Thanks for the excellent write up. Based on your success with this setup, I bought the same CPU and similar motherboard to try to stick with the simple theme. My setup:
Z97X- Gaming7 Bios F8
i7-4790k
Big ass air cooler capable of cooling a small power plant
16gb DDR 1600
WIFI PCI card from my old Hackintosh, natively supported
250GB Samsung SSD
GeForce 650 Ti 2gb (left over from my 2013 Mackintosh build)
SATA SSD to USB 3.0 connector (very useful for pulling the SSD and mounting it to my Macbook to try and fix EFI boot problems).
Corsair 650 watt PSU
QNIX 27" 2560 x 1440 - again recycled from my old Mackintosh
I stuck with the 650 Ti because it's natively supported in OSX. On my i7-3770k/Z77 10.9 build I didn't need to do anything to get it to work. The 3770k died when I shorted the power supply on accident, so I recycled many of the things inside that build for this build.
I followed your BIOS settings exactly and the Unibeast setup.
The problem I'm having is I get a kernal panic when booting from the USB:
"Unable to find driver for this platform: \ACPI\"
Any ideas on where to start with this?
Edit:
I was able to get it to work by making several new Unibeast drives. Finally one of them worked. Reading through other threads, USB drives seem to be super flakey and for whatever reason, probably are causing more install grief that necessary. Having a recommended brand and type of USB drive might save people hours (days?) of unnecessary agony. I will likely use a SSD in a USB adapter to avoid the related agony in the future.
After getting a working USB that could boot, I have to say this was the simplest Hackintosh build possible. I left the GeForce 650 in for the install and didn't need to add any boot flags. Everything just works with no fuss, no muss.
Everything installed without any problems. Wifi worked natively. Followed the Multibeast procedure verbatim and everything works. Sleep works. I need to add the ssdt thing in yet too.
My install was 10.11.3. Once everything was working, I upgraded to 10.11.6 through the app store. I didn't have to fix anything after upgrading.
Overall, this is quite amazing. Geek bench came in at 3950 on 32 bit single core, without XMP enabled. I'm not over clocking.
This was possibly easier than installing Windows 10 on a 5960x machine.