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Did you see ASUS GRYPHON z87? It looks very good for a hackintosh.

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Did you see ASUS GRYPHON z87? native Haswell hackintosh?

I know you recommend Gigabyte, but since custom DSDT have been improved to solve several compatibility issues, and chamaleon, chimera or clover works very nice with custom DSDT, some other brands may look atractive to a hackintosh. that's why I bring this one to discuss.

GRYPHON is a special series, like sabertooth (i have one, an older i55 that works perfect but onboard audio), this board use TUF (some kind of endurance build and components) and is a mATX.

but some things looks very good for me:
1) AMI UEFI
2) Intel LAN
3) Native implementation of Haswell (no USB HUBs/Controlers) without 3rd part components.
4) ALC892 Audio
5) 3x PCIe X16 (two Gen 3.0 and one Gen 2.0)
6) is mATX, with means we can chose a small case (who needs the older bid tower after all...)
7) under 200 dollars (170 at amazon, now)
8) dont have legacy ports like VGA or PS/2

As far I have been search, this is the most native implementation of Z87 chipset in a good brand/well done build I found. It seems it could be a very good platform for a mac pro hackintosh, probably plug and play (with a compatible video card and some usual tweaks), except for the thunderbold ports (i believe we will see thunderbold PCIe card soon).


I plan to build a new system when mavericks came, and for now this board will be one of my top choices.

Anyone already try this board or could share any comments about it?

review: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GRYPHON_Z87/
asus site: https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/GRYPHON_Z87/

G87_line.jpg
 
And the big question here is: Did ASUS lock the MSR in the BIOS with this new BIOS version and is a patched BIOS going to be required for native power management in OS X or has Apple changed their power management in Mavericks so it doesn't need to write to MSR?
 
I just bought this Motherboard today with an i5 4670k. Going to use as a gaming box and a hackintosh, so I will post here as soon as I find out anything.
 
I just bought this Motherboard today with an i5 4670k. Going to use as a gaming box and a hackintosh, so I will post here as soon as I find out anything.

Peace!
Z87 boards aren't supported yet. Here
Does anyone know anything about the armor kit? I've seen it only available in Australian online pc shop.
 
Peace!
Z87 boards aren't supported yet. Here
Does anyone know anything about the armor kit? I've seen it only available in Australian online pc shop.

It costs about $50 extra for the armor kit here in the USA. It is similar to the armor on the Z77 TUF series board - a plate for the back of the board that leaves the mounting around the CPU open for backplates for CPU coolers and another piece that covers most of the top of the board. It has a fan in the middle to draw cooler air under the plate for component cooling and another that draws in outside air at the back beside the back panel to draw air in and circulate it under the board to the PCI slots and the RAM side of the board. It also comes with covers for unused PCI and RAM slots.
 
And the big question here is: Did ASUS lock the MSR in the BIOS with this new BIOS version and is a patched BIOS going to be required for native power management in OS X or has Apple changed their power management in Mavericks so it doesn't need to write to MSR?

I believe Clover Bootloader has a fix for this issue, but i didnt use clover yet either have a Sandy/Ivy Bridge asus board to test it...
you can find this information here: http://clover-wiki.zetam.org/Configuration

AsusAICPUPM

<key>AsusAICPUPM</key>
<true/>

Some vendors, like ASUS, restrict the use of MSR register 0xE2 in their power management module to ReadOnly. On Sandy/Ivy Bridge systems the kext AppleIntelCpuPowerManagementwill try to write to this register and cause a kernel panic. This patch will eliminate the kext's write operations.
 
I believe Clover Bootloader has a fix for this issue, but i didnt use clover yet either have a Sandy/Ivy Bridge asus board to test it...
you can find this information here: http://clover-wiki.zetam.org/Configuration

AsusAICPUPM

<key>AsusAICPUPM</key>
<true/>

Some vendors, like ASUS, restrict the use of MSR register 0xE2 in their power management module to ReadOnly. On Sandy/Ivy Bridge systems the kext AppleIntelCpuPowerManagementwill try to write to this register and cause a kernel panic. This patch will eliminate the kext's write operations.

A simple BIOS patch/flash does it much better and you can still use Chimera/Chameleon to boot with which is a lot easier.
With a patched power management kext, you have to patch it again and again every time you update to the newest version. With a BIOS patch/flash, it is do it once and forgt it unless you update the BIOS. Then it is simple to patch/flash and forget it again.
 
A simple BIOS patch/flash does it much better and you can still use Chimera/Chameleon to boot with which is a lot easier.
With a patched power management kext, you have to patch it again and again every time you update to the newest version. With a BIOS patch/flash, it is do it once and forgt it unless you update the BIOS. Then it is simple to patch/flash and forget it again.

if I read correctly, this is not a patch kext, it is a flag on clover config.plist that patch the kext cache on the fly, so you didnt need to do every time because clover have this internal routine and do it itself. maybe some flags like this slow boot process a little, but the intention i saw is maintaining OSX clean, without modification.

but i agree with you, patch the BIOS is a more stable/permanent approach.
 
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