HAJOLO Build: i7 3770k - GA-Z77X-UD5H - 16GB RAM- N560GTX-Ti 448

Components

Apple OS X 10.8 MountainLion
Apple OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion @ Itunes App Store (U.S.)

Intel Core i7 3770K 3,5Ghz Socket 1155
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007SZ0EOW

Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007R21JK4

Corsair 16GB DDR3 1600MHz Vengeance
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004RFBIUU

MSI N560GTX-Ti 448 Twin Frozer III PE/OC
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006FCCOII

OCZ Vertex 4 Series SATA III 2.5" SSD 128GB
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007R1FH3K

OCZ Vertex 4 Series SATA III 2.5" SSD 128GB
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007R1FH3K

Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004CCS266

ASUS BW-12B1ST/BLK/G/AS 12X Blu-ray Internal Burner
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004ZMG55I

Corsair Professional Series 650-Watt 80 Plus
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002LVUPZQ

Antec Kuhler H2O 620 Liquid CPU Cooler System
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004LWYE4Q

Noctua NF-F12 PWM Cooling Fan
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00632FL8A

TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 Wireless N Dual Band Adapter
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007GMPZ0A

SYBA Low Profile PCI-Express 1394B/A Firewire Card
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002S53IG8

ASUS USB-BT211 Mini Bluetooth Dongle
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0041UJVI2

Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad
Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad @ Apple Store (U.S.)

Logitech Wireless Performance Mouse MX for PC and Mac
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002HWRJBM

Lian Li PC-Z60 USB 3.0 HD 3.5" X6 2.5" X2 Front Fan 120mm x2 Top fan 140mm X1 Rear Fan 120mm x1
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0058P0OSU

Transcend Jetflash 700 8GB USB3.0
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004HC5IPE

Added:

Noctua NF-F12 PWM Cooling Fan
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00632FL8A

Sony AD-7280S-0B 24x SATA Internal DVD+/-RW Drive (Black)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0057FRTPW

Rocketfish Rf-MRBTAD Micro Bluetooth Adapter
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001D8CCYK


Comments:

This is my first Hackintosh build so I aimed at using parts that are known to be compatible. There is no chance that I would have been able to put together this build without having access to this forum and tonymacx86 great guides!

I'm very interested in the upcoming Windows 8 but at the same time I'm to heavily invested in Apple software to give it up and the Mrs. is using Mac at work. I have previously tried to run boot camp on a Mac but have found the performance running Windows being extremely poor, thus a high end Hackintosh seemed like a great idea!

The system will mostly be used for photo and video editing tasks with adobe products (i.e., CS6 Ext and Lightroom). I think the system might be a bit over kill for the tasks at hand but at the same time I wanted to have a system that was relatively "future proof" (Is that even possible nowadays??)

The idea is to run a dual boot system with OS X on one of the Vertex ssd (installed) and Win 7/8 on the the other (not installed). I'm using the Seagate hd for storage, I'm not going to set up any kind of Raid config. since I'm using a NAS (with cloud back up) for most of my storage.

In hindsight I would have chosen a low profile memory such as the: Corsair 16 GB Vengeance Blue Low Profile instead of the ones I bought. The reason for this being the ability to use a proper air cooler for the CPU (which isn't possible due to fitting issues if you are using high profile memories in all the 4 memory slots on the mobo). The liquid cooling system from Antec that I bought is working great but feels a bit too much for my purposes. I have switched the fan in the Antec system to a Noctua in order to make it run a bit more quiet, the fan is working in an intake push configuration. Edit: Added one extra Noctua now working in an intake push/pull configuration.

Installation
I followed the guides from Tonymacx86:

- UniBeast: Install OS X Mountain Lion on Any Supported Intel-based PC
- Lion Installation Guide for Ivy Bridge CPUs
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Installation process
Fairly straight forward, had to boot the Unibeast USB with the PCIRootUID=0 command, not sure why since I have a Gigabyte mobo but unless I did that I ran into a black screen when booting the Unibeast (version 1.52) USB.

Post Installation process
I ran about the same choices in MultiBeast as in Tonymacx86 template (I don't have a screen grab of my own Multibeast setup yet but se below picture for default OS X Lion template). However ticked under the Audio section I ticked the ALC898 instead of ALC887/888b, I also ticked ALC898 in HDA rollback and ALC898 injection.

Important note GPU: When I ticked the 10.7.2+ Combo OpenCL Enabler under NVIDIA support the GPU stoped working. I couldn't boot any longer, got pass Chimera but got the dreaded "you have to restart your computer...." (or something like that) when trying to boot into OS X. Conclusion: Don't tick the NVIDIA support if you have the same GPU as me.

I then proceeded by installing Chimera 1.11.0 and tested the on board GPU, worked fine.

Edit: Reinstalled, now using MultiBeast 5.0.2 for post processing. After installation now boot into ML with PCIRootUID=0 command.

Choices made in Unibeast (below picture is not entirely correct, made som changes...):

- USERDSDT
- Audio / Without DSDT / ALC898
- Graphics / Nvidia GTX 470 / 480 / 560Ti 448 Cores / 570 / 580 Support
- Miscellaneous / FakeSMC
- Miscellaneous / FakeSMC Plugins / Motherboard Plugin
- Miscellaneous / FakeSMC Plugins / HWMonitor
- Network / hnak's AppleIntelE1000e Ethernert
- Network / Realtek Gigabit Ethernet
- Chimera
- System definition: iMac 12.2 (seem to have better software compability than Mac Pro 3.1, DVDFab for an example)
- After some testing: Nothing ticked amongst the Disc options (Neither IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector or TRIM enabler)

MultiBeast Configuration for OSX Mountain Lion



Geekbench, no OC


Geekbench, Turbo Ratio limit set @ x45 (1.175v)



Black Magic Design Disk Speed Test



Cinebench

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Not tested (but soon to be...):

- Overclocking Have now tested a very basic OC, turning the turbo ratio limit up to x45 @ 1.175 voltage. Geekbench up from mid 14000 to about 16850..
- FireWire Confirmed working
- USB 3 (USB ports are working but not sure if it's 3.0 or 2.0)
- Still more tests to be done on sleep mode and wake on LAN Issues with Auto Sleep, no problem putting computer to sleep manually
- Benchmarks
- and probably alot lot more that just doesn't spring to mind just now.......​

Issues:

- Audio, havn't had the time to test i thoroughly but at first glance there are issues,​

can't find any output or input sources in settings.. I now have output through the orange audio port, used attached AppleHDA.kext (for which I claim no credit, found it elsewere in the forum but havn't been able to locate the original author.) No major audio problem after Multibeast 5.0.2 config.
- Boot time, not impressive. Both my MB pro and MB air boots way faster.​

System now boots in 10 seconds from Chimera screen, for some reason I had missed to enable xHCI and EHCI Hand-off.

- System having issues entering auto sleep, no problem putting it into sleep mode manually though. Solved with lots of help from other threads in this forum: Need to change "darkwake=0" in org.Chameleon.Boot.plist to "darkwake=no" in order to get auto sleep to work. Still had issues with USB unresponsiveness after wake (Not on standard clocks but with a 4.5ghz oc) but when i disabled PLL voltage control in the BIOS that problem was solved as well. However I think if you are looking at a massive oc (5ghz+) you will need to have PLL voltage control set on auto and just live with the unresponsiveness (for a limited time, roughly 30 seconds after wake).​

- Ethernet working great but only through one of the ports (left one)​

I will continue to update and edit this post along the way, but initial impressions are great even though there are a few bumps that needs to be straighten out.

Edit 1: Audio working
Edit 2: Slow boot time solved, basic OC tested. Geekbench pictures attached.
Edit 3: Added Disk Speed Test results
Edit 4: Added Cinebench screenshot, confirmed Syba firewire card working oob, system having issues entering auto sleep, Ethernet issues (right port), additional Noctua fan added for push/pull config and last but not least finally got the system dual booting OSX 10.8 and WIN 8 from Chimera
Edit 5: Multibeast 5.0.2 Configuration, Ethernet issue solved, No need for an extra Kext in order to get audio working.
Edit 6: Problem with ASUS bt-adapter, ordered a Rocketfish Instead. Also added an extra DVD-RW to the list
Edit 7: Finally got auto sleep to work without any USB unresponsiveness.

First off, I really appreciate the post. I've got almost identical hardware:

GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UD5H LGA 1155 (Socket) Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
MSI N560GTX-Ti 448 Twin Frozr III PE/OC GeForce GTX 560 Ti - 448 Cores (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP ...
Intel Core i7-3770K Ivy Bridge 3.5GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 77W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 4000 BX80637I73770K
CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9B

Have been trying Mountain Lion after a few problems with Lion. My graphics were borking after multibeast too. Trying again now using your settings (no Nvidia checkoff). Fingers crossed.

Curious if you got overclocking/usb3 support.

(If you can't tell, I'm just going to use all of your experiences for my own personal benefit...)

(Everything worked fine; including Audio without the additional kext)

I'm glad to hear that everything is working out fine for you. I'm out travelling this week but intend to try out a "basic" 4,5GHZ OC when I get back and then move on to memory and GPU OC.

My first priority is however to get the slow boot time out of the way.. How is your boot time?

Hajolo said:

How is your boot time?

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Pretty fast. 13 seconds from the Chimera screen (including the wait). Not sure if it makes a difference but I boot using the "P0: Hard Drive Name" option not the "UEFI: Hard Drive Name" option. Heard it caused problems (?). Was trying everything at the time.

I'm pretty ignorant on how to OC, so I'm curious what you do. Assuming you need to unlock the bios settings to tweak the multiplier/voltage values, but not sure how to unlock or what's an appropriate value/increment. I'm also using the standard CPU fan; assuming I'll need a nicer one to get good results without too much heat/noise. Your liquid cooler looks fun.

Also, the USB 3.0 ports are working (they were not even usable in Lion), but the speeds seem the same as the 2.0. Tried a thumb drive and a usb 3.0 7200rpm HD with similar speed results. Perhaps the devices are the bottleneck there; not too concerned.

fballs123 said:

I'm pretty ignorant on how to OC, so I'm curious what you do. Assuming you need to unlock the bios settings to tweak the multiplier/voltage values, but not sure how to unlock or what's an appropriate value/increment. I'm also using the standard CPU fan; assuming I'll need a nicer one to get good results without too much heat/noise. Your liquid cooler looks fun.

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You shouldn't need to unlock anything with that MOBO and CPU. You can adjust the multipliers, voltage and so on in the BIOS with your + - keys on the keyboard.

Yea, figured it out. Couldnt do it using the keyboard but the gui worked fine. Got your same cooler btw, and have been running at 4.8ghz without problems. Geekbench 64 score is ~18,500. Clocking higher worked but with lower scores. I only used the multiplier.

fballs123 said:

Yea, figured it out. Couldnt do it using the keyboard but the gui worked fine. Got your same cooler btw, and have been running at 4.8ghz without problems. Geekbench 64 score is ~18,500. Clocking higher worked but with lower scores. I only used the multiplier.

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4.8ghz, that's impressive. What's your voltage when you are running at that level? What kind of temps are you seeing when stress testing in Prime95? I'm running at 4.5ghz with a voltage of 1.175, max temps around c 75.

I'm going to set up my Antec cooler in a push/pull config to see if that makes a lot of difference for the cooling.

Great Build!
I have a very similar build as well but I'm using a gtx 580.
Before you even began the ML installation, what changes were made to your BIOS (I am not planning on OC)?

Thanks!

huni1692 said:

Great Build!
I have a very similar build as well but I'm using a gtx 580.
Before you even began the ML installation, what changes were made to your BIOS (I am not planning on OC)?

Thanks!

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I upgraded to the latest bios firmware, F8 and then followed this simple but great guide by "thelostswede": http://www.tonymacx86.com/99-quick-guide-configuring-uefi-gigabyte-s-7-series-lga-1155-boards.html

I also enabled xmp profile 1 in order to fully use the capacity of my RAM.