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BillDH2k / Hackintosh-HP-Z440-Z640-Z840-OpenCore

OpenCore loader for HP Z440/Z640/Z840 Workstation
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please make one for the Ventura. #14

Closed yaanlpc closed 9 months ago

yaanlpc commented 1 year ago

thanks for your hard work for previous os, but wondering if you are able to try ventura.

swanduron commented 1 year ago

Sorry about the Chinese words. The loader can work with 13.5.1 smoothly and I installed 13.5.1 on my office computer, the below screenshot is my home PC that works under 13.4.1.

The loader is very very powerful and perfect. I never doubted it could work under 14.x Sonoma.

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yaanlpc commented 1 year ago

it's awesome, wondering what about HP z4/6/820 to work on the higher version of mac os? as the FinalCut Pro seems to have the os requirement.

swanduron commented 1 year ago

I don't have an E5v2 platform, but the possibility is pretty high. My remote desktop in the lab is a Hackintosh based on E3v3, the next generation of E5v2 (E5v2 is IVY bridge and E3v3 is Haswell).

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swanduron commented 1 year ago

Additional information for you. Personally, I strongly recommend you purchase a used Z440 to install macOS. The Z640 platform can install 2 CPUs and has better performance but is too hot and has more requirements for cooling.

Today morning, one of my friends installed the macOS based on this EFI on the Z440 system. It looks very powerful and stable. The performance under Geekbench5 is explicitly higher than M1/M1 pro.

His configuration is E5 2680V4 with 4 * 16G REGECC DDR4 2400.

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yaanlpc commented 1 year ago

Thanks very much for your kind suggestions, will be back to you once figure out one.

yaanlpc commented 1 year ago

Do you have any suggestion for GPU card, apart from rx 500 series, does nvidia card work for ventura?

yaanlpc commented 1 year ago

btw, I noticed that seems like the hp workstaion's psu seems to have poor support for the gpu requiring additional power supply, did you buy an adapter to fix it?

swanduron commented 1 year ago

Nvidia GPU only supports 10.13 macOS since the official support (aka WebDrive) has been closed at that era.

As for the GPU selection, you can reference the Buyer guide of OpenCore link (Click here). The Z440 workstation has 2 types of configuration of the PSU, 550W and 700W, PSU also provides 2*6Pin GPU power connectors. Please choose the 700W PSU if you can.

Excepted the high-end model, such as 6800XT, my friends have variety types of AMD cards, including 4xx/5xx, 5700/XT, 5500XT, 6600 and 6600XT. Some cards need 6+8 connectors, and we use 6+6 on Z440, no problem with powering was observed.

Here is a reference from Quota, please see the 1st high rate post: https://www.google.com.hk/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.quora.com%2FWhat-happens-if-you-use-a-6-pin-connector-in-an-8-pin-GPU&psig=AOvVaw1O4xDc_m7kdUcDPZwY0P2C&ust=1694352218216000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBAQjhxqFwoTCPCJ3IjQnYEDFQAAAAAdAAAAABAF

I have tried to install 5700XT (6+8) into Z440 6+6, the card worked fine. The PSU of Z440 have enough capability with power, only has the pin problem.

swanduron commented 1 year ago

BTW+1, if you plan to use more than 4 memory sticks, please purchase the memory fan tray.

yaanlpc commented 1 year ago

Thanks very much for your help. due to the budget, recently I purchased a 2x cpu (e5-2620) HP z620 with a 800watt psu instead of z640, which was actually equipped with a nvidia gtx 670 graphic card. Regardless of the mac os version, I am wondering if this hp z620 can run the 10.x os on the m.2 nvme + pcie adapter? as we know there is no ordinary way for hp z620 or z600 to boot from pcie device.

Perhaps the sata SSD is the best option to kick off despite the compromised read/write of sata interface.

I can get the gpu replaced with an antique rx570 or older one, is it possible to reach my goal to make it run 12.x or newer one on these devices: Hp z620, m.2 SSD (nvme) + pcie adapter, and a Radeon gpu.

yaanlpc commented 1 year ago

The dual cpu spec was equipped the fan for both memories and 2nd cpu.

swanduron commented 1 year ago

Thanks very much for your help. due to the budget, recently I purchased a 2x cpu (e5-2620) HP z620 with a 800watt psu instead of z640, which was actually equipped with a nvidia gtx 670 graphic card. Regardless of the mac os version, I am wondering if this hp z620 can run the 10.x os on the m.2 nvme + pcie adapter? as we know there is no ordinary way for hp z620 or z600 to boot from pcie device.

Perhaps the sata SSD is the best option to kick off despite the compromised read/write of sata interface.

I can get the gpu replaced with an antique rx570 or older one, is it possible to reach my goal to make it run 12.x or newer one on these devices: Hp z620, m.2 SSD (nvme) + pcie adapter, and a Radeon gpu.

Understood. You can reference the other Z620 repo of BillDH2K. I have used the Z820 station that supports NVME devices (with adapter). From the public information, macOS supports NVME devices starting with 10.13 High Sierra.

Here is an HP forum link that discusses the support of NVME SSD. I believe the Z620 should also support NVME boot.

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Business-PCs-Workstations-and-Point-of-Sale-Systems/Booting-from-an-NVME-SSD-card-on-a-Z620/td-p/7468386

If possible, personally, the RX570 should be the best choice for your situation if you don't have heavy working load for the video. It's cheap enough and only have one model (2048SP), the only one discrepancy is 4G or 8G VRAM.

yaanlpc commented 1 year ago

It's pretty helpful and many many thanks.

BillDH2k commented 1 year ago

Thanks to @swanduron for very informative comments.

I will add about the NVME boot.

Z420/620/820 BIOS does not support booting from NVME drive installed via add-on card. There are instruction out there to mod the BIOS by adding the booting code. But I wouldn't recomment doing it since it is risky operation not suitable for typical users. All you need to do here is to add a regular sata drive, to host and boot the OpenCore. Once OC is up and running, it will see the NVME drive, so you can install/run macOS from the NVME drive.

yaanlpc commented 1 year ago

Thanks to @swanduron for very informative comments.

I will add about the NVME boot.

Z420/620/820 BIOS does not support booting from NVME drive installed via add-on card. There are instruction out there to mod the BIOS by adding the booting code. But I wouldn't recomment doing it since it is risky operation not suitable for typical users. All you need to do here is to add a regular sata drive, to host and boot the OpenCore. Once OC is up and running, it will see the NVME drive, so you can install/run macOS from the NVME drive.

Thanks very much, I will give it a try once I figured out a radeon gpu from the FB market place.

yaanlpc commented 11 months ago

Thanks to @swanduron for very informative comments.

I will add about the NVME boot.

Z420/620/820 BIOS does not support booting from NVME drive installed via add-on card. There are instruction out there to mod the BIOS by adding the booting code. But I wouldn't recomment doing it since it is risky operation not suitable for typical users. All you need to do here is to add a regular sata drive, to host and boot the OpenCore. Once OC is up and running, it will see the NVME drive, so you can install/run macOS from the NVME drive.

Actually I have succeed in installing the windows 10 via the dual/refind tools to boot the system on another HP Z800. , the system (win10) was installed on the nvme m.2 SSD via a PCIE adapter. the only issue is one extra usb drive containing duet/refind (32M) should be always set as the 1st in the boot order chain. as for the HP Zx20, I guess it would be similar or easier.