the right configuration partner ! (XFX RX 6900 XT MERC 319 16G )

[theawesomerb]

hello guys ,

i hope you're having a lovely day.
I'm willing to upgrade my pc parts, both psu and gpu for hackintoshing , as i have for now a B450 DS3H ( that i will swap for an intel compatible motherboard later)
as for GPU , i've found on the internet that XFX / MSI are a problematic gpus , allthough in the buyers guide on tonymacx there are a couple of XFX cards ! i'm considering to buy an XFX RX 6900 XT MERC 319 16G as its kinda cheap and available in my country , and as saphire and gigabyte partners are hard to find.

buying the XFX that is power hungry , i'll need to get a new PSU , as i have now a 650 W gold from cooler master, how will brend swapping the psu would affect the hackintoshing ? (as i guess no specific kexts are needed) , i'm considering XIGMATEK 1000 W minotaure gold.

thanks in advance !!

 

[EliteMacx86]

hello guys ,

i hope you're having a lovely day.
I'm willing to upgrade my pc parts, both psu and gpu for hackintoshing , as i have for now a B450 DS3H ( that i will swap for an intel compatible motherboard later)
as for GPU , i've found on the internet that XFX / MSI are a problematic gpus , allthough in the buyers guide on tonymacx there are a couple of XFX cards ! i'm considering to buy an XFX RX 6900 XT MERC 319 16G as its kinda cheap and available in my country , and as saphire and gigabyte partners are hard to find.

buying the XFX that is power hungry , i'll need to get a new PSU , as i have now a 650 W gold from cooler master, how will brend swapping the psu would affect the hackintoshing ? (as i guess no specific kexts are needed) , i'm considering XIGMATEK 1000 W minotaure gold.

thanks in advance !!

Hello,

Not sure what workloads do you have. But if you have workloads like Music Production, RX6900XT is definitely an overkill. However, if you're into video editing you can definitely go for RX 6900XT. Please note that to handle that powerful card (16GB VRAM), you also need a powerful CPU like i9. If not, at least i7. Otherwise, the CPU will not be able to handle the load of the GPU it puts on the CPU, therefore a lower performance can be expected in such a scenario.

Regarding the brand, yes XFX is problematic for sure and some of them have worked fine without any extra effort. The last XFX we tested, we had to crossflash the VBIOS in order to be able to boot into macOS. Your mileage may vary. Avoid it if you can. You can go for SAPPHIRE/GIGABYTE/MSI. Power Color also works fine.

Swapping the PSU won't affect anything at all, provided that the PSU is of good quality. No kexts or any extra configuration is needed, regardless of the OS. We recommend at least 1000W PSU from Seasonic/Antec/Cooler Master or EVGA.

Upon checking the XIGMATEK 1000W Minotaure Gold, we found that the official site does not even have the proper specification listed, so we definitely don't recommend that at all. Also, at 1000W, Platinum would be more suited.

 

[theawesomerb]

Hello,

Not sure what workloads do you have. But if you have workloads like Music Production, RX6900XT is definitely an overkill. However, if you're into video editing you can definitely go for RX 6900XT. Please note that to handle that powerful card (16GB VRAM), you also need a powerful CPU like i9. If not, at least i7. Otherwise, the CPU will not be able to handle the load of the GPU it puts on the CPU, therefore a lower performance can be expected in such a scenario.

Regarding the brand, yes XFX is problematic for sure and some of them have worked fine without any extra effort. The last XFX we tested, we had to crossflash the VBIOS in order to be able to boot into macOS. Your mileage may vary. Avoid it if you can. You can go for SAPPHIRE/GIGABYTE/MSI. Power Color also works fine.

Swapping the PSU won't affect anything at all, provided that the PSU is of good quality. No kexts or any extra configuration is needed, regardless of the OS. We recommend at least 1000W PSU from Seasonic/Antec/Cooler Master or EVGA.

Upon checking the XIGMATEK 1000W Minotaure Gold, we found that the official site does not even have the proper specification listed, so we definitely don't recommend that at all. Also, at 1000W, Platinum would be more suited.

thanks for the answer @EliteMacx86
i take this opportunity to genuinely thank you for your youtube videos , as with these, it was the first time in five years that i could make a working Efi for my machines , definitely the BEST youtube channel for hackintosh and is really underrated.

as for my workload, i will be occasionnaly playing some hungry games like star citizen which is very demanding (on windows) also i plan some photoshopping and video editing on macos , i know it will be a 25% bottleneck but i cannot upgrade my motherboard nor my cpu now , so i thought i would go for the rx 6900 xt for future proofing.
there is one brand new rx 6700 xt from MSI available at the store for a discount , i dont know if its the right choice for me, are you sure MSI are not problemartic ?

for context i have a b450m ds3h , ryzern 5 3600x , 32gb ram , 650w psu , rtx 2070, i want to change my whole config over time , so for now it would be the gpu to be able to run my hackintosh , without sacrificing the futureproofing and gaming capabilities , as in like three years i would sell the motherboard and the cpu for an intel config, what would you suggest me and what would you do if you were in this situation? the price for the rx 6900 xt in my country is 600 usd brand new.

again really big thanks and hopefully i'll get an answer !

 

[EliteMacx86]

i take this opportunity to genuinely thank you for your youtube videos , as with these, it was the first time in five years that i could make a working Efi for my machines , definitely the BEST youtube channel for hackintosh and is really underrated.

Thank you for your words!

as for my workload, i will be occasionnaly playing some hungry games like star citizen which is very demanding (on windows) also i plan some photoshopping and video editing on macos , i know it will be a 25% bottleneck but i cannot upgrade my motherboard nor my cpu now , so i thought i would go for the rx 6900 xt for future proofing.

Well, in that case, if you plan to upgrade the Motherboard and CPU in future, then you can go for it. However, for the time being, it may underperform to an extent.

there is one brand new rx 6700 xt from MSI available at the store for a discount , i dont know if its the right choice for me, are you sure MSI are not problemartic ?

RX6700XT is not a natively supported card but it works using NootRX. However, for the best possible workflow, its advised to use a natively supported card. Yes, MSI works like a charm!

for context i have a b450m ds3h , ryzern 5 3600x , 32gb ram , 650w psu , rtx 2070, i want to change my whole config over time , so for now it would be the gpu to be able to run my hackintosh , without sacrificing the futureproofing and gaming capabilities , as in like three years i would sell the motherboard and the cpu for an intel config, what would you suggest me and what would you do if you were in this situation? the price for the rx 6900 xt in my country is 600 usd brand new.

Well, it depends. We always prefer Intel over AMD for any use case scenario expect for some where more number of lanes are required. At this point, if you upgrade the GPU, you definitely need 1000W. So that becomes two upgrades. If its possible, it would be best to sell it off and buy Intel's latest 12/13/14th Gen build and put RX6900XT in it. That price is fine considering the fact newer GPUs are out, which are not supported on the macOS side.