My Ryzen 3700x build that sadly is no more

DISCLAIMER: I'm labeling this as a success as the build was working until the CPU died.

Also the Benchmarks are with PBO set to the Mainboards current limits in the BIOS. So around 5-8% faster than stock.

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The Setup:

CPU: Ryzen 7 3700X

MB: MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon AC

RAM: G.Skill Aegis 16GB DDR4-3000 (set to 3200)

GPU: MSI Vega 56 AIR BOOST OC (undervolted core, overclocked memory and Vega 64 BIOS)

Case: Fractal Design Meshify S2 with solid side panels

Cooling: custom loop from Alphacool (both CPU and GPU)

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What worked / upsides:

• Sleep/Wake
• iMessage
• Facetime (don't have a webcam to really test it though)
• => could be labeled as a golden build
• Great Resolve, FCPX performance with iMacPro1,1 SMBIOS (dGPU hw acceleration)
• great gcc/llvm performance with 16 threads (only had an i5 7400 before)
• Xcode iOS simulator seems to work and perform decent (only tested it for a few minutes)

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What didn't worked/problems:

• A lot of programs still have 32Bit components and don't work or crash (in my case Adobe CC)
• I didn't try to get the onboard Audio to work so I can't say anything about that
• macOS GPU performance was all over the place (1/4 of normal score in Geekbench OpenCL, single digit fps in a lot of games) apparently this is already known issue over on AMD OSX but was new to me
• But expected GPU performance in other apps like FCPX and Resolve and Benchmarks like LuxMark
• CPU died

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So after reading that the "Vanilla AMD OSX" patches were supposedly working I took the risk and just ordered the parts from a retailer with a 30 day return window.

The installation was pretty much as easy as it could possibly get. I just followed the vanilla AMD OSX Guide and after some issues trying to format the SSD everything worked.

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But sadly after about a week I had problems with the PCIe slot for the GPU just turning off when under load. The Computer would still run but you had to shut the computer down and disconnect it from power for ~15 minutes for it to work again.

Freaked out I ran to my local PC shop and bought one overpriced X570 mainboard. There the PCIe slot wouldn't shut off, but on the third boot the mainboard wouldn't recognize the CPU anymore. Also the mainboard fan is annoying.

At that point I got fed up, returned everything and bought a 9700K.

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Conclusion:

Running an AMD Ryzen 3000 Hackintosh is possible and setup was no more difficult than any Intel Hackintosh.

But the GPU performance issues make it difficult for me to generally recommend a purpose built AMD Hackintosh.

But I expect a lot of the problems with specific apps to be improved with Catalina because of the 32Bit support drop.

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