Hackintosh for 13900K, Z690 AORUS ELITE DDR5 and RX 6600XT

System Overview

System Configuration

• Motherboard: GIGABYTE Z690 Aorus Elite DDR5
• CPU: Intel Core i9-13900K
• GPU:
  • AMD RX 6600XT
  • GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3080TI GAMING OC 12G (disabled for dual boot with Windows 11)
• RAM: Kingston Fury Beast Black 64GB 5200MHz DDR5
• Storage:
  • WD Black SN850X 2TB PCIe Gen4 x4 NVMe M.2
  • Samsung 980 PRO 1TB PCIe Gen4 x4 NVMe M.2
  • Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe Gen4 x4 NVMe M.2
• Wireless Card: ASUS PCE-AX3000
• Ethernet: Realtek RTL8125B PCI Express 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet
• Monitor: LG 32UN880-B 32" IPS 4K HDR 10
• Additional Hardware:
  • Cooling: Noctua NH-D15

Software Requirements

Operating System

• macOS: macOS Sonoma (14.4)
• SMBIOS: iMacPro1,1 with dual boots macOS and Windows 11

Bootloader

• rEFInd 0.14.2
• OpenCore 1.0.0

Tools

Don't be an idiot and use these great tools instead of wasting your time with propertree or other plist editors:

• OpenCore Configurator - easy config.plist management
  • OpenCore Auxiliary Tools - alternative
• Hackintool - debug and map USB ports

Warning

Use the modded OpenCore version to prevent Windows thinking you're running in BootCamp and creating multiple issues around ACPI. Why isn't this the default OC behaviour is beyond me.

Get it running

1. Make sure to update your BIOS, disable CSM support and secure boot, enable XHCI Hand-off (for Airdrop/Continuity/Sidecar) and enable XMP.
2. Create an macOS Ventura USB-Installer Stick, install OpenCore and copy my EFI folder (how?)
3. Generate a new serial number, motherboard id, ROM (that's your motherboard's mac address without dots) and SMUUID (make sure serial number is invalid in order to iMessage/Facetime to work) (how?)
4. Boot the new macOS partition
5. Copy the EFI to the local disk

Note

Enable HiDPI Display settings by running sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist DisplayResolutionEnabled -bool true and rebooting the PC

Here are some tips and tricks and the full OpenCore Documentation

What works

• macOS Sonoma
• WiFi and Bluetooth + Airdrop + Sidecar + Continuity
• Audio
• HDMI/DP (with VRR)
• Most USB ports (Capped at macOS limit of 15)
• Everything iCloud related (Drive, iMessage, FaceTime, unlock with Apple Watch, etc)
• Intel Quick Sync (if you enable iGPU in BIOS)
• Temperature monitoring
• Resizable Bar Support (enable Above 4G Decoding in BIOS)
• Update to newer macOS builds over time

What doesn't work

• Wake for sleep (temporary to disable sleep mode on macOS)

Port mapping

Both USB 3.0 ports and USB-C port of the case (front), all USB 2.0 ports, another 3 USB 3.0 ports (first ones coming down) + USB-C port on motherboard. Create your own mapping on Windows using USBToolBox

Thanks/Credits

• insanelymac
• tonymacx86
• rursache