First I want to say thanks to davevegas for posting this guide and his files up on this forum. It has helped me out tremendously. I think davevegas was a bit offended when someone earlier in the thread suggested the guide had bugs, but I have to say that this guide is a little confusing and needs some cleanup. Please take this constructively and to help anyone else who comes across it….
My Setup is similar:
Sabertooth x79 with bios 4701
EVGA GeForce GTX670
Intel i7 -3930K
32GB (8x4GB) Samsung 8 Dual Channel Kit DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
This is what I needed to do to get my hackintosh working after 16 hours of messing around.
1. Do a fresh install and format from Mavericks installer. I had been running 10.8.1 for the last 1.5 years when I decided to upgrade due to some software requirements. I orginially tried upgrading to 10.8.5 with no success, so I tired mavericks 10.9.4 and I had no luck either. (Lots of booting issues and mavericks was flaky). I cloned my drive 6 times, before giving up and doing a fresh install. I was done in about an hour with the fresh install. I just copied over what I needed from the old drive and re-downloaded all the apps I use from Adobe Creative Cloud. I wish I had done this at the beginning, I would have 15 hours of my life back.
2. The bios versions are confusing in this document. First, davevegas is using 3305 and later 4680. I tried both versions several times before pressing on to the latest version (4701). I recommend, that you use 4701 and use davevegas's bios settings at the beginning of the document minus the over-clock. I did not over-clock the system until the system was up and running solid. I then used the 'auto overclock' tool in the bios which gave me a great performance, but again, please wait until your system is solid.
3. The files he provides are fine except org.chameleon.Boot.plist which has a typo on the last string. The typo causes the plist to be replaced on reboot with a generic one because it is considered corrupted. This took a while for me to figure out why it was being re-written on reboots! I've attached my working org.chameleon.Boot.plist for your reference. Also as davevegas says later in the thread, you do not need DSDT.aml, which is absolutely correct, but it is still included in his files. Be sure you DO NOT COPY IT TO YOUR SYSTEM!
4. Do not do the OpenCL hack at the end of the guide! I just installed the NVidia Drivers Alternative drivers for 10.9.4 and everything worked (including power management). This driver gave me the best cinebench score to date! Thanks to qwerty123 for pointing this out earlier in the thread! FYI, he points to the 10.9.3 driver, so please choose the correct version for your OS.
5. With multibeast for mavericks, please tick enable TRIM. All the other settings in this guide worked for me. For audio, you may have to re-run multibeast again with just the audio ticked after second reboot.
Lastly, I used a second USB stick to move files between computers. Chimera will hang (stuck "/" icon) if it is plugged in during boot up. This one has nothing to do with the guide, but it drove me nuts until I figured it out!!
Again no disrespect, I just want to help anyone who runs into the same issues using this guide!