[SUCCESS] Coupz's Build - i7 2600 - XFX 6870 - GA-Z68X-UD3H

[Coupz]

I've sold my hackintosh and got a MacBook Pro 15 inch Mid 2012 with 2,6GHz Ivy Bridge, 8GB RAM, 750GB HDD (swapped out to a Samsung 830 256GB SSD), HD 4000 + GT650M
More here: http://www.tonymacx86.com/user-buil...-2600-xfx-6870-ga-z68x-ud3h-2.html#post457126


Coupz's Build - i7 2600 - XFX 6870 - GA-Z68X-UD3H Rev 1.3

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Components
Apple OS X Lion @ Mac Apps Store
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/os-x-lion/id444303913?mt=12

Intel Core i7-2600 Processor 4x3,4GHz
http://www.amazon.com/Intel-i7-2600-Processor-3-4GHz-LGA1155/dp/B004EBUXSU/

Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H Rev 1.3
http://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-Intel-DDR3-Motherboards-GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3/dp/B00518M74I/

XFX Radeon HD 6870 1GB Dual Fan
http://www.amazon.com/XFX-Radeon-MINIDP-Video-HD687AZDFC/dp/B004O0OKXK/

Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1333MHz 16GB (4x4)
http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-PC3-10666-1333MHz-Processors-CMX16GX3M4A1333C9/dp/B0054KPK9C/

2 x Corsair Force Series GT (red) 120GB SATA 6Gb/s SSD
http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Force-2-5-Inch-Solid-CSSD-F120GBGT-BK/dp/B0057QETGS/

Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 3Gb/s HDD
http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Caviar-Cache-Desktop/dp/B000Q82PIQ/

be quiet! Straight Power E9 480 Watt Power Supply
http://www.amazon.com/Be-Quiet-BN197-E9-CM-480W-Straight/dp/B005LUXLNW/

Noctua NH-U9B SE2 CPU Cooler
http://www.amazon.com/Noctua-NH-U9B-SE2-CPU-Cooler/dp/B002VT1GZ6/

2 x be quiet! Silent Wings 120mm PWM Case Fans
[amazon-de]http://www.amazon.de/Quiet-Silent-Wings-120mm-Geh%C3%A4usel%C3%BCfter/dp/B002U1Y4LS/[/amazon-de]

Apple Cinema Display 27"
http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MC007LL-27-Inch-Cinema-Display/dp/B0043GCBU4/
Got the Cinema Display 27" for a very good price, 3 months used with no dead pixels, no yellow ting, no scratch!



Already Owned

Apple Cinema Display 20 inch 1680x1050 DVI
http://www.amazon.com/Apple-Cinema-20-Flat-Panel-Display/dp/B001E1VZL2/

Apple USB Keyboard with Numeric Keypad
http://www.amazon.com/Apple-Keyboard-Numeric-MB110LL-VERSION/dp/B005DLDTAE/

Sandisk 16GB USB Flash Drive
http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Cruzer-Flash-Drive-SDCZ51-016G/dp/B004I5A9NQ/




Comments:
I'm using Mac since 2007 and had always MacBook's since this time, for a half of a year also a iMac 21,5 Core2Duo. But I had to sell my iMac and was working on my MacBook White Mid 2010. I'm a webdesigner and I work a lot with Photoshop and different browsers and coding apps (like Coda or TextWrangler) and have many many tabs opened at the same time. My MacBook was always slow for me and I decided to buy a Mac. Then I heard from a friend of this community, that you can run OS X on pc hardware. I am reading at tonymacx86 since November 2011 and I've read a lot of topics here. I found Gordo's build topic and he had almost the same hardware like I wanted to buy, so this was a big help for me

I bought my parts all here in Vienna (Austria). I payed for the i7-2600 100€ (private, normal price here is 260€, 10€ for the NZXT Guardian 921 case (from a friend) and the rest from my local computer shop. In December I bought a Powermac G5 case from eBay, but I had/have no time actually to mod it, but the time will come and I'll make my G5 mod and show it to you guys
Bought also the WD Caviar Blue private for 40€

When I decided to build a hackintosh, one thing was clear: It has to have SSD RAID-0 !
neilhart's tutorial was very helpful, thank you again


I've downloaded lastest version of UniBeast from Downloads section and followed tony's awesome guide. The installation was easy and after the installation, I downloaded the DSDT for my motherboard from DSDT Database, MultiBeast and choosed the exact same options like Gordo (http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=168&t=32306). Everything worked OOB and I had no problems.

MultiBeast for Lion

After that, I used neilhart's tutorial to put my SSDs in RAID-0 (http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=168&t=36722). My first try run without problems, then I thought my SSDs are too slow and deleted it. I tried like 2 days to get my SSD RAID again to work , but always got "mach_kernel" after rebooting. Yeah, after 2 days I found the solution like I described here (http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?p=323548#p323548).
After everything was working well, I took out my SSDs and put my WD HDD in, to install Windows. After windows was installed with all actual drivers, I put my SSDs back and ordered the boot priority in BIOS. I installed Battlefield 3 and NFS The Run on windows and finished them in the last 2 days

What can I say? I LOVE MY HACKINTOSH, it runs smoothly, quiet and really fast
Working with Photoshop, iTunes, Mail, 4 Browsers with each 15 tabs is like I want to use 20-30% of the power of this machine

Now I need some time to work on my G5 case and I wanna make it to look almost original, more to come

My fans are really low noise (Silent Wings @500-800rpm PWM, cpu_fan and sys_fan2 and Noctua CPU fans with Ultra Low Noise Adapters on sys_fan1 connected) and I have between 33° and 40° in idle in OS X, max 65°C on CPU at 1h Prime95 or 3 hours gaming. GPU gets almost 70°C when gaming and I can hear the fan after 50% fan speed, below, you can't hear the GPU out of the case

I want to thank to the hole community and of course Tony and his team! THANK YOU guys, you are the best
Enough said, time for some pictures
PS: That was the max what I could do in this case on cable management, I will use this case for 1 or 2 months, till i finish my G5 case

(sorry for the bad pictures, took this pictures from my iPhone 4. Better pics will come when I have more time and a new battery for my cam )

Some benchmarks:

CPU stock @ 64bit

CPU multiplier @ 42 @ 64bit

Cinebench:

SSD speeding @ VMWare win7

SSD speeding under OS X

Sorry for too many text and pics
If you have questions, feel free to ask


Edit: next pics and updates 28.06.2012
http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?p=411609#p411609

 

[breiti3000]

Re: Coupz's Build - i7 2600 - XFX 6870 - GA UD3H-B3 Rev 1.3

Thanks for sharing, just one question - while cinebench is still running in the back with a much inferior graphics ... I have here

openGL = 55.56,
CPU = 8.61,
and CPU single 1.71?

 

[Coupz]

I didn't understand your question ?

 

[breiti3000]

I would have expected, that your results would be much higher than mine due to your graphics - thought about to upgrade to your model.

 

[Coupz]

Strange

Does anyone know why breiti has more OpenGL points with a 6670 ?

 

[Mate94]

Strange

Does anyone know why breiti has more OpenGL points with a 6670 ?

Better drivers? But there's HD6870s that scores 60 FPS so it depends on the brand.

 

[flipnaz17]

hello,

Your build is very similar to mine. This is my first build.

I have the GIGABYTE GA-Z68XP Rev. 1.3
The Graphic Card is the AMD XFX Radeon 6870

In order for the computer to boot up I have to type in GraphicsEnabler=No.
If I don't do this, it will not open to Mac.
Under System Information the card is read as Radeon 6XXX.

Can you please help me get the card to be fully recognized and operational.

Thank you

 

[breiti3000]

Have you already performed the User DSDT with Multibeast?

 

[flipnaz17]

Thank you for yours help

My Multibeast version is 4.2.1

The Graphic Card is shown as ATI Radeon HD 6xxx 1024 MB

Thank you again

 

[Coupz]

Have you used a DSDT from the database? Have you searched a thread where someone else made his hack working with your exact same mobo?