BlackHack's Skylake Build : ASUS Maximus VIII Formula - i7 6700K

[BlackHack13]

BlackHack13's Skylake Build
ASUS Maximus VIII Formula - i7 6700K - SLI GTX 1080 Ti

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Components

Asus Rog MAXIMUS VIII FORMULA DDR4 ATX Motherboard
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B019U0VWKW/?tag=tonymacx86com-20

Intel Core i7 6700K Skylake Processor
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B012M8LXQW/?tag=tonymacx86com-20

Corsair Hydro Series H110i GTX Cooling
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B010NS1LVA/?tag=tonymacx86com-20

SLI GTX 1080 TI EVGA Founder Edition
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XH2P8DD/?tag=tonymacx86com-20

Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ATX Computer Case - Tempered Glass Edition, Galaxy Silver
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01F0KVP2Q/?tag=tonymacx86com-20

BeQuiet Dark Power Pro 11 Platinum 850W
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00X7VF6DU/?tag=tonymacx86com-20

Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4 DRAM 2400MHz C14 Memory Black x4 32GB
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UVN2C8O/?tag=tonymacx86com-20

Samsung 850 EVO 1 TB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OBRFFAS/?tag=tonymacx86com-20

Samsung 950 PRO Series - 256GB PCIe NVMe - M.2 Internal SSD
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B015SOI392/?tag=tonymacx86com-20

ABWB 802.11AC WI-FI With Bluetooth 4.0 PCI-Express (PCI-E) BCM943602CS Combo Card
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00MBP25UK/?tag=tonymacx86-21

Peripherals

Asus PG348Q G-Sync
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01C83BE6U/?tag=tonymacx86com-20

Apple Magic Trackpad 2
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B016QO5YWC/?tag=tonymacx86com-20

Apple Magic Keyboard
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B016QO64FI/?tag=tonymacx86com-20

Razer Mamba 2016
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B016XLGIDC/?tag=tonymacx86com-20

Xbox One White Controler
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GW3H3U8/?tag=tonymacx86com-20

Mouse pad corsair MM200 Extended
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0149QBQE4/?tag=tonymacx86com-20

Logitech HD 920 Webcam 1080P
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006JH8T3S/?tag=tonymacx86com-20

Comments

I decided to go with a new Skylake build since my Haswell rig was sold to my friend. I had in mind a silent beast - a Skyalake & Pascal Rig for gaming which would be the only task for Windows while other daily tasks will be on the Hackintosh. Since i own a MacBook Air and a few iDevices, I really like Apple ecosystem, and I decided to go for a fully working System "iMessage, Handoff, Facetime..." So, I bought an Original Broadcom Apple card PCI Adapter & also the new TrackPad and Magic Keyboard in pair with a good 1080p Webcam the Logitech HD920.

Multitasking is a big concern to me. I like to do my daily work such as programing with Xcode, creating videos with Final Cut Pro watching movies, music, etc. So, for that purpose, I got a Wide screen, curved Monitor - the LG 34UC88-B.
(Changed now for the Asus PG348Q with Gsync and 100hz refresh rate)

The Build

Thumb Drive UniBeast Creation

To create USB installation Drive, I used this Guide UniBeast: Install OS X El Capitan on Any Supported Intel-based PC
Note: assuming your USB key is created with UniBeast and, if your are using a NVMe SSD Drive for installation, make sure you download NVMeGeneric.kext and put it in EFI/Clover/Kexts/10.11/ folder. To do so, you need EFI Mounter V3 to make the EFI partition visible. Then, you can copy the NVMeGeneric kext. After this, just download MultiBeast - El Capitan 8.2.3 and put it in your USB Key installation. Now, you are ready to install your Hackintosh.

First Update your BIOS with the latest one available
Version (1701)
Extreme Tweeker

AI Overclocker Tuner > X.M.P.
Extreme Tweeking > Enable​

Advanced Items

CPU Configuration > CPU PowerManagement Configuration > CFG lock > Disable
System Agent (SA) Configuration > VT-d > Disable
System Agent (SA) Configuration >Graphics Configuration > DVMT Pre-Allocated > 64M
PCH Configuration > IOAPIC 24-119 > Enable
USB Configuration > Legacy USB Support > Auto
USB Configuration > XHCI Hand Off > Enabled
APM Configuration > Power on by PCI - E/PCI > Disabled
Onboard Devices Configuration > Wi-Fi Controller > Disable
Onboard Devices Configuration > Bluetooth Controller > Disable​

Boot Menu

CSM > Disable (if no OS or UEFI GPT Windows)
Fast Boot > Disabled
Secure Boot > OS Type > Other OS
Boot Option 1 > Your UniBeast USB key

Exit > Save Changes​

Installation

Power on your PC insert your MAC OS X USB Drive and launch the installation. No additional Bootflags needed to reach the installation screen. When you get to the installation screen, format your SSD in GUID partition. Then you can launch the installation process. It will take a few minutes with an NVMe SSD. At the end, your PC will reboot. Now, you can grab your MultiBeast and drag it to your Hackintosh desktop.

Post-Installation

In this part, we will need MultiBeast. In fact this awesome all-in-one little tool is going to help us a lot to get most of things working. We will only need to do some adjustments in the config.plist file to get everything working properly such as iMessage, Facetime, HandOff , NVMe wtih PikerAlpha Patch ... to do so you will have to DOWNLOAD this utility its called Clover Configurator.

First, make sure your MultiBeast Settings look like this at the build tab



We want to open Clover Configurator App and mount the EFI partition. To do so click on Mount EFI on the left of the window. Then, click on Check Partition, locate the Main System Drive and search for the Identifier of the EFI Partition - it will look like "disk1s1", depending on your configuration.

After that, go back to Clover Configurator, tap CMD+O key and select EFI/EFI/Clover/config.plist. Under the Boot section, remove the tick box for dart=0 then go to SMBIOS section you will see the iMAC SMBIOS you installed earlier there will be some blank cases but we are only interested about 2 the SmUUID & Board Serial Number.
Open terminal and tap "uuidgen" repeat serval times to get a non-used key then copy and paste it on the SmUUID once its done locate serial number and copy paste it to the Board Serial number case and add to it 5 alphanumeric key exemple "XXXXXXXXXXXX37JF0", Exit save and reboot.

Now you should have a fully working Hackintosh with Onboard and Hdmi Audio, Wifi & BT OOB even in Bios, QC/CE, iMessage, Facetime and all the features on a real MAC.
If HDMI audio is not working download the Clover HDMI Patch here View Raw Mount EFI partition if its not already mounted launch the script answer yes wait until finish then reboot.
For those who want to have SSDT for CpuPowerManagement you can download the last Piker Alpha script at this link, installations instructions is detailed too https://github.com/Piker-Alpha/ssdtPRGen.sh
Once its done copy paste it to EFI/EFI/Clover/ACPI/Patched/ and you are done.

Conclusion

This Hackintosh is amazing definitely the best one i ever built, its working even better then i expected everything is available every features such as a real mac i am very pleased with this built especialy after Nvidia release their webdriver with pascal support.

All Working Great

• GTX 1080 Ti & On-Board HD 530 graphics With QC/CE
• Onboard Audio through the Green back panel port
• HDMI AUDIO + DP With key control using "VolumeMixer App"
  
• Ethernet
• Wifi & BT OOB
• iMessages, Facetime ...
• Trackpad & Magic keyboard via BT on Mac, Windows & Bios
• NVMe as boot Disk fully working without NVMeGeneric.kext

Benchmarks & Temps





Edit : Seem a lot faster on Sierra than elCapitan on Single core and a little less on multicore

 

[UtterDisbelief]

Very nice build. Congratulations on a professional-looking machine which works so well

I was wondering if you had discovered if iTunes DRM video would play on your rig? You didn't mention it in the What Does/What Doesn't section, but you obviously create videos etc.

Also you have offered an easy way to get HDMI audio - I am sure many others will be grateful for it. I was asked on my own build but haven't tried it yet.

 

[BlackHack13]

Hi @UtterDisbelief Thank you for your comment

in Fact i create video montage with Final Cut Pro But i never heard about iTunes DRM what is this ? i can test that in my rig if i have more informations.

 

[doli1905]

Congratulations on your build. I have some questions

How does Xcode look on the ultrawide ?

Can HD530 run At 3440 x 1440 60Hz on OSX ?

Can Pascal on Windows & HD530 on OSX run together ?

 

[UtterDisbelief]

Hi @UtterDisbelief Thank you for your comment

in Fact i create video montage with Final Cut Pro But i never heard about iTunes DRM what is this ? i can test that in my rig if i have more informations.

Good morning

The DRM question concerns videos bought from the iTunes store which are copy-protected. Unprotected videos play fine on hackintosh computers BUT bought copy-protected videos (DRM) just show a blank, black screen when played.

Some people say that their rigs play them fine, but most recent builds seem to have this problem. For example, my own rig, if I boot to Windows, iTunes plays DRM videos perfectly, but when I boot OS X it will not.

Don't go buying any videos just to check! I just wondered if you had tested any.

 

[BlackHack13]

Xcode Look just fini i use half of the screen though and the other half is for browsing or doing something else while i am coding

The HD 530 run just fine on the 3440x1440 resolution even on 82hz i Overcklocked this monitor its was easy a work very well, however about the Pascal question i dont have an idea its up to nvidia or Apple to release Pascal support i bet apple wont so finger crossed for nvidia to release WebDriver hope its came soon.

Now i get it haha if i ever buy a video from itunes i will try it and give a feed back here

 

[MrOptimistic16]

@BlackHack13

thanks for this excellent tutorial am i going to have a problem if i will go on a dual boot on separate hard drives?

edit: i'm having problem wifi is not detected only bluetooth

 

[Dyllan2000alfa]

Does the onboard Bluetooth and wifi work on the Maximus viii formula or are you using a pcie card.

 

[Iwagsz]

Did you have any problem getting the 530 integrated graphics working.

I'm also waiting for graphics card and drivers.

 

[boogieman77]

Does the onboard Bluetooth and wifi work on the Maximus viii formula or are you using a pcie card.

Did you have any problem getting the 530 integrated graphics working.

I'm also waiting for graphics card and drivers.

I have the Viii extreme my hd530 work. Wifi works. But no Bluetooth.