- Joined
- Dec 10, 2013
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- Motherboard
- GA-Z87X-UD5H
- CPU
- i7-4770K
- Graphics
- HD4600
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
Ryan's Build: Haswell i7 4770K - GA-Z87X-UD5H - 32GB RAM - Stock graphics
Intel Haswell i7 4770K CPU
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CO8TBQ0/
Gigabyte Socket 1150 Z87X-UD5H Motherboard
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CU4L6MA
Corsair Vengeance 32GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM
http://www.amazon.com/dp/product/B0068ZWZY0
Corsair Carbide 500R case in white
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005E983JW
Corsair 650W modular power supply
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005E98I0G
Sandisk Extreme 120GB SSD
http://www.amazon.com/dp/product/B006EKJCWM
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31000333AS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
http://www.amazon.com/dp/product/B004IZN3YI/
TP Link Wifi Adapter
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007GMPZ0A
Comments
I have a friend who does graphic design and he and I had both heard of Hackintoshs. Neither of us had ever built one, but I have built a computer before so I had that going for me.
We pretty much chose the September 2013 build right off the buyer's guide and I'm glad we did. I did a great deal of research both here and on other sites to ensure I set the BIOS up properly.
Things I did:
- Updated BIOS to v F7 and then loaded optimized defaults
- Used XMP memory profile, bumping to 1600MHz
- Disabled Wake on LAN
- Disable Intel virtualization technology
- Enabled EHCI Hand-off
- XHCI Hand-off was already enabled and set xHCI mode from Smart Auto to Auto
- Set CPU fan speed from Normal to full
- Unplugged and also manually disabled all other HDs via the BIOS
- Chose IGFX as first display device
Ran Unibeast installer with no issues and here is what I did in Multibeast
Multibeast 6.0.1 (1)
Chose DSDT free installation with the following defaults:
Drivers - Disk - 3rd Party SATA
Drivers - Misc - Fake SMC v5.3.820
Drivers - System - Apple RTCPatch for CMOS Reset
Bootloaders - Chimera v2.2.1
Boot Options - Basic Boot Options, Generate CPU States, Hibernate Mode - Desktop, Use KernalCache,
System Def - Mac Pro - Mac Pro 3,1
Stuff I did myself:
Audio - ALC898 plus HDAEnabler
Disk - 3rd Party SATA plus 10.9.0 TRIM Patch
Graphics - No additional tweaks
Misc - USB 3.0 Universal by Zenith432
Network - Intel hnak's AppleIntelE1000e v2.4.14
Customize - Only added 1080p Display Mode, left all else the same
My experience is clearly not like everyone else's, because I literally had absolutely zero issues. No boot flags, no hardware problems, etc. The networking worked (both NICs), Wifi worked, sound worked, wake from sleep worked, everything worked. No freezes or crashes. I re-enabled the 1TB SATA drive and partitioned it with no issues. I'm currently only using the DVI as I don't have an HDMI monitor (although I guess I could use a TV) so I may run into HDMI audio issues as I've seen others do. Can I just plug it into any old TV that does 1080P?
Geekbench 32 bit trial mode scored it 3647 Single Core and 14091 Multi-Core. Unigine results were as expected with the HD4600 graphics, averaging about 10.5 frames per second. I'm trying to convince my friend to buck up and buy a nice video card and also a cooler so we can overclock it a bit.
A couple of questions I have:
Should I shy away from updating things like iTunes? Best method to backup current config (or is it just Time Machine)?