First Hackintosh Complete! DESIGNARE + Mojave (10.14.6)

Following up on my first post asking for advice and tips and I have to thank u/mate94 for sending the link to this guide...

https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/success-gigabyte-designare-z390-thunderbolt-3-i7-9700k-amd-rx-580.267551/

It worked perfectly. (A few of the screenshots are out of date but it's all there)

Have most of the Adobe programs I use downloaded and running,
iMessage works and now I'm just waiting on a Wifi/BT card.

Migration Assistant seemed to hang up for too long, so I cancelled it, and ultimately decided to install all the software from scratch and organize some drives so it wasn't needed. A little housekeeping never hurt anyone. :-)

Here's what I used...

CORSAIR Carbide Mid-Tower (Case)
CORSAIR H60 (Cooler)
CORSAIR RMX RM650x (Power Supply)
GIGABYTE Z390 DESIGNARE (Motherboard)
Sapphire Pulse RX 580 8GB GDDR5 (GPU)
i7 9700k - 8-core (CPU)

SAMSUNG 970 evo PLUS (SSD)
– Seems like the newer ones come with firmware fixes so no update needed.
– I wish I had gone with 500GB or 1TB instead of 256Gb, but it's only for OS and Apps so I should be fine.

Also...

I plugged an OWC Mercury EXTREME Pro 6G SSD (1TB), that I had from my dead Mac Pro,
into a PCI slot and it works perfectly.

All in about $1400.00... Which is a lot of savings!
Geekbench and Cinebench tests are all clocking great!

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