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[SUCCESS] Gigabyte AORUS Z370 Gaming 7 - i7-8700K - Nvidia GeForce GT740, Uadio Apollo 8

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New benchmarks with 1050 TI and 64GB of memory and not overclocked. I'm satisfied with where I'm out. Looking to upgrade to a 1080TI once the price drops, 4K dual monitor setup and an NVME SSD later. Surprisingly the results are as good as others running the NVME and overclocked. Go figure.
 

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jsconiers said:
jsconiers Build:
Gigabyte AORUS Z370 Gaming 7 - i7-8700K - Nvidia GeForce GT740​
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Is your Apollo running well? I'm going to be building a very similar system and have an Apollo Twin to attach to it. Did you have to activate the Thunderbolt card in Windows?
 
AJ-Afterparty said:
Is your Apollo running well? I'm going to be building a very similar system and have an Apollo Twin to attach to it. Did you have to activate the Thunderbolt card in Windows?
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The Apollo and two satellites are running great. No errors, no issues. The software works and i’ve Been able to track in DAWs and use for sound playback in iTunes, etc. I did activate it within windows and keep a very small windows 10 partition around in case I need it. Biggest thing is to make sure the bios setting is correct.
 
Hi! Thanks for sharing this build! I also want to create a very similar audio recording machine. There are a couple of things I don't understand in your post.

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Had an issue with waking up from sleep but adding the kext from colder to EFI resolved.
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Which kext is this?

jsconiers said:
In OS X all hardware is working with FakeID method for Coffee Lake to Kaby Lake spoofing.
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Why is this needed and how do you do it? Isn't High Sierra supposed to have support for Coffee Lake?

Also could you let me know the following:
- Have you managed to use 4K resolution? Any special config for that?

Thanks!!
 
hackyomac said:
Hi! Thanks for sharing this build! I also want to create a very similar audio recording machine. There are a couple of things I don't understand in your post.



Which kext is this?



Why is this needed and how do you do it? Isn't High Sierra supposed to have support for Coffee Lake?

Also could you let me know the following:
- Have you managed to use 4K resolution? Any special config for that?

Thanks!!
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Waking up from sleep issue was resolved with FAKESMC kext.
Kaby lake works fine. High Sierra does not know what type of CPU you have nor how to talk to temp sensors. That requires a small change: fix-unknown-processor-mac and couple kexts (FAKESMCGPU Sensor, CPUSensor and ACPI sensors) .
 
Added Syba PCI Express three port Firewire card to access old drives. Works out of the box with no kexts.
 
jsconiers said:
Added Syba PCI Express three port Firewire card to access old drives. Works out of the box with no kexts.
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Since you already had a Gigabyte Alpine Expansion Card Thunderbolt 3, do you know if it would support Firewire devices using a "Thunderbolt to Firewire adapter" (https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MD464LL/A/apple-thunderbolt-to-firewire-adapter) connected to a "Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 adapter"(https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMEL2AM/A/thunderbolt-3-usb-c-to-thunderbolt-2-adapter) ?
 
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Since you already had a Gigabyte Alpine Expansion Card Thunderbolt 3, do you know if it would support Firewire devices using a "Thunderbolt to Firewire adapter" (https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MD464LL/A/apple-thunderbolt-to-firewire-adapter) connected to a "Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 adapter"(https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMEL2AM/A/thunderbolt-3-usb-c-to-thunderbolt-2-adapter) ?
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I didn’t try it but assume it would work. The thunderbolt 3 to 2 adapter works as I use it everyday. Apple’s thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter and thunderbolt to hdmi adapter works so I would assume the FireWire adapter would as well. I just chose to use the separate card. If you really want to know I could try it for you. Let me know.
 
RuiNeves said:
Thanks for the link :)
What was your memory choice for the oc upgrade?
Gpu upgrade was easy?
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I used the memory in the initial build. GPU Upgrade was easy. Just download the Nvidia Drivers to a USB drive or the internal hard drive before you replace it.
 
Added an HP SSD EX920 M.2 Cloned my boot drive from the SATA SSD over the M.2. Will now use the other SSD for Windows 10 and backups.
 
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