So, my 'big plan' is to build an AMD hack once the Zen3 chips come out later this year. But I'm getting antsy. I'd like to check and see exactly what I can get working and what I can't. So here's the idea that's been bouncing around my head...
get a nice x570 motherboard and a couple of sticks of ram. Use an old drive I've got lying around somewhere, spare power supply and case, AMD graphics card, and a cheap Ryzen 3 1200 off ebay. Use opencore, play with it, and in September upgrade the CPU to a Zen 3 4900x or whatever and put the OS on a fast M.2, if everything that I need to work works. I figure I'd be in for 200ish for the MB, 100 for the RAM, and depending on the graphics card who knows but I can use that in anything else I make. I have the $ so its not going to make me eat ramen for a month to do this.
Waste of time and money? Do you think the cpu change will make enough changes in the opencore install that I'll have to spend a lot of time redoing things? I'm marking this as 'discussion' since you can all review the merits of me having access to a computer based on my thought processes. The only other person I can ask is my wife and I already know her answer. Thanks!
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