z490

MSI z490m Gaming Edge Hackintosh OpenCore-based EFI

Hardware:

• MSI z490m Gaming Edge
• Intel i7-10700 (non-k)
• XFX RX590 Fatboy (no bios flash required)
• Patriot Viper 4 Blackout 16 GB (8x2)

BIOS Settings:

• To be finalized

What Works:

• Sleep/Wake
• Shutdown
• Onboard Bluetooth
• 2.5G Ethernet (must use attached patched kext)
• Sound (via VoodooHDA kext for back panel, front panel, and HDMI output)
• iMessage
• Continuity/Handoff
• Quicksync hardware acceleration via iGPU
• All USB 3 and 2 ports
• Power management

What Doesn't Work:

• Onboard Wifi ax card

Odd items:

• AAPL: [EB|#LOG:EXITBS:START] error on startup until leveraged a boot patch included in the config.plist

Other notes (mostly hardware-specific notes to self):

• 3200Mhz rated ram is unstable when clocked to 3333Mhz (3200 XMP works though)
• i7-10700 CPU clocked with power limits removed reaches 72C @ 75F ambient during R20 with score of 4826
• Clocking the CPU to 102.9Mhz yields slightly higher speed for CPU and ram (around 3300Mhz) and appears to also run stable
• RX590 works without any special setup and runs relatively cool at around 50-50C at idle
• CPU at idle runs around 30-40C @ 70-80F ambient