Build Advice for my first Hackintosh

[Baze]

Building my first hackintosh and need some advice. I have already purchased the following parts.

NCase M1 v5 Computer Case
GA-Z270N-Wifi Motherboard
Intel 7700K Processor
Corsair SF600 Power Supply
Airport Wifi Bluetooth Card BCM94360CS2
BCM94360CS2/BCM943224PCIEBT2 Card To NGFF(M.2) Key A/E Adapter

I have a 128GB SSD pulled from a 2011 MacBook Air, but I'm not sure if it will work with this motherboard. I was thinking of creating a fusion drive with a 4TB 3.5 drive I have laying around.

I'm having trouble choosing the cpu cooler and the memory for this build, would like to do some overclocking if possible.

 

[nobodynose]

Building my first hackintosh and need some advice. I have already purchased the following parts.

NCase M1 v5 Computer Case
GA-Z270N-Wifi Motherboard
Intel 7700K Processor
Corsair SF600 Power Supply
Airport Wifi Bluetooth Card BCM94360CS2
BCM94360CS2/BCM943224PCIEBT2 Card To NGFF(M.2) Key A/E Adapter

I have a 128GB SSD pulled from a 2011 MacBook Air, but I'm not sure if it will work with this motherboard. I was thinking of creating a fusion drive with a 4TB 3.5 drive I have laying around.

I'm having trouble choosing the cpu cooler and the memory for this build, would like to do some overclocking if possible.

The SSD pulled from the Macbook Air will NOT work with this motherboard; the SSD has an mSATA connector, which is very different from the M.2 slot on this and other modern motherboards (besides, you will already be filling the M.2 slot with your Wifi/Bluetooth adapter).

 

[Baze]

Thank you, I was looking for specs on that MacBook Air ssd, but could not find any. I was going to replace the wireless card on the top part of the motherboard with the Airport card, leaving the M.2 socket on the bottom of the motherboard available.

How stable is the NVMe ssd using the patches and kext? Are they stable enough for a fusion drive as the main drive for the system?

Here are the different options I was looking at for Memory,

Corsair Vengeance LED 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3200 (PC4-25600) C16 for Intel 100 - Blue LED PC Memory (CMU16GX4M2C3200C16B)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M0GSOYC/?tag=tonymacx86com-20

G.SKILL TridentZ Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 4000 (PC4 32000) Desktop Memory Model F4-4000C19D-16GTZSW
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820232444

G.SKILL TridentZ Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM 3200 (PC4 25600) Intel Z170 Platform Model F4-3200C16D-32GTZSK
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16820232415

for CPU coolers I'm looking at the following, I was also considering AIO Water Coolers, but have never done water cooling before, so I don't know where to start.

Noctua Dual Tower CPU Cooler for Intel LGA 2011-0/LGA 2011-3 Square ILM/1156/1155/1150 and AMD AM2/AM2+/AM3/3+,FM1/2 NH-D9L
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00QCEWTAW/?tag=tonymacx86com-20

Noctua L-Type Premium Quiet CPU Cooler_ Retail Cooling NH-L9x65
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VB3Y89E/?tag=tonymacx86com-20

 

[Bgusto]

I've been hearing the 7700 isn't compatible with Hackintosh yet.

 

[Baze]

I've been hearing the 7700 isn't compatible with Hackintosh yet.

I've read that you have to use FakeCPUID for the 6700.

 

[Bgusto]

I've read that you have to use FakeCPUID for the 6700.

Hmm. So what process would you use for the 7700? I'm interested because I'm about to purchase a build as well but I haven't gotten any advice on the 7700 vs the 6700.

 

[Baze]

Hmm. So what process would you use for the 7700? I'm interested because I'm about to purchase a build as well but I haven't gotten any advice on the 7700 vs the 6700.

I've been reading through this thread
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...cpus-200-series-motherboards-in-macos.211743/

It looks like you just have to add some settings into your Clover Configuration plist file.

 

[Bgusto]

I've been reading through this thread
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...cpus-200-series-motherboards-in-macos.211743/

It looks like you just have to add some settings into your Clover Configuration plist file.

Looks fairly complicated for my skill level. But I can't stand that I can buy the 7700 for $10 more than the 6700. Might be worth just installing Windows until Hackintosh is more stable.

 

[Baze]

Looks fairly complicated for my skill level. But I can't stand that I can buy the 7700 for $10 more than the 6700. Might be worth just installing Windows until Hackintosh is more stable.

I'll post a guide when I get all the parts together.