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- Apr 26, 2016
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- ASUS Z270 TUF MARK 2
- CPU
- I5-7600K
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- RX 570
- Mac
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Hello all at this wonderful website and firstly I would like to say thank you for all the info that is available to everyone.
I have a Macbook Pro 2011 but I now need something more powerful for my photography editing (Photoshop / Lightroom / Canon DPP) as well as general web browsing Emails etc;
After reading as much as I could from here and looking at the buyers guide, I went out and bought a few components to get me started and then hopefully build on the system. What I bought was:
Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad Core 3.6Ghz Turbo (Skylake)
GIGABYTE Intel Z170 HD3P (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard
KINGSTON HyperX Fury 16GB (2x8GB) Memory Kit 2400MHz DDR4 - Black
ZALMAN Z9 Neo White ATX Tower Case
I had a spare 3Tb Seagate external drive so I removed that and put it into the case, just to get me up and running, I will replace with a SSD 128Gb for the OS later on.
I also have a spare Apple USB keyboard and mouse from my old G5. Along with a 27" Monitor
So off I go and do the build which took a couple of hours, well it was my first time and I did a couple of things wrong with cables and had to reroute them for neatness. Made the boot USB / install USB with MultiBeast and UniBeast and started the install. I tried for two hours to get a booting Hackintosh but to no avail, kept getting stuck on the Apple progress bar and then up pops the no entry sign. Eventually I realized where I had gone wrong, I had not formatted the internal hard disk, stupidly i thought the Apple installer would give me the disk utility but I never got to that stage. After removing the hard disk, formatting on my MacBook and trying again I had success. Everything went smooth, install took around twenty minutes and I had the El Capitan desktop on my screen.
After a bit of tinkering with MultiBeast I managed to get El Capitan to boot direct from the Hard disk but had no sound. After some searching I came across a Voodoo HDA installer that worked a treat, I now have sound.
The only thing I need now is a WiFi card and Bluetooth added for my Apple wireless keyboard and mouse (hate the wired USB keyboard)
Does anyone have a suggestion for the WiFi and Bluetooth fix, I really need those and then I'm all good, but I don't want to install cards and have my nicely working system screwed.
When I get those two items sorted I intend to get a graphics card for Photoshop work but I'm taking it slowly and not rushing to quick, patience is a virtue.
Once again, thank you all for all the help that is spread all over this site, wonderful tips and loads of fixes, I take my hat off to you all.
I have a Macbook Pro 2011 but I now need something more powerful for my photography editing (Photoshop / Lightroom / Canon DPP) as well as general web browsing Emails etc;
After reading as much as I could from here and looking at the buyers guide, I went out and bought a few components to get me started and then hopefully build on the system. What I bought was:
Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad Core 3.6Ghz Turbo (Skylake)
GIGABYTE Intel Z170 HD3P (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard
KINGSTON HyperX Fury 16GB (2x8GB) Memory Kit 2400MHz DDR4 - Black
ZALMAN Z9 Neo White ATX Tower Case
I had a spare 3Tb Seagate external drive so I removed that and put it into the case, just to get me up and running, I will replace with a SSD 128Gb for the OS later on.
I also have a spare Apple USB keyboard and mouse from my old G5. Along with a 27" Monitor
So off I go and do the build which took a couple of hours, well it was my first time and I did a couple of things wrong with cables and had to reroute them for neatness. Made the boot USB / install USB with MultiBeast and UniBeast and started the install. I tried for two hours to get a booting Hackintosh but to no avail, kept getting stuck on the Apple progress bar and then up pops the no entry sign. Eventually I realized where I had gone wrong, I had not formatted the internal hard disk, stupidly i thought the Apple installer would give me the disk utility but I never got to that stage. After removing the hard disk, formatting on my MacBook and trying again I had success. Everything went smooth, install took around twenty minutes and I had the El Capitan desktop on my screen.
After a bit of tinkering with MultiBeast I managed to get El Capitan to boot direct from the Hard disk but had no sound. After some searching I came across a Voodoo HDA installer that worked a treat, I now have sound.
The only thing I need now is a WiFi card and Bluetooth added for my Apple wireless keyboard and mouse (hate the wired USB keyboard)
Does anyone have a suggestion for the WiFi and Bluetooth fix, I really need those and then I'm all good, but I don't want to install cards and have my nicely working system screwed.
When I get those two items sorted I intend to get a graphics card for Photoshop work but I'm taking it slowly and not rushing to quick, patience is a virtue.
Once again, thank you all for all the help that is spread all over this site, wonderful tips and loads of fixes, I take my hat off to you all.
