 | Hello !Coming with a new Hack' tailored to my ITX gaming rig. It was not easy to install but at last : here we are with a dual Windows 11 Pro 23H2 / MacOS Sonoma 14.2.1 ! For what usages ? Mostly for fun, student work (I have a MBA 13" M1 for University), etc. Feel free to ask me your deepest mindblowing questions ! The Hack's specs :🌵CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 7500F Earth is beautiful, isn't it ? 🌍 Peripherals :🌵Monitor - Gigabyte G34WQC A 34" inch (Custom calibration) What's working ?- Ethernet, iCloud, Message, GPU acceleration, every I/O ports of motherboard, AMD Power Gadget, audio etc. (Ask in the comment section for something particular) Or not... - Airdrop & some Airport related features. Performances :- I mostly don't care about the MacOS performances of the Hack. Here's a screenshot of a Geekbench 6 run. Under Windows for gaming, I can play most titles at 1080P Ultra / 1440P High such as War Thunder or Fortnite. I definitely see the impact of 21:9 resolution on FPS (but not that much) in comparison with a standard 1440P 16:9 32" monitor. Geekbench 6 scores & AMD Power Gadget Miscellaneous infos :- CPU : The Ryzen 5 7500F is basically identical to the Ryzen 5 7600 except slightly lower clock speeds & no-iGPU. It's a great CPU for the price (paid second hand 150 Euros in France) and doesn't heat a lot : perfect for a compact SFF ITX build ! (The AM5 ITX boards aren't cheaps...) No PBO tweaks yet, stock settings, etc. - Monitor : the colors of the monitor aren't great under MacOS (way better in Windows). 3440x1440 resolution works nice with 144Hz link speed for fluidity. - Windows : I used Ghost Spectre Windows 11 Pro 23H2 ISO (Super compact w/ Defender) to get a fully debloat OS. - Wifi adapters : I firstly replaced my Mediatek RZ wifi card for the "trust"worthy BCM94360NG but the card itself had hardware issues so... I plug an Intel AX210NGW wifi card right in place of the other on the board : both Wifi & Bluetooth work fine. - Why a Radeon Pro ? : I finished the Hackintosh installation with a RX 6600 but as a SFF enjoyer, I needed something powerful and compact... For 200 Euros, I managed to get my hands today evening on a Radeon Pro W6600 : same performances as the "standard" RX 6600 but single-slot ! Troubleshooting :- Bios version : Certainly not the easiest Hack I've ever own. Installation failed multiple times : using OpenCore Debug showed me ACPI related issues. Who's fault ? Bios version of course. Before the making of this Hack, my motherboard was updated to the last Bios version : 1818. Downgrading to 1654 made the installation working. Future (potential) upgrades :- Dual GPUs : I've got a PCIe bifurcation riser x8/x8 from C-PAYNE : I can put two GPUs on it, one has to be single-slot (that's why the W6600). I did that for my first Ventura Hackintosh : a RX 550 alongside a RTX 3080 Founders Edition. For pure WQHD gaming under Windows, I consider buying a RTX 3xxx or RTX 4xxx GPU. Don't worry, the Nvidia GPU will be disabled under MacOS. - Adding the same 16Gb RAM stick : to get 32Gb of RAM & dual-channel. - ITX case swapping : I got tons of ITX cases : SSUPD Meshlicious, NCase M1 V3.0, Lian-Li Q37WX, actual Louqe Ghost S1. I swap my components in one of these pretty often. That's it ! [link] [comments] |
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