I just wanted to say another thank you for getting all this info together. All my parts were delivered a few days ago, and my hackintosh was built and up and running MacOS Ventura within 4 hours. It would have been 3 hours, but I ended up spending an hour swearing at my OC USB installer because it wasn't working... only to discover that I put the OC & BOOT folders directly on the EFI partition instead of inside an EFI folder on the EFI partition. The silliest of things!
Out of curiosity, does anyone have any thoughts on what it would take to squeeze the remaining 15% of performance out of these i9 13900KF processors? It seems like they routinely benchmark around 24500 across Geekbench. I am getting a 19700-ish result under MacOS. Under Windows it was originally only hitting 15500 or so until I changed the BIOS CPU settings to performance mode. Now it is just over 20000.
Are these performance limitations purely the result of using a more cost effective motherboard with a power hungry CPU? Or is it possibly directly related to cooling? I'm just using a pretty cheap single fan CPU cooler on my build. It starts and stops like a learner driver on their first day driving a stick shift, revving to 1800RPM then slowing to 1300RPM ever 15 seconds or so. The fans are set to Fan Cooler & Performance mode in the BIOS settings.
Any thoughts would be much appreciated. I think either way, this machine is destined for a dual 360mm radiator cooling loop.