trx50 Gigabyte TRX50 installation success! :)

[backinblackx86]

The 10GbE NiC issue has been resolved and I am on F3d. I cloned my NVME and am now in the process of updating Sonoma to 14.4.1.

[backinblackx86]

Something isn’t quite right. After the 14.4.1 update, it rebooted back into 14.3 @Lorys89 @fabiosun

[backinblackx86]

The update shows under system preferences, it installs and asks to restart. Upon restart, “macos installer” is now shown in the Opencore picker and runs until reboot. Last the installation for update is selected by default in the opencore picker and runs for approximately ten minutes. However, upon reboot, still loads 14.3.

[backinblackx86]

I am attempting a fresh install of Sonoma from a 14.3 recovery disk.

[backinblackx86]

https://forum.amd-osx.com/threads/problem-with-14-4-sonoma.5038/post-34156

 

”Hello

I've been investigating and discovered the problem. I had all the kexts updated to their latest version.

Solution:

Set the SecureBootModel to Disabled instead of Default under the Misc>Security section of your config.plist.”

[backinblackx86]

https://elitemacx86.com/threads/how-to-fix-reboot-loop-when-installing-or-updating-to-macos-sonoma-14-4.1720/

[backinblackx86]

[fabiosun]

1 hour ago, backinblackx86 said:

https://forum.amd-osx.com/threads/problem-with-14-4-sonoma.5038/post-34156

 

”Hello

I've been investigating and discovered the problem. I had all the kexts updated to their latest version.

Solution:

Set the SecureBootModel to Disabled instead of Default under the Misc>Security section of your config.plist.”

We talk about it in another thread in Italian and in English😉

[backinblackx86]

[backinblackx86]

The system continues to function well. I recently enabled iServices as well as Airdrop with a Broadcom Wifi/BT pci-e card.

[backinblackx86]

Uptime of 19 days so far. I do see there is an update for Sonoma 14.4.1-> 14.5. I will clone my current installation and test.

[Jaidy]

I have been running a T705 for ten days now without any hiccups other than one during the installation. You might wanna try it if you want.

[backinblackx86]

On 5/24/2024 at 6:30 AM, Jaidy said:

I have been running a T705 for ten days now without any hiccups other than one during the installation. You might wanna try it if you want.

Are you using the T705 with Sonoma 14.5 or 14.4.1 ?

[fabiosun]

@backinblackx86the only thing to pay attention is that @Jaidyuse a trx40 and i do not think this platform has a pci nvme 5.0 slot (i could be wrong) 🙂

 

[Jaidy]

On 5/26/2024 at 10:48 AM, backinblackx86 said:

Are you using the T705 with Sonoma 14.5 or 14.4.1 ?

14.5

On 5/26/2024 at 11:08 AM, fabiosun said:

@backinblackx86the only thing to pay attention is that @Jaidyuse a trx40 and i do not think this platform has a pci nvme 5.0 slot (i could be wrong) 🙂

 

@fabiosun is right, there is no pcie 5 port on my system, a trx40. Also I must mention I have a Samsung 990 pro SSD which I previously used for macOS. The T705 isn’t any faster in day to day usage as it’s random I/O performance is a tiny bit less than 990 pro. So if your use case isn’t moving lots of big files around, you should skip it

[backinblackx86]

I am still running Sonoma 14.4.1. My current setup is very stable. Are the updates difficult?

Edited September 15, 2024 by backinblackx86

[fabiosun]

no if you have a solid backup and you update >Opencore kexts, kernel patches 🙂

 

[backinblackx86]

I returned the 9950x today and decided to keep the 7980x. That’s a big leap from the 24-core 7960x, thoughts? @fabiosun

Edited September 28, 2024 by backinblackx86

[fabiosun]

On 9/27/2024 at 7:11 AM, backinblackx86 said:

I returned the 9950x today and decided to keep the 7980x. That’s a big leap from the 24-core 7960x, thoughts? @fabiosun

7980x (if it has 128 threads) is not supported from any OSX

7970x is the best (in OSX)

more than 64 cores are unsupported so you have to lock 7980x CPU to 64!

 

[Jaidy]

An aside: why did TRX50 not get as popular as TRX40 with hackintosh community?

[backinblackx86]

The TRX50 motherboard worked very well and the system was absolutely stable on MacOS, especially compared to my ASUS x670e/7950x. I would argue the cost of R.DIMM DDR5 kept it from as much adaptation as the previous generation which used run of the mill DDR4.

[fabiosun]

In my opinion trx40/50 are usefull if your scope is to use more than 16 cores and more than 192gb of ram

Otherwise is a waste of money

oh, also if you need more pcie lanes

 

[etorix]

17 hours ago, Jaidy said:

An aside: why did TRX50 not get as popular as TRX40 with hackintosh community?

Please define "popular" in this context…

The need for high RAM and/or many PCIe lanes are also addressed by Xeon Scalable/Xeon W-3000, some of which are natively supported by macOS, and which do not raise issues about application compatibility, contrary to Ryzen/Threadripper. I would not say that C621(A) hacks are "popular" by any reasonable acception of the term: We are a handful with these.

[Jaidy]

16 hours ago, etorix said:

Please define "popular" in this context…

The need for high RAM and/or many PCIe lanes are also addressed by Xeon Scalable/Xeon W-3000, some of which are natively supported by macOS, and which do not raise issues about application compatibility, contrary to Ryzen/Threadripper. I would not say that C621(A) hacks are "popular" by any reasonable acception of the term: We are a handful with these.

Good point. The TRX40 bare metal thread here had quite a few people on it, while TRX50 has only two, with just one success so far. 
 

@backinblackx86 do you still have your TRX50 setup? There’s a motherboard by Gigabyte, TRX50 AI Top that is intriguing to me. I wanna experiment with that and since you built a hackintosh on a Gigabyte motherboard, I’m hoping it’d work for me too

 

@fabiosun yeah my use case is one of those. I work on massive datasets and require huge amounts of memory (largest 1.3TB)

Edited January 8, 2025 by Jaidy

[etorix]

5 hours ago, Jaidy said:

The TRX40 bare metal thread here had quite a few people on it, while TRX50 has only two, with just one success so far. 

And, if I'm not mistaken, no one has ever hacked EPYC (3000/5000/7000/8000/9000, not 4000, which I would expect to be a given).

On the Intel side of things, it seems that X299 "had quite a few people", but looks like a niche rather than a "popular" playground,  while C422 has a handful of faithful users (which is a pity, as I find these systems to generally be a breeze to hack…), C621 even less and we may be down to two or three users with C621A hacks; no one has yet cracked W790 or C741.

 

6 hours ago, Jaidy said:

I work on massive datasets and require huge amounts of memory (largest 1.3TB)

You commend some respect for willing to address such requirements on a Hackintosh rather than jumping to Linux like everybody else…

But I submit that for this amount of RAM you should look straight at WRX90 (Threadripper Pro 7000WX) and its 8 RAM channels (up to 2 TB) rather than at TRX50 and its mere 4 channels (1 TB). (If you're willing to go for older DDR4 systems, dual Xeon Scalable can take up to 4 TB RAM with 3DS LRDIMM or Optane DCPMM.)