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[carlo_67]

if you go up to download here you will also find very useful things, for example this

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[carlo_67]

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[naquaada]

Phew. Finally finished the new version of the Q77M-DS2H. It now has a dellidded i7 3770S with fresh Arctic MX-6.

I use a Scythe Ninja Mini with two 92mm CPU fans and two 120 mm case fans. In normal use and with closed case

the cpu is about 40°C, but the cooler fans are actually limited to 5V to be quieter.

A stresstest was creating a disk image using bzip2 compression. Disk Utility uses 780% CPU time, the rest ist used

by the system, so this is a really good method to max out the CPU. 55°C was the highest temperature.

 

I'm using a Sharkoon Quickport Internal removeable drive bay for a 5 1/4" slot. It has one 2,5" drive and one 3,5"

drive, as well as two USB 3.0 ports. I also added a DVD drive, but I know I have somewhere a BluRay drive.

The 4 TB HD I prepared didn't fit in the case, so it got a Seagate 5 TB 2,5" HD. It is 15 mm high and rather fast for its size.

I still have one PCI port and one PCI-E x 16 port (4x speed) free.

 

That's how I like it. Everything squeezed into a compact, silent case and still expandable.

 

Edited April 25 by naquaada

[naquaada]

After a long time I'm here again. There were lots of hardware problems, too many to mention.

But I have good news.

 

I found all drivers for my Gigabyte Z77M-D3H for Mavericks and Mojave. Everything is working,

including WLAN and Bluetooth. The Sapphire GPRO 4200 is shown, with three displays tested.

The only problem is the wrong CPU name. in 'About this Mac' it is shows as 700 MHz Intel Core i7,

in System Profiler it is Intel Core i7 1,6 GHz. RestrictEvents isn't loading, no matter where I place it.

 

Is there another method to fix the CPU display?

 

I also got my Dell Inspiration 7720 17R Special Edition out of retirement. The cardreader isn't

working, but it's not so important. The trackpad doesn't wake up after sleep, but I found a

workaround for this. The Intel HD 4000 is bumped to 2 GB VRAM. Only HDMI is not working.

This would require framebuffer patching. I tried various methods, but had no success with it.

 

I have uninstalled versions of Mojave and Monterey waiting here, both on HFS+ partitions.

 

Edited July 20 by naquaada

[naquaada]

I had to set the SMBIOS to iMac13,1 because my CPU has a TDP of 65W. iMac13,2 is for a CPU with 77W TDP.

 

Then I created a dsdt.aml with my processor using ssdtPRGen.sh. Now I don't get the 'unknown CPU 0x3a' message anymore.

But the CPU still isn't shown correctly.

 

[naquaada]

I have these RestrictedEvents entries in Clover:

 

revpatch=cpuname

revcpu=0

 

But it isn't even loading. Here is the error output.

RestrictEvents_errors.txt.zip