AsusTUFX570GamingPlusWIFI

A OpenCore EFI configuration for ASUS TUF X570 Gaming Plus (WIFI)

• macOS Big Sur
• iMacPro1,1 SMBios emulated
• OpenCore 0.6.3
• with Canopy (GUI)

Create bootable USB stick

Follow this guide To create a bootable USB Stick or simular. It’s needed to boot into MacOS (Installer) with OpenCore.

Edit BIOS

You need to adjust some BIOS settings Follow this guide

My Efi

This setup is completely basic. Just needed kexts and drivers to make MacOS running smoothly. If you want to improve or extend i don’t give any support on that.

Drivers

• HfsPlus
• OpenCanopy
• OpenRuntime

Kext

• Airportitlwm: For bringing Wifi to work
• AMDRyzenCPUPowerManagement: CPU PowerManagement
• AppleALC: For Audio
• AppleMCEReporterDisabler: Not really needed, simple having it for a backup
• Lilu: Necessary for quite all plugins as underlaying library
• RealtekRTL8111: To make LAN work
• VirtualSMC: Faking SMBios and so on
• WhateverGreen: Making graphics using my Radeon X560 work

My system configuration for EFI build currently is

• AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
• ASUS TUF X570 Gaming Plus (WIFI)
• 32GB Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 2x16GB
• ASUS Radeon X560
• 500GB NVMe Samsung 970 Evo Plus

What does work

• Wifi
• LAN
• Bluetooth, sometimes has hickups
• Handoff
• iServices (you do need to generate SMBios data to get it work)
• xCode 12.1

What does not

• Airdrop