miramar's Baby75 - GA-B75M-D3V - i7 3770 - GT640 - ATX - Mountain Lion

miramar's Baby75 - GA-B75M-D3V - i5 3770 - GT640 - ATX - Mountain Lion


Components

Intel i7 3770 CPU (Integrated HD4000 GPU)
http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Core-i7-3770-Quad-Core-Processor/dp/B007SZ0EHE

Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3V (1.1) mATX MotherboardBIOS: F6
http://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-LGA1155-CrossFireX-Motherboard-GA-B75M-D3V/dp/B007R21JKE

Kingston ValueRAM DDR3 1600MHz RAM 8GB
http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-ValueRAM-PC3-12800-Motherboard-KVR16N11/dp/B0089JIDLC

Leadtek GT640 1GB GPU


Already Owned

OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/os-x-mountain-lion/id537386512

Samsung HD154UI 1.5TB HD
http://www.amazon.com/Hd154ui-Samsung-Drives-Sata-ii-1-5tb-5400rpm/dp/B002UJQ882

Powerlogic ATX Case with 500w PSU

Viewsonic 20" LCD Monitor

Apple Pro Keyboard
http://www.amazon.com/Apple-Pro-Keyboard-M7696Z-A/dp/B0009LYTMU

Generic USB Mouse


Comments

I return to Gigabyte boards for this build. The objective this time is get a basic hackintosh with as much functionality as a real Mac and, as always, trying to keep the system as vanilla as possible. More importantly, I wanted to keep costs down so I scrounged for some old parts and looked for a cheaper LGA1155 motherboard. Z77s, as much as I liked them, were out of the question for this one. There were still some requirements that I was not willing to compromise on, such as SATA3 and USB3, which ruled out some really cheap boards. I knew compromises will have to be made. In the end, I decided on the GA-B75M-D3V which just meets my requirements and at a very affordable price.

The B75M-D3V is very suitable for an entry level hackintosh. It has ALC887 audio and RTL8111F ethernet, both of which are supported with the appropriate kexts. The USB 3.0 ports are driven by the B75 Express chipset which are recognised OOTB by Mountain Lion. It has a total of 6 SATA ports though only one of them is SATA3. It has a PCI slot as well which is quite handy if you have an old OS X compatible WiFi card or Firewire card as I do. With specs like this, you'd expect everything to work and OS X installation to go smoothly. And it does. OS X installation can be completed in less than an hour. In fact, it actually takes longer to install Windows 7 and its drivers.

Mini Guide
I was really surprised at the ease that OS X was installed on this board. Here's a short guide.

Ingredients

• Mountain Lion 10.8.1, Unibeast 1.5.3, Multibeast 5.1.2
• GA-B75M-D3V BIOS F6
• AppleHDA ALC887 patched (from Multibeast 5.1.2)
• Lnx2Mac Realtek network drivers (from Multibeast 5.1.2)

BIOS Settings

• Intel Virtualization Tech (VT-x): Enabled
• VT-d: Disabled
• SATA Mode: AHCI
• XHCI Mode: Enabled
• IGFXRam: 64MB
• EHCI Hand-off: Enabled
• Serial Port: Disabled
• Parallel Port: Disabled

Steps

1. Using Unibeast Mountain Lion 10.8.1
2. Install with HD4000 (onboard DVI only, onboard VGA won't work all the way)
3. Multibeast: DSDT-Free, Realtek/no-DSDT/887 Current, Lnx2Mac
   Done if using onboard HD4000
4. Install GTX640, "GraphicsEnabler"="No"
   Finally update to 10.8.2
5. Backup AppleHDA.kext
6. Install 10.8.2 Combo
7. Restore AppleHDA.kext

Performance
Geekbench(System definition: Macpro3,1)
i7 3770 3.4GHz, 1 x 8GB 1333MHz DDR3, Mountain Lion 10.8.2: 12914

Boot times
From Chimera boot selection menu to login screen:
Samsung HD154UI SATA2: xxx secs

What Works
Video

• HD4000 accelerated graphics
• Onboard DVI output (Onboard VGA won't work with HD4000)
• GT640 DVI output

Audio

• Stereo analog sound from back panel (Internal speakers, green jack)
• Mute does not work

Network

• Gigabit Ethernet

USB

• USB2.0 ports (Works with USB2.0 or USB3.0 devices)
• USB3.0 ports with USB3.0 device (Tested OK: Seagate USB HD, Transcend JF700 Flashdrive)
• USB3.0 ports with USB2.0 device (To be tested)

Power Management

• Shutdown and restart
• Manual Sleep and wake works
• Auto sleep to be tested
• SpeedStep: pStates are "MSRDumper PStatesReached: 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 37" (10.8.2 for i7 3770, BIOS F6, no DSDT)
• WOL wake from sleep over Ethernet: xxx
• WOL wake from poweroff over Ethernet: xxx

OS X

• OS X 10.8.2 update OK Reinstall AppleHDA.kext from Multibeast or backup for audio.

KEXT Patches
Patched AppleHDA from Multibeast needed for analog audio out.

Multibeast Configuration
1. UserDSDT or DSDT-Free Installation
2. Drivers & Bootloaders/Drivers/Audio/Realtek/no-DSDT/ALC887 Current
3. Drivers & Bootloaders/Drivers/Miscellaneous/FakeSMC Plugins/Motherboard Plugins & HWMonitor Application
4. Drivers & Bootloaders/Drivers/Network/Lnx2Mac's RealtekRTL81xx Ethernet v0.0.90



DSDT - None needed


Updates

Nice build! Another B75M. Good.

How much is the roughly calculated cost?
You choose a pretty cheap MB but you still went for the i7. Needed much power?

Are you going to work on the issue of mute sound?

thierry37 said:

Nice build! Another B75M. Good.

How much is the roughly calculated cost?
You choose a pretty cheap MB but you still went for the i7. Needed much power?

Are you going to work on the issue of mute sound?

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I did this for a friend. He wanted the i7 so we went for that. The board is pretty cheap, about USD72. The GT640 1GB about USD90. We used a cheap ATX case, USD30. Everything's on the cheap except for the i7.

I don't think mute is possible on the 887. Toleda said it was either No Audio or No Mute.

i'm having Ethernet dropouts where occasionally the Ethernet just doesn't work. Sometimes a reboot fixes it, sometimes not. Will be trying Realtek drivers after this and see what happens.

Hey miramar, please help me, i've this mobo but the windows dxdiag tell me that's an intel graphics hd 2000 instead of 4000? Could you help me? I've followed you guide, only having problems with graphics. =´/ thanks

Elder said:

Hey miramar, please help me, i've this mobo but the windows dxdiag tell me that's an intel graphics hd 2000 instead of 4000? Could you help me? I've followed you guide, only having problems with graphics. =´/ thanks

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Intel integrated graphics is dependant upon the CPU. What CPU do you have?

1. Install with HD4000 (onboard DVI only, onboard VGA won't work all the way)
2. Multibeast: DSDT-Free, Realtek/no-DSDT/887 Current, Lnx2Mac
   Done if using onboard HD4000
3. Install GTX640, "GraphicsEnabler"="No"

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I don't get this.
Why didn't you install GTX640 card at the first time, skipped using HD4000 and saved time ?
And what about your Ethernet's problem ? Is it solved ?

ranchu said:

I don't get this.
Why didn't you install GTX640 card at the first time, skipped using HD4000 and saved time ?
And what about your Ethernet's problem ? Is it solved ?

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I was taking things step by step in case anything goes wrong. Also to document that HD4000 works and that if you're not using a discrete GPU, you can stop at step 3.

In case things don't go smoothly, it would be much easier to diagnose than if I chucked the whole kitchen sink into it. In any case, with this board and GT640, it wasn't necessary.

Network seems to be OK with Realtek drivers. I have this problem too with other boards that have RTL8111F and LNX2Mac.

Thanks for your write up Miramar.
Everything went smoothly.
Posted first time.
Install worked perfect first time.
Rebooted in safe mode and did multi beast.
I am using a G530 Sandy Bridge Celeron.
I am using Galaxy GT 640 with graphics enabler = no.
HDMI tv is used for monitor.
TV sound does not work from board.
TV must get signal from video card that HDMI has sound so it ignores sound output.
I am using external speakers hooked to motherboard.
Sound does work.
I will be doing HDMI edits when I get a 3225.

One drawback to board is no HDMI output but I suspect with DVI-I and adapter this will work.
Second drawback is placement of SATA ports.
Only one port is completely free of the video card.
My video card just clears the ports.
A bigger card would cause problems.
A GT 430 card from Galaxy will clear all the ports.
Another solution if you use a big video card is an external drive on USB 3.
This would be faster than a SATA 2 port anyhow.

Total cost was approximately $200

Hi.

How did you do the installation from Mountain Lion 10.8.1?