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Hey there,
this is my first build so please bear with me if I sound like an idiot. I've spent quite some time around the site and forums and hopefully got a basic idea. My parts mostly arrived and I started building and installing.
Here's what I have:
- Asus Maximus VIII Hero
- i7 6700k
- 4x8GB G.Skill TitanZ Memory (from the OVL of the board)
- EVGA GTX970
- M.2 Samsung SM951 AHCI (for OSX)
- Some more stuff: Case, Corsair RMx750, Corsair H80i, Samsung 850 Pro (for Windows), Harddrive for Time Machine,...
- whats missing: the wifi/BT chip (the Apple/Broadcom one)
After building stuff together (wow this was quite an experience after not building a PC for roughly 10 years) i created my USB drive using Unibeast, the ElCapitan installer on annother iMac and basically followed along the ElCapitan installation guide.
I didn't add any kexts or anything else at this point as I don't have a clue and I wanted to do a bit trial and error instead of trying to find out every single thing before hand. And what should I say: That worked better than I thought. I got the stick booted and the installer working. Installation went quite well and the system booted. Using Multibeast I could get network to work with the MausiIntel drivers (the latest from Multibeast) but it wasn't stable at all. It was stable enough to get the Nvidia Web drivers downloaded and installed (and they worked) but after fiddling a bit more with some kexts from Multibeast trying to get network working better and Audio working at all i now loose display when booting up and can only get it working when adding nv_disable=1 to the boot args.
So this was for training. Now probably redo it the right way.
Here are my questions:
- what is a good way to find out what kexts to add to the installation stick already? Network should be intel i-219V, Audio ES9023P?
- Memorywise it currently recognizes 4x4gb. I think this may have to do with the "Mac Pro" type I selected in Multibeast post installation?
- I read about networking should be available during installation to make AppStore stuff working? Therefore it'll probably be a good idea to get that working beforehand.
I'd be very thankful for any advice and again please don't kill me for my dumb questions. I'm really trying hard not to ask too much
this is my first build so please bear with me if I sound like an idiot. I've spent quite some time around the site and forums and hopefully got a basic idea. My parts mostly arrived and I started building and installing.
Here's what I have:
- Asus Maximus VIII Hero
- i7 6700k
- 4x8GB G.Skill TitanZ Memory (from the OVL of the board)
- EVGA GTX970
- M.2 Samsung SM951 AHCI (for OSX)
- Some more stuff: Case, Corsair RMx750, Corsair H80i, Samsung 850 Pro (for Windows), Harddrive for Time Machine,...
- whats missing: the wifi/BT chip (the Apple/Broadcom one)
After building stuff together (wow this was quite an experience after not building a PC for roughly 10 years) i created my USB drive using Unibeast, the ElCapitan installer on annother iMac and basically followed along the ElCapitan installation guide.
I didn't add any kexts or anything else at this point as I don't have a clue and I wanted to do a bit trial and error instead of trying to find out every single thing before hand. And what should I say: That worked better than I thought. I got the stick booted and the installer working. Installation went quite well and the system booted. Using Multibeast I could get network to work with the MausiIntel drivers (the latest from Multibeast) but it wasn't stable at all. It was stable enough to get the Nvidia Web drivers downloaded and installed (and they worked) but after fiddling a bit more with some kexts from Multibeast trying to get network working better and Audio working at all i now loose display when booting up and can only get it working when adding nv_disable=1 to the boot args.
So this was for training. Now probably redo it the right way.
Here are my questions:
- what is a good way to find out what kexts to add to the installation stick already? Network should be intel i-219V, Audio ES9023P?
- Memorywise it currently recognizes 4x4gb. I think this may have to do with the "Mac Pro" type I selected in Multibeast post installation?
- I read about networking should be available during installation to make AppStore stuff working? Therefore it'll probably be a good idea to get that working beforehand.
I'd be very thankful for any advice and again please don't kill me for my dumb questions. I'm really trying hard not to ask too much