[SUCCESS] 10.10.1 GA-Z97N-Gaming 5 / GTX 770 SC / i7 4790k / 16GB Crucial Ballistix Elite / Liquid C

[johnnyfortune]

johnnyfortune's Project EVE Haswell ITX:
GA-Z97N-Gaming 5 - i7-4790K - 770 GTX

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Components

Processor: Intel 4790k Haswell Quad Core
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KPRWAX8/

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97N-Gaming
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KE8G7OQ/
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4999#ov

RAM: 16 GB Crucial Ballistix Elite DDR3 1866
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006YG9D0M/

GPU: EVGA GTX 770 SC PN# 02G-P4-2774-KR - (this is out of stock on amazon)
https://www.evga.com/Products/Specs/GPU.aspx?pn=FA93EFC9-A44B-448C-BCEA-AFF0B5BD7AEB

Storage:
240 GB Corsair Neutron SSD
1 TB Hyrbid Seagate SSHD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233743
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178340

Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 750w PSU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817438017

Case: BitFenix Prodigy
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008RJQ0LE/
http://www.bitfenix.com/global/en/products/chassis/prodigy/

Wifi / BT: Broadcom BCM4352 Azurewave AW-CE123H - IDK where you get this besides eBay?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/281300566338?_trksid=p2059210.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

If you want your wifi and Bluetooth to work, the card that is preinstalled in the Gaming 5 MB will not work.


Comments

Liquid Cooling Loop

This part was a little tricky. I had never done a water loop before and had to read a few articles and a watch a few youtube videos. Do research before you start. There are a lot of things to consider, such as the types of metals in your water block vs your radiator. (if they dont match you're going to have a bad time). Also I live next to train tracks, and high vibration areas can't use compression fittings, so I had to use barbs at all connection points.

GPU Water Block: EK Geforce GTX 770 GW VGA Liquid Cooling Block - Nickel CSQ
http://www.frozencpu.com/products/2...GW_-_Nickel_Original_CSQ.html?tl=g57c613s2024

CPU Water Block: Swiftech Apogee XT (Rev 2)
http://www.swiftech.com/apogeext.aspx

Pump: Swiftech MCP655
http://www.swiftech.com/mcp655.aspx

Radiators:
Swiftech MCR220-XP, 120mm x 2
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005XAGKC4/
Swiftech MCR140-QP, 140mm x 1
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009582L9Q

Aside from the main parts you will need fittings, tubing, hose clamps, a radiator tank and coolant.


Assembly

Make sure you update the BIOS! I have F3 at the time of writing this. However there is a new F4e beta bios out, released 1/29 that I am debating trying...

Hardware wise the assembly involved plugging everything in without anything getting wet. I followed this guide really closely: tonymacx86.com/user-builds/152700-z97n-gaming-5-i5-4460-hd4600-clover.html#post950827 so a special shout out and thanks to cloudwalker for making that! It really helped me out a lot.

Obviously you will need to swap out your default mini pci-e half card for something else. I am pretty sure in this case I have enough room to use an actual apple wifi / bt card. Im currently doing that in a different build and it works really well.

I made a few tweaks and added 4 pin colored anode lights to the front fan, so their color is addressable. I also included some WS2811 RGB pixel lights and used a MB USB header to tie in an Arduino UNO for a light controller.

The water cooling loop will be unique to your build. For me it involved a lot of cutting and squeezing due to the MicroITX form factor. I advise you to do something larger like a mATX case at the minimum.

I made an imgur gallery with a few more of the build photos and how it all went together: https://imgur.com/a/5vA1t


Bootloader

I am using the Clover Bootloader to start with. I was not able to get that to do what I wanted to without Clover Configurator. Can't recommend that enough.

Kexts wise those I am using KextBeast and that part of my build is a more "traditional" and similar to the Chimera / MultiBeast install. Meaning my kexts are in S / L / E and are not being injected or loaded by clover.

There was a lot of talk in all the Clover guides I saw about people having to remove VBoxHfs-64.efi from EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI and added HFSPlus.efi. I DID NOT do this. And my setup and install proceeded without issue.



Clover Audio ALC

This will turn on all 6 of your audio inputs on the back and the Digital Out. I dont have fancy enough speakers to actually test that, but the OS says its working. My 3.5mm speakers are working great tho. You can really hear the gold in those connections

To get this to work, I ran "audio_cloverALC-100_v1.0.4.command" and it was pretty easy.
https://github.com/toleda/audio_RealtekALC


Wifi / BT Card

Got this working by following this thread. When it asks you in the installer which kind of Handoff you want, I had to use the USA option. So run "wireless_bcm94352-100-v1.1_patch.command" and select option 2.
https://github.com/toleda/wireless_half-mini
http://www.tonymacx86.com/network/104850-guide-airport-pcie-half-mini-v2.html


TRIM ENABLER

To get trim support enabled on my SSD I had to patch that via Clover. (search for TRIM on that page)
http://clover-wiki.zetam.org/Configuration/KernelAndKextPatches


Ethernet

This thread http://www.tonymacx86.com/network/120084-working-kext-killer-e2200.html has the correct kext to enable the ethernet port to work.


KEXTS

Again for this section im not really using Clover at all. There are a couple Kext patches that have been "automatically" loaded into clover via the ALC patch command, but im not injecting anything else.

My Kexts folder to install looks exactly like this:

ALXEthernet.kext
AtherosE2200Ethernet.kext
bcm4352.kext
BTFirmwareUploader.kext
FakeSMC.kext
NullCPUPowerManagement.kext
realtekALC.kext​

Final Results

I enabled Profile 1 in the bios for my Ram multiplier but havnt really toyed around with overclocking the CPU yet... My temps are around 29 C (85F) on my CPU when using pycharm and watching a VLC.

Everything is working fine for me. Wifi, BT w/ magic trackpad, Audio, iCloud, AirDrop etc. No complaints on that end. I am excited about turning up some multipliers and reaally seeing how fast this is in the future, but for now its pretty dang fast already. I was on a first gen i5 OC'd to 3.5GHz. But this 4.0GHz i7 is a huge improvement!

Edit: Cleaned up some cables after the first "photoshoot"

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The lights are kinda hard to show off in a photo cause they are always changing colors. Here is a lil glamour shot GIF I made: https://i.imgur.com/ZFsbXTh.gifv

Thanks for checking this out!

And giant and special thanks to the Tonymacx86 community!

I used a lot of threads on this site to get this Yosemite install up and running!!! So thanks for you help all you wonderful peeps!

 

[cloudwalker]

Good to see you got the system up and running

 

[johnnyfortune]

Thanks!

I really appreciate the tutorial you made. I was on the fence about getting a gaming motherboard until I saw your post on here! After seeing how easy you made it seem I figured I could follow some steps. So thanks again!

 

[defunkt]

We have the same motherboard, did you end up updating the bios to f4?

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4999#bios

If so, did you notice any changes? The description is vague.

 

[cloudwalker]

I did. I had some sleep issues before, but I haven't had time to look into it yet. Didn't have any problems updating.

 

[iMac62]

Just finished my build with this motherboard.
I replaced the BT/WiFi card with the one you mention but for some reason I can't get the WiFi working.
Any ideas?

Regards

 

[cloudwalker]

I didn't do anything to get it to work really.

You need to attach antennas. Did you do that? I bought some internal ones, they never worked. So I used the ASUS antenna that came with the board instead... Remember to attach it to the right pins on the BT/wifi card.

 

[iMac62]

Which kexts do you have in Library/Extensions?

Update

Got WiFi working now, but still no Bluetooth.