[Success] Opencore! Yeah buddy!

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Original Post here. In the end it was simple, just not very well documented for a total amateur. Issues were far and few but very frustrating nonetheless. I also got lucky and was able to reference here since same mobo. If OC is truly better than Clover, than I'd say it's child's play to configure it.

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FaceTime, Messages, Wake/Sleep/Screensaver is fine. App Store (iMovie, etc) was a success. Adobe CC works. RAID1 (2 x 500GB SATA SSD) configured as "DATA"/storage/backups/memories drive, NVMe is the boot/OS/apps/current projects drive. I even updated Safari and Mojave 10.14.6 with a Security Patch just now, w00t!

Must admit, if you have even a little bit of knowledge of how Hackintosh's work, the OC Vanilla Guide is really well documented!

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Better tutorial coming soon, but here's the jist of it:

• Assembling Node 202 ITX was harder than OC setup /FML
• I also installed Windows on the SSD prior to everything to ensure all the HW was working/recognized. Supposedly, the OC tools are better on Windows too? Meh. ProperTree is the best tool bar none, seriously! (I tried a couple afterwards on OSX for small tinkering and wanted to punch the neighbour's cat)
• SnazzyLab recent video was a great motivator but quickly fell apart. Most of the information was missing imo but he didn't claim it as a tutorial
• I had to use Clover Configurator at the very end to mount the NVMe EFI so I could transfer the OC EFI from USB (this took two hours to realize!)
• [No onboard] audio took an hour to resolve; FYI future me: gfxutil, IORegistryExplorer
• Fan/Temps for CPU wouldn't populate until SMCProcessor and SMCSuperIO kext were populated. These are also necessary since I am using VirtualSMC, instead of FakeSMC. AFAIK, GPU temp/fan read/setting is not supported by OSX.
• I had to really put the Sapphire RX570 through its paces (playing 8K YT vids) for the fans to start spinning; spent an hour thinking there's something wrong with the SW. I suppose my basement is very chilly, lol!
• Decreased OC 'Timeout' in config.plist to 1 second so it now takes 25 seconds from physically turning on the machine to launching Safari.
• Mobo has two Ethernet; one doesn't work - totally ignoring this.
• DO NOT copy someone else's config.plist, unless 1) you know exactly what you're doing 2) they have the exact same HW down to the resistor

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What doesn't work right now (agenda for tomorrow):

• Wifi and BT - the Fenvi M.2e is still being shipped, but the Azure Broadcom arrived today
• USB limit - I have 8 ports (2xUSB2, 6xUSB3). Three are not working. I fail to understand why, but I know the next step is to compile my own map using USBMap.command

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And lastly, thank you to r/hackintosh - from everyone who asked the questions that I eventually needed answers to, and to the folks who answered them.