[Guide] Intel NUC7/NUC8 using Clover UEFI (NUC7i7Bxx,NUC8i7Bxx,etc)

[MarcoLetona]

Thanks BenMiller, I'll link to your post in my guide so at least point people to my guide and I'll put the two links for Nuc 7 and 8 as they are now. I wonder what happened to the website to mess up posts and some disspear. Anyway at least we have two efi folders that work and are solid for those new that come to the post.

I used his and now I have a fully Catalina installed on a Intel Nuc 7I3BNH.

Thanks!!

 

[spottsy]

NUC8 AND NUC7 WORKING links have been updated and moved to the top of my guide. NOTE: Page 1 of this GUIDE written by Rehabman NO LONGER WORKS. The guide below and EFI links work 100 percent.

@spottsy Link my GUIDE for making install USB for Catalina/Mojave here as it has updated links now. Some added info and made some things clearer. When I get time I'll write a new simplified guide to link to with images to follow.

Spottsy GUIDE: Has both links and info on installing MacOS Hackintosh.

[Guide] Intel NUC7/NUC8 using Clover UEFI (NUC7i7Bxx,NUC8i7Bxx,etc)

Can you clarify more on "Bluetooth working in Catalina" IF Dual Booting. Are you saying Bluetooth is stable in MAC OS Catalina? I don't understand what the relationship that Bluetooth working has with NEEDING Windows as Dual Booting. So it seems you are saying if you unplug the power source...

www.tonymacx86.com

Updated links for you to bookmark for EFI folders below:

NUC8 Leesureone: Big thanks to Leesureone. I have come to appreicate the massive amount of hard work he has done in building a solid EFI folder for our NUC8's.

[Guide] Intel NUC7/NUC8 using Clover UEFI (NUC7i7Bxx,NUC8i7Bxx,etc)

The latest bios seems to be 79 for the Nuc7. I'm on 72, but I also haven't tried a new one like 78 oder 79. I'm curious to know if someone is on a higher bios version. Greetings schlotterp I have 79 bios. Installed last Clover. I do not use ssdt tables. Just a small change in the standard...

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NUC7 Sevift (Thanks to BenMiller for Posting) Again Thanks for sharing a working EFI folder for NUC7's.

[Guide] Intel NUC7/NUC8 using Clover UEFI (NUC7i7Bxx,NUC8i7Bxx,etc)

I guess you are running GeekBench 5, which changed the scoring base and reports scores 75% lower than GeekBench 4 :) I was going crazy too, just download GeekBench 4. Search https://www.tonymacx86.com/members/hedgehog2k.2300330/ Hedgehog2k posted lots of logs both GeekBench 4 and 5 and...

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For those of you how simply can now copy the EFI to your USB and install Catalina/Mojave this saves a huge amount of headache. I pulled my hair out for a good two weeks using other guides and Rehabman's guide and nothing worked until I found this link.

 

[spottsy]

Hey, I seem to have a similar problem (at least it still happened before the upgrade to 15.1): it does not freeze, but the spinning beachball appears and I can enter my password letter by letter - one minute per letter.
Do you still have the problem and is it similar ?

I have a NUC8i7BEH as you do. Download Leesureone's EFI and replace yours and it is solid with Catalina 10.15.1. Make sure you change the Serial Number to your serial number before replacing first.

Download link is the first link near the top of the page.

[Guide] Intel NUC7/NUC8 using Clover UEFI (NUC7i7Bxx,NUC8i7Bxx,etc)

Can you clarify more on "Bluetooth working in Catalina" IF Dual Booting. Are you saying Bluetooth is stable in MAC OS Catalina? I don't understand what the relationship that Bluetooth working has with NEEDING Windows as Dual Booting. So it seems you are saying if you unplug the power source...

www.tonymacx86.com

 

[spottsy]

@HedgeHog2k was it you that had packet loss on you ETHERNET NAS data transfer. I read this yesterday as a solution to it. You might have fixed it.

Direct clean install 10.14.4 on NUC8i7BEH with minimal tweaks [10.14.5 Success]

@chroniq could you post you plist config, also could you confirm openCL score around 55.000 im all time getting around 33.000 :(

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[spottsy]

INFO ON NUC 9 engineering sample.

Looks like cooling is improved and needs to be but still has heat issues. "Intel has placed a pair of 80mm cooling fans up top to expel the hot air from the NUC."

"It also has one M.2 2280 port and M.2 22110 port. In total, you install up to three M.2 PCIe or SATA III SSDs on the Intel NUC 9 Extreme, two inside The Element and one on the backplane. RAID 0 and 1 arrays are supported."

Intel's 'Element' Comes To Life In Ghost Canyon NUC

Look's like Intel's ‘The Element’ isn't just a concept after all.

www.tomshardware.com

 

[HedgeHog2k]

@HedgeHog2k was it you that had packet loss on you ETHERNET NAS data transfer. I read this yesterday as a solution to it. You might have fixed it.

Direct clean install 10.14.4 on NUC8i7BEH with minimal tweaks [10.14.5 Success]

@chroniq could you post you plist config, also could you confirm openCL score around 55.000 im all time getting around 33.000 :(

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Hey man! It somehow fixed itself mostly, I don't know how.. However I do sometimes notice that my browsing speed is still slower then it should be, but when then do iperf everything is stable (constant 950mpbs+...). So I'm defintely going to try this bios setting!

 

[HedgeHog2k]

INFO ON NUC 9 engineering sample.

Looks like cooling is improved and needs to be but still has heat issues. "Intel has placed a pair of 80mm cooling fans up top to expel the hot air from the NUC."

"It also has one M.2 2280 port and M.2 22110 port. In total, you install up to three M.2 PCIe or SATA III SSDs on the Intel NUC 9 Extreme, two inside The Element and one on the backplane. RAID 0 and 1 arrays are supported."

Intel's 'Element' Comes To Life In Ghost Canyon NUC

Look's like Intel's ‘The Element’ isn't just a concept after all.

www.tomshardware.com

This one would be an interesting upgrade to be honest..
- I have an unused 970Evo m.2 plus
- I can port the 960Evo sata (dual boot windows10 for gaming?)
- I can port the 32Gb Ram
- I can port the macos supported wifi/bt card ! ! !

But it's a downgrade gpu wise... Intel Iris plus 655 to Intel UHD Graphics 630. But I can add a dedicated gpu..

Wondering what the pricing is for these. I also think it's a shame they are quite a big bigger then the NUC8.

Support wise I already found 2 macs having the same cpu on everymac.com
MacBook Pro "Core i9" 2.4 15" Touch/20192.4 GHz Core i9 (I9-9980HK)
MacBook Pro "Core i9" 2.4 15" Touch/2019 Vega2.4 GHz Core i9 (I9-9980HK)

 

[spottsy]

This one would be an interesting upgrade to be honest..
- I have an unused 970Evo m.2 plus
- I can port the 960Evo sata (dual boot windows10 for gaming?)
- I can port the 32Gb Ram
- I can port the macos supported wifi/bt card ! ! !

But it's a downgrade gpu wise... Intel Iris plus 655 to Intel UHD Graphics 630. But I can add a dedicated gpu..

Wondering what the pricing is for these. I also think it's a shame they are quite a big bigger then the NUC8.

Support wise I already found 2 macs having the same cpu on everymac.com
MacBook Pro "Core i9" 2.4 15" Touch/20192.4 GHz Core i9 (I9-9980HK)
MacBook Pro "Core i9" 2.4 15" Touch/2019 Vega2.4 GHz Core i9 (I9-9980HK)

Good to hear things are fixed for you.

I do like the addition of THREE M.2. ports for using apple wifi/bluetooth adapter for continuity but still having fast SSD speeds.

The downside with the NUC8i7BEH is the heat it spikes too at sometimes 100 Celsius and often in the 90 degrees from purchase. Glad they put two fans in to help with this and copper heatsinks. Will be interested when it comes out if it can work as a Hackintosh. Nice to see support for the CPU id already so there is a good chance I hope.

 

[acik84]

My internet(ethernet)not working when I used Samsung NVME SSD 970 EVO Plus.Already on latest firmware. Can browse web in less than a minutes after boot. Then it stop working. If I did speedtest.net only upload working. Later I swap back with other nvme ssd and had no problem. Why does Samsung NVME cause the problem?

 

[Leesureone]

My internet(ethernet)not working when I used Samsung NVME SSD 970 EVO Plus.Already on latest firmware. Can browse web in less than a minutes after boot. Then it stop working. If I did speedtest.net only upload working. Later I swap back with other nvme ssd and had no problem. Why does Samsung NVME cause the problem?

Try this bios setting:

Disable "PCIe ASPM Support" in BIOS "Secondary Power Settings" section, this improves Gigabit stability