DAW Hackintosh Build!

Just recently finished a new DAW hackintosh build for Music Production (with Logic X) and Video & Photo editing (with Adobe Photoshop & Premiere).

Specs OS - MacOSX El Capitan 10.11.3 CPU - Core i7 4970K 4GHZ Ram - 16 GB DDR3 Motherboard - Gigabyte Z97Z Gaming 3 Graphics Card - NVIDIA GTX 970 4GB Storage - 1 x 512 Crucial SSD 1x Samsung 256GB SSD 1 x 1TB Western Digital HDD Cooling - Cosair H105 Watercooler Case - NZXT H440

I followed the basic guide on Tonysmacx86 for installing El Capitan.

Then I ran multibeast to install fakeSMC + plugins & ALC1150 audio (though I'm using an Apogee Duet 2 as my audio interface)

I installed the NVIDIA Web driver for the GTX 970

After I used clover configurator to;

  1. Boot from the OS SSD automatically
  2. SMBIOS for iMac 14,2 (This was needed for my GTX 970 to work, even with the NVIDIA web driver)

I followed Tonysmac guide to generate an SSDT for my CPU power states.

System is now running beautifully, and it's probably the fastest OSX system I've ever used!

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