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I had to jump through a few hoops to get Sierra or High Sierra setup and running a few weeks ago, but this last week I used the new Unibeast + Multbeast release (downloaded HS again, new boot installer) and everything went super smooth, no issues or hoops to jump through this time. Try creating...

The motherboard and system chipset firmware, such as USB C and Thunderbolt 3 controllers can only be activated and updated through Windows 7 or 10, unfortunately, but once that's done they all worked on my system.

The GA-Z270X-Gaming9 motherboard ended up having a defective Ram Dimm slot #3, which kept causing random shutdowns and OS corruption, I had to RMA the motherboard which has taken two weeks, hopefully I have time to rebuild this system over the weekend.

The system boots pretty quickly, about 10 seconds or less for both High Sierra or Windows 10, and the speed tests for both M.2 SSD are about the same, 1800 MB/s write and 2800 MB/s read speeds. Fast and Ultra-Fast boot options are disabled.

Gigabyte Z270X Gaming 9 - i7 7700k - GTX 1080 - High Sierra & Win 10 Components Intel i7-7700K CPU https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MXSI216/?tag=tonymacx86com-20 https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117726 Corsair H60 CPU Water Cooler...

My guess is that you have a Z series i7 motherboard, and those generally only run the PCI-e slot #1 at PCI-e x16 if there are no other cards on the motherboard, otherwise it has to share resources and cuts the #1 slot to x8 lanes, not that a GTX 1060 uses more than x8 lanes anyway. You might see...

Remember that the Thunderbolt chipsets won't be enabled or firmware installed, unless you do it through a windows boot install first, then add a Mac OS boot drive.

I have an HBA Areca 1224, with x8 internal 2.5" drives, 2TB SAS RAID5. You could go with larger 1TB 7200 rpm SAS drives in Raid5/6 (6-7TB) or 1TB SSD in Raid0 at 8TB. You could could use a 4 port HBA controller and only x4 drives vs x8. An HBA controller would be more reliable and platform...

The E-40 case is a Rack case, 19" wide, 15" deep, 7" high.

I'm running a Z87X-UD7-TH, has two TB2 ports, and an iStar E40 15" Rack case. I added a water CPU cooler and couple of Noctua low profile fans (requires some modding). You need to install windows to activate the TB controller.

that motherboard works well, you need to install windows to update the chipsets and thunderbolt2 controller, and it's slightly larger than ATX but it's not E-ATX sized.

You have to manually adjust your RAM settings in the BIOS, to run x4 dimms in a stable fashion, otherwise just run 2 dimms with default/auto settings.

You have to install windows first, in order to install/update the firmware of the chip-sets on the motherboard, particularly the thunderbolt controller. Thunderbolt works as a form of PCI-e extension on Windows/Hackintosh systems. It is not hot-pluggable.

To fix the ram x4 dimm freeze issue, you have to manually configure your ram in the bios, there are other forums about it, default or auto settings don't work. its easier to run x2 dimms, if you get the larger size ram to begin with.

A GTX770 maxes out a 4770K quad core 4.1 GHz CPU, not sure you'd get much more performance out of a Titan or multiple 780s, you probably need a higher core count and more system resources. My system can handle 4k, but defiantly not 5k or 6k, but I could run a a Rocket X and 770 or 780.

There's not much of a performance drop between x8 and x16 lanes with a GTX 770, maybe 10%. I get a much larger performance drop when using TB2 devices, about 20% overall in benchmark and render tests. Thunderbolt uses alot of system resources.

The board has a x16 pci-e plx bypass, if you don't use this lane there is a plx lane splitter, so you'll have two x16 lanes, or one x16 and two x8, or four x8 lanes. (x16, native) or plx lane splitter (x16/x16, or x16/x8/x8, or x8/x8/x8/x8)

I have the Z87X OC board, same issue of randomly freezing, I had to increase RAM to 1.6v, turn off C6/C7 speed stepping, and only use 2 RAM DIMMs, and its now been stable for several days.

If you use the single black PCI-e slot on the GA-Z87X-OC Force motherboard, you'll bypass the PLX chipset and run off the CPU natively, which will turn off all the orange PCI-e slots. I've installed with and without my GTX 770, both the IGPU and 770 work when I'm done with the install process...

wildwillow's Haswell Build: GA-Z87X-OC - i7-4770K - HD4600+GT 640 This was a really good build to follow, I installed the GA-Z87X-OC Force instead of just the normal OC board, but the guide worked perfectly, other than changing the audio codec to ALC898 instead of ALC892.