Ryzen-OSX

My Personal Hackintosh Setup using macOS Big Sur 11.1 (should work on 10.13, 10.14 and 10.15 too) and an AMD Ryzen CPU/Chipset

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X (3.6 Ghz Base - 4.15 Ghz Boost) - You can use any Ryzen Series 1000, 2000 or 3000 CPU without Graphics Motherboard: Gigabyte B450M DS3H (Rev. 1.0) RAM: 16 GB DDR4 3000Mhz CL16 (Overclocked) - You can use any Ryzen-compatible RAM, as well as any amount you like GPU: AMD RX 5600 XT 6 GB (Gigabyte - Factory Overclocked) SSD: Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe 500GB HDD: 500GB Seagate Barracuda (+ 240 GB SanDISK Cruzer SSD for Windows)

This Setup is completely Silent. I have configuered the Fans to only start spinning when necessary, which they almost never do.

Case and Power-Supply don't matter for OSX, but if you are going to replicate this system I recommend you use at least a 430 or even 500+ Watt Power-Supply and a case that you like.

What works?

Everything!

this includes:

• iMessage / FaceTime - iCloud in General
• Airdrop & Handoff
• iCloud & App Store
• Sleep & Wake functionality
• AMD Graphics
• full NVMe Speed (3,2+ GB/s transfer speeds, sweeeeeet.)
• LAN
• USB 3
• Onboard Audio
• limited AMD CPU Management - with AMD Power Gadget
• Dualboot with Windows
• USB mapped

The System is very stable once correctly booted, haven't had a single crash, reboot or anything funky yet. Awesome!

What doesn't work?

• 32bit Apps tc. - Limited by the OSX Vanilla patches, but 32bit should finally be dying.
• full CPU handling - because it isn't supported with AMD CPUs on OSX.
• Apps and Executables depending on Intel Specific Libraries/Instruction Sets/Dependencies, e.g. some Waves Audio Plugins

Files

Kexts:

• AppleALC.kext - for internal Audio handling
• Lilu.kext - needed for other kexts
• NullCPUPowerManagement - to make macOS accept the CPU todo