- 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)
- https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/solved-stuck-with-log-showing-applenvme-assert-failed.223434/#post-1516127
- https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/solved-updated-sierra-to-high-sierra-lost-alc892-sound.232817/
- https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/nvidia-releases-alternate-graphics-drivers-for-macos-high-sierra-10-13-2-378-10-10-10-25.239852/
- http://justindaigle.com/blog/2010/02/tutorial-change-mac-os-x-system-version/ (To install NVidia Drivers)
- 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
- 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)