Hi
@logyon and
@rafale77,
Just wanted to say thanks for the great guide, posting sample EFI's, and other configuration information for Monterey on the EliteDesk. I just wiped and rebuilt my EliteDesk 800 G4 (i5-8500 65W TDP version) and everything is running great thanks to this excellent forum. Can't thank you both enough. Keep up the good work.
Everything works great aside from a few quirks. My external DAS/JBOD doesn't want to report SMART on this machine (but does on other Hackintosh/Genuine Mac systems); slow disk performance on USB 10 Gb/s ports (but totally normal on the 5 Gb/s. These are spinning disks so the bandwidth is not a limiting factor here), and I need to get a new Bluetooth adapter to make that work.
I had started to lose interest in Hackintosh after M1 came out. I now use MB Air M1's for both work and personal computers, and in particular the M2 Mac Mini looked like a good target for my next desktop (couldn't stomach the 16 GB RAM limitation on M1), with my current Hackintosh (Intel Z170, GTX 770, macOS 10.13 High Sierra) becoming long-in tooth and starting to develop lots of little quirks (flickering 4k video with hardware accel, loose DisplayPort meaning if I kick the box the screen blanks out, lots of apps being incompatible with High Sierra, etc. etc.).
However with the delayed launch of the M2 Mac Mini lineup and my need for a fast, flexible machine, Hackintosh once again pulls through as the winner. My only complaint is slightly laggy graphics with the Intel UHD 630 compared to dedicated GPU, and the relatively loud fan noise on the 65W model. To solve the latter, I am going to look into a cooling mod.
Although total overkill, possibly looking at one of the Noctua C-coolers as a low-profile quiet cooling solution (NH-C14S).