Guide to stable ASROCK z370 Killer SLI/AC Build

[aab23c]

I can not take direct credit for all of this. @Hackintosher and @Edhawk here and others else where helped a lot with the troubleshooting. This build is 99.99999% working. The only thing that is not is the USB3 Type C port on the board, as I could not figure out what the port was when making the SDST file, so I simply disabled it, as I did not need it.

Components
NZXT Source 340 Mid-Tower, Side-Panel Window (White)
CPU: Intel® Core™ Processor i7-8700K 3.70GHZ 12MB Intel Smart Cache LGA1151
120mm Liquid Cooling CPU Cooler
Samsung 850 EVO 500GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-75E500B/AM)
120GB WD Green Series M.2 SATA-III 6.0Gb/s SSD
(2TBx1) SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Drive)
16GB (8GBx2) DDR4/3000MHz Dual Channel Memory (ADATA XPG Z1)
(1) WD My Book Duo 12TB dual-drive in Raid 1 for 6TB of usable space
(1) WD My Book 4TB
(1) Seagate 8TB external Drive
(2) WD Red 4TB NAS Hard Disk Drive - 5400 RPM Class SATA 6 Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD40EFRX
CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 DRAM 2666MHz C16 (PC4 21300) Memory Kit - White (CMK16GX4M2A2666C16W)
SLI Xtreme ATX w/ RGB, 802.11ac WiFi, USB 3.1, 2 PCIe x16, 4 PCIe x1, 6 SATA3, 2 M.2 SATA/PCIe [Intel Optane Ready]
600 Watts - EVGA 600 80 PLUS Power Supply [+12]
BCM94352Z WIFI Card+BT4.0 for Lenovo Lenovo Y50-80 Y50-70 Touch Yoga 3 Pro 1370 11E
Elgato Game Capture HD60 S
Aukey SuperSpeed 13-Port USB 3.0 Aluminum HUB with Smart Charging Ports (2.4A Super Port + 1A Universal Port) with 12V 5A Power Adapter, CB-H16
Razer Seiren Elite USB Digital Microphone
XFX - AMD Radeon RX 580 GTS Black Edition 8GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 Graphics Card
CORSAIR - DARK CORE SE Wireless Gaming 9 Button Optical Mouse with RGB Lighting and Qi Wireless Charging - Black
CORSAIR - K63 Wireless Gaming Mechanical Cherry MX Red Switch Keyboard with Backlighting - Black
2 AOC 1080p 27in Monitors
1 Samsung 28in UH750 QLED 4k Monitor
Razer Kiyo Webcam
UE Boom speaker
Steam Controller
Xbox Controller
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Install Procedures
This is for a vanilla build for 10.14.4

1. Go to https://hackintosh.gitbook.io/-r-hackintosh-vanilla-desktop-guide/ follow this as your general guide, to build your USB installer. USB2 Drives I found work best for the first run through on the board, even though there are USB3 ports, we will get to enabling those in a minute.
2. Kexts needed all of these will go in to the EFI/Clover/Kexts/Other folder
3. 1. AirportBrcmFixup.kext
   2. AppleALC.kext
   3. BrcmFirmwareData.kext
   4. BrcmNonPatchRAM2.kext
   5. BrcmPatchRAM2.kext
   6. BT4LEContiunityFixup.kext
   7. FakePCIID.kext
   8. IntelMausiEthernet.kext
   9. Lilu.kext
   10. USBInjectAll.kext
   11. VirtualSMC.kext
   12. WhateverGreen.kext
   13. XHCI-200-series-injector.kext

1. When you install clover on your USB installer
2. 1. Set Clover for UEFI Booting only
   2. Install Clover in the ESP
   3. UEFI Driver
   4. 1. ApfsDriverLoader
      2. AptioMemoryFix
      3. HFSPlus
      4. You can at this point also put the needed kexts into the USB EFI Folder if you want to
   5. For your config.plist use these screen shots
   6. 1. ACPI - make sure the oder of the list of patches is the same

Boot Graphics = Default
CPU = Default
Devices

Disabled Drivers = Default
GUI

Kernel and Kext Patches

Rt Variables

SMBios

System Parameters

Install Drivers

NVRAM

In Clover\ACPI\ patched
I created SSDT_UIAC to deal with the my USB3 functionality. The only port I could not get to USB3 speeds was the Type C port on the motherboard, I could not figure out what it was listed as, ultimately I disabled the port and am just ignoring it. This file gets all the other ports working just great though.

Archive.zip attached.

There is also a SSDT-XOSI file, that hackintosher built for me initially.

1. Install your OS - since it is on a USB2 drive, it will take a little bit, enjoy the free time

After it is all installed, everything should just work now

• Continuity, handoff, airdrop, all good
• Full Graphics card accelerations

Good luck out there.

 

[upvibrations]

This is a gold mine, thank you for uploading these instructions! I want to convert my pc with the same board to a Hackintosh however I am not sure what bios settings you have used. I also am not sure where to find the kext files required

Would appreciate your support.

 

[aab23c]

Check back later this week. I'll make some time to get that up...also there are some tweaks to what I have up there that I should make...nothing critical, you can run what is there and have a fine time...just refinements.

 

[aab23c]

Okay here are the images of my Bios...basically pretty stock and all is working perfectly. I do keep VT-D on, and before everyone climbs on me...it is causing no issues.

as for the kexts start here https://hackintosh.gitbook.io/-r-hackintosh-vanilla-desktop-guide/ as in my write up above. you should be able to get to everything you need from there

some updates I have made are

1. you dont need HDAS to HDEF in your ACPI patches
2. you dont need -rad4200 in boot
3. you dont need -disablegfxfirmware either

 

[jdl6884]

Hi, I currently have a 10.14.6 system running on the same motherboard but am having problems with handoff, continuity, USB 3 function, and iGPU processing. I am about to go through my config and add some of the ACPI/Boot options you have above and change from FakeSMC to virtualSMC. What other updates/optimizations have you made since the original post?

My current build:
ASRock z370 Killer SLI/ac
Intel i5 8600k
MSI RX 580 8GB Armor OC Edition
Fenvi FV-T919 (BCM94360)
32Gb 2600Hz T-Force Vulcan DDR4
2x M.2 256Gb 970 Evo (1x for macos, 1x for windows)
1x 1TB sata SSD (macos)
1x 1TB WD Blue (windows)
Phanteks Eclipse P400

 

[aab23c]

Honestly nothing...It was stable for the most part, but under certain graphics loads it would hard drop...which ultimately lead me to setting up WIn10 again, and then purchase a top end Mac mini

 

[Edhawk]

Just so you know, boot argument dart=0 disables vd-t option in the bios.

Good post/guide.