[SUCCESS] Colonel Jack Flack's CustoMac (Aorus UG, i8600k, GeForce 1060)

[ColonelJackFlack]

Colonel Jack Flack's CustoMac:
i5 8600k | Gigabyte Aorus Ultra Gaming | EVGA GeForce 1060

Photos to come!​

Components

Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming LGA 1151 ATX Intel Motherboard
Newegg | Amazon

Intel Core i5 8600k (Coffee Lake)
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Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 16GB 2 x 8GB DDR4-2400 PC4-19200 CL16
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TP-LINK Archer T9E AC1900 Wireless Dual Band PCI-Express Adapter
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EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Single Fan
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SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB SATA III 6Gb/s Internal Solid State Drive
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Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5"
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Corsair CX Series 650 Watt 80 Plus Bronze Certified Modular Power Supply
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Corsair Carbide Series SPEC-02 Redshift Special Edition ATX
Amazon

Already owned
x2 Lenovo monitors
Logitech M510 Mouse


Comments

So, it was time for an upgrade. I have a 1st gen intel MacPro that still has life. It runs, but I had long retired it as my everyday machine. It was relegated mostly to ripping and sorting through semi-corrupted old digital photos that were lost in a unfortunate HD crash. I had moved to a 2016 MacBook Pro 13" and was my everyday driver for work and pleasure. Though it is passable for work, it definitely left more to desire. I couldn't justify paying the premium for a VESA mount iMac since I already had 2 monitors setup that I would dock my MBP to, let alone ruining my already at premium desk space for a full iMac. After a few years of hounding from my brother, I decided to jump head first into building my own. I was used to the process of unlocking bootloaders, custom software etc. on my Android phones since I never had an iPhone, I figured I should try it and save a few bucks.


Installation Notes

This being my first time, it took me a few times to get it right. However, it was stable after the very first install, but I had no acceleration from my video card or audio from the motherboard. Notes on what I did and where things stand today;

Motherboard BIOS updated to F8
Installed using UniBeast with latest High Sierra build 17E199 (Current instruction worked like a charm in creating the USB UniBeast boot disk)
MultiBeast settings:

• Profile: iMac 14,2
• Audio: VoodooHDA v2.9 - This works for now, though not sure of its longevity (Right now I'm too newb to get the Realtek ALC to work native and I need to study this post a little more)
• Graphics: I did not inject anything in the end after trying it a few different ways. What ended up working was no Multibeast injection and solution to problem 6 from this post)

I've been up and running for a few days now, used it for work and things to be pretty good so far. Will keep the forum posted if anyone is interested. Also, I probably left some things out, so let me know and I'll post.

 

[UtterDisbelief]

Sounds like you have a very capable machine there

Realtek audio should be easy enough, the drivers are in MultiBeast . The only tricky part is choosing the correct Audio ID. This is basically the port layout as I understand it. Perhaps use Clover Configurator to experiment with each ID if you get no sound to start with. Settings are usually 1, 2 or 3. Also remember the HDEF rename patch.

 

[SkinlessGaming]

Take a look at this to get audio working - your audio codec is ALC1220 (supported in that kext) and layout ID 1,2,5,7,11 should work (might need to gamble a little bit)

 

[bamboo2018]

can you share your EFI folder?thanks

 

[ColonelJackFlack]

can you share your EFI folder?thanks

I'm still kind of new, do you want a dir dump or a zip of it or some type of txt dump from Clover Configurator?

 

[bamboo2018]

I'm still kind of new, do you want a dir dump or a zip of it or some type of txt dump from Clover Configurator?

a zip of it

 

[ColonelJackFlack]

a zip of it

Here is is ZIP, curious how this is helpful. Also, let me know if I should update my build notes at the top based on what you see in the EFI folder that would be helpful to others.

 

[bamboo2018]

Here is is ZIP, curious how this is helpful. Also, let me know if I should update my build notes at the top based on what you see in the EFI folder that would be helpful to others.

thansk very much for your share

 

[Zhangxiang]

Here is is ZIP, curious how this is helpful. Also, let me know if I should update my build notes at the top based on what you see in the EFI folder that would be helpful to others.

Thanks for your share!