Background
In 2006 the Mac bug hit me when I bought a Mac Mini Solo for $350 and installed it in my car (immediately replaced the processor with a core duo, lol). In 2007, I decided to Hackintosh my Dell laptop to Jailbreak and unlock the original 8GB iPhone. Getting deployed I decided to buy a MacBook for my wife (long distance troubleshooting with my wife is not the business ). The rest is history. My 2012 MacBook Pro Retina is getting dated and it's time for me to part ways with it. I still have a 2012 Macbook Pro for her and a 2015 MacBook Air for me. The house needs something more powerful. Apple has raised their prices beyond what I feel is reasonable. Fast forward to Black Friday. Sales at Newegg and Amazon told me to bite the bullet.
System
Intel i7-8700K Processor
240mm Rosewill Liquid CPU Cooler
Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Pro Wifi Motherboard
16GB (2x8) 3000Mhz G.Skill Ripjaw V RAM
Sapphire Radeon RX Vega 64 Video Card
512GB Samsung 970 EVO NVMe SSD
M.2 1TB Samsung 950 EVO SATA SSD (in a SATA case)
BCM94360CSAX on a PCI 1x riser card Mac compatible WiFi.
TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S243D DVD Drive (Yes, an old school DVD burner )
EVGA SuperNova 750w Power Supply
Case: Fractal Design R6 White with USB-C faceplate replacement.
Display: Dell S2415H
Peripherals: Magic Keyboard, Magic Trackpad (Original), Elecom EX-G Mouse, Elecom RF wireless keyboard.
Note: I failed many times to get everything installed the way I wanted. Which was to dual boot off of the NVMe drive.
I'm not using more storage as Media files and Time Machine Backups are handled by my Synology Diskstation. I have a second backup hard drive that I keep in a Fire/Water resistant Safe for the most important stuff.
Installation/Config
For installing OSX I followed this guide
Link
To dual boot off of one drive, I first had to format my NVMe with a GUID partition table. Partitioned it into 2 drives. After you install OSX, then you'll have to boot into eUFI for your Windows 10 install disk. It is the only way that you'll be able to install Windows on the same drive as OSX. Took me a week to figure this out, doh.
For
VegaTab_64.kext I used different settings. Blouse's settings were a bit loud for my taste.
Update: VegaTab removed and added to the Clover Config file.
Idle Speed =1572
Target Speed = 2400
Minimum Speed =1000
Maximum Speed = 5000
Fan Sensitivity = 4836
Target Temp = 60c
Power Adjust = 50%
After Install
I had to disable the internal Bluetooth as OSX refused to load the Qualcomm card. Once the Bluetooth was working and I linked my Keyboard and Touchpad in OSX, they work in Bios as well as Windows without having to add them again.
To disable the built in Wifi/Bluetooth card add the following
Custom Flag under Boot in Clover.
uia_exclude=HS14
Audio kext from thread
link
AppleALC 1.3.4
link
*Update: Now that I've mapped all the USB ports I don't need this anymore.
For my board HS11 is the Broadcom and HS14 is the Intel card.
What isn't working.
CPU, GPU,
and Case temps.
The only thing that shows up is the Hard Drive temps. I had it working before I wiped the 970 trying to install Windows 10
Update: All temps are working except the GPU. Not sure how to proceed, but the system is rock solid.
Everything appears to work properly, including Sleep, Shutdown, Bluetooth, Airdrop (OSX and iOS), Airplay, Time Machine, iTunes DRM, Virtuabox, etc.
Restart works.
Sleep works.
Shutdown
just restarts works.
Airdrop tested working to iPhones and MacBooks.
SSDT- Done attached in this post. Explanation in post
#2.
Edit:
Clover Config files added.
-Config Headless.plist (for Vega64 and Intel graphics acceleration).
-config iGpu.plist (for onboard only graphics)
SSDT file added. (to configure USB ports)
My complete Clover folder is attached. Labeled EFI 28Mar19.
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