trx40 [Discussion] - TRX40 Bare Metal - Vanilla Patches

[Ploddles]

6 hours ago, Renato said:

HI, I finally managed to install BigSur bare metal, but something bizarre is happening (the same was happening with Catalina). The bluetooth chip is detected an installed.. but it does not work). What is more bizarre is if I install BigSur in a KVM based VM in Unraid on the same motherboard, Bluetooth works like a charm. I am using a Gigabyte Designare, anybody else has faced the same problem?

 

 

If you are booting multiple OS then it is often necessary to remove power to the machine (for about 10 seconds), ie turn off or remove the power cable not just shutdown from the OS. Each OS will upload its own firmware to the BT & Wifi chips that is only cleared by completely removing power. Just shutting down still leaves power to the MB so power must be completely removed.

[valmeida]

4 hours ago, Arrakis said:

 

@valmeida

Hello.

Could do a canddle benchmark test in Resolve to get a feel for the performance of the 6900 XT when you have time.

Fabiosun has created a topic that reports the performance of different cards.here

My request is interested because my working tool is Resolve.

As an attached file the project and media which allows to do the test.

Canddle test.zip 28.74 MB · 0 downloads

Sure I will try it today . 

[fabiosun]

 

thanks @valmeidafor his help and patience to test 🙂

 

[Jaidy]

for the people running RDNA2 cards, is there a problem with the display properties? I have a Benq EW3280 monitor, with a Power Color Red Devil 6800 XT. I am using agdpmod=pikera boot argument. The display is fed via a DisplayPort. It turns out that the picture is much less brighter than previously. Furthermore, on the On Screen Display (OSD) menu for the monitor, the Brightness and Contrast options are disabled. This seems to be a macOS thing, since when I boot into the BIOS configuration, then the brightness is fine, and also the aforementioned options are enabled in the monitor OSD. 

 

Is anyone else facing this issue? Can some one advise me how to address it? I tried using Mac Pro 7,1 SMBIOS. That would boot to black screen too without the agdpmod=pikera argument. On another forum, it was mentioned that Mac Pro 7,1 definitions along with -wegoff works. I have not tried that. Is -wegoff a boot argument?

 

Never mind, HDR was enabled.

Edited May 3, 2021 by Jaidy

[Ploddles]

21 minutes ago, Jaidy said:

On another forum, it was mentioned that Mac Pro 7,1 definitions along with -wegoff works. I have not tried that. Is -wegoff a boot argument?

 

You can add -wegoff to the boot arguments to test it or disable/remove whatevergreen.kext in the config.plist

[Jaidy]

2 minutes ago, Ploddles said:

 

You can add -wegoff to the boot arguments to test it or disable/remove whatevergreen.kext in the config.plist

everything works well now after disabling HDR. Now just waiting for OC 0.6.9 😛

[Arrakis]

Update to OpenCore 0.6.9 and I took advantage of updating to 11.3.1 (20E241).

@fabiosunyou can update my EFI in the OP.

 

 

Edited May 4, 2021 by fabiosun
added in OP Updated EFI TRX40 GIGABYTE DESIGNARE OPENCORE0.6.9

[fabiosun]

done 🙂

Thank you

 

[Arrakis]

Has anyone seen any info about PCI port mapping in OpenCore yet ?

[iGPU]

4 hours ago, Arrakis said:

Has anyone seen any info about PCI port mapping in OpenCore yet ?

 

No, I've not seen anything. I use the daily/hourly builds of OC (now I'm running v070). 

 

If you compare the PCI section within SystemInformation, where there is a listing (injected either through SSDT or DeviceProperties), my Firewire card is shown in one but not the other. Perhaps some other definitions/labels are required (I found this out when getting the Memory section to function properly). I'll look more into it this weekend.

 

[iGPU]

The cooler in my build, the Enermax TR4 II, started to make noises as if the pump is starting to fail. A pump failure can lead to CPU destruction, so I decided to replace the cooler.

 

Last year, I heard about and bought pre-release at a discount, the IceGiant siphon cooler. It's been sitting in my garage for a few months. I opened it up and replaced the Enermax with it last night (and removed my dual, water-cooled  Radeon VIIs in anticipation of the soon-to-arrive 6900XT; in their place is the lowly but reliable RX580).

 

Installation of the IceGiant was very simple. I did swap out their fans for Noctua fans (which I have accrued from various builds, along with BeQuiet fans). I also did not place the pull fans, but instead the unit is near the top of the case where I instead placed two 140mm fans to pull air. I've attached photos showing the install as well as idle temps. Online reviews look as if the IceGiant is the equal of 3-fanned water-based coolers. The fans on the IceGiant are run in parallel to one fan header, the pull fans (at rear and both on top) were paralleled together and are on a separate header. This way I can control either set for temps and fan speeds. Most overall fan noises are reduced if sets of fans are run at slightly different speeds to reduce resonance effects between fans.

 

And, BTW, the computer is very quiet.

 

Mounting plate before fresh grease applied:

 

IceGiant Siphon installed with Noctua fans (before removing dual Radeon VIIs):

 

 

Idle temp = 46.5°C:

 

Geekbench 5 CPU test (no temps over 80°C):

 

 

Edited May 4, 2021 by iGPU

[fabiosun]

@iGPUwhen you have time could you test also cinebench 23 for understand better this new cooler?

thank you

 

[iGPU]

5 minutes ago, fabiosun said:

@iGPUwhen you have time could you test also cinebench 23 for understand better this new cooler?

thank you

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 4, 2021 by iGPU

[Arrakis]

@iGPU

I find that the idle value of the processor is 7/10° too high.

For my processor I chose the NH-U14S TR4-SP3 Noctua with two fans.

But for the full load it is very effective bravo.😀

To find out with a cooler, here are my temperatures.

[Arrakis]

@iGPU

Yes, I also have the well recognized PCI cards as I have injected the information into the properties for the three thunderbolt cards and the 2 graphics cards.

[fabiosun]

beta 2 build 20F5055c

@valmeidabe prepared to test again 🙂

Now you know how to do it 🙂 🙂

 

@Arrakisonly 250 watt during those high temperatures?

 

[iGPU]

2 hours ago, Arrakis said:

@iGPU

I find that the idle value of the processor is 7/10° too high.

For my processor I chose the NH-U14S TR4-SP3 Noctua with two fans.

But for the full load it is very effective bravo.😀

To find out with a cooler, here are my temperatures.

 

Temperatures depend not only on the cooler, but also on where one places their fan speeds as well as ambient temperatures. (Also, my idle power is almost 10W greater than yours for whatever reason; this will increase my temps compared to yours.)

 

I value quiet over lower idle temps, so I have the fans on the IceGiant running around ~550 rpm at idle with the output fans ~650 rpm. The case input fans ( 3 x 140mm) are set to around 750 rpm and ramp to ~1200 rpm under load. If I increase the idle speed of the IceGiant fans ≥ 900 rpm, I'm sure I can drop the temps by 5 or more degrees. Even for high temps, I limit the fan speeds ~1200 rpm instead of 1500.

 

I may experiment with a pair of thin Noctua fans on the output side of the IceGiant, since that's they were designed for push-pull. When I experimented last summer with push-pull fans, I found little difference when pulls were added to radiators (maybe the push-pull fans need to be matched and running the same speed for optimum cooling).

 

 

Edited May 4, 2021 by iGPU

[Arrakis]

@iGPU & @fabiosun

here is the maximum temperature during cinebench 23 with the adapter which limit the CPU fans to 1200 rpm.

At rest the cpu fans turn around 550 rpm.

 

[fabiosun]

Now is how it should be

noctua is good but not enough in my opinion

have you PBO enabled?

I hope so😊

[Arrakis]

@fabiosun

No, PBO not activated.

[fabiosun]

9 hours ago, Arrakis said:

@fabiosun

No, PBO not activated.

too high if PBO is disabled (IMHO)

[fabiosun]

 

beta 2 alive & kicking!

 

Automatic Bandwidth Configuration flagged produces this 

I think it is Intel coding related

 

[Jaidy]

is there anyone using a non-reference RDNA 2 card and is able to get to desktop without using agdpmod=pikera boot argument?

[Arrakis]

1 hour ago, fabiosun said:

too high if PBO is disabled (IMHO)

@fabiosun

I checked in the bios, it is in automatic.

The temperature above 80 ° does not worry me, the benchmark tests in Cinebench 23 do not represent the real life of a processor. When I work in Resolve and run cache and export file renderers, the CPU temperature rarely exceeds 70 °.

I have a 2013 Macpro under the same working conditions, the processor is above 90 ° and I have been working with it since 2013 without any problems.

[Arrakis]

1 hour ago, fabiosun said:

 

beta 2 alive & kicking!

 

Automatic Bandwidth Configuration flagged produces this 

I think it is Intel coding related

 

@fabiosun

is there the problem with the RestrictEvents kext ?