[SUCCESS!] i7-5820K with Asus DirectCU II TOP R270X 2 Gb DDR5

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Hello everyone, im quite new here to these forums, but i've had tremendous help from Pavo, Rampage Dev, Wegface, and many others in the chat here to help me get my especially finicky system going stable.  I thought I would repay back to the community to help anyone who has a set up like mine get ready to go!

 

All Credits Go To:

Rampage Dev

Pavo

Wegface

DwarfJuglet

Stehor

 

 

Here is my complete set up.

OSX Yosemite 10.10.3 + Clover EFI 

 

i7-5820k 3.3ghz 6 Core 

Gigabyte X99 - UD3

16 GB of Crucial Ballistix DDR4 2400mhz RAM

256 Corsair Force LX SSD

1TB Western Digital BLUE

Asus DirectCUII TOP R9 270X 2GB DDR5 Graphics Card (Futomaki Frame Buffer)

TP Link WDN 4800 Wireless Card

Apogee Duet 2 USB Sound Interface

 

 

Things you will need!

 

Yosemite 10.10.3 
Clover 

Clover Configurator

Thumb Drive with atleast 8 GB of storage memory

 

1.  First follow Rampage Dev's instruction on creating a bootable Yosemite thumb drive here, and in the same guide is the installation process for Yosemite!

http://www.rampagedev.com/?page_id=144

 

2.  Download Rampage Dev's x99.Dmg here https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/88732606/Website/DMGS/x99%20DMG/X99.dmg.zip

 

3.  Follow the instructions in Rampage Dev's X99.Dmg, but when you get to the Kexts part...install only the following Kexts.  

 

VoodooTSCSync

NullCPUPowerManagement (Disable XHCI in your BIOS, for some reason Generating P states will not work, disable XHCI Hand-Off and you'll get a performance boost, slight work around till Mac Pro refreshes with Haswell-E)  

AppleIntelE1000

FakeSMC (Later You Can Download HWMonitor to add the FakeSMC plugins to check CPU temperature)

GenericUSBXHCI (Make sure you disable XHCI Hand-ff in Bios, and disable XHCI or set it to manual) Credit to Malki for discovery.

 

 

Now to Fix the Frame Buffer for our graphics card!

 

 

4.  Open Clover configurator and mount your EFI drive!

 

5.  Go to the Graphics Section 

- Type in these values in these sections

FB Name : Futomaki

Vram: 2048

Video Ports: 4

 

CHECK - Inject ATI

 

6.  Go to Kernel and Kext Patches 

- Type in these values in these sections

ATI Connectors Data - 00040000040300000001010112040401000400000403000000010201220505020400000014020000000103000000060600080000040200000001040011020103

ATI Connectors Patch - 00040000040300000001000012040101000800000402000000010000220502020400000014020000000100001000030604000000140200000001000011020405

ATI Connectors Controller - 7000

 

7.  Export the Configuration - Save it.  Exit.

 

8 Reboot and enjoy!

 

This setting has helped me out immensely.  Below are some benchmarks!

 

Stock no overclocking - 

3595 Single Core

19350 Multi Core

 

Cinebench R15 Score -

91.52 Fps

 

Let me know if you guys have any questions, and thank you for taking your time to read my guide.

 

- Kimo