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 Parts
• BIOS Settings
• What Works
• Installation
• Motivation

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PC: Photos out of Date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 Number and SmUUID for 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.