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Z690 Chipset Motherboards and Alder Lake CPU

CaseySJ said:
We have retired a lot of the risk of building Alder Lake Hackintosh, but these issues remain:
  • Only one sleep/wake cycle. Second wake will reboot computer.
  • Each login into Monterey may complain that system was shut down due to a problem (just ignore this).
  • Maple Ridge Thunderbolt support can vary quite a bit from board to board. Thunderbolt hot plug may or may not work, but @Elias64Fr has a crazy-sophisticated SSDT that gives us some hope.
  • Cannot enable all three of these at the same time: P-cores, E-cores, Hyper Threading.
  • On-board Intel WiFi is supported by latest OpenIntelWireless driver, but at WiFi 5 speed.
  • On-board Intel Bluetooth is notcurrently supported by OpenIntelWireless driver.
    • Fenvi FV-T919 still recommended.
We're eagerly waiting for next version of OpenCore to see what the wizards at Acidanthera are able to achieve.
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Although Vit has been making progress, I am not sure where he's getting the info from and whether he actually has access to an Alder Lake hardware.

I think we should create Acidanthera bug report here https://github.com/acidanthera/bugtracker for various problems that we found such as:

- Cannot enable all three of these at the same time: P-cores, E-cores, Hyper Threading.
- Only one sleep/wake cycle. Second wake will reboot computer.
- Each login into Monterey may complain that system was shut down due to a problem (just ignore this).
- You probably want to checkout /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/shutdownstallXXXX files then use spindump -i [file_name] to see the details why. My problem with this actually went away after I installed Bluetooth since it initially stalled on shutdown due to missing bluetoothd write service error.
 
MatiCohen said:
Waiting for my Z690i AORUS
I really want to replace the preinstalled Intel Wifi module with the one I have on my PCI-E Adapter
like this video shows:

I attached my current module, does anyone know if it will fit? and if not, which one should I buy?
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I would love to try this once I get my Gigabyte Aero G board in 2 days. The tricky thing with WiFi module is there are actually 2 type of bus the PCI-E bus (e.g AX200) and the CNVIO (e.G AX201). Depending on how the motherboard does the wiring I am hoping that the built in one doesn't expect us to use CNVIO only and also accept the traditional PCI-e based M.2 wifi card so then we can use a BCM94360NG for example. Looking at the Z690 chipset it shows that the Alder Lake CPU accepts both PCI-e and CNVIO wifi modules although I am not sure if that's dependent on motherboard wiring layout or not.

Anyone who is buying a WiFi motherboard and plan to replace it with BCM94360NG for example probably want to download the motherboard block diagram to verify that the M.2 WiFi is using PCI-e interface and not CNVIO. Attached is a diagram for the gigabyte boards AORUS Z690i and AORUS AERO G seems to be using PCI-e bus for M.2 so I think we should be able to easily replace it.


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rushstrike said:
I would love to try this once I get my Gigabyte Aero G board in 2 days. The tricky thing with WiFi module is there are actually 2 type of bus the PCI-E bus (e.g AX200) and the CNVIO (e.G AX201). Depending on how the motherboard does the wiring I am hoping that the built in one doesn't expect us to use CNVIO only and also accept the traditional PCI-e based M.2 wifi card so then we can use a BCM94360NG for example. Looking at the Z690 chipset it shows that the Alder Lake CPU accepts both PCI-e and CNVIO wifi modules although I am not sure if that's dependent on motherboard wiring layout or not.

Anyone who is buying a WiFi motherboard and plan to replace it with BCM94360NG for example probably want to download the motherboard block diagram to verify that the M.2 WiFi is using PCI-e interface and not CNVIO. Attached is a diagram for the gigabyte boards AORUS Z690i and AORUS AERO G seems to be using PCI-e bus for M.2 so I think we should be able to easily replace it.


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Just ordered this little guy https://www.ebay.com/itm/283461915340
Should do the trick. right? :)
 
AndyKramer said:
in Amazon France it was available since 27/10. Now there is only one available and it is sold by Amazon UK to Amazon France, a little weird :) free delivery of course..
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Maybe is because I'm located in Portugal, but I don't see the same as you do. On Amazon.fr (and on all EU Amazon stores), I find it only as unavailable. Anyway I think is question of waiting some more days or weeks... thanks
 
MatiCohen said:
Unfortunately does not ship to my country, Israel.
Also, why does mine has 3 connectors? (J0,J1,J2)
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Coming home back in December for the vacation, I can get it for you from France..they are just all over the place..
 
rushstrike said:
I would love to try this once I get my Gigabyte Aero G board in 2 days. The tricky thing with WiFi module is there are actually 2 type of bus the PCI-E bus (e.g AX200) and the CNVIO (e.G AX201). Depending on how the motherboard does the wiring I am hoping that the built in one doesn't expect us to use CNVIO only and also accept the traditional PCI-e based M.2 wifi card so then we can use a BCM94360NG for example. Looking at the Z690 chipset it shows that the Alder Lake CPU accepts both PCI-e and CNVIO wifi modules although I am not sure if that's dependent on motherboard wiring layout or not.

Anyone who is buying a WiFi motherboard and plan to replace it with BCM94360NG for example probably want to download the motherboard block diagram to verify that the M.2 WiFi is using PCI-e interface and not CNVIO. Attached is a diagram for the gigabyte boards AORUS Z690i and AORUS AERO G seems to be using PCI-e bus for M.2 so I think we should be able to easily replace it.


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That's a great observation. Here are some data points:

Z490 Vision D: Uses Intel CNVI so this only accepts Intel modules.

Screen Shot 2021-11-15 at 2.25.34 PM.png


B550 Vision D: Uses Key A/E PCIe M.2 card. This absolutely works with BCM94360NG, which I'm using.
Screen Shot 2021-11-15 at 2.26.50 PM.png


Z690 Aero G: Also uses PCIe bus. I thought it was CNVI, but glad it's not!
Screen Shot 2021-11-15 at 2.27.55 PM.png
 
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