[Success] Coffee Lake i5-8400 Sierra

After building my first custom PC, I decided to try to Hackintosh it since I was used to MacOS. I had experimented with it years ago, but never really had much success.

I spent about two days researching and experimenting, and last night, I finally got it to boot and install.

Hardware specs:

MSI Z370 PC Pro

Intel Core i5-8400

EVGA GTX 1060 6GB

Samsung 960 EVO 250GB

Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB-3000MHz

What works:

iMessage

Sound

Graphics

Ethernet (no wifi card)

USB connections

All six cores/threads

This was my procedure:

  1. I followed this guide to prepare my Sierra USB: http://hackintosher.com/guides/guide-installing-macos-kabylake-hackintosh-sierra/

  2. Since I'm using a 960 EVO, I needed to patch the correct kexts to install to it. https://pikeralpha.wordpress.com/2016/06/27/nvmefamily-kext-bin-patch-data/

  3. Set BIOS settings according to guide, with PEG as primary graphics and a digital (HDMI or DVI) connection. Don't remove the graphics card like some people say to do.

  4. After getting into the boot loader, I set the FakeCPUID to 0x0906E9 (Kaby Lake). Then I booted with safe mode, verbose mode, and nv_disable=1.

  5. It should boot to the installer. I had to format the entire SSD (even the Windows 10 partitions) in order to use it.

  6. Install it normally, then boot into the freshly installed OS. Install GeForce web drivers and Clover, then copy the EFI folder from your USB directly to the EFI partition of your SSD.

  7. Add FakeCPUID to config.plist (I guess I could've added earlier).

After this, everything seemed to be working. Cinebench results: https://imgur.com/cOFRtzN

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