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    Gigabyte Z690 Aero G + i5-12600K + AMD RX 6800 XT

    Wanted to document this..... Symptoms: Long boot time with Monterey 12.7.2 on a Western Digital SN850X Blackmagic write performance numbers on boot (macOS) disk were terrible - 300MB/sec Root cause: I had made a full time machine backup in November. Even though I had turned off automatic...
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    Gigabyte Z690 Aero G + i5-12600K + AMD RX 6800 XT

    Throwing in an extra THANK YOU to @beelzebozo for helping with my questions before doing this upgrade. Went from F8 BIOS to F27 to support the 13700K, only had to make one EFI change - I did not have SetupVirtualMap enabled, so after the BIOS upgrade, OC hung at EXITBS. Enabled SetupVirtualMap...
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    Gigabyte Z690 Aero G + i5-12600K + AMD RX 6800 XT

    I upgraded my 12700K to a 13700K and ram to 128GB DDR4 3200 Corsair Vengeance. A few hours into it, the 13700K CPU (40-42C) temp does run 8-10 degrees warmer than the 12700K did (30-32 C). Appears to be no significant difference in graphics, still using the RX 6800 XT. Some benchmark results...
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    Gigabyte Z690 Aero G + i5-12600K + AMD RX 6800 XT

    I can't speak authoritatively about Nvidia, I just know its a pain for people in the Hackintosh community. Most AMD models seem to work well. I've got a 6800XT, and it's been flawless. When I was buying my 6800, there was not that much difference in the 6800 and 6900 performance wise, but...
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    Gigabyte Z690 Aero G + i5-12600K + AMD RX 6800 XT

    Thanks @beelzebozo ! One more question - did you have to make any EFI changes going from F8 BIOS to F26/27 ?
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    Gigabyte Z690 Aero G + i5-12600K + AMD RX 6800 XT

    W Have you run benchmarks to see the performance? Geekbench/ Cinemark
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    Gigabyte Z690 Aero G + i5-12600K + AMD RX 6800 XT

    @beelzebozo how is it running with the 13700? I was just looking at upgrading. Microcenter has the 13700K for $329 and the 14700K for $379. Also looking at 128GB of corsair vengeance ddr4 3600 RGB memory.
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    Update/Install errors

    Attempting to update from Monterey 12.6.6 to 12.6.8 on my Gigabyte Z490 Aero G system. I was greeted with: An error occured loading the update I tried a couple more times, same problem, so I downloaded the entire installer and tried again, same error. Then I tried putting in a new hard drive...
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    Gigabyte Z690 Aero G + i5-12600K + AMD RX 6800 XT

    I found the fix for this on the istat site - delete the database https://bjango.com/help/istatmenus6/deletedatabase/
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    Gigabyte Z690 Aero G + i5-12600K + AMD RX 6800 XT

    Upgraded to OC 0.9.3 using OCAT, no issues thus far.
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    Gigabyte Z690 Aero G + i5-12600K + AMD RX 6800 XT

    Z690 Aero G DDR4 - does istat menu record any historical data for any of you on this build? It does not log any CPU/Memory history usage on mine.
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    Gigabyte Z690 Aero G + i5-12600K + AMD RX 6800 XT

    Maybe I am not remembering things correctly..... Didn't istat menu historical data (last hour/day/week/month) plot on the build? I have nothing, it is not logging historical data, only displaying current data. I went back to OC 0.8.3 from 0.8.8 and that changed nothing.
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    Gigabyte Z690 Aero G + i5-12600K + AMD RX 6800 XT

    Just a wee bit of improvement going from an RX6600XT to an RX6800XT on my Aero G Z690 Not sure why the single core score dropped while the multi core score stayed about the same? Oh well, this system is a beast!
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    Gigabyte Z690 Aero G + i5-12600K + AMD RX 6800 XT

    Anyone upgraded to OC 0.8.4 ?
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    Gigabyte Z690 Aero G + i5-12600K + AMD RX 6800 XT

    If you have multiple identical NVMe drives in your Aero G Z690 DDR4, it can become rather tricky knowing which drive is which, especially if they are the same manufacturer and model. In macos, the BSD (Unix) name you see in disk utility for a particular drive may be disk0 on one boot, and disk2...
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