Z690 Chipset Motherboards and Alder Lake CPU

[MatiCohen]

I have a 12900KF and option 2 gives a significantly higher Cinebench score that option 1 (~19000 vs ~22000). In Windows 11 with p and e cores with hyper threading, I get ~27000.

Thanks for reporting. It is useful to know that there are real use cases where P+E is better than P+HT.

I wonder what would be the case for my 12700K. Still waiting for my final piece, the GPU

 

[smoothmove]

I wonder what would be the case for my 12700k. Still waiting for my final piece, the GPU

Im just happy it works on the Z690.

 

[starghost1100]

So, after a month or so, what can we say about the usability rating of the Z690 motherboards?
What is the first fee in the ranking?
I mean only boards for DDR4.

 

[trs96]

I mean only boards for DDR4.

Unless you have a local seller with DDR5 prices at MSRP it makes much more sense to go with DDR4. Most people can't get even a 16GB DDR5 kit without paying $500 or more to scalpers on Ebay.

This DDR4 RAM 32GB 3600 kit only costs $143 . Makes it an easy choice.

Amazon.com

If I were running a Z490 ProArt system today, I'd keep it at least one more year before upgrading to Z690. Then you'll get better DDR5 RAM at lower prices, hopefully. If you want to upgrade now, a DDR4 motherboard is the best option and saves you some money as well.

 

[starghost1100]

Unless you have a local seller with DDR5 prices at MSRP it makes much more sense to go with DDR4. Most people can't get even a 16GB DDR5 kit without paying $500 or more.

I choose DDR4 also because I can get a high clock speed of DDR4 without overpaying for expensive 4000 + MHz kits. The new Fury renegade 2 x 16GB 3600C16 kits lend themselves well to overclocking up to 4500+ MHz. In Russia that Kit can to buy not over 12500rur (165$), but cost of DDR5 2x16GB 5200MHz is 410$ in analog USA's Craiglist (as I know). Too expensive for such a small boost in speed.

 

[UtterDisbelief]

Unless you have a local seller with DDR5 prices at MSRP it makes much more sense to go with DDR4. Most people can't get even a 16GB DDR5 kit without paying $500 or more to scalpers on Ebay.

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This DDR4 ram 32GB 3600 kit only costs $143 . Makes it an easy choice.

Amazon.com

If I were running a Z490 ProArt system today, I'd keep it at least one more year before upgrading to Z690. Then you'll get better DDR5 ram at lower prices, hopefully.

Pretty much the same over here. What is worrying too is that this crazy "scalping" has to knock-on to DDR5 motherboards.

 

[djlild7hina]

Corsair just had a drop of their higher speed Corsair Dominators and they are not cheap. I got the 2x16 5600 c36 kit so I'll be returning my Newegg combo with the G Skill 5600 once it gets here.

EDIT: Looks like Corsair had some inventory issues and ended up cancelling the orders

 

[marcchizzie]

What MB would you recommend getting with 12900K? I've got a ASUS Z390-E at the moment. I love ASUS but looking to see what would work with Z690.

 

[luchina]

Hi Guys!

I ended up reading all the pages in this thread, and from what I found, there is no way to enable the 24 threads (8p+8e+ht) using Opencore + macOS, does that right?

I used the material from this topic (thanks for all, many many many thanks, excelent topic) and was able to tweak the EFI to run by adding the SSDT-PLUG-ALT with 16 cores and configuring 8P+8E+HT.

My setup

• GB Z690 Aorus Elite AX;
• Intel 12900K;
• XPG D50 4133Mhz - 4x 16Gb;
• Sapphire RX 6900XT Nitro+;
• SSD NVME Gen4 Seagate FireCude 520 2Tb;

My geekbench results are around 2k single-core and 12~13k multi-core.

But looking at the base of Geekbench, it's notable that it gets results with 2k single core and 16k+ multicore.

iMacPro1,1 - Geekbench Browser

Benchmark results for an iMacPro1,1 with an Intel Core i9-12900K processor.

browser.geekbench.com

iMacPro1,1 - Geekbench Browser

Benchmark results for an iMacPro1,1 with an Intel Core i9-12900K processor.

browser.geekbench.com

The question is, HOW?

Greetings,
Gabriel

 

[starghost1100]

Hi Guys!

I ended up reading all the pages in this thread, and from what I found, there is no way to enable the 24 threads (8p+8e+ht) using Opencore + macOS, does that right?

I used the material from this topic (thanks for all, many many many thanks, excelent topic) and was able to tweak the EFI to run by adding the SSDT-PLUG-ALT with 16 cores and configuring 8P+8E+HT.

My setup

• GB Z690 Aorus Elite AX;
• Intel 12900K;
• XPG D50 4133Mhz - 4x 16Gb;
• Sapphire RX 6900XT Nitro+;
• SSD NVME Gen4 Seagate FireCude 520 2Tb;

My geekbench results are around 2k single-core and 12~13k multi-core.

But looking at the base of Geekbench, it's notable that it gets results with 2k single core and 16k+ multicore.

iMacPro1,1 - Geekbench Browser

Benchmark results for an iMacPro1,1 with an Intel Core i9-12900K processor.

browser.geekbench.com

iMacPro1,1 - Geekbench Browser

Benchmark results for an iMacPro1,1 with an Intel Core i9-12900K processor.

browser.geekbench.com

The question is, HOW?

Greetings,
Gabriel

Hey!
Here's an instruction for you:
disable consumption limits
overclock P-cores and E-cores
turn off hyper-threading
get 15000+ points.