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Hackintosh #3 [2018]

Hackintosh #3 (2018)

Build

  • Corsair Carbide 200R Windowed Compact ATX Case
  • Corsair CX Series CX750M 750 Watt 80 Plus Bronze ATX Modular Power Supply
  • Gigabyte GA-Z270M-D3H LGA 1151 mATX Intel Motherboard
    • Intel Z270
    • Core i7 / i5 / i3 / Pentium / Celeron (LGA1151)
    • 4x288pin up to 64GB DR4 3866(O.C.)/ 3800(O.C.)/ 3733(O.C.)/ 3666(O.C.)/ 3600(O.C.)/ 3466(O.C.)/ 3400(O.C.)/ 3333(O.C.)/ 3300(O.C.)/ 3200(O.C.)/ 3000(O.C.)/ 2800(O.C.)/ 2666(O.C.)/ 2400(O.C.)/ 2133
    • Realtek ALC892
    • Intel GbE LAN chip
    • 6 x SATA 6Gb/s
    • 3 x SATA Express connector
    • 1 x M.2 connector (Socket 3, M key, type 2242/2260/2280/22110 SATA and PCIe x4/x2 SSD support)
    • OnBoard Video w/ i7-770K: Intel® HD Graphics 630, 3-monitors, D-Sub/VGA, DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort
  • Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake 4.2 GHz LGA 1151 Boxed Processor
  • Cooler Master Hyper T4 CPU Cooler
  • G.Skill Aegis 16GB 2 x 8GB DDR4-2400 PC4-19200 CL17 Dual Channel Desktop RAM
  • Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1050 2GB GDDR5 Video Card
  • Samsung 960 EVO 250 GB V-NAND PCIe Gen 3 x4 NVMe M.2 Internal SSD
  • Micro Center 16GB SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Flash Drive (For install)

Issues

Settings

  • Boot Options > PCI devices > USB Ownership and USB Injection
  • UEFI Boot Mode
  • Realtek ALC892 -- Not working since Sierra. Complex workaround. See above
  • Intel GbE Lan -- Network > Intel > IntelMausiEthernet v2.3.0
  • Boot Loader > Clover UEFI Boot Mode + Emulated NVRAM (for web driver, iMessage)
  • Customize > NVIDIA Web Drivers Boot Flag
  • Customize > System Definitions > iMac 14,2

2019 Notes (Mojave)

  • Install Media MUST be USB 2 device (USB 3 gives panic)
  • https://hackintosher.com/builds/ga-z270m-d3h/
  • Mojave can't use the NVIDIA card
  • MSI Radeon RX 570 DirectX 12 RX 570 GAMING X 4G 4GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support ATX Video Card
  • Upgraded to Samsung EVO+ 970 500GB NVME card ($125)
  • Will finally dual-boot to Ubuntu Linux 18.04 LTS (64GB Partition)
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