iJanni´s Silent Build - GA Z77 DS3H - i3 2100 - NVidia GeForce 210

[iJanni]

iJanni´s Silent Build - GA Z77 DS3H - i3 2100 - NVidia GeForce 210 / Gigabyte 6870 OC

iJanni´s Silent Build - GA Z77 DS3H - i3 2100 - NVidia GeForce 210 / Gigabyte 6870 OC

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Components

Thermaltake Level10 GTS Case
[AMAZON-DE]http://www.amazon.de/dp/B0072OQ5TC/[/AMAZON-DE]

Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128547

Intel i3 2100 (Sandy Bridge)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115078

NVidia GeForce 210 (Passive cooled)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121422

or

Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 6870 OC
http://www.amazon.de/GIGABYTE-GV-R687OC-1GD-Radeon-OverClock-655333-11/dp/B004NE2LME/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1351270082&sr=8-2

Corsair Vengeance (8GB)
http://www.amazon.comdp/B004CRSM4I

be quiet! PSU
[AMAZON-DE]http://www.amazon.dedp/B001KN8CVA[/AMAZON-DE]

or

Corsair PSU
http://www.amazon.de/Corsair-TXM-Serie-PC-Netzteil-Watt/dp/B005DPBAT2/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1351272563&sr=8-5

Scythe Mugen 3 Rev.B (PCGH Edition)
[AMAZON-DE]http://www.amazon.de/dp/B005NROL9G/[/AMAZON-DE]

OS X Mountain Lion
Mac App Store


Already Owned

WD Scorpio Blue (750GB)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136546

WD Caviar Green 20EARS (2TB)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136514

LG Flatron E2360V (23")
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824005196


Comments

My intention was to build a Hackintosh which is capable to do the daily work like Mail, Internet, some Photo Editing, iTunes etc. At the same time it should be as quiet as possible, so I chose components that could be passive cooled. All in all the Hackintosh has only one 200mm fan that is actually cooling the HDD Bays, so it´s very quiet.

The Installation
1. Prepare your USB Stick with UniBeast - Mountain Lion.

2. Copy the current version of MultiBeast to your prepared USB Stick.
Note: When you have installed the Gigabyte 6870 or an ATI HD 6xxx in general, you have to modify your USB-Stick by performing the following steps:
a. Enter Terminal and type the following to show up everything in your Finder:

[FONT=Helvetica]defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles 1[/FONT]

killall Finder

b. Navigate to your USB-STick you installed ML to and go to system/library/extensions and delete the ATI6000controller.kext (backup the kext before deleting it!!! it´s the best to back it up to your installation USB-Stick so you can install the kext directly from your stick )
c. Type the following into your Terminal to hide the files in your Finder that showed up before (from Step 1)

[FONT=Helvetica]defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles 0[/FONT]

killall Finder

d. Copy KextBeast to your USB Stick

3. Assemble all components If you want your Hackintosh to be as quiet as possible you don´t have to mount the fans onto the Scythe cooling block. The i3 stays cool enough (ca. 40°C while normal work and ca. 70°C-75°C when working to 100% capacity, with fan installed 34°C in idle/normal work load and 52°C under full load).

4. Fire it up and boot into the BIOS. In the BIOS you set:

SATA Mode = AHCI
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Save those changes and reboot

5. While reboot hit F12 and choose your USB Stick. When seeing the Chimera Screen choose your USB Stick and hit Enter. If you end up with a black screen, you´ve to reboot again and type "-F" at the Chimera screen.
Note: When you have installed any ATI HD 6xxx GPU please boot with GraphicsEnabler=No, otherwise you will end up with a white screen.

6. Install Mountain Lion by following the Onscreen Instructions

7. Reboot. While rebooting hit F12 and choose your USB Stick once again. When you´re at the Chimera Screen choose your HDD you installed Mountain Lion to. You may have to type "-F" again.
Note: When you have installed any ATI HD 6xxx GPU please boot with GraphicsEnabler=No, otherwise you will end up with a white screen.

8. Follow the Onscreen instructions to set up Mountain Lion.

9. When you finished setting up Mountain Lion, start MultiBeast from your USB Stick and choose the following settings:

Note: When you have installed any ATI HD 6xxx GPU you have to install the ATI6000controller.kext we deleted in step 2. To do so perform the following steps:
a. Show up all files in the finder (see the code above)
b. Go to your USB Stick where you saved your ATI6000controller.kext to and place it on the desktop
c. Download and start KextBeast and install the kext.
d. Hide the files in the Finder by typing the code into the Terminal that could be found above, too

10. Reboot
11. You´re Finished .

If you want to boot directly into Mountain Lion you´ve to edit your Boot.plist which could be found in /Extra. Open it with TextEdit and add the following:

                       [LEFT][COLOR=#404040][FONT=Monaco] <key>Quiet Boot</key>[/FONT][/COLOR]
[/LEFT]
[CENTER][LEFT][COLOR=#404040][FONT=Monaco] <string>Yes</string>[/FONT][/COLOR]
[/LEFT]
[/CENTER]

If you already have some of the code in your Boot.plist, you don´t have to copy it over again.

Source: tonymacx86 Forum • View topic - Booting like an Apple Mac #1: Apple Splash Screen

To get sleep working you have to set darkwake=10 instead of darkwake=0. So, with QuietBoot and darkwake=10 your boot.plist has to look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>
    <string>Yes</string>
    <key>GenerateCStates</key>
    <string>Yes</string>
    <key>GeneratePStates</key>
    <string>Yes</string>
    <key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
    <string>Yes</string>
    <key>Kernel</key>
    <string>mach_kernel</string>
    <key>Kernel Flags</key>
    <string>darkwake=10</string>
    <key>UseKernelCache</key>
    <string>Yes</string>
       <key>Quiet Boot</key>
       <string>Yes</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Thanks Huberer for your tweaks

Benchmarks

NVidia GeForce 210 Gigabyte ATI HD 6870 OC

Things not working:
USB3 with the speed of USB 3

 

[Nodarkthings]

Hi! Very nice build! I'm thinking of doing the same but with Snow Leopard instead (needed for software compatibility issues): do you think there could be problems with that board? Would I need to find kexts all the same or would the board be working OOB (better than a Z68 or older types)?
Considering the very bad reviews outthere about Mountain Lion, I think a lot of people who have not switched yet to Lion will consider staying on Snow Leopard... ;-)

 

[iJanni]

Hi! Very nice build! I'm thinking of doing the same but with Snow Leopard instead (needed for software compatibility issues): do you think there could be problems with that board? Would I need to find kexts all the same or would the board be working OOB (better than a Z68 or older types)?
Considering the very bad reviews outthere about Mountain Lion, I think a lot of people who have not switched yet to Lion will consider staying on Snow Leopard... ;-)

Thanks I think that the Board also works OOB with SL and you just have to use the kexts for ethernet and the audio like me.
Some of the Z68 boards are well supported but you have to use a lot of kext to get them working (my experience) because they don´t use the UEFI Bios.
I wish you all the best with your build

P.S.: ML is not as bad as most of the people say

 

[Nodarkthings]

Great!
That's what comes out of what I've read about the UEFI Bios, very promising!
As I'm a total noob in Tonymac's fantastic world (), I've got a little fear starting with a recent board, as you probably guess, so a few more questions, if you don't mind:
- it looks from all I've read here in the forums that it's pretty hard, if not impossible, to use the internal graphics card, have you tried with this board? What do you think?
- is there a chance to make the USB3 ports work in some way? (a future release of Multibeast?)
- About the "mute" function not working, do you mean that the "mute" key of an Apple keyboard is not recognized?
(in that case, same question as above... ;-) "is there a chance, etc." but it's not a big issue)
Thanks again for your kindness!

 

[iJanni]

Great!
That's what comes out of what I've read about the UEFI Bios, very promising!
As I'm a total noob in Tonymac's fantastic world (), I've got a little fear starting with a recent board, as you probably guess, so a few more questions, if you don't mind:
- it looks from all I've read here in the forums that it's pretty hard, if not impossible, to use the internal graphics card, have you tried with this board? What do you think?
- is there a chance to make the USB3 ports work in some way? (a future release of Multibeast?)
- About the "mute" function not working, do you mean that the "mute" key of an Apple keyboard is not recognized?
(in that case, same question as above... ;-) "is there a chance, etc." but it's not a big issue)
Thanks again for your kindness!

No problem, i´ll answer the questions as good as i can
I´m not using the internal GPU because they often have graphic glitches etc. but they work. You have to buy a CPU with a HD3000 or HD4000 (Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge) to get it working. In my case i´m using an i3 with a HD2500 and it will not work.
USB3...I was running lion for some month on that Hackintosh and the USB3 Ports were working but only with the speed of USB2 Maybe they´ll work under SL. I read that there´s no solution at the moment to get USB3 working. Sorry.
With mute i mean exactly what you wrote For me it´s not a problem to hit the volume key 8 times instead of just hitting the mute key once To get full audio support you have to use a DSDT for your board and i didn´t found a DSDT for my board. Maybe in one day a DSDT will be available and we get full audio support. Who knows?

I hope i helped you out.

 

[Nodarkthings]

Thanks a lot iJanni! You're wonderful!
It cleared many things to me!
If I can help you in anyway (I'm an ooooold mac user ), just ask me.
For the mute function, I'd advise you to try some shortcut utility and allocate that function to another key combination.
(unfortunately, the best ones cost twice as much as ML... )
I used that trick on an old ADB keyboard to simulate the sound keys using CTRL+ the three keys above the 789 keys of the numeric keypad (so CTRL+ "/" for mute).
There's probaly a way to do this using Applescript (in SL Apple put it in the Utilities, I hope they haven't thrown it away in Lion and ML ) or Automator.
Thanks again!

 

[iJanni]

Thanks.
Automator and AppleScript are still there, even in ML Maybe i´ll try your it, thanks for your advice!

 

[initalBoss]

I'm glad you were able to get ML going on the 210. I have one as well but with my z68ma giga board, I can't get past a black screen or it will just stay on the gray screen with the apple logo. Sometimes the gray screen with the apple logo will disappear but it won't show the installation screen.

Did you have any issues with that? And did you mention which port you were using with the 210? Was it DVI or HDMI?

Thanks!

 

[abdulabase]

Hi,

I am planning on using the same board and Graphics card to install ML, but the CPU is a slightly different version. I want to use i3 2120 3.3GHz which is a sandy bridge processor. Do you think using this processor will have the same outcome if I follow your guide or will I have to do any other steps in order for this to work. I assume it should work because they are both very similar CPU's. What do you think

 

[iJanni]

I'm glad you were able to get ML going on the 210. I have one as well but with my z68ma giga board, I can't get past a black screen or it will just stay on the gray screen with the apple logo. Sometimes the gray screen with the apple logo will disappear but it won't show the installation screen.

Did you have any issues with that? And did you mention which port you were using with the 210? Was it DVI or HDMI?

Thanks!

I´m using the DVI port on my 210

Hi,

I am planning on using the same board and Graphics card to install ML, but the CPU is a slightly different version. I want to use i3 2120 3.3GHz which is a sandy bridge processor. Do you think using this processor will have the same outcome if I follow your guide or will I have to do any other steps in order for this to work. I assume it should work because they are both very similar CPU's. What do you think

Yes, it will work and you will not experience any problems. Have fun building your rig