Hackintosh NUC7I7DNKE

Verified working with Monterey 12.4 and BigSur 11.6.3. Ventura BETA EFI can be dowloaded under open issues.

Important NVME required for Monterey. Read below when using Big Sur or earlier with SATA.

Configuration

• NUC: NUC7I7DNKE

• BIOS: 0069

• CPU: i7-8650U

• RAM: 2x 16GB G.Skill Ripjaws F4-2133C15S-16GRS 2133 MHz, DDR4

• Storage: 1TB NVME WD SN550

• dGPU: N/A

• WIFI/BT: Just the DW1560 BT/wifi is supported by this built. It is advisable to replace the default module as the DW1560 will provide feature parity with a real Mac. Due to bluetooth issues, please do your own research for the Intel module.

• SMIBIOS 8,1

• OpenCore 0.7.7

Confirmed working

• Quick boot into MacOS and rock solid
• Wake Sleep
• Built-in Bluetooth
• Wifi/Bluetooth/Unlock-Approve with Apple Watch/Airdrop/Continuity/Universal Control
• Audio
• Sleep and Wake from mouse or keyboard (improved from last version)
• Framebuffer for hardware acceleration (encoding/decoding/preview)

Known Issues

• DRM issues that are inherent to integrated iGPU only. Chrome seems to allow more DRM content.
• Built-in wifi does not work. Since I replaced the wifi module I can not test the itwlm kext for intel wifi. If you need the intel wifi to work please add the kext yourself. Download Intel Wifi kext here
• native SATA Support broken in BigSur but workaround is available in the config.plist. You can enable it if you have a SATA boot devices in BigSur. Not this does not work in Monterey, here an NVME is required. For Catalina, please keep also disabled to use native SATA functionality.

Bios Setup:

• Did not make any changes other than the boot order and fan profile

USB Setup:

The 4 USB ports have been setup and configured as HS and SS. The bluetooth USB port as internal header.

Power Consumption

This version has optimized power consumption

BigSur

SATA Support broken due to Apple dropping the AppleIntelPchSeriesAHCI class in AppleAHCIPort.kext. To workaround this, I added Catalina's patched AppleAHCIPort.kext with the MinKernel set to 20.0.0 as recommended by the OpenCore Install Guide. By default this is now disabled, please enable as needed. This is not supported for Monterey

Installation

1. Update the bios if needed
2. Open your config.plist and populate the Serial, Board Serial, UUID and MAC address. Always use ProperTree for this!
3. Copy the folder to your EFI partition
4. Install (optional)
5. Go to System Preferences > Startup Disk and select your startup disk.
6. Enable Trim
7. Done.

Credits

@RehabMan @Leesureone for the initial version of the NUC OpenCore 0.7.7 EFI visit TonyMacx86 NUC7/8 Thread for more info and discussion

Tips

• Use Hackintool to validate correct implementation of Framebuffer and USB
• Use macinfo to generate your S/N
• Use ProperTree to edit config.plist