macOS Ventura - Hackintosh

Latest working macOS: 13.0.1 (22A400)

Current OpenCore: 0.8.6

Complete hardware specs:

• CPU: Intel 10900k OC to 5.1GHz
  • Cooling:
    • Noctua NH-D15 (with Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut)
    • 6x Noctua Fans around the case for airflow
• Motherboard: Gigabyte Z490 Vision G
• GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
• WiFi/Bluetooth: Fenvi T919 with wired antennas
• Ethernet: Realtek RTL8125B PCI Express 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet
• RAM: 64GB @ 3200 MHz DDR4
• NVME SSD:
  • 500GB Kingston A2000 NVMe PCIe SSD (macOS)
  • 500GB Kingston A2000 NVMe PCIe SSD (Windows)
• SATA SSD:
  • 4TB Samsung Evo 860 SATA SSD (shared with Windows and Linux, formatted as exFAT)
  • 500GB Samsung Evo 840 SATA SSD (Linux)
• PC Case: NZXT H710 (important because front usb ports are mapped)

SMBIOS: iMac20,2

The system triple boots Windows 11 and Ubuntu Mate

Tools

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

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

Get it running

1. Make sure to update your BIOS, disable CSM support and enable XHCI Hand-off (for Airdrop/Continuity/Sidecar) and XMP
2. Create an macOS Monteray/Big Sur 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

Here are some tips and tricks

What works

• macOS Ventura, Monteray and Big Sur
• WiFi and Bluetooth + Airdrop + Sidecar + Continuity (OOB via Fenvi T919)
• Audio
  • NOTE: Run defaults write com.apple.AppleGVA gvaForceAMDKE -boolean yes if Apple Music won't start playing songs
• HDMI/DP (with VRR)
• All USB ports
• 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)
• Shutdown/Reboot/Update to newer macOS builds over time
• Sleep
  • NOTE: Disable Power Nap and run sudo pmset -a FLAG VALUE to match this if your hackintosh wakes up randomly

What doesn't work

• I225-V 2.5Gbit Ethernet Adapter on Monteray only works if you reflash the firmware. However it did break the WiFi for me.

I'm currently using a PCI card (Realtek RTL8125B PCI Express 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet) with the LucyRTL8125Ethernet kext as I already bought the card before the fix was found.

Port mapping

All USB ports work except the two next to the ethernet port (HS03/SS03 and HS04/SS04). I needed another USB-C port on the front of my case + a USB 3 port + a USB 2 port so I had to disable those 2. If you don't need front IO (or use a different PC case) you can use USBInjectAll.kext, set XhciPortLimit = true and use Hackintool to map the ports you want. The USB-C port on the motherboard works and it's reversible.

Kexts used:

• Lilu
• Whatevergreen
• AppleALC (audio layout 28)
• VirtualSMC + SMCProcessor + SMCSuperIO
• RadeonSensor + SMCRadeonGPU
• USBPorts
• NVMeFix
• CPUFriend (optional)
• CPUFriendDataProvider (optional, build your own if you don't have a 10900k)
• LucyRTL8125Ethernet (optional)

Drivers used:

• OpenCanopy
• OpenRuntime
• OpenLinuxBoot (optional)
• OpenHfsPlus (optional)

Thanks/Credits

• 5T33Z0
• SchmockLord
• samuel21119
• insanelymac
• tonymacx86

Fuck /r/Hackintosh mods for not allowing EFI sharing and being on power trips