Asrock Phantom Gaming ITX / 9900K - Opencore Installation
- Version - 10.15.6
- The kexts have been updated to support MacOS Catalina! Do a fresh install of all kexts to be safe. (Including removing those added to other folders not in
EFI)
Table of Contents
Images
PC: Photos out of Date
Parts
- Intel Core i9-9900k
- ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming-ITX/AC
- AMD Sapphire RX570
- 16gb (2 x 8gb) Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200MHz
- Noctua NH-DL9
- Samsung 970 EVO 500gb - NVMe PCIe M.2.
- WD Blue 3D NAND 1TB PC SSD
- Broadcom BCM94352Z (Dell DW1560)
- DA2 Streacom Mini-ITX Case
BIOS - TBD
What Works
iGPU for Accelerated Graphics- Airdrop
- Audio
- USB 3.0 Speeds
- iMessage
- Bluetooth
- Wi-Fi (2.4 and 5ghz)
- Ethernet
- Sleep (have not had issues for the past few months! As of 10/26/2019)
- Shutdown
- Front Panel USB-C
- Thunderbolt 3 (for graphics or for usb when powered on with it)
Installation
- It is HIGHLY recommended you read through the Open Core Install Guide before using this repository. There's no guarantee that the way I've set this up will work for your machine and you may need to tweak bios settings, kexts, etc.
config.plist
- Be sure to generate a new
MLB,Serial NumberandSmUUIDfor the SMBIOS. Opencore has details on this as well
Wi-Fi / Bluetooth
I replaced the stock Asrock Wi-Fi / BT card with a BCM94350ZAE WiFi / Bluetooth Chip. (create an issue if you'd like more documentation on this process)- Moved to this card - I've tested 5ghz and BT on both MacOS and Windows and each works without a problem as of 6/07/2019
Why I Decided to Build a Hackintosh
My reasons for using macOS are pretty straightforward: I am a developer that loves MacOS for the look and feel of the operating system, and also MacOS' UNIX development environment. Anything outside of the MacPro will run hot and slower than a desktop PC unfortunately. Opencore is surprisingly easy to setup, and works pretty smoothly, even in beta.