Hackintosh successfully running MacOS Catalina (Z170 + i5 + 5700XT)

Happy day! I'm finally running a clean and successful Hackintosh build. Absolutely everything is working! I'm so proud of it!

As a thank you to everyone who contributed to it, I'll share all of my notes. Maybe it'll help someone running a similar setup.

Enjoy!

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Hardware Specification

• Processor: Intel I5 6600
• Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170 D3H
• GPU: Gigabyte AMD Radeon 5700 XT Windforce 3X
• RAM: Corsair Vengeance 2 x 16GB

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BIOS Setup

• Load Optimized Defaults
• Chipset / Internal Graphics - Auto
• Chipset / VT-d - Disabled
• Chipset / Wake On Lan - Disabled
• Peripherals / XHCI Hand-off - Enabled
• Peripherals / Super IO / Serial Port 1 - Disabled
• BIOS Features / OS Type - Other OS
• BIOS Features / Fast Boot - Disabled
• Power Management / ErP - Enabled
• XMP / Memory Profile - Profile 1

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Create Bootable USB

• Download MacOS Catalina
• Use Install Disk Creator to create bootable USB
• Install Clover (v2.5k-5097) to USB
• Copy kexts to EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other
  • AppleALC.kext
  • BrcmPatchRAM3.kext
  • IntelMausiEthernet.kext
  • Lilu.kext
  • SMCProcessor.kext
  • SMCSuperIO.kext
  • USBInjectAll.kext
  • VirtualSMC.kext
  • WhateverGreen.kext

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• Copy drivers to EFI/CLOVER/drivers/UEFI
  • ApfsDriverLoader.efi
  • AptioMemoryFix.efi
  • AudioDxe.efi
  • DataHubDxe.efi
  • EmuVariableUefi.efi
  • FSInject.efi
  • HFSPlus.efi
  • SMCHelper.efi
  • VirtualSmc.efi
• Use the config.plist from https://hackintosh.gitbook.io/-r-hackintosh-vanilla-desktop-guide/config.plist-per-hardware/skylake as a base
  • Acpi

https://preview.redd.it/e35ixf0bdl541.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=e7c8e47cd4b5aff184a12923e66af87d5cc5c08e

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• Boot

https://preview.redd.it/k8my16wcdl541.png?width=2562&format=png&auto=webp&s=68385a2af6dc80d4fa6821ada99b49899f029d6e

• Add boot flag -lilubetaall
• Add boot flag agdpmod=pikera
• Add boot flag dart=0
• Add boot flag slide=0
• Devices

https://preview.redd.it/b4dnm4tddl541.png?width=2558&format=png&auto=webp&s=044a36155478409b993c5d18b9924091f913f2c5

• Gui

https://preview.redd.it/n20ojiwedl541.png?width=2566&format=png&auto=webp&s=084be64c56a677a56f15fe46722574113710ea5a

• Change Resolution to your resolution
• Kernel and Kext Patches

https://preview.redd.it/thery70gdl541.png?width=2562&format=png&auto=webp&s=25363ae19411bcbf46350984fa6a627fdfea28c0

• SMBIOS
  
  • iMac 17,1
• System Parameters
  • Generate New
• Edit config.plist using Clover Configurator.

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Tips and tricks

• Install using a different GPU (Internal GPU, the 5700 was not inserted during installation).
• Install using USB in a USB2 Port.
• Install using HDMI only.
• Might need to boot using injected kexts.
• If your USB EFI works, you can always boot using the USB in order to clean the mess you made in the Hackintosh's EFI.

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Post Installation

• Install Clover on newly added partition
• Replace EFI from MacOS with EFI from MacOS Install USB
• Insert AMD GPU

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SSDT

• Generate SSDT using https://github.com/Piker-Alpha/ssdtPRGen.sh
• Generate SSDT-UIAC.aml and SSDT-USBX.aml using https://github.com/corpnewt/USBMap (based on https://usb-map.gitbook.io/project/)