[Success] Haswell mATX GA-Z97M-D3H + Pentium G3220 + XFX HD6870

[Graeme43]

[Success] Haswell mATX GA-Z97M-D3H / Pentium G3220 / XFX HD6870

Graeme43's Build: GA-Z97M-D3H / Pentium G3220 / XFX HD6870

Components

Mac OS X 10.10 + Win8.1

Silverstone TJ08 Case
[AMAZON-uk]http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005D9027E/[/AMAZON-uk]

Gigabyte Z97M-D3H Motherboard
[AMAZON-uk]http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00K9R1P3A/[/AMAZON-uk]

2x 4GB HyperX Fury 1866MHz Memory
[AMAZON-uk]http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00J8E91BI/[/AMAZON-uk]

Intel Pentium G3220 3GHz Haswell Processor
[AMAZON-uk]http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00EF1G9DW/[/AMAZON-uk]

XFX HD6870 1GB Graphics Card
[AMAZON-uk]http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B006GMSJBS/[/AMAZON-uk]

XFX 650W Semi Modular Power Supply
[AMAZON-uk]http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008O50WKG/[/AMAZON-uk]

OCZ Agility 3 120GB SSD
[AMAZON-uk]http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004Z0S6SO/[/AMAZON-uk]

WD Black 750B Hard Disk Drive
[AMAZON-uk]http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00G33X4FG[/AMAZON-uk]

WD Green 2TB
[AMAZON-uk]http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00D0240PQ/[/AMAZON-uk]

TP-Link PCI Express Wifi Adapter
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B006PMX964/?tag=tonymacx86-21

BCM92035DGROM bluetooth usb adapter

Comments

I thought it was time to replace an aging Mac Pro 2006. I plan to upgrade the G3220 to something along the lines of 4690K in the future.

Have everything working and CPU steps varying from 800mhz up to 3ghz. Using Clover 2953. Only modified files on the OS install are TRIM enabler and ALC892 AppleHDA.kext. The rest is done on the clover drive. Virtualization enabled (no VT-d support due to Pentium CPU). Parallels works with both cores fine.

Benchmark Summary
Integer Score 2530 4952
Floating Point Score 3116 6195
Memory Score 3146 3408

Geekbench Score 2887 5140

System Information
Operating System Mac OS X 10.10.3 (Build 14D87h)
Model Macmini6,2
Model ID Macmini6,2
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-F65AE981FFA204ED Macmini6,2
Processor Intel Pentium G3220 @ 3.00 GHz
1 Processor, 2 Cores, 2 Threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 60 Stepping 3
L1 Instruction Cache 32.0 KB
L1 Data Cache 32.0 KB
L2 Cache 256 KB
L3 Cache 3.00 MB
Memory 8.00 GB 0 MHz RAM
BIOS Apple Inc. MM61.88Z.0106.B00.1208091121
Compiler Clang 5.0 (clang-500.2.76)

http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/1742978

 

[UtterDisbelief]

A good build It's always great to see a previous long-standing Mac owner "upgrading" to a Hackintosh as I did.

Yes, there are several Pentium CPUs that cost little but offer performance not far off the i3 - trouble is they are generally untested so it is good to read you have one working well. The Radeon too - they are pretty much a mystery to me except when I had one in an iMac years ago...

I am intrigued by "Virtualization enabled". Do you mean in the BIOS ? Most Hacks require this turning off but if Clover allows it to be set, that's good news. I run Parallels too and it warns me there is a problem with this being disabled (as it is in my build) but runs fine all the same. Didn't realise this was a Chameleon artefact.

Well done again

 

[Graeme43]

I really do need more RAM if i want to run virtual machines! My Mac Pro has 10GB and this has 4 but the plan is to get more ram in a few weeks and an i5 3.5GHz in April or around then. The XFX Radeon I got at a good price and can play Far Cry 3 on ultra and 4 on high even with the Pentium G3220 CPU

With virtualisation off it doesn't enable selection of more than 1 core and probably slower as well.

I did have OS X running on a Celeron 847 (C8-HM70i) with no QE/CI but when I put a supported GPU in it was great and I used it for the last 2 weeks until all my parts came. I took a picture of the micro-itx setup as well

 

[UtterDisbelief]

Hmmm, that's interesting!

Thanks for the screen-grab.

I've just fired-up Parallels here and it lets me change the number of cores I use ... However, whether this is actually working I'd have to check within the client VM. Presently I only run Windows XP and don't stress it too much. Mind you this machine has 16GB so maybe that has something to do with virtualisation options too.

Like the idea of your Celeron partnered with a good GPU. One thing I've noticed since i downgraded from an i5-4670 to the i3 is that the i3 feels faster! Probably because the clock-speed actually is. I'm obviously not using software that really needs more cores.

 

[Graeme43]

Updating to 10.10.1 went flawless. Just had to reinstall audio kext and re-enable trim enabler. The audio on this is great. I can use amplitude for guitar with no lag

 

[netgear65]

G3220 use FakeCPUID...?

 

[Graeme43]

Set as fakeid for i5

 

[netgear65]

0x0106e0

 

[Graeme43]

Ivy bridge i5 ID and -xcpm power management. Lets it run any OS version that supports Ivy. Also using FakeSMC with all the sensors added

I can always try other stuff to see if it works since I backed up my clover 3 times lol so I dont have to remake it all.

I like mine extreme vanilla so the only 2 kext mods are the appledha and the one trim enabler touches

<string>kext-dev-mode=1 slide=0 -xcpm -v</string>

<key>KernelAndKextPatches</key>
<dict>
<key>AppleRTC</key>
<false/>
<key>FakeCPUID</key>
<string>0x0306A0</string>
<key>KernelCpu</key>
<true/>
<key>KernelPm</key>
<true/>

 

[Graeme43]

Sleep works. Added WDN4800 wifi. Running 10.10.3 latest dev beta