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- Aug 18, 2010
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- Motherboard
- GA-Z87X-UD5 TH
- CPU
- Core i7-4790K @4.6Ghz
- Graphics
- MSI GTX 760 2GB 1084Mhz
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
|COMPONENTS|
Intel Core i7-4790K Processor
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KPRWAX8
Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD5 TH LGA 1150 Intel Z87 Dual Thunderbolt Ports Wi-Fi/BT4.0 ATX DDR3 2600 Motherboard
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GEUX9SU
Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB Kit (8GBx2) DDR3 1600
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006YG9EEW
MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 OC 2GB GDDR5 2DVI/HDMI/DisplayPort PCI-Express Video Card
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DIH8OW8
MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 OC 2GB GDDR5 2DVI/HDMI/DisplayPort PCI-Express Video Card
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JE8KWRU
~Already Owned~
CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX650 650W Power Supply
http://www.amazon.com/CORSAIR-Enthusiast-Series-TX650-Supply/dp/B00EZ7Q1FC
Noctua NH-D14 CPU Cooler
http://www.amazon.com/Noctua-NH-D14-Cooler-140x140x25mm-Corei7/dp/B008J49H4E
Apple Wireless Keyboard
http://www.amazon.com/Apple-Wireless-Keyboard-MC184LL-B/dp/B005DLDO4U
Seagate 600 SSD 240 GB SATA 6 Gb/s SSD
http://www.amazon.com/CORSAIR-Enthusiast-Series-TX650-Supply/dp/B00EZ7Q1FC
SAMSUNG 830 Series 2.5-Inch 128GB SSD
http://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-2-5-Inch-Internal-MZ-7PC128B-WW/dp/B0077CR60Q
4x more HDs for Windows 7, storage & backup
|COMMENTS|
With so many great guides on the site, I wasn't going to post my build. But during my build process, I couldn't find anyone with the exact same setup and a confirmed 100% working build. So hope this is of some help to people interested in similar build as I'm very happy with it achieving working condition for every part of the components.
This is my second hackintosh build, my first build was from 4 years ago, you can check it out here -> http://www.tonymacx86.com/overclocking/7425-core-i7-870-ga-p55-usb3-rev2-4-2ghz-build.html. Although I was perfectly happy with my 4-year old setup, a can of coke accidentally fell on top of my Antec Nine Hundred case, coke went into the motherboard and it died instantly D:
|HARDWARE SELECTION|
I selected the components from this site's CustoMac section. During the component selection process, I wanted to have as many things built onto the board as possible, including WiFi & Bluetooth. Although I'll probably be fine with just USB3.0, I also prefer it to be thunderbolt ready. Initially I was going to go with a Thunderbolt 2.0 board. However, by balancing my practical usage with the TH 2.0 board's cost, I decided to go with TH 1.0 and the Z87X-UD5 TH board. Overall the installation was relatively smooth. I had some troubles with thunderbolt & Bluetooth initially but eventually everything is working perfectly.
|PREPARATION|
Pretty straight forward, have the following ready:
only the ones I’ve changed are listed, the rest are left to default. For overclocking , check out the Overclocking section further down
|INSTALLATION|
My SSD wasn't broken and I had Maverick 10.9.2 installation on it already. So when I ran UniBeast, I just chose upgrading rather than new install. If you're also upgrading from a previous installation, I recommend using the terminal utility during installation, or mount your OS drive to a different computer, delete the "/Extra" folder and remove any custom kext from "/System/Library/Extensions/" directory before continuing to avoid any possible conflicts.
|POST INSTALLATION|
Power Management
Wifi & Bluetooth
Thunderbolt
iMessage/iCloud/Facetime Fix
I had to inject a working MLB & ROM from my MacBook Air to make my Facetime & Message work, as they weren't connecting to the server after the installation. If you encounter the similar error, I highly recommend reading through post's "My Facetime & Message weren't working after installation" section from insanelymac.com for troubleshooting.
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/298027-guide-aio-guides-for-hackintosh/#entry2020598
Sleep & Wake
Initially I had minor issue with sleep & wake up. It would wake-up by itself with a blank screen, after I've disabled both WoL in the BIOs and in Energy Saver, installed NullCPUPowerManagement.kext, repaired disk permission, the problem went away. In system preference's Energy Saver, I have the first 2 checked
OVERCLOCKING
I actually have no need to overclock but if it's "free" boost, why not... So my approach to this is to see how fast I can push the i7-4790K without any additional hardware with minimum vcore voltage added(under 1.2v). I won't go into detail to explain the overclocking process since it's beyond the scope of this post. But I'll list my settings:
|BENCHMARK|
|PHOTOS|
|CREDITS|
All the credits go to Tonymacx86.com and all the posters from the following thread for their hardwork and sharing of their findings. Without them I would not be able to have a successful build as I merely just gathered all the info:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/mavericks...vericks-native-cpu-igpu-power-management.html
http://www.tonymacx86.com/user-buil...-z87x-ud5h-32gb-ram-gtx-760-a.html#post835110
http://www.tonymacx86.com/mavericks...790k-os-10-9-3-sandisk-extreme-pro-480gb.html
http://www.tonymacx86.com/network/104850-guide-airport-pcie-half-mini-v2.html
http://forum.osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/2925-bluetooth-firmware-uploader/
http://www.tonymacx86.com/general-h...tionality-ga-z87x-ud5-th-other-tb-boards.html
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/298027-guide-aio-guides-for-hackintosh/#entry2020598
Intel Core i7-4790K Processor
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KPRWAX8
Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD5 TH LGA 1150 Intel Z87 Dual Thunderbolt Ports Wi-Fi/BT4.0 ATX DDR3 2600 Motherboard
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GEUX9SU
Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB Kit (8GBx2) DDR3 1600
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006YG9EEW
MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 OC 2GB GDDR5 2DVI/HDMI/DisplayPort PCI-Express Video Card
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DIH8OW8
MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 OC 2GB GDDR5 2DVI/HDMI/DisplayPort PCI-Express Video Card
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JE8KWRU
~Already Owned~
CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX650 650W Power Supply
http://www.amazon.com/CORSAIR-Enthusiast-Series-TX650-Supply/dp/B00EZ7Q1FC
Noctua NH-D14 CPU Cooler
http://www.amazon.com/Noctua-NH-D14-Cooler-140x140x25mm-Corei7/dp/B008J49H4E
Apple Wireless Keyboard
http://www.amazon.com/Apple-Wireless-Keyboard-MC184LL-B/dp/B005DLDO4U
Seagate 600 SSD 240 GB SATA 6 Gb/s SSD
http://www.amazon.com/CORSAIR-Enthusiast-Series-TX650-Supply/dp/B00EZ7Q1FC
SAMSUNG 830 Series 2.5-Inch 128GB SSD
http://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-2-5-Inch-Internal-MZ-7PC128B-WW/dp/B0077CR60Q
4x more HDs for Windows 7, storage & backup
|COMMENTS|
With so many great guides on the site, I wasn't going to post my build. But during my build process, I couldn't find anyone with the exact same setup and a confirmed 100% working build. So hope this is of some help to people interested in similar build as I'm very happy with it achieving working condition for every part of the components.
This is my second hackintosh build, my first build was from 4 years ago, you can check it out here -> http://www.tonymacx86.com/overclocking/7425-core-i7-870-ga-p55-usb3-rev2-4-2ghz-build.html. Although I was perfectly happy with my 4-year old setup, a can of coke accidentally fell on top of my Antec Nine Hundred case, coke went into the motherboard and it died instantly D:
|HARDWARE SELECTION|
I selected the components from this site's CustoMac section. During the component selection process, I wanted to have as many things built onto the board as possible, including WiFi & Bluetooth. Although I'll probably be fine with just USB3.0, I also prefer it to be thunderbolt ready. Initially I was going to go with a Thunderbolt 2.0 board. However, by balancing my practical usage with the TH 2.0 board's cost, I decided to go with TH 1.0 and the Z87X-UD5 TH board. Overall the installation was relatively smooth. I had some troubles with thunderbolt & Bluetooth initially but eventually everything is working perfectly.
|PREPARATION|
Pretty straight forward, have the following ready:
- Download UniBeast from this site, latest Maverick 10.9.5 installation app from the App Store
- 2x USB flash drive: one 8GB or larger USB stick for installation and one for flashing to the latest (beta)BIOS
- Download the latest BIOS F5d(as of 10/9/14) from Gigabyte Here http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4593#bios, flash to the latest using Q-Flash in the BIOS.
only the ones I’ve changed are listed, the rest are left to default. For overclocking , check out the Overclocking section further down
- Load optimized default
- Advanced CPU Core Settings -> Turbot Boost: Disabled
- Advanced CPU Core Settings -> C1E: Disabled
- Advanced CPU Core Settings -> XMP: Profile 1
- BIOS Features -> VT-d: Disabled
- Peripherals -> XHCI Hand-off: Enabled
- Peripherals -> EHCI Hand-off: Enabled
- Peripherals -> Thunderbolt -> Security Level: Legacy Mode
|INSTALLATION|
My SSD wasn't broken and I had Maverick 10.9.2 installation on it already. So when I ran UniBeast, I just chose upgrading rather than new install. If you're also upgrading from a previous installation, I recommend using the terminal utility during installation, or mount your OS drive to a different computer, delete the "/Extra" folder and remove any custom kext from "/System/Library/Extensions/" directory before continuing to avoid any possible conflicts.
|POST INSTALLATION|
- Boot from UniBeast USB drive then select the installed drive at Chameleon boot screen.
- Download MultiBeast v6.5
Power Management
- Make sure DropSSDT is selected from Multibeast
- Download sdtPRGen.sh and go to the downloaded directory, run the following from Terminal:
Code:./ssdtPRGen.sh -turbo 4000
Code:mv ~/Desktop/ssdt.aml /Extra/SSDT.aml
- Download and run Chameleon Wizard(attached), make sure both P-States & C-States are unchecked as following:
- Reboot and make sure PM is working and XCPM is registered, also check with Intel Power Gadget
Wifi & Bluetooth
- Wi-Fi: Install ToledaARPT.kext using Kext Wizard(both attached)
- Bluetooth: Install Bluetooth Firmware Uploader 2.6(attached)
- Repair disk permission and reboot
Thunderbolt
- Install Windows 7 on a separate drive
- Download & install all the system drivers from Gigabyte's website
- Plug-in your Thunderbolt device & make sure it's detected under windows
- Boot into OSX WITH the Win7 drive & thunderbolt attached(it'll take quite a bit longer to boot)
- Thunderbolt drive should be available & functional after OS X has been fully loaded
iMessage/iCloud/Facetime Fix
I had to inject a working MLB & ROM from my MacBook Air to make my Facetime & Message work, as they weren't connecting to the server after the installation. If you encounter the similar error, I highly recommend reading through post's "My Facetime & Message weren't working after installation" section from insanelymac.com for troubleshooting.
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/298027-guide-aio-guides-for-hackintosh/#entry2020598
Sleep & Wake
Initially I had minor issue with sleep & wake up. It would wake-up by itself with a blank screen, after I've disabled both WoL in the BIOs and in Energy Saver, installed NullCPUPowerManagement.kext, repaired disk permission, the problem went away. In system preference's Energy Saver, I have the first 2 checked
OVERCLOCKING
I actually have no need to overclock but if it's "free" boost, why not... So my approach to this is to see how fast I can push the i7-4790K without any additional hardware with minimum vcore voltage added(under 1.2v). I won't go into detail to explain the overclocking process since it's beyond the scope of this post. But I'll list my settings:
- changed SSDT settings:
Code:./ssdtPRGen.sh -turbo 4600
- BIOS - Multipler changed to 46
- BIOS - vcore: 1.95v
- BIOS - CPU VRIN Loadline Calibration: Medium
|BENCHMARK|
|PHOTOS|
|CREDITS|
All the credits go to Tonymacx86.com and all the posters from the following thread for their hardwork and sharing of their findings. Without them I would not be able to have a successful build as I merely just gathered all the info:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/mavericks...vericks-native-cpu-igpu-power-management.html
http://www.tonymacx86.com/user-buil...-z87x-ud5h-32gb-ram-gtx-760-a.html#post835110
http://www.tonymacx86.com/mavericks...790k-os-10-9-3-sandisk-extreme-pro-480gb.html
http://www.tonymacx86.com/network/104850-guide-airport-pcie-half-mini-v2.html
http://forum.osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/2925-bluetooth-firmware-uploader/
http://www.tonymacx86.com/general-h...tionality-ga-z87x-ud5-th-other-tb-boards.html
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/298027-guide-aio-guides-for-hackintosh/#entry2020598
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