Haven't got to work on it anymore yet, but here is some pictures. Need to work on cable routing and install blu-ray burner and the 2TB HD (data) running system off the Samsung 850 evo ssd m2, can be seen just above the i5 6600.
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The Hackintosh Thread
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Here are the spec's for my G5 case build, my first hackintosh. It runs fantastic!
CPU: Intel Core i5-6600 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor (Purchased For $215.99)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (Purchased For $104.99)
Memory: Crucial 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (Purchased For $54.99)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO 250GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive (Purchased For $94.99)
Storage: Western Digital WD Green 2TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $85.00)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 3GB Video Card (Purchased For $90.00)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA GS 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (Purchased For $74.99)
Optical Drive: Pioneer BDR-209DBK Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer (Purchased For $57.99)
Monitor: HP 23xi 23.0" 60Hz Monitor (Purchased For $60.00)
Other: G5 case mATX kit (Purchased For $189.10)
Other: WiFi Apple Broadcom PCIE (Purchased For $114.99)
Total: $1143.03
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
CPU: Intel Core i5-6600 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor (Purchased For $215.99)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (Purchased For $104.99)
Memory: Crucial 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (Purchased For $54.99)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO 250GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive (Purchased For $94.99)
Storage: Western Digital WD Green 2TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $85.00)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 3GB Video Card (Purchased For $90.00)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA GS 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (Purchased For $74.99)
Optical Drive: Pioneer BDR-209DBK Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer (Purchased For $57.99)
Monitor: HP 23xi 23.0" 60Hz Monitor (Purchased For $60.00)
Other: G5 case mATX kit (Purchased For $189.10)
Other: WiFi Apple Broadcom PCIE (Purchased For $114.99)
Total: $1143.03
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Thanks, I was really nervous when it came to cutting the case.
Some benchmarks:
WD Green 2TB drive
Samsung Evo 850 SSD M.2
He's using a spinner in the first.
The EVO 850 performs around 10-15% slower than on Windows. So do the PCIE based SSDs. Probably OSX has more driver overhead.
It's a slow HDD then. Modern HDD should do >150MBps R/W.
The SSD is really slow for an M.2 interface the SM951 is several times the performance.
Modern HDD?
WD Green is Eco friendly, slower and cheaper storage HDD.
Green, Blue, Red and Black - they are all "modern" hard drives made for different purposes.
Will a Skylake desktop with a Intel Pentium G4400 Processor work? I'm getting an immediate kernel panic when booting off my Unibeast USB stick (bootloader ok, but booting OS X KP's immediately).
I believe I have my BIOS settings correct (AHCI, Legacy ROM enabled, VT Virt. disabled).
I believe I have my BIOS settings correct (AHCI, Legacy ROM enabled, VT Virt. disabled).
You mean UEFI? I am. My Unibeast is built for UEFI. It doesn't matter whether legacy ROM is enabled or disabled, or whether I boot legacy (Unibeast won't even boot legacy) or UEFI.
So I don't think it's that...
Skylake builds should use the UEFI UniBeast option and set the BIOS to use UEFI booting. UniBeast does have an option for Legacy installations, but Legacy is only recommended for the non UEFI BIOS which is found in the 5/6-series Intel motherboard chipsets.
Thanks, but like I said, my Unibeast was built for UEFI and I do boot UEFI and get to the Apple logo and about 2 seconds into the progress bar, it kernel panics and reboots. Mostly just CPU registers...nothing that would show what software panicked.
Is it because my SMBIOS setting is for a MacPro3,1 instead of something else and my CPU (G4400) is completely whacking it?
It's possible..set it to the latest iMac..
It's also possible that you processor isn't seated correctly or that you have board issues with you PCI-E slots..or PCIRootUID issues..without a verbose capture we'll not know.
The hack I'm typing this from had issues like yours, It'd panic when trying to install but it's Linux drive booted fine so I didn't worry about it. It took about three months then it wouldn't boot so I took the board and the system less the case to the shop I got it from and it turned out that my board was failing..new board same processor and cards and 20 minutes later I was hacked and my Linux drive was G2G still..
Well, it's a brand new Dell Optiplex (low end, obviously), and Windows 10 runs stable (and quick, actually for such a low-end CPU), so I doubt there is a hardware issue.
I remember I can change some Unibeast options on boot, one being SMBIOS. Which Mac ID would be recommended to try?
Play with it a bit..
Unibeast might also be the issue take the time to build a clover installer. IIRC unibeast has been depreciated and likely won't do Skylake
Not true. UniBeast for El Capitan now builds a Clover USB installer if you're using UniBeast 6.x (as of this time and date, it's v6.2.0).
I recommend you join tonymacx86.com and post your problem in the El Capitan Desktop Support forum section. UniBeast uses a default SysDef which I believe is MP3,1 and is a universal SysDef. So, I think you have other problems besides a SysDef.
Are you following the El Capitan Installation Guide? (http://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/u...-capitan-any-supported-intel-based-pc.172672/) Another debugging thread is the sticky thread in the El Capitan Desktop Support forum section: http://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/big-list-of-solutions-for-el-capitan-install-problems.173991/
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Thanks Stork, I'll check out those guides and the forum. If I can get this going, it's be a great 'iMac" as the Optiplex I am working with (3240) is a 1080p All-in-One.
FYI, it seems the link you used for the El Capitan Installation Guide is incorrect, as it takes me to nvidia.com.
Oops! Here you go > http://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/u...-capitan-any-supported-intel-based-pc.172672/
I repaired the above post, too.
It's finally done until I can figure out what of the upcoming generation cards I want...all bequiet! all the time
