I was afraid my cooling solution may not be sufficient for the amount of voltage I anticipate it would require to stay stable. I booted in to 5.2GHz but didn't stay on it for long. I am able to clock to 5GHz with considerably less voltage (1.290v, Turbo LLC) and can even run 5.1GHz reliably at somewhat reasonable voltages (1.320v, Turbo LLC). My theories of better overclocking ability on this motherboard were confirmed. I always like the mATX form factor and have always felt that 3-4 PCI-e slots are enough for my needs. On paper, it appeared to offer everything I would want in a motherboard. While I was able to overclock my i9-9900K fine on my old Z370 motherboard, I wanted to see what the 10+2 phase VRM of this motherboard can do and the option to go to 128GB RAM if/when I ever needed to is cool. I chose this motherboard primarily for the VRM. I will be making lots of references and comparisons with another motherboard that I own, the Asus Z370-G Gaming (Wi-Fi AC) which I feel intimately familiar with. Although I never personally tested any other Thunderbolt devices, I have no reason to believe Thunderbolt devices that work on other hackintoshes won't work here. My EFI will include the SSDT to enable the GC-Titan Ridge. However, I pulled the GC-Titan Ridge card and stuck in my Syba AQC107 10GBase-T card instead to clean up some cable mess in the case and to keep things a little neater on my desk. I do have a GC-Titan Ridge Thunderbolt 3 PCI-e card and it worked fine with the only Thunderbolt device I own, an OWC 10GbE Thunderbolt 3 adaptor. It wasn't until the awesome guys at Acidanthera figured out how to get NVRAM working and Gigabyte finally releasing a reliable BIOS (F9g) that I am comfortable in recommending this motherboard. I've had this motherboard for approximately 9 months now and did not do a build thread for it until now because I struggled so much with getting it to run at a level that met my personal standards for reliability and stability. Syba SD-PEX24055 10GbE PCI-e card > Amazon, Newegg Oloy DDR4 3200MHz 4x16GB RAM > Amazon, NeweggīCM94360CS2 on PCI-e Adaptor > Amazon, Newegg Noctua NH-D15S CPU Cooler > Amazon, Newegg Intel i9-9900K Processor > Amazon, Newegg Gigabyte Z390 M Gaming Motherboard > Amazon, Newegg Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide
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