m.2

Would this beast work as a hackintosh once NVIDIA Pascal drivers are available for macOS? Intel Core i7-6700 quadcore, NVIDIA GTX 1080 8GB, M.2 & SATA-3, 2 RAM slots… all packed into a silent (watercooled) compact black box (22. 5 × 20.3 × 12.8 cm). What a monster! Link: Zotac MAGNUS EN1080 I...

Hey guys, I am ghosting through this forum and this great website for almost a year now and after finally selling my old iMac i really want to build my first Hackintosh now. My configuration is almost ready to order and looks as follows at the moment: Motherboard: GA-Z170X Gaming 5 CPU: Intel...

Hi guys, I just bought a new samsung M.2 drive, the sm961 to be precise.. I've used M.2 drives since a while now, and never stomped across this message, I'm trying to install Sierra 10.12.2 (which I already have not long ago in another sm950 I had) with the regular procedure (KextToPatch patch...

I'm working on my first Hackintosh build, thanks to this website and forum. Its been a pretty awesome experience so far. When I was a kid I wanted to build robots and play with laser beams. Building my own computer comes sort of close this. Sort of. Anyway.... I put together an i7 skylake...

For years I have been dealing with poor hard-drive performance on my Gax58ud3r. I only get around 200 mbps write and 300 read. I have been reading up on the Samsung m.2 drives and pcie adapters. So far it only looks like they make a pcie 3 adapter and my mobo is pcie 2. Are those adapters...

Latest update: 2016/12/06 Hi everyone, so I've been trying out all the SSD NVMe kext from RehabMan and the older ones, but nope, my Mac OS Sierra still isn't showing up the m2 SSD drive. I decided to install Sierra onto the HDD in the drive (named SierraHDD) and I'm making this post from this...

For M.2 PCIe SSD, the Buyer's Guide recommends the Samsung SM951 but these are really hard to find and the available ones are hella-expensive. Alternatively, there are the Samsung 950 Pro which are available and reasonably priced (for what they are). The note on the BG says that "M.2 SSDs may...

Upon rebooting, I go into my bios. In my bios, I go to boot priorities and see that I have many options within boot option number 1, all but 1 with the exact same name: UEFI: Samsung SSD 850 EVO M.2 500GB, Partition 1 (see picture) Every time I restart my computer, it seems like for some...

So I have spent the past couple days trying to get to an install screen using various methods and guides for x99 systems. I originally was trying to get El Capitan but that was a lost cause so I tried Yosemite. I somehow got to an install screen, got Yosemite installed on my drive, but it...

Fellow Hackintoshers, Back in 2013 I built my first Hackintosh for a combination of gaming, photo and video editing for me and complex spatial and statistical analyses in Matlab for my fiancée...

Hi! I am planning to do a i7-6700K build on a Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD5 TH with 32 GB of RAM, an M.2 SSD and my existing GTX 960. At the moment i use this card in a Windows machine with three monitors (1 DP, 1 HDMI, 1 DVI). Will i run into problems connecting TWO Dell U2515H when building an...

Hi everyone, I am currently happily running a CustoMac Pro, with two EVO 850 SSDs as my main drives (one for Windows and one for OS X MacOS). Would it be troublesome to upgrade to an M.2 disk as my main drive? I would have to buy a PCI reader for it, so any recommendations in that department? I...

hello, I just finished building my first hackintosh on OS X 10.12 I was recommend to get a DW1560 networking card for handoff Bluetooth and wifi. I got the card but it doesn't fit into the m.2 slot on my motherboard. What do I need to buy to fix this? And what antenna works good with this card...

Hello all. First off thanks for the support when helping me build my first Hackintosh. I'm having an issue however my z97 Gigabyte mobo is not recognizing the SSD in the bios. It doesn't show as a Bootable drive. Here's a list of things that I've tried a lot of settings with no results, can...

Hello, I am reading the July Buyer's Guide and want to build a CustoMac Mini Deluxe I have purchased a new wireless card BCM94360CD + adapter for continuity for my old iMac '11 Can I use it with one of the recommended motherboards? Gigabyte GA-Z170N-Gaming 5 (mini-ITX) Gigabyte GA-Z170N-Wifi...

I've started planning my first Hackintosh build, and I'm wondering what people are doing to manage multiple drives. In particular, I'm tempted to get an 128GB M.2 SSD and pair it with a 2TB HDD, but is this the best choice… For others running several types of drives at once, how do you use...

I'm new to this! MOBO - EVGA z170 Stinger CPU - INTEL i76700K SSD - SAMSUNG 950 Pro m.2 256GB SSD - Samsung 850 PRO 256GB RAM - G.SKILL Trident Z 16GB GPU - NVIDIA 1080 or AMD FURY-X or w7100 Im building this machine to do design work lots of 3d modeling to I want a kick ass GPU to output to...

I am unable to get my Broadcom BCM94352z card to work in an Asus Rog G751 with 10.10 successfully installed on it. The machine comes stock with an Intel Dual Band Wireless AC7260 card, but intel cards are not compatible with Mac OS so I replaced it with the former. I followed instructions on...

Hi all, I've been watching for months as Skylake compatibility slowly coalesced, and I'm ready to jump the gun. I'll use this machine for software development, photo processing and windows gaming. Here's my initial parts list, could you check it for inconsistencies? Gigabyte GA-170X-UD3...

Hey all, long time lurker, first time registerer and poster. Looking to put together my first hackintosh and run OS X El Capitan dual booted with Windows 10 (UEFI?). The prospective base components: Corsair RM650X ASRock Z97 Extreme6 Intel i7-4790K Crucial Ballistix Tactical 32GB (4x8gb) DDR3...