Costanegra Posted November 19, 2015 Share Posted November 19, 2015 Hello. It's been about 3 or 4 years since I built my first, and so far only hackingtosh. I did so fallowing a guide written by good guy ^Andy^, witch came with hardware recommendations. I now feel it's time for me to upgrade to a faster system to keep up with heavier work loads. I'm strongly considering building a hackingtosh around the new i7-6700K Skylake processor, but I haven't come across guides for this type of processor. I was wondering if any of you could recommend me a motherboard that's compatible and that won't become a hassle when trying to install OS X. Also, if there's a guide you know of, please let me know. Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathias_MM Posted November 20, 2015 Share Posted November 20, 2015 It's a bit early for Skylake at the moment, I'd say. Several things are still being worked out, and you should not expect a fully working system from the get go. Many people have workable systems, but built-in ethernet is not really working, for example. I'm very sure it will get worked out in relatively short order, but it's still early days for the platform, especially in Macs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc86 Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 If you're going quad core, would you recommend sticking with Haswell for now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sama7896 Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 Hi Gigabyte Z170 HD3P has working ethernet with Mieze's kext i7 6700k is a beast. My advice.. no Haswell. Development is almost complete on Skylake, whats missing is usb3.1 ports and pure NVME, but usb 3.0 are working, so who needs them anyway. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
driftwood Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Gigabyte Gaming G1 is great with the Atheros 2400 kext support for the Killer Nics, loads of expandability; http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5478#ov Easy to install. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Costanegra Posted February 12, 2016 Author Share Posted February 12, 2016 Hi Gigabyte Z170 HD3P has working ethernet with Mieze's kext i7 6700k is a beast. My advice.. no Haswell. Development is almost complete on Skylake, whats missing is usb3.1 ports and pure NVME, but usb 3.0 are working, so who needs them anyway. Thanks for your reply, samma7896. Do you know where I can find a guide I can follow step by step to build a new machine? If your configuration is a popular one around here and requires little hassle to make it work, I will provably buy the same hardware you have. But I kinda got my eyes on a Gigabyte board with support for Intel's Thunderbolt: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128839&cm_re=Gigabyte_Z170_UD5-TH-_-13-128-839-_-Product Any thoughts are appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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