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Some history as to how I got here: I've been at this for a long, long time (I think I was running Leopard on a Dell Latitude D820 back in 2009), but this was the first machine I built to run OS X. Bought a MBP in 2011, but it started to get really slow on me. I had built a machine a few years ago for Windows 10 with an ASUS Z170-A, i5-6500, and GTX 970 - after a year or two Hackintoshed that.... but ran into problems over time - obviously Nvidia drivers for Mojave. I bought the Radeon card used on eBay because I read it would be pretty simple to replace. Did so, no drivers, no problem. Then the motherboard on that machine started acting weird. Random LEDs, wouldn't post. I decided it was time for a purpose-built machine. Here's what I got: Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z370-A II CPU: Intel i5-9600K GPU: Sapphire PULSE Radeon RX 580 GB SSD: Samsung 860 EVO 500 GB SSD RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 DRAM 3200MHz And the usual junk. Decent PSU, Cooler Master EVO 212 Hyper CPU cooler, case flavored case. Oh. I figured it was time to also get one of those Broadcom cards for WIFI and Bluetooth, so I bought a PCI-E card with everything assembled on eBay for like $100. You know, has the BCM94360CD and some antennas, a USB hookup for the motherboard. That sort of thing. Hardware build was super straight forward. Nothing special there. You've put one PC together, you've put them all together. Keep reading below for links that tell you what to do in the BIOS. Especially with XHCI, graphics, etc. Software build.... So I have a 2015 MBA that I used to make my bootable media. Mojave installer, also had Clover on it with some basics from my old build. For the install, I used that prepared jump drive in the USB 2.0 slot (see below), did all my boots using that (with AppleALC, FakeSMC, IntelMausiEthernet, Lilu and WhateverGreen). I also used dent-arthur-dent's post for hints. I did use MultiBeast to sort of ease the process along, but I ended up overwriting a ton of things. In Clover, I did the 18,3 model. Seems to work OK. Followed all the standard guides for getting iMessage/iCloud to work. For the USB 3.0 settings, I followed the instructions in this video using USBMap. That was crazy easy. I haven't done any SSDT's (other than for USB) or DSDT, and I don't really seem to have any issues. I don't sleep it, the displays will turn off and they'll turn on fine (except for one, more on that below). Restart works, shutdown works, I haven't had any real issues to complain about. So on the graphics card, I'm driving the right two monitors (they're all ASUS VS247H-P I think) with DisplayPort to DVI cables. The one on the left is HDMI. The left one doesn't power the screen on by itself, I have to hit the input select button to wake it up. Only thing. May be the cable, may be something else. Not really that big of a deal because most of the time I use that monitor for a work machine. GeekBench scores need some work - I get 6000 on single core, but multicore is 20900. That's without any overclocking, but also without any optimization at all. I need to spend a little time on figuring out what's going on there. It's not critical but sort of a surprise. Memory scores are lower than some, I'll keep looking into it. [link] [comments] |
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