-Patches: Patches to enable AppleEthernetAquantiaAqtion in macOS when AppleVTD is not available

Patches to enable AppleEthernetAquantiaAqtion in macOS when AppleVTD is not available - CaseySJ/Aquantia-macOS-Patches

github.com

 

[cdp1522]

Try adding FeatureUnlock.kext for Sidecar functionality.

GitHub - acidanthera/FeatureUnlock: Add Sidecar support to unsupported models

Add Sidecar support to unsupported models. Contribute to acidanthera/FeatureUnlock development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

For Aquantia 10G Ethernet use patches provided by @CaseySJ

GitHub - CaseySJ/Aquantia-macOS-Patches: Patches to enable AppleEthernetAquantiaAqtion in macOS when AppleVTD is not available

Patches to enable AppleEthernetAquantiaAqtion in macOS when AppleVTD is not available - CaseySJ/Aquantia-macOS-Patches

github.com

Thanks, works perfectly! Will test the new NIC when it arrives in the post

 

[Edhawk]

I have 10 x Marvell (Aquantia) AQC107 & AQC113 10G Ethernet PCIe cards. They all work really well with the linked patches and Aquantia Kernel Quirk, using the Aquantia Ethernet kext provided by Apple in macOS.

I have 2 x ASUS XG-C110C cards, 2 x ASUS ROG AREION cards and 6 x FENVI 10Gbps AQC113 cards. I have used these to upgrade my Dual booting Hacks and macOS Server (HP ProLiant ML10 Gen 9 Hack). Most are now running macOS Sequoia 15.4.1.

 

[cdp1522]

I have 10 x Marvell (Aquantia) AQC107 & AQC113 10G Ethernet PCIe cards. They all work really well with the linked patches and Aquantia Kernel Quirk, using the Aquantia Ethernet kext provided by Apple in macOS.

I have 2 x ASUS XG-C110C cards, 2 x ASUS ROG AREION cards and 6 x FENVI 10Gbps AQC113 cards. I have used these to upgrade my Dual booting Hacks and macOS Server (HP ProLiant ML10 Gen 9 Hack). Most are now running macOS Sequoia 15.4.1.

That's great, so no issues in Sequoia? As I may upgrade, I just went with Ventura initially as the Fenvi card works OOB and I have read that OCLP and lowering SIP is required for anything beyond that - not sure how much of an impact upgrading would have or if it would break anything else that is currently working?

I had no success with the AppleIGB.kext for my onboard intel 1gb NIC - it worked intermittently, sometimes for 30 seconds, sometimes for 10 minutes before it would drop and I had to ifconfig en0 down and up to get it working (briefly) again.

 

[Edhawk]

I have disabled my builtin 1Gb Ethernet port (in the bios) on my ASUS X570 system and use the 10G card as en0, with a Broadcom BCM43602CS WiFi/BT card set as en1. I am running OCLP on Sequoia 15.4.1 with no issues.