mrclassicrecord - great news.
Anything you'd do differently - component wise?
Two other questions (apologies in advance, I'm a noob to hackintosh):
1. When you say we'll have to wait for final high sierra release - is that because there are additional system components that aren't in the current beta's? What are the big pieces you're waiting on (or is it audio/ethernet - which I'd say are big)?
2. Am I crazy to begin with High Sierra Beta? I'm assuming if that's where I want to end up it's easier to upgrade from Beta than it is to go from Sierra to High Sierra?
Can't seem to find a pm option on this forum but I'm really selfishly interested in how your build/install/troubleshooting goes because, like I said, I'm following you down the path with the same components.
Thanks.
Hey Eightball8!
Here are the main components to the rig:
* GIGABYTE Z270X-UD5 1151
* Intel I7-7700K
* AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 16GB
* Ballistix Sport LT 64GB (4 x 16GB) 288-Pin SDRAM DDR4 2400 (PC4 19200)
* SAMSUNG 960 EVO M.2 500GB NVMe
* OWC 240GB Mercury Accelsior E2 (Old Stock)(Newer PCIe Cards are faster & less costly)
* 500 GB SSD Scandisk
* TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 Dual Band Wireless N900 PCI Express Adapter, 2.4GHz 450Mbps/5GHz 450Mbps
* SABRENT AU-EMAC USB EXTERNAL STEREO SOUND ADAPTER
* Dual Seiki Pro 28” 4K Monitors
I am anticipative of the potential of this rig!
I have it running except that the Audio, (USB 3 ports) and Ethernet needing kexts to operate. I don’t have Thunderbolt components to test.
I used temporary hardware solutions for the WIFI & Audio. The WIFI Card & Audio USB adapter work OOB plug and play. If you must have a Ethernet an Apple dongle works fine.
I will share my settings and steps I took to get where I am soon. There are a few issues that have to be addressed and we are waiting for the Public Release of High Sierra Consumer edition in the App Store and a version of Unibeast, Multibeast that will be for High Sierra. Multibeast for Sierra wouldn’t display my NVMe drive as an option to install and EFI. EFI Mounter wouldn’t either. I don’t know if this is because it is formatted APFS, or because they are specifically for Sierra. But Clover configurator mounted the EFI.
So yes I would wait until the Public Release of High Sierra Consumer edition in the App Store and full support comes from Hackintosh sites.
Any Vega Card should work out the box in High Sierra. Though they are scarce supply for the 64s and recently released 56s, which will likely go up in price also. The Vega Frontier Edition card has been available for $999 since release and should still be in stock due to its price, but with the scarcity and price hiking of other Vega Cards it’s becoming more attractive and might be hard to get, until the fevor for them fades. PLEASE NOTE the Frontier Edition does run HOT. But the other option is the water cooled one for $500 additional bucks.
If you love the Vega Frontier Edition card I would get one now to secure it, it is dramatically faster than my dual GTX 760s that have served me well.
I actually never update from a Beta to the Consumer edition of OS X. I do a fresh install of the consumer editions of OS X.
Please stay updated the news is getting better everyday!