zantaiguocheng / hackintosh

OpenCore configuration for Coffee Lake hackintosh

Coffee-Lake Hackintosh

On this repo you will find the configuration of my hackintosh that i use everyday for working and gaming.

It's been a long journey since the purchase of the components fixing bugs and testing different bootloaders, but it runs incredibly smooth now, and i'm so much happy with it.

Bootloader

This hackintosh runs on OpenCore v0.6.5 release from acidanthera.

I was previously using Clover, never again !

Configuration

I'm currently running macOS 10.13.6 build 17G14019 vanilla and Windows 10 on the same drive.

Quick hardware tour : Intel Core i9 9900-K & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti on the Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Master.
→ Full hardware list here

I followed these install steps :

1. macOS + OpenCore : official dortania install guide.
2. Windows 10 : the steps described here

Have a look at the bios settings and config I use.

Tools

I built some useful tools, feel free to use them :

• manage_config : useful for clear secrets in your config.plist before adding it to version control.

  usage: python3 tools/manage_config.py [-h] [-c CONFIG] [-b BACKUP] {backup,clean,restore}
  
  Manage OpenCore configuration secrets
  
  positional arguments:
    {backup,clean,restore}
                      command to execute. clean makes also a backup
  
  optional arguments:
    -h, --help        show this help message and exit
    -c CONFIG, --config CONFIG
                      target configuration
    -b BACKUP, --backup BACKUP
                      backup file destination. we recommend to put a .json extension

• custom_atm: customizes the 'About this Mac' panel.

  usage: python3 tools/custom_atm.py [-h] [--system-logo SYSTEM_LOGO] [--model-name MODEL_NAME] [--processor-name PROCESSOR_NAME]
  
  Customizes 'About this Mac' section of a macOS system
  
  optional arguments:
    -h, --help        show this help message and exit
    --system-logo SYSTEM_LOGO
                      system logo to use. logo format must be TIFF
    --model-name MODEL_NAME
                      custom model name
    --processor-name PROCESSOR_NAME
                      custom processor name

Achievements

• Ethernet
• Wi-Fi + Bluetooth (via On-board Intel Wireless AC 9560)
• Onboard Audio (including digital audio)
• All USB ports at full 3.x speed
• APFS
• iCloud, iMessage, AppStore, FaceTime, AirPlay
• Power Nap
• NVRAM
• Sleep/Wake

Tasks :

• Done :

  • Patch CFG Lock
  • Fix NVRAM
  • Fix EC and USBX
  • Fix System clocks
  • Fix CPU power management
  • Map USB
  • Fix sleep/wake
  • Fix audio cracklings/stop/desync (notes)
  • Fix Bluetooth
  • Fix Magic Keyboard pairing issue when switching OS (notes)

• Short term :

  • Enable iGPU full acceleration
  • Overclock CPU @ 5.0 GHz
  • Buy a native/supported wireless card (Maybe a BCM943602CDP ?)

• Long term :

  • Upgrade GPU to a Radeon VII 16GB
  • Update to macOS 10.15