MSI z77a-gd65, i7 3770k, gtx 670

MSI Z77A-GD65 Motherboard
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007QWIA52/

Intel I7-3770K Processor
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007SZ0EOW/

Gigabyte Nvidia GTX 670 2gb OC edition
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0080I06WQ/

Patriot Viper 3 16gb Ram 2133mhz @ Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008T457SE/

Samsung 840 120gb SSD
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009NHAF06/

Western Digital Caviar Black 1 TB SATA III
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0036Q7MV0/

Corsair Hydro Series Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler H100i
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009ZN2NH6/

ARCTIC Accelero Hybrid - Liquid/Air Combo Extreme Cooling for Hi-Performance nVidia/AMD VGA
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008BHFVGM/


Already Owned

24x CD/DVD Drive

Corsair CX750 PSU

Corsair 600T ATX Case



Comments

I originally built this machine for windows gaming due to the fact i had a hackintosh before, but I really didn't have time to figure everything out, so i gave up. Then I got a Mac Mini so i had no use for a hackintosh all together. Well times get tough and the mac was easier to sell and I have a bit more time now so I gave it another shot with some new hardware and to my surprise it went a lot better than i thought it would. The reason I didn't do a custom loop water setup is because I never planned on OC my 670, then months later I did so i got the closed loop system for simplicity of installation.

When I was building this I had in the back of my mind that i might want to give it shot again, so I made sure I got an Intel processor and, after doing some reading, the GTX 670 was the best for Mac. I went with the MSI mobo because I already owned a Gigabyte board for my AMD and I did not like the BOIS very well. When installing 10.8, I didn't think that Mac OS X would recognize my memory and processor frequencies. But, to my surprise, it picked them up right up. Everything seemed to work with 10.8.4, perfectly, except for HDMI audio. I had to make my own DSDT for that, but i followed this guide and it was easy. http://www.tonymacx86.com/hdmi-audio/100492-easy-guide-ml-uefi-hdmi-audio.html

I am working on getting the SDD setup i am currently on a 500GB SATA II drive and switching to a 120GB SSD

i installed Chimera 2.1 and add GE=no and Verbose mode through MultiBeast and it boots fine

MultiBeast settings below. ONLY use UserDSDT if you have made your own DSDT for HDMI audio

9-1-13 Samsung 840 120gb SSD installed and all full functional- Except my DVD drive.
For some reason my DVD drive ejects on startup and will cause the system not to load but not really a KP i dont get any message it just quits loading.

10-27-13 Just upgraded to 10.9. Did a clean install and used my already made DSDT and used Multibeast to install and everything works great

*MSI z77a-gd65, i7 3770k, gtx 670

looking solid!