Gigabyte Z390UD i5-9600K Hackintosh : Running Like a Champ

My Black Friday Hackintosh

I was planning to build a Hackintosh for a long time. It is very hard for me to afford a Mac for its hefty price tag. I decided to use the discount on Black Friday to build the Hackintosh which is equivalent to ~$2000 iMac.

Hardware List

I went to Microcenter and Bestbuy for their the Black Friday deals.

1. CPU: Core i5 - 9600K, $180
2. CPU Cooler - Cooler Master 272 Evo Black, $37
3. Motherboard - Gigabyte Z390 UD, $70 after $30 discount for processor
4. Ram - Crucial Ballistic Sports LT 16GB 2666Mhz, $55
5. Power Supply - Corsair CX650M, $75
6. Casing - Cooler Master Masterbox NR600, $60, 2 extra Arctic F12 PWM, $16
7. SSD1 - Kingston A400 240GB, $29
8. WIFI and Bluetooth - Broadcom BCM9435ZAE NGFF card with BT 4.1 & 802.11 ac, $13
9. WIFI and Bluetooth PCI Adapter- Fenvi FV102 PCIe-1X Adapter, $13
10. Graphics Card - Sapphire Pulse RX 580, Bought from a local guy for $90

Installation Process-

Rather than using the Unibeast and Multibeast I took the cleanest approach. I bought all the hardware that are natively supported by the Mac OS Mojave.

Working-

Sound, Video, Bluetooth, USB, Shutdown, Sleep-Wakeup

Creating the the setup disk

Obstacle: I tried several USB 3.0 disk but ended up some error I do not recall

Advice: buy a USB 2.0 disk.

Installing Clover Boot loader

Install the default options

AND Do not forget to install EmuVariableUefi driver.

Fixing Shutdown:

Add slide = 0 in boot argument, install EmuVariableUefi, Uncheck FixShutdown

Fixing Sound

ALC887 works with AppleALC.Kext, Inject 50 in the audio device

SMBIOS

iMac 18,1

Kext Used

1. AirportBrcmFixup
2. AppleALC
3. BrcmFirmwareRepo
4. BrcmPatchRAM2
5. FakeSMC(Includes ACPISensor, CPUSensor, GPUSensor, LPCSensor, SMMSensor)
6. Lilu(For Audio+Video)
7. RealtekRTL8111 (For Ethernet)
8. WhateverGreen (You need this to remove pink specs in the display during boot)

UEFI Drivers

ApfsDriverLoader

AptioMemoryFix

EmuVariableUefi

VBoxHfs

Drop Table

DMAR, MATS

Fixes

I unchecked everything, including FixShutdowns

Patches

XHCI to XHC, XHC1 to XHC, SAT0 to SATA, Port Limit Increase Patch

Boot Arguments

keepsyms=1, dart=0, debug=0x100, slide = 0

Upgraded to Catalina 10.15.3 last week. After that bluetooth is not working. Planning to switch Brcm4360 which is known to work OOB without kext.

I added the Geekbench Scores. I have found similar OpenCL in Windows and Hackintosh. Do not know whether it is right or underperformed.

Geekbench Single and Multicore Score

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Similar OpenCL found in Windows 10