[SUCCESS] Asus Z97M-Plus | i5 4590s | 16GB | ATI 5670 Ultimate | 10.9.5

[frantisek.petko]

frantisek.petko's Build: Asus Z97M-Plus | i5 4590s | ATI 5670 Ultimate

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Components

Asus Z97M-Plus Motherboard
Amazon

Intel Core i5-4590s CPU
Amazon

Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB kit (4x4) DDR3 1600 MHz CL9
amazon

Sapphire Ultimate ATI HD 5670 1GB GDDR5
Producer

Creative Audigy 2 ZS Sound Blaster
Newegg

Fractal Design Core 1500 Case
Producer

Samsung SSD 830 128GB
Amazon

WD Blue 500GB 2.5” SATA III
Amazon

WD Green 2TB 3.5” SATA III
Amazon


Component

My last hardware upgrade I planned according recommendations on Tonymacx86 site. I looked for perfect Z97 mini ATX main board with good price/performance ratio. Finally, I chose Asus Z97M-Plus, mainboard with new Z97 chipset, M.2 support and PCI slot for my old but superb sound card and full compatibility with OSX installation.

My workstation, which I use for editing pictures because I’m professional photographer. Primary I’m using Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. In the future I would like to learn video editing.

Actually OS X is running on WD Blue 500GB hard drive but in the future I’ll switch Windows to HDD and OS X to SSD drive. But I’m wondering that OS X is quite fast on classic HDD.

I don’t use internal graphics. I have Eizo S2433W graphics monitor with Display Port input connected via DP to external ATI 5670 graphics card with passive cooling.

I prefer using my old Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS PCI sound card due to perfect sound quality.

Installation
- OS X Mavericks 10.9.4 according Installation Guide on tonymacx86 site with unibeast
- Latest MultiBeast installation

Issues during installation:
- OS X boot only from USB flash drive > SOLVED

[video=youtube;ix0BtrKitMs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix0BtrKitMs[/video]​

- Boot0 error - Error 4k Hard Drive Fix > SOLVED

[video=youtube;Jmez9323CJI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmez9323CJI"]SOLVED[/video]​

- EBIOS read error: Error 0x31 Block 0x0 Sectors 0 > SOLVED

- Slow network performance on internal Intel I218V ethernet (max. 5MB/s transfer) / NOT SOLVED

Future fixes
- Install NTFS support

Future hardware upgrade
- 256GB SSD for OS X
- wireless apple keyboard and magic mouse

18.9.2014 smoothly installed OS X 10.9.5 update without any issues

 

[activ]

Have you managed to fix network issue?

Sleep works well?

 

[frantisek.petko]

Hi,

I fixed network issues with realtek pci express network card

Sleep works well but sometimes computer wake up but lost connection with wireless keyboard and mouse (logitech).

Have you managed to fix network issue?

Sleep works well?