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Craig's G5 Mod — Sapphire — Gaming/Creative: GA H370M D3H GSM — i5-8500 — RX580 Pulse 8GB
COMPONENTS
Gigabyte H370M D3H GSM Motherboard. Amazon — Newegg
Core i5-8500 processor 6 core, 3GHz Base 4.1GHz Turbo, UHD-630. Amazon — Newegg
Team T-Force Delta RGB 8GB 288-Pin SDRAM DDR4 2666 (PC4 21300). Newegg
HP EX900 M.2 250GB PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe 3D TLC NAND Internal (SSD). Amazon — Newegg
HP EX900 M.2 250GB PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe 3D TLC NAND Internal (SSD). Amazon — Newegg
KingSpec M2 SSD PCIe 120GB NVMe SSD 2280. AliExpress
MSI Radeon RX 560 AERO ITX 4G OC 4GB 128-Bit GDDR5 PCI DirectX 12Express x16 (Uses x8). Amazon — Newegg
GIGABYTE Radeon RX 570 DirectX 12 REV2.0 4GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16. Amazon — Newegg
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 DirectX12 8GB GDDR5 256-Bit OC PCIe x16 Dual DP, Dual HDMI. Amazon — Newegg
EVGA 500 W1, 80+ WHITE 500W. Amazon — Newegg
Noctua NF-R8 redux-1800 PWM, 4-Pin, High Performance Cooling Fan with 1800RPM (80mm, Grey). Amazon — Newegg
ARCTIC F9 PWM PST - Standard Low Noise PWM Controlled Case Fan with PST. Amazon — Newegg
2 X Noctua NF-B9 redux-1600, 3-Pin, High Performance Cooling Fan with 1600RPM (92mm, Grey). Amazon — Newegg
G5 Front Panel to ATX Adapter Cables. BlackCH mods
PREVIOUSLY OWNED
Thermaltake Gravity i2 95W 7-Bladed 92mm 4-Pins PWM Aluminum Extrusion CPU Cooling Fan. Amazon — Newegg
USB 3.0 Dual Port PCI Bracket Cable with Built-In-20-Pin Header. Amazon — Newegg — Ebay
Fenvi FV-T919 PCI-E Broadcom BCM94360CD Wifi Card Adapter, Bluetooth 4.0, Airdrop / Handoff. Amazon — Newegg
M.2 NVMe SSD NGFF TO PCI-E Adapter M-Key Interface Card M2 to PCI-Express. Amazon — Newegg
COMMENTS
I was given a 2004 Power Mac G5 last year, it had been sat in a cold damp basement for over three years. I'm a big fan of this case, many, many years ago our college graphics room had 12 of them all lined up, it was an awesome sight. It wasn't in good shape, booting was random or the fans just spin up. Ebay came to the rescue with the purchase of Power Mac G5 installer disks, Mac OS X 10.5.3 Panther. I was able to clean install Panther and got some screen shots before the capacitors gave up.
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I looked through tonymacX86 excellent PowerMac G5 Case Mods Forum, to get some ideas about building a Hackintosh inside the G5 case. One thing that struck me was, why are they cutting the case?. After reading Petri Chron's thread, Super-cheap NVMe fusion drive using Dell 7010 Q77 motherboard. And trs96 [Guide] Install High Sierra or Mojave on the Dell Optiplex 7010 / 9010 Desktop PC - Revision II. I set about building a Budget G5 using a Dell 7010 mobo.
Budget G5
Working Dell 7010, i7-3770, RX560 inside a non rear cut G5 case. Dual Samsung 850EVO 250GB SSD...
BIOS
I have commented on the changes I made in post #78 of this thread. To access BIOS you press DEL key on startup and this will send you to the BIOS home screen. Following this guide Unibeast: Install macOS Catalina on any Supported Intel-based PC. In step three of the guide, Recommended BIOS settings, I made the following changes.
Load Optimized Defaults. After this I saved, exited and restarted back to BIOS.
- If your CPU supports VT-d, disable it.
- Set OS Type to Other OS.
- If your system has IO Serial Port, disable it.
- Set XHCI Handoff to Enabled
- Save and exit.
INSTALLATION
Following this guide, UniBeast: Install macOS Catalina on Any Supported Intel-based PC, with UniBeast 10 I created my USB installer. Make sure to choose APFS as the format in Recovery/Disk Utility. HFS will not work.
MULTIBEAST 12.1.0 CONFIGURATION
Drivers>Misc>VirtualSMC is already installed when using UniBeast 10, It's normally greyed out on the Drivers page.
Lilu, WEG, VirtualSMC and IntelMausEthernet are installed using Unibeast 10.1.0. SMCProcessor and SMCSuperIO were installed with MultiBeast 12.1.0.
In this App I changed CsrActiveConfig from the default 0x3 to 0x67. This disables SIP.
WHAT WORKS
iTunes DRM
AirDrop
Touch Bar
Bluetooth
Wifi
iCloud
Audio
USB3 front & back
Sleep/wake
WHAT DOESN'T
Working on Messages, Facetime and Hand Off.
Although I can see SideCar in System Preferences, I'm not able to test it. I have a 1st generation iPad mini. It won't make you a cup of tea unfortunately, I've asked numerous times.
UPDATE
I currently have macOS Catalina 10.15.4 installed, post #120. I updated easily from System Preferences. Clover 5107 boots much faster than 5102, less pausing in the progress bar.
LINKS
What started me off on this build was this thread by Petri Chron, Super-cheap NVMe fusion drive using Dell 7010 Q77 motherboard. There are many other useful threads that have informed and inspired me over the past year, and I have listed some below.
[Guide] Install High Sierra or Mojave on the Dell Optiplex 7010 / 9010 Desktop PC - Revision II Thread by trs96
[Guide] HackrNVMeFamily co-existence with IONVMeFamily using class-code spoof thread by RehabMan
[Guide] G5 Front Panel Thread by eelhead
[Guide] BoomR's twist on the G5 Front Panel Thread by BoomR
Unibeast: Install macOS Catalina on any Supported Intel-based PC
Budget G5 Hackintosh. 'No Rear Cut'.
Everybody in the PowerMac G5 case mod forum for their inspiration and trs96 for his support and help.
Unigene Valley Benchmark, Mode 1920 x 1080 2xAA, Fullscreen & High Quality.
AmorphousDiskMark testing macOS Catalina using an M.2 to PCIe adapter in the PCIe Gen3 x 16 (x4 Link). In post #80 you can compare with the speed of M.2 (x4 PCIe mode) slot on the motherboard.
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