STICK with HIGH SIERRA until at least AUTUMN 2019
INTEL 8700k is an outstanding processor and no real merit for going for more expensive than this....UNLESS you want to go over the top with an x299 system.....for several years I ran with Hackintosh x79 systems ......endless tinkering and 4 days...
for several years I recognised the need for at least 6 cores x79 or x99 or XEON CPU for Premiere Pro and After Effects....with the advent of 8th GEN i7 Intel processors I believe that need has gone.....and you can do very well with an 8700k processor I would also state that there is not vast...
you need to make sure that you computer is LABELLED as a MAC PRO 5 in SMBIOS
if you do not want to do this then you can go into the installer package by looking at PACKAGE CONTENTS and you can manually install the different packages....the installer checks that you have the correct MAC PRO...
Sleep now working with X79 system after 10.9.2 update....I used the COMBO update and as I am using VOODOO for the sound no need to update anything after the combo update just straightforward update.....clearly more of the X79 606 chipset is being implemented with this update.....
Article: Update Your Mavericks App to 10.9.2
SLEEP now working with X79 Gigabyte Motherboard
Combo Update worked fine on x79 system....I am using VOODOO for the sound and outputting sound through an NVIDIA 770 graphics card so NO NEED to reload any kexts.....ALSO SLEEP NOW WORKING with...
You need to make sure that you have
this entered in your
org.chameleon.Boot.plist
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>-f npci=0x3000</string>
if you use a 760 Nvidia card you need GRAPHICS ENABLER set to NO
for most EARLIER nvidia cards you need GRAPHICS ENABLE set to YES
ALSO...
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>-f npci=0x3000</string>
Make sure that you have this written in your
org.chameleon.Boot.plist file.....this file should be in your EXTRA folder
also make sure that you have
VoodooTSCSync.kext
placed in EITHER your EXTRA folder OR use a kext...
AUDIO the BEST drivers!!
Having spent several hours sorting out Audio for this motherboard I discovered that VoodooHDA-v2.8.4.pkg was by far the best...having installed it you will probably need to go the Voodoo panel in system preferences and increase the INPUT volume.....this is the ONLY...
It is very unlikely that you can get this laptop to run with full graphics capablity......you need to realize that going for HACKINTOSH on a laptop is a major project which is very complicated and time consuming...i have fiddled with HACKINTOSH for several years and spent countless wasted hours...
There is a small utility called KEXT WIZARD which you can download from various places.....use Google....one of the tabs across the top of the application enables you to see which kexts have been loaded
The first version of SNOW LEOPARD allowed ATOM processor anything above this .....10.6.2...
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