Building a CustoMac: Buyer's Guide February 2014

[Barenhvrd]

Why is the GA Z87X UD7 TH in the ATX section, as it is an E-ATX? Thanks

 

[AlphaNDB]

Article: Building a CustoMac: Buyer's Guide February 2014

Try using the Power-Line Communication: no WI-Fi, Ethernet speed, everywhere in your house

I Can't. My Internet comes from one of these http://www.engadget.com/products/huawei/e585/
That's why I need to use a WiFi adapter of some sort.

 

[Linkandzelda]

Hey guys, wondering if anyone can help me. I took the advice in this post and built myself a hackintosh. I went with the Intel i7 4770, 16GB Corsair Vengeance RAM, Corsair CXM 500W Modular PSU, ASUS Nvidia GTX 660 2GB, SanDisk 128GB SSD and a Gigabyte H87M-D3H motherboard. I followed the guide for Mavericks and successfully installed the system with no problems, followed by installing kexts with Multibeast for my sound. All seems good, but there's a massive issue I'm experiencing.

Every once in a while, and I mean often, the system will do a complete lockup. I remember when I booted once during installation it showed debug info on screen for a crash, but this doesn't even show that. I searched logs and there's just huge gaps between crashes. After bootup it can last anywhere between 30 mins and 6-8 hours before locking up, regardless of what I'm doing. I'm not sure what I could be doing wrong, I chose all the parts as recommended by this post and the previous months posts.

If anyone from the community perhaps someone who has a build like mine could help me out by pointing me in the right direction or giving some tips to try that would be very great.

 

[Barenhvrd]

Article: Building a CustoMac: Buyer's Guide February 2014

I won't recommend the build based on the mATX GA-Z87MX-D3H to anyone.. As too many people are experiencing random freezes and thing !

 

[lokin]

Article: Building a CustoMac: Buyer's Guide February 2014

Hey guys, wondering if anyone can help me. I took the advice in this post and built myself a hackintosh. I went with the Intel i7 4770, 16GB Corsair Vengeance RAM, Corsair CXM 500W Modular PSU, ASUS Nvidia GTX 660 2GB, SanDisk 128GB SSD and a Gigabyte H87M-D3H motherboard. I followed the guide for Mavericks and successfully installed the system with no problems, followed by installing kexts with Multibeast for my sound. All seems good, but there's a massive issue I'm experiencing.

Every once in a while, and I mean often, the system will do a complete lockup. I remember when I booted once during installation it showed debug info on screen for a crash, but this doesn't even show that. I searched logs and there's just huge gaps between crashes. After bootup it can last anywhere between 30 mins and 6-8 hours before locking up, regardless of what I'm doing. I'm not sure what I could be doing wrong, I chose all the parts as recommended by this post and the previous months posts.

If anyone from the community perhaps someone who has a build like mine could help me out by pointing me in the right direction or giving some tips to try that would be very great.

Welcome to the club luckily, we probably have your answer.

Check out this thread.

In a nutshell, some funky things are happening with a few models of the Corsair Vengeance LP.
Go into your BIOS set optimized defaults (make sure XMP is Disabled) then boot into osx
go into About this Mac -> More info -> system report -> Memory
tell us what the model number on your RAM (I'm guessing yours is CML16GX3M2A1600C10 or CML16GX3M2A1600C9) and at what speed it is running (1333Mhz or 1600Mhz).

 

[RobbieTobbie]

Hello,

As for cases, I can highly recommend the Cooltek Antiphon. It´s quite stylish (looks a bit like the Fractal Design R4 but is about $40 - $50 cheaper), comes in three different colours an is quite silent, even with the built-in fans.

I got it in white with silver brushed aluminium front and (I admit it and I´m ashamed but I couldn´t resist) attached a spare Apple TV apple sticker to it. Now it looks as almost being invented for this patch

Bye
RobbieTobbie

 

[Linkandzelda]

Article: Building a CustoMac: Buyer's Guide February 2014

Welcome to the club luckily, we probably have your answer.

Check out this thread.

In a nutshell, some funky things are happening with a few models of the Corsair Vengeance LP.
Go into your BIOS set optimized defaults (make sure XMP is Disabled) then boot into osx
go into About this Mac -> More info -> system report -> Memory
tell us what the model number on your RAM (I'm guessing yours is CML16GX3M2A1600C10 or CML16GX3M2A1600C9) and at what speed it is running (1333Mhz or 1600Mhz).

Thank you very much for the reply. I've done what you suggested and loaded optimized defaults with XMP disabled (as well as hand offs set right) and no other changes, RAM on system reports 1333 MHz on the About This Mac and the model number is CML16GX3M2A1500C10, like you suspected. Is this a faulty RAM model or something like that? Thanks again for a reply, this is progress I have not ventured into before!

 

[lokin]

Article: Building a CustoMac: Buyer's Guide February 2014

Thank you very much for the reply. I've done what you suggested and loaded optimized defaults with XMP disabled (as well as hand offs set right) and no other changes, RAM on system reports 1333 MHz on the About This Mac and the model number is CML16GX3M2A1500C10, like you suspected. Is this a faulty RAM model or something like that? Thanks again for a reply, this is progress I have not ventured into before!

Not faulty per se, but many people have found that a few very particular models result in these freezing issues with this motherboard. Before you go out and buy new ram make sure that the RAM is in slot 1 and 2 (there is some writing on your mother board showing you which slot is which, they are NOT next to each other). That solved it for some people, but not for me. I had to purchase a different model # to stop my freezing issues.

Good Luck! keep us updated.

 

[red-storm]

Is this wifi card works?

 

[red-storm]

This wifi card will works?