tonymacx86's Skylake Thunderbolt 3 Test Build: GA-Z170X-UD5-TH - i5-6600K

[Snoots]

I also tried a type-c TB to 4k HDMI adapter but it will not work in Windows 10 or OSX or macOS, did not do a lot of troubleshooting but never could get anything detected or the display to light up.

 

[Snoots]

every project so far tested in my Logic Pro X has worked with my 1248. I have had a few glitches when swapping between TB and Network AVB streams when testing the MOTU 1248 but both work...

 

[carpark11]

Hi guys, I have the GA-Z170X-UD5 which obviously has no firewire 400 port...which i need for my motu 828mkll and 828mk3. Can i asked is there a preferred pic-e firewire card that plays nice with audio interfaces with the full bandwidth available, as I've read all sorts on different TI chipsets being good but have come across a couple of others that may or may not in full bandwidth for a firewire 400 port.

Will be installing El Capitain

These are the cards / chipsets that people have had luck with.....

Syba SD-PEX30009 card or a LSI FW643 card or most cards with a X102213B chipset.

Also if theres no point going through all the above is there a thunderbolt to firewire adaptor that will definitely work instead for.

Thank you for any help.

 

[Dave329]

Hi Tony, I have just built a hackintosh a few weeks ago with the same same core parts, and overall works great! I have only had one issue, where when booting to my OS X partition I quickly get the "Prohibited" sign and I have to manually reboot. The issue does not happen every time, seems to be at random. Verbose mode shows an "OsxAptioFixDrv:" issue. I have tried to implement solutions from the forums but with no success. Please help!

 

[zipb]

Hi guys, I have the GA-Z170X-UD5 which obviously has no firewire 400 port...which i need for my motu 828mkll and 828mk3. Can i asked is there a preferred pic-e firewire card that plays nice with audio interfaces with the full bandwidth available, as I've read all sorts on different TI chipsets being good but have come across a couple of others that may or may not in full bandwidth for a firewire 400 port.

Will be installing El Capitain

These are the cards / chipsets that people have had luck with.....

Syba SD-PEX30009 card or a LSI FW643 card or most cards with a X102213B chipset.

Also if theres no point going through all the above is there a thunderbolt to firewire adaptor that will definitely work instead for.

Thank you for any help.

DeLock 89153 FW card works fine, but needs an extra powerconnector. Startech TB3-1/2 -> TB-FW adapter didn't work properly on my Metric Halo interface. The DeLock is fine, my older Startech FW card would make my rig reboot on shutdown.

 

[zipb]

I also tried a type-c TB to 4k HDMI adapter but it will not work in Windows 10 or OSX or macOS, did not do a lot of troubleshooting but never could get anything detected or the display to light up.

The mini display adapter to HDMI/DVI/etc thingy I have works OK in Windows 10(attached via Startech adapter), I have 2 working screens, but not in OSX. Both monitors turn black while loading OSX.

 

[carpark11]

DeLock 89153 FW card works fine, but needs an extra powerconnector. Startech TB3-1/2 -> TB-FW adapter didn't work properly on my Metric Halo interface. The DeLock is fine, my older Startech FW card would make my rig reboot on shutdown.

Thanks zipb , for the heads up. I'm going to look this up for sure and will it work natively with OS X. Or is there any kexts to run?

I don't want to seem lazy, but I just want to make sure with this as there's enough to worry about as it is. What makes me laugh is even my last build has at least got 1 PCI slot....How enchant heh.. ..also I know I'm probably due an audio interface upgrade but that would be a shame for something that works just fine as it is, and also annoying being forced into this because of a system upgrade. marketing business model yada yada!!

 

[zipb]

PCI has gone the way of the dodo...
Getting my current rig going was not that hard. Do your homework, buy the right components, find a guide, ask politely for help, give back to the community.
Worst moment was when my rig wouldn't boot the first couple of times I tried. Turned out to be 32 GB of RAM in combination with BIOS F3. I booted with only one RAM stick, upgraded to F5 and that was it.
Also these weird extra boot entries were a concern. And Thunderbolt(but I knew it would, I'm actually surprised it works at all).
And my old Startech FW card that was fine in my Z68XP rig but would cause a reboot on shutdown in my new setup.
Getting Windows 10 installed properly after OSX was actually more of a challenge than installing OSX.
But now I have a cheap, fast, dead silent, reliable workstation for audio, video and photo's.
Mind you, a lot of stuff doesn't work properly. I don't have WIFI or Bluetooth(well, I have a Bluetooth dongle that is recognized but doesn't seem to do anything), so no hands off or airdrop. Sleep doesn't work properly either(sleeping a DAW is a bad idea, so I don't care) etc.

 

[jonnynogood]

Hello,

I built one of these machines back in march and had to turn off a bunch of the USB ports for some reason that I didnt fully understand.

Is this necessary for the install? Since my install I have not updated it at all and its been running pretty well.

Toying with the idea of doing a cleaner new install. I had to dig deep and change a ton of stuff to get this working.

my build was
GA-Z170x-UD5
GTX980ti
64gb ddr4 3200 gskill ripjaw
i7 6700k

 

[noggin]

So. Followed build instructions here. No audio device appears - neither analogue nor HDMI.

*** Edit : Though installing Windows appears to have fired my analogue audio output into life ***

On the plus side my Blackmagic Design Express Thunderbolt Video capture card appears to work in Windows and OS X via a Startech Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 converter.