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Hackintosh : Gigabyte Z370N + i7-8700K + SSD NVMe + SSD S-ATA
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| Golden build, i7-8700K iGPU HD630 and dedicated PCIe Wifi+BT. | |
| I put together this build for a friend that has huge iTunes and iPhoto libraries and could not get a Mac with a large enough SSD (Only Mac"Pro" (lol) and iMac"pro" (lol) allow for larger than 1 or 2Tb SSD). Fusion drive was not good enough. | |
| He's very happy with this built, using all of his Apple peripherals as usual (apple watch, ipad, iphone, keyboard, mouse...). | |
| Plus, his computer is faster than a 3500€ iMac. (8e gen Intel core i7 vs 7 gen Inte core i7) + decent cooling solution. + he can add one more NVMe M.2 drive and three more SATA SSDs. | |
| Components : Gigabyte Z370N rev 1.0, i7-8700K, Samsung 970 EVO 1Tb (PCIe), Samsung 860 EVO 2Tb (SATA), PCIe Wifi+BT (BCM946302CS) | |
| 0) Prepare the USB drive using the normal procedure | |
| 1) Change some BIOS settings : | |
| - UEFI Boot | |
| - XMP Profile 1 | |
| - VT-d disabled | |
| - ans a few other common things. | |
| 2) Plug in the wifi PCIe board BCM946302CS (buy it on amazon) | |
| 3) Remove the Onboard Wifi/BT M2 board (two screws underneath the motherboard) and store it for the day you sell the motherboard | |
| 4) Plug the USB drive, click on the cogs, on PCI Devices, tick the two first options, starting with "USB" (USB Ownership...) | |
| 5) Boot the installer | |
| 6) the installer reboots a first time (tick again the two options, choose the newly created Installation Volume on your SSD to continue booting) | |
| 7) the installer reboots a second time (tick again the two options, choose the newly created MacOS volume on your SSD to continue booting) | |
| 8) answer the few questions the Apple installer asks | |
| 9) launch Multibeast, tick : | |
| - Clover UEFI Boot Mode | |
| - AppleALC | |
| - FakeSMC | |
| - IntelMausiEthernet 2.4.0 | |
| - USBInjectAll | |
| - iMac 18,3 | |
| - Clover UEFI MODE | |
| Build it. You will have graphic artifacts temporarilly | |
| 10) launch clover configurator : | |
| - mount the EFI partition | |
| - change the system definition to iMac 18,1 | |
| - tick "ACPI > FixShutdown" | |
| Save it. | |
| 11) execute "sudo forcetrim enable" in the Terminal | |
| 12) Success : | |
| - a bootable APFS NVMe based 1To system drive (with native trim) | |
| - a secondary HFS+ SATA SSD based 2To drive (with trim support) | |
| - one gigabit ethernet port working | |
| - wifi working | |
| - video acceleration working without glitchs | |
| - all USB 8 of the 3.0 ports working | |
| - the USB-C port working | |
| - bluetooth working (Apple TB touchpad, BT keyboard and BT mouse working) | |
| - AppStore working | |
| - iMessages working | |
| - facetime working | |
| - audio working | |
| - airdrop working | |
| - handoff working | |
| - unlocking the computer with the Apple Watch | |
| - amazon prime video + canal+ +netflix working (google chrome) | |
| - 4K display on the HDMI 2.0 port | |
| - system updates (though I'd be careful with that. I did update from 10.13.5 to 10.13.6 without a glitch) | |
| What doesn't work : | |
| - sleep | |
| - some intermediate HiDPI options are missing, but I guess that could be fixed | |
| I recommended using CloneZilla to backup your working build, as Apple butchered DiskUtility and it can't even create images of system disks nowadays.... |
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