Haswell Hackintosh with GA-Z87X-D3H Works with Mavericks

So I'm a long time Hackintosher, but haven't really posted stuff because my Hackintosh was working so well for the last 4 years. It was a Gateway prebuilt machine. The reason I Hackintoshed my PC was because I love Mac OS X, but didn't want to buy a Mac Pro (I have a Mac mini and MacBook Pro.) and of course, tonymacx86 helped me to a great degree. I think I would have still used Windows if it hadn't been for tonymacx86. I'm writing this because I wanted to give back some to the community.

I recently "broke" my desktop PC. When Mavericks came out, I blindly upgraded it, but things didn't work well. I decided to take the parts apart and clean them up because it was accumulating so much dust, but after clean up and reassembling the parts, the PC didn't even do a POST. Having backed up all the data with TimeMachine, I decided to build a new one.

I bought an Asus motherboard first. It was Asus Sabertooth Z87, but when I did a POST test, it didn't even boot. I may have gotten a lemon... I really wanted to try an Asus, but with that, I went to the closest electrical shop (Fry's) and got myself a GA-Z87X-D3H (Gigabyte motherboard). To my surprise, as soon as I connected all the stuff necessary to do a POST, it went right into UEFI.

Heck, when I connected my old Hacktonsh HDD to it, it booted from it without a hitch. It was that easy. No wonder tonymacx86 recommends Gigabyte motherboards.

I updated UEFI from Q-Flash (a feature that Gigabyte has) without a problem either.

There is an issue I came across. It is the transfer tool. I tried to clean install Mavericks and to transfer the data from my TimeMachine backup, but the transfer totally froze in the middle. I tried it several times, but I just couldn't complete it. So what I did was to upgrade my Mountain Lion installation to Mavericks.

I'm writing this from my new machine. I'm very happy!

Does the motherboard run 1.65 V RAM?

Hackintosh with GA-Z87X-D3H

Hello there!

I thought i'd message you as I am a complete newbie to the whole hackintosh arena and you seem like a guy with a good lot of experience under his belt!

I am about to purchase a GA-Z87X-D3H motherboard like you, and was wondering if I get stuck you'd ever so kindly give me advice or technical guidance? I'm completely new to the whole thing but am building this to complete uni project's on as being a student, a Mac isn't a feasible option as i'm sure you are aware.

Look forward to hearing from you!

Many thanks,
Matt

You're right, that was my issue. After I changed the voltage of my RAM, it has been very stable. Thanks for sharing.

OOPS, I wasn't following this thread as I never received emails. You might have already built a hackintosh already, but if you have any question, you can just post questions here.

Thank you so much for mentioning this! I saw this motherboard on the January 2014 guide, and it was the cheapest mobo with everything I needed, including SLI support. It's on it's way at the moment. I heard Hackintosh automatically detects Multi-GPU's, so hopefully I don't have a problem with 2xGTX760's. The 760's I'm using are more expensive 4GB editions though, not standard, I don't know if extra vram could cause issues, I'm going to assume it doesn't. I'll also be using an i7-4770k. My plan is to triple boot it (Windows for gaming and Ubuntu for anything that miscellaneous/emergencies) each with it's own 1TB SSHD and 2x3TB HDD's in raid 0 for universal storage across all OSes giving me 6TB. Still deciding on what to do for the last SATA port, either to get a disc drive, I already have a USB one so probably not, or to get a third 3TB drive to make it raid 10 in case there's a failure. This is supposed to be a future proof machine. Very excited!

Hi there, I built a Hackintosh in the fall with the same motherboard, an i7 4770k and Gigabyte GTX 670. It was working fine under Mavericks 10.9, and updating to 10.9.1 went well - just needed to fix sound via multibeast. I would occasionally have problems with Bluetooth, andiTunes would not play video, but that wa it. The recent upgrade to 10.9.2 has been awful. First I tried to just upgrade iTunes. I downloaded the iTunes update, but then thought I should update everything, so downloaded everything. After it all installed iTunes hangs in seconds. I had to restore to a backup with the older versions.

Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this or get iTunes working again?

I have no idea, but it sounds like you are having a problem with your graphics. I don't really think it's a problem with iTunes. Did you try to update your graphic card driver?

Great, have you tried Yosemite?

Yup, I got Yosemite to work on my machine. Here is what I shared with the community.

http://www.tonymacx86.com/yosemite-desktop-support/144010-yosemite-up-running.html