Z690 Chipset Motherboards and Alder Lake CPU

[joshuame149]

I understand there's a probably a need to try to 'update' the OC to 0.7.7. But to honest, there's really no need to do so if it is working perfectly fine (which my EFI is at 0.7.4 with the board you have). There is no real reason why it shouldn't work. What you should check though is your BIOS settings and firmware version. You need to have the dGPU enabled at least (set under Advanced settings > System Agent > Graphics Configuration > Primary Display > PCIe); have Onboard Devices > Serial Port disabled; and drives set to AHCI mode under HDD SSD Smart Configuration. Also have AVX512 enabled under Main > AVX Controls. I used Asus BIOS firmware version 0407 for my board and had all P & E cores enabled. Also if you can, double check the AMD graphics card itself is working okay under Windows (always helps if there are issues).

The GPU works perfectly in windows,I did all those settings but I can't find the sata ahci settings anywhere on the motherboard

 

[energy23]

10th generation actually has the highest power consumption, and it's getting slightly better afterwards.
The availability of Z490 motherboards being the most critical issue you probably need to make your mind quickly. Is there a specific benchmark that Z690 users could run to anwser your performance question?

Something like running Handbrake would be solid. For instance, compressing Big Buck Bunny from 4k to 1080p using the built-in preset "Super HQ 1080p30 Surround" with no modifications.

I used the 2160p 30fps Normal video fount at the following link:

http://ftp.vim.org/ftp/ftp/pub/graphics/blender/demo/movies/BBB/

Handbrake 1.5.1

HandBrake: Open Source Video Transcoder

HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder.

handbrake.fr

My runtime was 22 minutes and 49 seconds:

My system specs:
i7 4790k @ stock speeds
16gb DDR3 RAM @1866mhz
Sapphire RX 6800
256gb SSD WD Blue
MSI Z97 Krait SLI

Background running apps:
Plex Server
iStat Menus
Clipy

I ran the compression after restarting my system with no other apps running (other than background apps).

I'd love to see what others are getting with Alder Lake CPUs @Middleman @ori69 would you be willing to do a compression test?

 

[CaseySJ]

I posted a modded CpuTopologySync.kext that fixes Alder Lake's core and thread recognition before, now I renamed it to CpuTopologyRebuild.kext to avoid confusion and I created a repository for it.

GitHub - b00t0x/CpuTopologyRebuild

Contribute to b00t0x/CpuTopologyRebuild development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

If you have the difficulty with performance with E-Cores enabled, try this kext.
See the README on the repo for more information.

( Notice : -ctssmt boot arg is renamed to -ctrsmt because of kext name change. )

@scj312 I haven't managed to install High Sierra yet, so could you try patches.plist included in the repo?

With OpenCore 0.7.7 (official version), these are my results from a brand new Asus Z690 ProArt Creator WiFi system running:

• Monterey 12.1
• 32GB DDR5 5600MHz CL36 RAM
• Intel i7-12700K
• ProvideCurrentCpuInfo quirk enabled across all tests
• All cores, all threads enabled in BIOS

No crashes encountered.

 

[Middleman]

The GPU works perfectly in windows,I did all those settings but I can't find the sata ahci settings anywhere on the motherboard

It comes under Advanced > PCH Configuration > SATA Mode Selection

 

[joshuame149]

It comes under Advanced > PCH Configuration > SATA Mode Selection

I don't have that option?

 

[Middleman]

I don't have that option?

Unless that is a bug, I must've been mistaken then (that was available on previous Asus motherboards that I had).
It should normally show the SATA mode selection right below if SATA mode is enabled.

Which version of the firmware are you on, is it the latest version? If anything the EFI should work as it should using
the hackintosh-compatible settings. Further settings you should check:

Advanced > Software Guard Xtentions (SGX) > Disabled
Advanced > Active Cores > All
Advanced > Hyperthreading > Enabled
Advanced > System Agent Configuration > VT-d > Disabled
Above 4G Decoding > Enabled
Graphics Configuration > DVMT Pre-allocated > 1024M
USB Configuration > Legacy USB > Enabled
XHCI-Handoff > Enabled
Boot > CSM > Launch CSM > Disabled
Secure Boot > OS Type > Other OS
Boot Configuration > Fast Boot > Disabled

If you are interested, Dortania has just made a recent update on their blog regarding the Z690 with a specific focus on Asus branded boards. > https://dortania.github.io/hackintosh/updates/2022/01/09/alder-lake.html

 

[joshuame149]

Unless that is a bug, I must've been mistaken then (that was available on previous Asus motherboards that I had).
It should normally show the SATA mode selection right below if SATA mode is enabled.

Which version of the firmware are you on, is it the latest version? If anything the EFI should work as it should using
the hackintosh-compatible settings. Further settings you should check:

Advanced > Software Guard Xtentions (SGX) > Disabled
Advanced > Active Cores > All
Advanced > Hyperthreading > Enabled
Advanced > System Agent Configuration > VT-d > Disabled
Above 4G Decoding > Enabled
Graphics Configuration > DVMT Pre-allocated > 1024M
USB Configuration > Legacy USB > Enabled
XHCI-Handoff > Enabled
Boot > CSM > Launch CSM > Disabled
Secure Boot > OS Type > Other OS
Boot Configuration > Fast Boot > Disabled

If you are interested, Dortania has just made a recent update on their blog regarding the Z690 with a specific focus on Asus branded boards. > https://dortania.github.io/hackintosh/updates/2022/01/09/alder-lake.html

I hope it's not a bug, what do I do if it is a bug? I am running the latest Asus Z690 Prime P D4 Bios Firmware 0605, I am using the Efi folder you provided me, I changed the GPU Name to AMD 6900 XT, I put the computer as MacPro 7.1. I do not have SGX settings that I can find and I can't change GPU DVMT settings I can't find it. Should I reupload the EFI file? Here are screen shots of my boot into Mac verbose and Opencore boot maybe there are clues to figure this out.

 

[CaseySJ]

I hope it's not a bug, what do I do if it is a bug? I am running the latest Asus Z690 Prime P D4 Bios Firmware 0605, I am using the Efi folder you provided me, I changed the GPU Name to AMD 6900 XT, I put the computer as MacPro 7.1. I do not have SGX settings that I can find and I can't change GPU DVMT settings I can't find it. Should I reupload the EFI file? Here are screen shots of my boot into Mac verbose and Opencore boot maybe there are clues to figure this out.

The OCS issues in 1st screenshot indicate a mismatch between config.plist and OpenCore. Each version of OpenCore can have slightly different parameters in config.plist. Your config.plist seems newer than OpenCore. Check the date/time of OpenCore.efi and update OpenCore to 0.7.6.

Second screenshot indicates that CFG-Lock might be enabled. Try enabling both AppleXcpmCfgLock and AppleCpuPmCfgLock kernel quirks in config.plist.

 

[joshuame149]

The OCS issues in 1st screenshot indicate a mismatch between config.plist and OpenCore. Each version of OpenCore can have slightly different parameters in config.plist. Your config.plist seems newer than OpenCore. Check the date/time of OpenCore.efi and update OpenCore to 0.7.6.

Second screenshot indicates that CFG-Lock might be enabled. Try enabling both AppleXcpmCfgLock and AppleCpuPmCfgLock kernel quirks in config.plist.

The OCS issues in 1st screenshot indicate a mismatch between config.plist and OpenCore. Each version of OpenCore can have slightly different parameters in config.plist. Your config.plist seems newer than OpenCore. Check the date/time of OpenCore.efi and update OpenCore to 0.7.6.

Second screenshot indicates that CFG-Lock might be enabled. Try enabling both AppleXcpmCfgLock and AppleCpuPmCfgLock kernel quirks in config.plist.

Alright I got some progress by enabling the quirks but still gets hung up these are the updated screen grabs, is it worth it updating the folder to OC7.7?

 

[joshuame149]

Found this link posted today with good insights

[HOW TO] OpenCore 0.7.6 > 0.7.7 differences

Message from vit9696 about Intel Z690 compatibility with macOS and monthly message with OpenCore news and downloads, please read them, they are very useful. Later than usual for the holidays but version 0.7.7 of OpenCore is here. It comes plenty of changes, mostly in 3 sections: Intel Alder...

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