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Note: There's an updated version of this build for High Sierra 10.13.4 here
NickElsey's High Sierra mATX:
ASRock Z270 TAICHI - i7-7700k - GeForce GTX 1060
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ComponentsNickElsey's High Sierra mATX:
ASRock Z270 TAICHI - i7-7700k - GeForce GTX 1060
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ASRock Z270 TAICHI LGA 1151 Motherboard with USB-C, Ethernet and onboard Wifi/Bluetooth[/SIZE]
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157754
Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake Quad-Core 4.2 GHz LGA 1151
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MXSI216/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117726
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 DirectX 12 GV-N1060G1 GAMING-6GD Graphics Card
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N0P24HI/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125881
Curcial Ballistix Sport LT 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2400
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01AG9EZ6E/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820156086
Hydro Series H60 (CW-9060007-WW) CPU Cooler
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A0HZMGA/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.newegg.com/global/au/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181030
Samsung 960 EVO M.2 250GB NVMe PCI-Express 3.0 x4 Internal SSD
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LYFKX41/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.newegg.com/global/au/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16820147593
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA3FA5DT8532
RMx Series RM650X PSU
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B015YEIBJ8/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139143
https://www.newegg.com/global/au/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139143
Corsair Carbide Series 330R Case
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00R0ZHWC2/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811139023
https://www.newegg.com/global/au/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811139056
Already Owned
- Couple of Hitachi SATA 2 Tb drives
- Keyboard
- Mouse
- Monitor
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My first Hackintosh build. I have a Mid-2012 Mac Pro workstation (fully loaded at the time), but it was getting a bit old and slow, so thought I'd give this as go.
It all went very smoothly (thanks in a large part to the wonderful resources on this site). Currently the only thing that's not working is the on-board WiFi - I've just ordered a TP-Link Archer T9E AC1900 Wireless Dual Band PCI Express Adapter instead.
Installation Notes
UEFI Settings
I used the the following as my starting point.
- To access UEFI Setup, press and hold Delete on a USB Keyboard while the system is booting up
- Press F6 to get into Advanced Mode
- Advanced > Chipset Configuration > VT-d: Set to Disabled
- Advanced > USB Configuration > XHCI Hand-off: Set to Enabled
- Boot > CSM: Set to Disabled
My only call out here is that you need to format the USB Stick as GUID Partition Map since we're going to be booting in UEFI Boot Mode (see the troubleshooting notes).
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MultiBeast Settings
After successfully installing and booting into High Sierra 10.13.2, I configured the MultiBeast settings as follows:
- Drivers - selected the following:
- Audio > Realtek ALCxxx > ALC1220
- Audio > Realtek ALCxxx > 100 / 200 / 300 Series Audio Support
- Audio > Realtek ALCxxx > 200 / 300 Series / X299 Audio Device ID Patch
- Misc > Select Fake SMC Plugins
- Misc > Select Fake SMC HWMonitor Application
- Network > Intel > IntelMausiethernet v2.3.0
- USB > Increate Max Port Limit 200 Series
- Bootloaders - selected the following:
- Clover 2.4 UEFI BOOT MODE + Emulated NVRAM
- Customize - selected the following:
- Graphics Configuration:
- NVIDIA WEB drivers boot flag
- NVIDIA Graphics fix up
- System Definitions:
- iMac > iMac 18,3
- Graphics Configuration:
This installation guide suggested that FakeGPU.kext would cause a kernel panic. This kext file wasn't present on my machine after the MultiBeast install, but I deleted /Library/Extensions/FakeSMC_GPUSensors.kext just in case.
NVIDIA Drive Install
NVIDAA Web Drivers are required to get the fully acceleration from the graphics card. Installed NVIDIA Web Driver 378.10.10.10.25.102 for High Sierra 10.13.2
Rebooted successfully into High Sierra (yah!)
Final Installation Tasks
- Installed KextBeast
- Installed AppleALC.kext via KextBeast
- Installed Clover Configurator and used it to get audio working
- Mount EFI partition
- Open /Clover/Config.plist
- Changed the following settings:
- Devices > 1. Audio / Inject: Set to 11
- ACPI > Patches > Added change HDAS to HDEF
- Saved Config.plist rebooted and confirmed audio working OK
- Fixed iMessage as per this guide
- Run Clover Configurator and leave on the SMBIOS screen.
- Open Terminal.app and run uuidgen.
- Paste the output in the SmUUID field in Clover Configurator (next to the Serial Number).
- Copy the value in the Serial Number field
- Go to the RtVariables screen on the left
- Paste your serial number into the MLB field, and then add 2 random characters or digits to the end
- Enter a value for the ROM field - I'm using Ethernet so I selected UseMacAddr0 from the drop-down.
- File > Save config.plist and Quit Clover Configurator.
- Rebooted and confirmed iMessage worked OK
- Samsung 960 EVO M.2 disk
- SATA disks
- NVIDA Graphics
- USB 3.0 ports
- Audio
- Onboard Ethernet
- Bluetooth
- iMessage
- Onboard Intel WiFi.
Benchmarks from Geekbench 4
- CPU Single-Core Score: 5,940
- CPU Multi-Core Score: 21,066
- GPU Compute: 108,818
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