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- Feb 3, 2015
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- Motherboard
- ASUS ROG Strix Z370G-Gaming
- CPU
- i7-8700K
- Graphics
- GTX 980
- Mac
[Success] Lestliness’s Z97m-D3H - i7 4790K - EVGA GTX 770 SC - OSX 10.10.2
[Success] Lestliness’s Z97m-D3H - i7 4790K - EVGA GTX 770 SC - OS X 10.10.2
Updated Photos. Installed EVGA 770 GTX SC & Bigger and Better Heat Sink.
New Heat Sink knocked 10 degrees off. Rendering with Cinema 4D resuts in a max 65 degrees cpu temp. Pretty damn good.
Components
Phanteks Enthoo Evolv mATX Case
Amazon Newegg
Gigabyte Z97M-D3H
Amazon Newegg
Intel i7 4790K
Amazon Newegg
be quiet! Shadow Rock Slim CPU Cooler
Newegg
be quiet! DARK ROCK PRO 3 CPU Cooler
Newegg
GIGABYTE GTX750 1 GB
Amazon
Newegg
EVGA GTX770 SC 2 GB (DIED)
EBAY
EVGA GTX 980 SC
EBAY
MUSHKIN 32 GB DDR3 1600 RAM
Amazon Newegg
SAMSUNG PRO 256GB SSD
Amazon
COOLER MASTER V650 PSU
Amazon
OSXWIFI & Bluetooth PCIe Card
OSXWIFI
Already Owned
Apple Wireless Keyboard
AMAZON
Apple Magic Trackpad
AMAZON
27” APPLE Cinema Display with MiniDisplayport
INTOUS 3 WACOM TABLET
Comments
Frustrated with Apples Lack of Hardware Options I decided to embark on my first CustoMac and a lot of fun it has been! Really.
UniBeast / MultiBeast / Chimera Route and then moved on to Clover.
I was having random freezing especially when I was online. It was recommended that I turn off turboboost in the BIOS and that seemed to have helped. I went from about 3 -4 freezes a day to 1 freeze every couple of days.
Here's my MultiBeast Setup
Not really satisfied with even an occasional freeze I moved on to Clover. I loved the fact that we can test clover on a USB before we commit. And even if we do commit we can still fix issues through Chimera. This should really be an encouragement to those who are afraid of Clover. It seems to be that it would be hard to break your install through the USB method but I could be wrong.
I have to admit, I think I got lucky with Clover, my first attempt got me booted up using this method.
http://www.tonymacx86.com/alternate-bootloaders/127134-test-drive-how-create-clover-usb.html
The Nvidia driver's weren't working so I went back into Clover Configurator and selected nvda_drv =1 in the boot section. That fixed the Nvidia drivers but I was still having some boot issues. Sometimes it would fail, but after playing around with the boot flags, I choose ncpi=0x3000, slide=0 and kext-dev-mode=1.
I still don't know if these are the best settings in clover config but they work. This system runs about as perfect as can be. I haven't had the patience to try an iMessage fix yet. I finally sat down and decided to work on iMessage by following the guide found here. I just generated a serial and used iMessage debug to generate the ROM & MLB Values. Nothing worked and then for another reason I was working on my Router and after I reset everything started working. iMessage, FaceTime, Handoff etc.
So for all intensive purposes this build is working 99.9%. The only issue I have is playing movies in iTunes.. Crashes every time. I don't really care about this because everything else works and I'll just say I'm satisfied enough. I heard the issue with movies in iTunes can be GPU related?
UPDATE: 100% Clover install.
Finally got clover installed and working perfectly. I was overdoing it on the settings. I bought a new SSD and started from scratch and now my install is 100% clover and working great. The only two boot flags that are required in the config are kext-dev-mode=1 & nvda_drv =1. That's it! Fairly simple for this build.
I also wanted to note that other than changing the bios field to "Other OS" that the bios is left at stock settings. For this board there's no reason to change anything except the OS Setting.
Clover settings.
Updated config file
View attachment config.plist
Some more SceenShots.
Updated Photos. Installed EVGA 770 GTX SC & Bigger and Better Heat Sink.
New Heat Sink knocked 10 degrees off. Rendering with Cinema 4D resuts in a max 65 degrees cpu temp. Pretty damn good.
Components
Phanteks Enthoo Evolv mATX Case
Amazon Newegg
Gigabyte Z97M-D3H
Amazon Newegg
Intel i7 4790K
Amazon Newegg
be quiet! Shadow Rock Slim CPU Cooler
Newegg
be quiet! DARK ROCK PRO 3 CPU Cooler
Newegg
GIGABYTE GTX750 1 GB
Amazon
Newegg
EVGA GTX770 SC 2 GB (DIED)
EBAY
EVGA GTX 980 SC
EBAY
MUSHKIN 32 GB DDR3 1600 RAM
Amazon Newegg
SAMSUNG PRO 256GB SSD
Amazon
COOLER MASTER V650 PSU
Amazon
OSXWIFI & Bluetooth PCIe Card
OSXWIFI
Already Owned
Apple Wireless Keyboard
AMAZON
Apple Magic Trackpad
AMAZON
27” APPLE Cinema Display with MiniDisplayport
INTOUS 3 WACOM TABLET
Comments
Frustrated with Apples Lack of Hardware Options I decided to embark on my first CustoMac and a lot of fun it has been! Really.
UniBeast / MultiBeast / Chimera Route and then moved on to Clover.
I was having random freezing especially when I was online. It was recommended that I turn off turboboost in the BIOS and that seemed to have helped. I went from about 3 -4 freezes a day to 1 freeze every couple of days.
Here's my MultiBeast Setup
Not really satisfied with even an occasional freeze I moved on to Clover. I loved the fact that we can test clover on a USB before we commit. And even if we do commit we can still fix issues through Chimera. This should really be an encouragement to those who are afraid of Clover. It seems to be that it would be hard to break your install through the USB method but I could be wrong.
I have to admit, I think I got lucky with Clover, my first attempt got me booted up using this method.
http://www.tonymacx86.com/alternate-bootloaders/127134-test-drive-how-create-clover-usb.html
The Nvidia driver's weren't working so I went back into Clover Configurator and selected nvda_drv =1 in the boot section. That fixed the Nvidia drivers but I was still having some boot issues. Sometimes it would fail, but after playing around with the boot flags, I choose ncpi=0x3000, slide=0 and kext-dev-mode=1.
I still don't know if these are the best settings in clover config but they work. This system runs about as perfect as can be. I haven't had the patience to try an iMessage fix yet. I finally sat down and decided to work on iMessage by following the guide found here. I just generated a serial and used iMessage debug to generate the ROM & MLB Values. Nothing worked and then for another reason I was working on my Router and after I reset everything started working. iMessage, FaceTime, Handoff etc.
So for all intensive purposes this build is working 99.9%. The only issue I have is playing movies in iTunes.. Crashes every time. I don't really care about this because everything else works and I'll just say I'm satisfied enough. I heard the issue with movies in iTunes can be GPU related?
UPDATE: 100% Clover install.
Finally got clover installed and working perfectly. I was overdoing it on the settings. I bought a new SSD and started from scratch and now my install is 100% clover and working great. The only two boot flags that are required in the config are kext-dev-mode=1 & nvda_drv =1. That's it! Fairly simple for this build.
I also wanted to note that other than changing the bios field to "Other OS" that the bios is left at stock settings. For this board there's no reason to change anything except the OS Setting.
Clover settings.
Updated config file
View attachment config.plist
Some more SceenShots.
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