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    Installing OSX Yosemite on Aorus X7 V2 (V3 Pro Also)

    Discussion in 'Gigabyte and Aorus' started by wiregen, Jul 6, 2015.

  1. wiregen

    wiregen Notebook Enthusiast

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    I saw this on the Aorus's forum. I was in the middle of writing a guide up to get the battery and the backlight to work but this guy has already solved it.

    Big Kudos to this guy. I have a retina macbook pro 15 the lackluster updates made me compelled to buy a new one and purchased an Aorus instead.

    http://forum.aorus.com/forum/gaming-laptops/381-guide-installing-os-x-in-aorus-x7-v2

    I have an Aorus X7 Pro Sync. I followed this guide and got everything working. You do need to replace the WIFI/BT card with a Broadcom BCM94352HMB to get wifi/bt to work.

    WORKS
    + Both GPUs work (Open CL & Cuda)
    + Backlight Dimming Controls
    + Sleep
    + Macro Keys (needs to be mapped in windows but works in OSX)
    + CPU Power Management (Speedstep)
    + Webcam
    + Audio (All speakers)
    + Backlight KB

    NOT WORKING
    + SD Card reader

    WEIRD Glitches
    + X7 Pro only, I think it could the DSDT but it detects 1x 870M and 1x 970M. Both cards do still get utilized fully. Waiting for the author's response.
     
    wiregen, Jul 6, 2015
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  2. ssj92

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    Wonder if it'd work on the X5 as well then, would be nice :D

    Is GPU acceleration fully working? Quartz extreme for Pro Apps such as FCP
     
    ssj92, Jul 7, 2015
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  3. wiregen

    wiregen Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yes, it utilizes both gpus
     
    wiregen, Jul 7, 2015
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  4. KCETech1

    KCETech1 Notebook Prophet

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    I may have to take a peek and see how one of these as a hackintosh will work in place of my existing one for FCP-X since the rMBP is too bloody slow.
     
    KCETech1, Jul 7, 2015
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  5. Mintouch

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    Last edited: Jul 8, 2015
    Mintouch, Jul 8, 2015
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    Well I will pass on my thanks here Mintouch. I am going to borrow an X7 next week and give it a go to see how it compares for my FCP-7 & FCP-X work.
     
    Last edited: Jul 8, 2015
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  7. Mintouch

    Mintouch Newbie

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    Then I recommend that benchmark. I used the bench with FCPX 10.2.1 and got 48 secs. http://blog.alex4d.com/2013/10/30/brucex-a-new-fcpx-benchmark/
     
    Mintouch, Jul 8, 2015
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  8. Convel

    Convel Notebook Deity

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    What's the battery life like in OS X? Does it handle an idling SLI setup better than Windows?
     
    Convel, Jul 8, 2015
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  9. Mintouch

    Mintouch Newbie

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    3 to 4 hrs when normal uses with maximum brightness. When running a pro app, the laptop can run it just 2 hrs.
     
    Mintouch, Jul 8, 2015
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    Does this work on an X3+ V3?
     
    LVNeptune, Jul 9, 2015
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  11. Mintouch

    Mintouch Newbie

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    some will work and some will not work but It's clear that your 970M will not work because yours is optimus laptop.
     
    Mintouch, Jul 10, 2015
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    I have a pro-Sync, every time I try and load the installer, it reboots, is there anything I need to do to get the installer to boot?
     
    Donald Annis, Nov 25, 2015
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  13. tangtang2002

    tangtang2002 Notebook Consultant

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    Having the same reboot problem here, any solution? Thanks!
     
    tangtang2002, Jan 10, 2016
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  14. Mintouch

    Mintouch Newbie

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    Sorry, I can't help because I don't have that laptop. but, you can see my sources(ex. DSDT, SSDT, KEXT drivers) in my personal blog: http://circuitboard.tistory.com/category/HACKINTOSH
    please turn on your google translation plugin. thank you.
     
    Mintouch, Jan 24, 2016
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  15. tangtang2002

    tangtang2002 Notebook Consultant

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    It's all right, I solved the problem. Simply use nv_disable=1. Thank you so much!
     
    tangtang2002, Feb 10, 2016
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  16. tangtang2002

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    It's a little disappointed that the battery lasts basically the same time for OSX 10.10.5 and WIN8.1, no improvement.
     
    tangtang2002, Mar 4, 2016
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  17. bennni

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    That's actually quite lucky - I've had many Hackintoshes that showed a distinct decrease in battery life, as opposed to running Windows.
     
    bennni, Mar 5, 2016
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