Success!! GA-Z87N-Wifi, i5 4670k, 760gtx CustoMac Build!

JJiG's CustoMac Build: GA-Z87N-Wifi - i5 4670K - GTX 760

Components

Gigabyte Z87n Wifi Motherboard
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D94X7WW/

Intel i5 4670k cpu
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CO8TBOW/

MSI Nvidia gtx 760 video card 2gb
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DIH8OW8/

Crucial 16gb ddr3 1600 memory
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006YG9EEW/

Thermaltake TR2 600w PSU
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0058FAYQ2/

Bitfenix Prodigy Arctic White case
http://www.amazon.com/dp/product/B008RJQ3GQ/


Already Owned

Blu Ray Drive
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00632U162/

2 Vertex 4 256gb SSD's
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CXKRWJ2/

1 WD Green 1tb Drive
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0053YKMGA


Comments

Putting the components together was a breeze. Everything is so compact and small that it the system was together in 30 mins. I didn't run into any complications whatsoever in this build. I put the 2 SSD's in the compartments on the door of the case so they are nice and out of the way, cables are neat. I took out the top HDD Expansion bay because with the large graphics cards it wouldn't fit. then i just put the 1tb 3.5 drive on the bottom of the case. Running the wires from the PSU was easy, since the max size psu the case will take is 180mm *7" for those in the USA as myself* I got a PSU slightly smaller roughly 6" and after you mount it there is a nice pocket next to the PSU for cable management.

Ran all the wires plugged everything up and powered it on and everything worked right out the box.

The install.

FIRST Follow this tutorial!! http://www.tonymacx86.com/multi-booting/96000-guide-dual-booting-mountain-lion-windows-8-a.html

Now the part where I ran into some trouble. If I had done some research before I would of been okay but I didn't know UEFI was going to give me so much trouble! After I installed OSx about 12 times and inputted my windows 8 key about another 10 i finally figured out that UEFI was giving me headaches, turned it to Legacy only in the bios, installed OS X to 1 SSD and Windows 8 to the other got everything working.

MultiBeast Options
I used User DSDT or DSDT Free Install but these other options are correct.


then I would reboot to make sure I had audio working and that the system would boot fine on its own without the UniBeast drive.

Then I'd reboot again and check network and pages would load, and everything booted fine.

Windows Install
Then I would unplug the OS X Drive and plug in my Optical Drive and 2nd SSD for windows on the motherboard and install windows as normal thats easy compared to OS X.

Once windows was installed then iId shut down, and plug in all my drives again go into the Bios and set the OSX Drive to boot 1st in the boot priority

Bootloader
Then I'd boot into OS X and run MultiBeast for the last time and go into BOOTLOADERS and install Chimera 2.2

After the install I would go into my Extra's folder on the OS X Drive edit the PLIST file and change these 2 options.
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>2</string> Change the 2 to 0 to let you choose which you'd like to boot into without a countdown timer.

and look for the
<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
<string>Yes</string>
and make sure you change that to no or else your OS X won't boot it'll just hang with a white screen.

After changing the PLIST file i'd save my work, reboot and voila. Dual booting Bitfenix Prodigy CustoMac!

Misc Info

Now I turned to ******'s Hackintosh's subreddit to get assistance when I was stuck and a user by the name of dandruski really helped me out with chimera and the MultiBeast settings. wanted to give credit to him even tho he might never see this.

Was sitting here fighting with mine. thank you for the legacy only comment.
My PCH Die says its 127c in hardware monitor, what does yours say? We have almost identical builds except I have an I7.

I was using an A50 aircooler (came out before the 1150 series) and I thought it wasn't getting good contact or something too part of the CPU and causing the temp. I put on the stock cooler and getting the same thing.

Another announce of this board is it only has 1 cpu fan and 1 case fan power. they should have at least 3.

But i guess i can work around that.

Thanks,

ATLAS

Nice build! i am planning on building a Hack around the same mobo. What is those "User DSDT or DSDT Free"?

I can see that there are a couple of things on that multibeast that were missing, namelly:
for SSDs you should enable Trim
and because you have a graphs card you should enable openGL for your graphics card.

i dont know if you you did that to your build or not, but i guess it would help.

ops one more... also this mother board support USB3. so i sugest that you enable that as well under multibeast...

have a good one!!!

leonardofogo said:

Nice build! i am planning on building a Hack around the same mobo. What is those "User DSDT or DSDT Free"?

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See page 3 in the MultiBeast Features document which comes with MultiBeast. We try to make it easy to get OS X install successfully for you.

I can see that there are a couple of things on that MultiBeast that were missing, namely:
for SSDs you should enable Trim

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Not necessarily. You only need TRIM for those SSDs that don't use SandForce controllers or whose controllers don't do garbage collection. TRIM was really necessary for 1st and 2nd generation SSDs which is why Apple used it in there MacBooks. JJiG is using OCZ Vertex 4 SSDs which use OCZ's own controller but the controller does garbage collection.

...and because you have a graphs card you should enable openGL for your graphics card.
i dont know if you you did that to your build or not, but i guess it would help.

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Check nVidia's web site to see if the nVidia drivers are for this card.

Stork said:

Not necessarily. You only need TRIM for those SSDs that don't use SandForce controllers or whose controllers don't do garbage collection. TRIM was really necessary for 1st and 2nd generation SSDs which is why Apple used it in there MacBooks. JJiG is using OCZ Vertex 4 SSDs which use OCZ's own controller but the controller does garbage collection.

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interesting, i didn't know about that. So, i am currently running 2x Vertex 450 in a RAID 0 configuration.
should I disable TRIM? does the software garbage collection from trim interfere with the one from my SSD controller? or the more the merrier?

leonardofogo said:

interesting, i didn't know about that. So, i am currently running 2x Vertex 450 in a RAID 0 configuration.
should I disable TRIM? does the software garbage collection from trim interfere with the one from my SSD controller? or the more the merrier?

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That, I can't tell you. I recommend that you check the OSZ Vertex 450 site page and their forum. But, I have not heard of anybody stating that using TRIM has borked their SSD. YMMV.

Stork said:

That, I can't tell you. I recommend that you check the OSZ Vertex 450 site page and their forum. But, I have not heard of anybody stating that using TRIM has borked their SSD. YMMV.

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I'll check it out...
Thank you for your input, really appreciate it!

I have the same unit you do, but I'm using built in graphics and I can't get it to work..... how do you disable the VTD in the BIOS? I can't get the option in the F2 BIOS to turn it off.

HELP!!!

C.

I really need help guys same build except it will only boot in safe mode!! Thanks