ird Posted June 27, 2025 Share Posted June 27, 2025 3 hours ago, deeveedee said: @ird I totally agree. It may be that Acidanthera just needs a new AppleALC to work with AppleGFXHDA. EDIT: Acidanthera's current position (as of this writing) is that this will be fixed by OCLP. I don't plan to use OCLP on this hack, so if OCLP is the only AppleALC option, I will continue to use VoodooHDA on this hack. I wonder how that'd work for officially supported Macs. OCLP can't possibly be the only option? That would mean even the iMac20,1 and MacPro7,1 both of which officially support macOS 26 will also be fully dependent on OCLP, making them no different that other older SMBIOS. Acidanthera then signs up to maintain OCLP? That can't be right? Or can it be... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/359277-hp-elitedesk-800-g4-g5-mini-with-rx560x-dgpu-hackintosh/page/15/#findComment-2835209 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeveedee Posted June 29, 2025 Author Share Posted June 29, 2025 (edited) For those who are concerned about partially disabling SIP in order to use VoodooHDA.kext, you may be interested in this which suggests that after installing VoodooHDA, SIP restrictions can be tightened for operation with VoodooHDA. EDIT: I am finding no issues when using VoodooHDA.kext with csr-active-config = <01000000> . Sound quality is excellent and for now, SIP configured with "Allow Untrusted Kexts" is perfectly acceptable to me. Besides, we're already injecting "Untrusted Kexts" via Open Core and new Untrusted Kexts can't be installed in /Library/Extensions without relaxing SIP restrictions. EDIT2: A summary of my VoodooHDA.kext install methodology is here. Edited June 30, 2025 by deeveedee 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/359277-hp-elitedesk-800-g4-g5-mini-with-rx560x-dgpu-hackintosh/page/15/#findComment-2835472 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeveedee Posted July 7, 2025 Author Share Posted July 7, 2025 (edited) Easy upgrade from Tahoe Beta 2 -> Beta 3. See here for details. EDIT: Immediately after upgrading to Tahoe Beta 3, I ran GB6 Metal benchmark and found that RX 560x metal performance sucked. After rebooting a few times, metal performance returned to normal. GB6 Metal Benchmark (macOS Tahoe Beta 3) Spoiler GB6 Metal Benchmark (macOS Tahoe Beta 3) after upgrading to OC 1.0.5 Release with Release versions of Acidanthera kexts Spoiler Edited July 13, 2025 by deeveedee 2 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/359277-hp-elitedesk-800-g4-g5-mini-with-rx560x-dgpu-hackintosh/page/15/#findComment-2836285 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeveedee Posted July 10, 2025 Author Share Posted July 10, 2025 I have attached a new Open Core EFI to Post #1. This new EFI is based on Open Core 1.0.5 and has the following changes from my previously posted EFI: Upgrade to OC 1.0.5 Upgrade BOOT/BOOTx64.efi Upgrade OC/OpenCore.efi OC/Drivers Upgrade OC/Drivers/*.* (except HfsPlus.efi) Upgrade OC/Tools/*.* Upgrade OC/Kexts AppleALC.kext 1.9.4 -> 1.9.5 Upgrade/Replace IntelMausi.kext 1.0.8 (Acidanthera) -> IntelMausiEthernet.kext 2.5.5d0 (Mieze) Lilu.kext 1.7.0 -> 1.7.1 NVMeFix.kext 1.1.2 -> 1.1.3 RestrictEvents.kext 1.1.5 -> 1.1.6 VirtualSMC.kext 1.3.6 -> 1.3.7 SMCProcessor.kext 1.3.6 -> 1.3.7 SMCSuperIO.kext 1.3.6 -> 1.3.7 WhateverGreen.kext 1.6.9 -> 1.7.0 Modify USBPorts.kext (add usb-port-number and usb-port-type for macOS Tahoe) Modify SampleUsbKexts for macOS Tahoe Modifiy OC/config.plist Booter > Patch: Add Skip Board ID check (to permit macOS Tahoe with unsupported MacMini8,1 SMBIOS) Set Kernel > Quirks > DisableIoMapper = true (for working IntelMausiEthernet.kext in Tahoe) Kernel > Add: Change IntelMausi.kext -> IntelMausiEthernet.kext In Post #1, I have added the following instructions for macOS Tahoe When installing / upgrading macOS Tahoe, temporarily add boot-arg -wegnoegpu. After macOS Tahoe install/upgrade is complete, remove boot-arg -wegnoegpu. This will disable the RX 560x during the macOS install/upgrade, so you'll need to have a display connected to one of the iGPU display ports. The addition of boot-arg -wegnoegpu has been necessary for upgrades to Tahoe Beta 2 and Beta 3 at the time of this writing. If you have installed VoodooHDA.kext in /Library/Extensions for audio in macOS Tahoe, change csr-active-config (in EFI/OC/config.plist) to <01000000> to allow untrusted kexts. csr-active-config must be set to <03080000> in order to install VoodooHDA.kext to /Library/Extensions. It can be changed to <01000000> after VoodooHDA.kext is installed and working. The new EFI includes a disabled entry for SMCRadeonSensors.kext in OC/config.plist Kernel > Add. If you want to use SMCRadeonSensors.kext, you will need to download it to your EFI/OC/Kexts folder and enable its Kernel> Add entry in config.plist If you want Bluetooth, modify USBPorts.kext so that it includes port HS14 and add Bluetooth NVRAM properties. Also add Bluetooth kexts. See here if you want to install VoodooHDA.kext for working audio in macOS Tahoe Beta 2 and later. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/359277-hp-elitedesk-800-g4-g5-mini-with-rx560x-dgpu-hackintosh/page/15/#findComment-2836646 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeveedee Posted July 15, 2025 Author Share Posted July 15, 2025 I am currently testing with SMBIOS MacPro7,1 as per @Takiller 's post here. I made the following changes to my Open Core EFI for this test: OC/config.plist changes Remove Booter > Patch > Skip Board ID Check (this patch is not necessary, since MacPro7,1 is supported by macOS Tahoe) Added the following properties to NVRAM > Add > 4D1FDA02-38C7-4A6A-9CC6-4BCCA8B30102 revpatch: pci revblock: pci Confirmed the following properties in NVRAM > Delete > 4D1FDA02-38C7-4A6A-9CC6-4BCCA8B30102 revpatch revblock Changed PlatformInfo > Generic > MLB, ROM, SystemProductName, SystemSerialNumber and SystemUUID to values for SMBIOS MacPro7,1 (generated by CorpNewt's GenSMBIOS) OC/Kexts changes DAGPM.kext/Contents/Info.plist: Changed MacMini8,1 -> MacPro7,1 (1 instance) USBPorts.kext/Contents/Info.plist: Changed MacMini8,1 -> MacPro7,1 (2 instances) NVRAM Properties to suppress PCI and RAM warnings for MacPro7,1 Spoiler About This Hack: MacPro7,1 Spoiler 4 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/359277-hp-elitedesk-800-g4-g5-mini-with-rx560x-dgpu-hackintosh/page/15/#findComment-2837137 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeveedee Posted July 16, 2025 Author Share Posted July 16, 2025 (edited) I've conducted a couple of informal MacPro7,1 tests in macOS Tahoe Beta 3 after rebooting/clearing NVRAM multiple times and am observing the following: GeekBench 6 Metal Scores (for RX 560x) are about 20% lower after switching from SMBIOS MacMini8,1 -> MacPro7,1. These lower metal scores are repeatable. I was hoping the low scores were temporary after switching SMBIOS, but it appears that they are permanently lower. I tested with and without enabling DAGPM.kext and the lower synthetic benchmark is consistently low. Spoiler Amazon Prime Video App does not work with SMBIOS MacPro7,1 (nor did it work with MacMini8,1), but Amazon Prime Video works in Firefox browser with SMBIOS MP7,1 and MM8,1. I will continue to test, but wanted to report my current observations. If anyone knows why GB6 Metal Performance would be adversely affected by the change in SMBIOS from MM8,1 -> MP7,1 I'd be interested in your thoughts. EDIT: GB6 Metal benchmark returned to ~24K immediately after I switched SMBIOS back to MM8,1. Edited July 16, 2025 by deeveedee 2 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/359277-hp-elitedesk-800-g4-g5-mini-with-rx560x-dgpu-hackintosh/page/15/#findComment-2837159 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeveedee Posted July 23, 2025 Author Share Posted July 23, 2025 (edited) Smooth upgrade from Tahoe Beta 3 -> Beta 4. See details here. EDIT: Smooth upgrade to Xcode 26 Beta 4 Spoiler Edited July 23, 2025 by deeveedee 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/359277-hp-elitedesk-800-g4-g5-mini-with-rx560x-dgpu-hackintosh/page/15/#findComment-2837688 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ird Posted July 23, 2025 Share Posted July 23, 2025 14 hours ago, deeveedee said: Smooth upgrade from Tahoe Beta 3 -> Beta 4. See details here. EDIT: Smooth upgrade to Xcode 26 Beta 4 Reveal hidden contents I missed the note about Bluetoolfixup.kext being enabled and still receiving incremetal OTA updates. Is that because SIP is partially disabled for you to enable unsigned kexts? Any other reason? Just curious... 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/359277-hp-elitedesk-800-g4-g5-mini-with-rx560x-dgpu-hackintosh/page/15/#findComment-2837753 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeveedee Posted July 23, 2025 Author Share Posted July 23, 2025 @ird I haven't tested, but others are reporting that disabling BluetoolFixup.kext is no longer necessary for incremental OTA upgrades. 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/359277-hp-elitedesk-800-g4-g5-mini-with-rx560x-dgpu-hackintosh/page/15/#findComment-2837754 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ird Posted August 3, 2025 Share Posted August 3, 2025 (edited) While I can't speak for deeveedee's MacMini EFI from this post, Sequoia 15.6 update works just fine with iMac19,2 SMBIOS EFI and OC 1.0.5. My EFI for anyone interested: https://github.com/anirudhra/opencore_macos/tree/main/HP Elitedesk 800 G4 G5 DM/EFI/iMac19p2/EFI Edited August 4, 2025 by ird Corrected OC version 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/359277-hp-elitedesk-800-g4-g5-mini-with-rx560x-dgpu-hackintosh/page/15/#findComment-2838351 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeveedee Posted August 6, 2025 Author Share Posted August 6, 2025 Smooth upgrade from Tahoe Beta 4 -> Beta 5. See details here. Note that I did need to disable BluetoolFixup.kext to allow the incremental OTA upgrade. 2 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/359277-hp-elitedesk-800-g4-g5-mini-with-rx560x-dgpu-hackintosh/page/15/#findComment-2838497 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeveedee Posted August 7, 2025 Author Share Posted August 7, 2025 (edited) Tested the OC 1.0.5 EFI attached to Post #1 with Ventura, Sonoma and Sequoia. Upgrades to the latest macOS versions proceeded without issues. Ventura 13.7.7 Spoiler Sonoma 14.7.7 Spoiler Sequoia 15.6 Spoiler EDIT: No surprise that synthetic Metal benchmarks in Sequoia 15.6 are consistent with previous benchmarks. Spoiler Edited August 8, 2025 by deeveedee 2 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/359277-hp-elitedesk-800-g4-g5-mini-with-rx560x-dgpu-hackintosh/page/15/#findComment-2838641 Share on other sites More sharing options...
naiclub Posted August 7, 2025 Share Posted August 7, 2025 Currently, versions 14.8 and 15.7 are available for download. 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/359277-hp-elitedesk-800-g4-g5-mini-with-rx560x-dgpu-hackintosh/page/15/#findComment-2838643 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeveedee Posted August 8, 2025 Author Share Posted August 8, 2025 @naiclub Thank you. I don't have Developer or Public Betas enabled for Ventura, Sonoma and Sequoia (only testing Betas for macOS Tahoe), but I will definitely update those versions of macOS when they become official Release versions. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/359277-hp-elitedesk-800-g4-g5-mini-with-rx560x-dgpu-hackintosh/page/15/#findComment-2838688 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeveedee Posted August 11, 2025 Author Share Posted August 11, 2025 (edited) Smooth upgrade from Tahoe Beta 5 -> Beta 6. Details here. EDIT: Synthetic metal benchmarks for my RX 560x were 10% lower immediately after upgrading from Tahoe Beta 5 -> Beta 6. I needed to reboot 3x to restore full RX 560x metal performance (as measured by GeekBench 6). EDIT2: Synthetic metal benchmarks have leveled off near 24K after multiple Tahoe Beta 6 boot cycles. Spoiler Edited August 13, 2025 by deeveedee 3 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/359277-hp-elitedesk-800-g4-g5-mini-with-rx560x-dgpu-hackintosh/page/15/#findComment-2838929 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeveedee Posted August 16, 2025 Author Share Posted August 16, 2025 Surprising results for GeekBench 6 OpenCL benchmarks in Windows 11 and macOS Tahoe Beta 6: Windows 11 Spoiler Tahoe Beta 6 Spoiler 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/359277-hp-elitedesk-800-g4-g5-mini-with-rx560x-dgpu-hackintosh/page/15/#findComment-2839306 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeveedee Posted August 18, 2025 Author Share Posted August 18, 2025 (edited) Easy upgrade from Tahoe Beta 6 -> Beta 7. Details here. EDIT: Unlike the Beta 5 --> Beta 6 upgrade, there was no metal performance degradation following the Beta 6 -> Beta 7 upgrade. Immediately following the upgrade, GB6 metal benchmark was ~24K. GB6 Metal Benchmark (macOS Tahoe Beta 7) Spoiler Edited August 18, 2025 by deeveedee 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/359277-hp-elitedesk-800-g4-g5-mini-with-rx560x-dgpu-hackintosh/page/15/#findComment-2839462 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeveedee Posted August 19, 2025 Author Share Posted August 19, 2025 I remain curious about degraded RX 560x metal performance with SMBIOS MP7,1, so I retested with a clean installation of Tahoe Beta 7. Synthetic metal benchmarks with SMBIOS MP7,1 are still ~20% lower than with SMBIOS MM8,1. My test methodology was as follows: Prepare a macOS Tahoe Beta 7 installer USB Install OC EFI to installer USB with the following modifications SMBIOS MP7,1 Disable BluetoolFixup.kext Add boot-arg -wegnoegpu EFI changes here Boot from installer USB stick and perform a clean installation of macOS Tahoe Beta 7 After macOS is installed, modify OC EFI Remove boot-arg -wegnoegpu Enable BluetoolFixup.kext Reboot from modified OC EFI (SMBIOS MP7,1) 4 times (not sure why these reboots are necessary, but metal benchmarks don't reach their max potential with SMBIOS MM8,1 until after multiple boot cycles) Benchmark with GeekBench 6 Metal Benchmark with clean installation of macOS Tahoe Beta 7, SMBIOS MP7,1 (20% lower than with SMBIOS MM8,1) Spoiler 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/359277-hp-elitedesk-800-g4-g5-mini-with-rx560x-dgpu-hackintosh/page/15/#findComment-2839527 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico joe Posted August 19, 2025 Share Posted August 19, 2025 Mine, in Tahoe score 18XXX but in Sequoia score 28114 (same smbios) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/359277-hp-elitedesk-800-g4-g5-mini-with-rx560x-dgpu-hackintosh/page/15/#findComment-2839529 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeveedee Posted August 20, 2025 Author Share Posted August 20, 2025 (edited) @pico joe I'm not surprised that your RX 460 behaves differently than the RX 560x that is the topic of this thread. The RX 560x in this HP EliteDesk 800 G4/G5 Mini is throttled-down because of the power/cooling limitations of the tiny form factor. My testing of the EliteDesk 800 G4 Mini RX 560x produces very similar synthetic metal benchmarks for macOS Sonoma, Sequoia and Tahoe when using SMBIOS MacMini8,1. If you want to debug your metal benchmarks, feel free to open a new thread for your hack with RX 460 (different from the EliteDesk 800 G4/G5 Mini with RX 560x in this thread) where we can help you. Edited August 20, 2025 by deeveedee Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/359277-hp-elitedesk-800-g4-g5-mini-with-rx560x-dgpu-hackintosh/page/15/#findComment-2839556 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeveedee Posted August 22, 2025 Author Share Posted August 22, 2025 I have seen reports by other Tahoe Beta users with Radeon Polaris graphics that their hacks aren't sleeping/waking without complications (e.g., after waking from sleep, the dock auto-hide isn't working). I have left my HackMIni81 / RX560x powered on for the last 3 days, allowing it to sleep and wake regularly without ever shutting it down. I have experienced no issues. This hack is perfect. The EliteDesk 800 G4/G5 Mini has turned out to be an ideal hackintosh platform. 3 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/359277-hp-elitedesk-800-g4-g5-mini-with-rx560x-dgpu-hackintosh/page/15/#findComment-2839641 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeveedee Posted August 22, 2025 Author Share Posted August 22, 2025 (edited) Some minor updates to SMCRadeonSensors.kext are available in this build artifact. You'll need a GitHub account to download. EDIT: It looks like the last meaningful commit (as of this post) was on 16 April 2025. Edited August 22, 2025 by deeveedee 2 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/359277-hp-elitedesk-800-g4-g5-mini-with-rx560x-dgpu-hackintosh/page/15/#findComment-2839660 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeveedee Posted September 3, 2025 Author Share Posted September 3, 2025 (edited) No issues with upgrade from Tahoe Beta 7 -> Beta 9. Same as Beta 6 - > Beta 7 here. Edited September 4, 2025 by deeveedee Fixed typos 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/359277-hp-elitedesk-800-g4-g5-mini-with-rx560x-dgpu-hackintosh/page/15/#findComment-2840110 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeveedee Posted September 8, 2025 Author Share Posted September 8, 2025 (edited) I have a legit copy of MS Office 2019 for macOS, so I installed it on this hack running macOS Tahoe Beta 9. Works great. This hack keeps under-promising and over-delivering. Edited September 8, 2025 by deeveedee 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/359277-hp-elitedesk-800-g4-g5-mini-with-rx560x-dgpu-hackintosh/page/15/#findComment-2840340 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeveedee Posted September 10, 2025 Author Share Posted September 10, 2025 Easy upgrade from Tahoe Beta 9 -> Tahoe RC 1. See details here. About This Hack Spoiler 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/359277-hp-elitedesk-800-g4-g5-mini-with-rx560x-dgpu-hackintosh/page/15/#findComment-2840458 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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