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[SUCCESS] GA-Z270X-Ultra Gaming - i7-7700k - Zotac GTX 1080 Ti

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SHIFTD

SHIFTD

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Motherboard
Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Hero X570
CPU
RyzenR9 3950X
Graphics
RTX 3080
Mac
  1. MacBook Pro
Mobile Phone
  1. iOS
The Specter:
GA-Z270X-Ultra Gaming - i7-7700k - GTX 1080 Ti
View media item 190430​
Components
GIGABYTE GA-Z270X-Ultra Gaming
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N66ZESI/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128968

Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake Processor
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MXSI216/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117726

Corsair Carbide Spec-01 Mid Tower Gaming Case
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00I6BJATW/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA85V54T7799

CORSAIR CX-M Series CX750M 750W 80 Plus Bronze Certified Modular Power Supply
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ALK3KEM/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA6ZP3K31412

Kingston HyperX Fury 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 DRAM 2400Mhz
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01D8U2B8W/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820104680

ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 Ti AMP Extreme Edition 11GB GDDR5X 352-bit
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XXY43WH/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAD6H6EX4845

Kingston Digital SSD UV400 240GB
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FJ4UL2S/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA12K5J06352

Kingston Digital UV300 SSD 120GB
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FJ4UN76/?tag=tonymacx86com-20

Seagate 1TB BarraCuda SATA 6Gb/s 7200 RPM 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch Desktop Hard Drive (ST1000DM010)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LNJBA2I/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822179010

Acer Predator XB241YU bmiprz 23.8-inch WQHD (2560x1440) NVIDIA G-SYNC Monitor (Display Port & HDMI Port, 144Hz)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LJUNMYK/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824011057

Comments
First of all, I want to thank the whole Tonymacx86 community for all the knowledge they provided. Secondly, I would like to anticipate and apologize for any grammatical or concordant errors that may have occurred in this guide, I do not speak English, I try to get back with what I know and with the help of Google Translate.

This is my first build after much study, a lot of dedication and complication with the language.

The components of this build were not chosen with the intention of building a Hackintosh. They were chosen first with the idea of being able to play any game of the present time, consequently I ended up discovering what was Hackintosh and when researching regarding the compatibility of components I saw that mine were supported.

I am extremely happy and satisfied with the performance of this construction.

Working
Apparently everything working. I did not check iMessage and FaceTime.

Didn't Work
The monitor's G-SYNC technology does not work. If your monitor has G-SYNC, disable it in the NVIDIA Web Drive Settings Panel. If it is not disabled your system will show random freezes and crashes and even forcing a hard reset.

Installation Notes
Disable conversion APFS.
Dual boot macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 and Win10.
For the installation of macOS I followed steps 1 and 2 of the tutorial UniBeast: Install macOS High Sierra on Any Supported Intel-based PC.

Installation
With the USB Bootable created, before ejecting it I mounted an EFI partition on it with the Clover Configurator to make some changes.
1. Navigate to /Volumes/EFI/EFI/Clover of your mounted EFI partition
2. Open config.plist with Clover Configurator
3. Highlight Acpi on left column
4. Under fixes check FixShutdown
5. Save config.plist​


I. BIOS SETTINGS

  • Save & Exit → Load Optimized Defaults
  • M.I.T. → Advanced Memory Settings Extreme Memory Profile(X.M.P.) : Profile1
  • BIOS → Fast Boot : Disabled
  • BIOS → LAN PXE Boot Option ROM : Disabled
  • BIOS → Storage Boot Option Control : UEFI
  • Peripherals → Trusted Computing → Security Device Support : Disabled
  • Peripherals → Network Stack Configuration → Network Stack : Disabled
  • Peripherals → USB Configuration → Legacy USB Support : Auto
  • Peripherals → USB Configuration → XHCI Hand-off : Enabled
  • Chipset → Vt-d : Disabled
  • Chipset → Wake on LAN Enable : Disabled
  • Chipset → IOAPIC 24-119 Entries : Enabled
Since I have a dedicated graphic card, I have chosen to change the following settings:

  • Peripherals → Initial Display Output : PCIe 1 Slot
  • Chipset → Integrated Graphics : Disabled

II. BOOT DEVICE
I rebooted and logged into the UEFI partition of my bootable USB stick, I formatted the disk from the Disk Utility.

  • Name → Hackintosh (I chose Hackintosh because I need to remember this name to disable APFS conversion)
  • Format → Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
  • Scheme → GUID Partition Map
After formatting and performing the installation the computer will reboot, here it is necessary to re-enter the Boot OS X Install from Install macOS High Sierra from Clover, this was necessary for the next step.


III. DISABLE CONVERSION APFS
This step is very important, so I loaded all the options I entered into the Terminal in the menu bar at the top screen, I selected utilities and opened Terminal.
Copy and Paste to Terminal in Sequence.
Code: 
ls -1 /Volumes
Code: 
cd /Volumes/Hackintosh
If you have chosen another disk name you have to rename "Hackintosh"

Code: 
cd "macOS Install Data"

Code: 
vi minstallconfig.xml
Here the minstallconfig.xml will open, you must select with the directional keys of the keyboard the letter T below <key>ConvertToAPFS</ key> , press the DELETE key four times. (Not to be confused with Backspace Key)
After deleting the word TRUE, click the letter i to activate insertion mode and after typing false, it should look like the example below.

Code: 
[…]

<key>ConvertToAPFS</key>
<false/>
[…]
If everything has happened, press ESC and type :wq in the Terminal, if it was wrong to type :q! to restart and try again.
Close Terminal and restart computer from the Top Silver Menu Bar.

IV. FIRST BOOT
Here I did not use MultiBeast, I decided to mount the EFI partition with Clover Configurator and install all the updated Kexts one by one.

Installed all Kext on /Volumes/EFI/EFI/Clover/kexts/Other of your mounted EFI.



CLOVER CONFIGURATOR OPTIONS
Acpi:
Add patch on DSDT
Comment: Rename HDAS to HDEF
Find* [HEX]: 48444153
Replace [HEX]: 48444546​
Check FixShutdown​
Boot:
Arguments:
Check dart=0
Check nvda_drv=1
Uncheck nv_disable=1​
Devices:
USB
Check Inject
Check Add ClockID
Check FixOwnership​
Audio
Check ResetHDA
Inject: 11​
Graphics
Uncheck Inject Intel​
System Parameters
Check Inject NvidiaWeb​
Install Drivers
EmuVariableUefi ​
NVIDIA WEB DRIVER

Benchmarks

I will update soon with my EFI folder
 

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would you be able to upload your efi folder? I have a similar config.
Strix 1080ti + GA-Z270X-Gaming 5 + i7 7700k

NVMe work or no in this config?
 
gruponarede said:
would you be able to upload your efi folder? I have a similar config.
Strix 1080ti + GA-Z270X-Gaming 5 + i7 7700k

NVMe work or no in this config?
Click to expand...

I can attach the EFI folder in a few hours.
I did not get to test NVMe on this build, so I can not tell you whether it works or not.
 
SHIFTD said:
I can attach the EFI folder in a few hours.
I did not get to test NVMe on this build, so I can not tell you whether it works or not.
Click to expand...
Hi SHIFTD! I would be very grateful if you could upload your EFI folder. I have a similar config as well. :angel:
 
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