trx50 Gigabyte TRX50 installation success! :)

[backinblackx86]

I do still have my 7960x trx50 AeroD machine but it has been repurposed as a GPU-rendering linux server. I had it running MacOSx86 Sonoma, it was stable, maintained weeks of uptime, and ran FCPX well. I did not use it as much as I planned to as my work took priority over creative interests. I do second the WRX90e, I built a 6x GPU setup around a 7985wx, a great platform. The AITop board is odd, as it accepts the wrx chip but uses quad memory, iirc. From the MacOS, I would stick with the AeroD.

Edited January 9 by backinblackx86

[Jaidy]

13 hours ago, etorix said:

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.

 

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.)

Yeah that’s why I am looking at the Gigabyte’s TRX50 AI Top. It seems to support 2TB with threadripper pro CPUs. 
 

regarding the Linux / macOS. By necessity I have an Asus WRX90 based system but it only has 768GB RAM running Linux (hopefully I can upgrade to 2TB when the 256GB DIMMs become available). Plus given the occasional (not so infrequent with PCIe 5.0 based SSDs) instability, I can’t use the hackintosh as my work machine anyway. Also Nvidia’s GPUs not being supported, I have to use Linux. 
 

Regardless, I would like to boot macOS on the work machine baremetal just for fun, as I have Apple devices so you know the echo system along with the aesthetics…

5 hours ago, backinblackx86 said:

I do still have my 7960x trx50 AeroD machine but it has been repurposed as a GPU-rendering linux server. I had it running MacOSx86 Sonoma, it was stable, maintained weeks of uptime, and ran FCPX well. I did not use it as much as I planned to as my work took priority over creative interests. I do second the WRX90e, I built a 6x GPU setup around a 7985wx, a great platform. The AITop board is odd, as it accepts the wrx chip but uses quad memory, iirc. From the MacOS, I would stick with the AeroD.

There’s another thread with a person tried hackintoshing the Asus TRX50 board without success (last I checked). That’s another reason for looking at the AI Top..

[backinblackx86]

7960x was cool but i’d got for the 7970x if I did it again.

[Jaidy]

7 minutes ago, backinblackx86 said:

7960x was cool but i’d got for the 7970x if I did it again.

or the 7975WX if it’d work 🙂

[etorix]

8 hours ago, Jaidy said:

Yeah that’s why I am looking at the Gigabyte’s TRX50 AI Top. It seems to support 2TB with threadripper pro CPUs.

or even non-Pro. But 2 DIMMs per channels, so reduced speed (and probably best to keep to the RAM QVL).

 

13 hours ago, backinblackx86 said:

I built a 6x GPU setup around a 7985wx, a great platform.

 

8 hours ago, Jaidy said:

By necessity I have an Asus WRX90 based system

In the event that either of you had a free week-end to tinker while the WRX90 machine is at rest, you might give a try at hackintoshing it (with hyper-threading disabled for the 7985WX, and a compatible AMD GPU). It should not be that different from a TRX50.

[backinblackx86]

1 hour ago, etorix said:

or even non-Pro. But 2 DIMMs per channels, so reduced speed (and probably best to keep to the RAM QVL).

 

 

In the event that either of you had a free week-end to tinker while the WRX90 machine is at rest, you might give a try at hackintoshing it (with hyper-threading disabled for the 7985WX, and a compatible AMD GPU). It should not be that different from a TRX50.

I will be open to that when I begin to build the second WRX90E machine

[Jaidy]

9 hours ago, backinblackx86 said:

I will be open to that when I begin to build the second WRX90E machine

@etorix I have been told that a virtual machine could be built on the WRX90 system. But I want to boot bare metal. 
 

my own EFI gets stuck on the boot screen that immediately follows when a selection is made of the installation to boot in to. I tried with a few other EFIs, to the same effect.

[etorix]

@Jaidy Maybe open a dedicated thread and post your EFI and SysReport from the WRX90 system?

[Jaidy]

15 minutes ago, etorix said:

@Jaidy Maybe open a dedicated thread and post your EFI and SysReport from the WRX90 system?

I unfortunately can neither make time nor afford for it to go down as it is my work machine and I wanna graduate yesterday (plus my adviser would start breathing down my neck too)

[backinblackx86]

Yes, a dedicated wrx90e thread would be ideal. My trx50 and wrx90e machines are both currently rented-out 24/7.