Sunday, January 12, 2020

Hackintosh upgrade

For those of you fallowing along, my main system started having issues and had become unstable. Crashing and rebooting, after many hours of diagnostic work I determined it was the mother board, the PCI slot for the video card is cause the issues. I use this system for work and research so I needed to get back online. I bought new hardware. here is what I upgraded too

ASUS Prime Z390-p motherboard
Intel I9 9900k
32 GB of 3000Mhz Ram
AMD RX 5700 XT

Windows 10 run awesome as expected but OS X 10.15.2 was a little work, turns out that the Z390 does not have native NVRAM so I had to add EmuVariableUefi.efi to get to the desktop.

Once that was done I am back up and running, faster and stable.