- Joined
- Mar 4, 2021
- Messages
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- Motherboard
- Asus Maximus XIII Hero
- CPU
- i9-11900k
- Graphics
- Nvidia GTX 3080ti (win) // RX580 (macOS)
Following up on progress on your build...
Can u report:
- SMBIOS
- Framebuffer / Whatevergreen config
- BIOS PCIe config re lane assignments re M.2
- Overclock config (ASUS AI?)
- SSD model, which slot
For me open items are:
- Something in the kernel is constantly eating 35% of one CPU thread. Not a big deal but am curious what's doing it. Kernel tracing might reveal but learning curve
- Board MSR CFG is writeable but if I disable both CFGlock patches boots will sometimes panic, then works next boot.
- Board sleep wakes up after 2 seconds and a flash-drive might disconnect.
- Thunderbolt untested. The z490/z590 thread has some excellent reporting on status of Gigabyte Vision / ASUS Hero z590 TB. It's a mixed bag due to half-baked BIOS and backwards compatibility of hot-plug and new TB security features.
For my z590 10900 build, I've pretty much closed out the whole Dortania guide post-install and am very good with function, performance an stability. My best EFI is posted over at z490/z590 per previous msg.
Thinking about replacing Comet Lake i9 with Rocket Lake. I see a possibility to gain 30% single core benchmark improvement and double SSD throughput by putting in a Rocket Lake i9... But your report is more like a 12% perf gain
My best GB5 single was 1350 early on. Today it's about 1290, which has me wondering about what is buring cycles in the kernel. Some report GB5 of 1900.
I am coming from a 2008 cMP 3,1 so this build feels incredibly responsive and does everything at least 4x faster and this new silicon murders the old mac on key tasks like encryption.
Playing with a M1 MBP I am astonished by its responsiveness and compute power in 25W envelope with no fan at all, but it throttles easily under multicore load while this space heater can run at full load all day with highend graphics and 8x the RAM. It gives a substantial compute increase over a fully loaded iMac 20,2 and costs literally half as much. Overall compares insanely well with 12 core Mac Pro at 1/3 cost. Apple is still milking its market on storage and config options.
Random blabbering opinions: I am very skeptical about prospects for Intel Alder Lake in general, and for macOS almost zilch to look forward to. So in my view, this z590 is swan song, end of an era.
Nice, glad to see there are others out there making progress with the Maximus Hero XIII.
To answer your questions:
- SMBIOS:
Set to iMac20,2 - most closely resembled the newer hardware / works well for me.
- Framebuffer: According to HackinTool mine is set to an Iris 655 - Coffee Lake - 0x3EA50009 (I did not set this manually so I'm guessing it pulled as the default from my Comet Lake CPU spoof - EB060900 to get my 11900k working in big sur).
- BIOS lane assignments: I'm running 2 Samsung 980 Pros (both PCIe 4.0) so I have the M.2_2 slot enabled.
*ADVANCED -
ONBOARD DEVICES CONFIGURATION -
CPU PCIE Configuration Mode = PCIEX16_1 + PCIEX16_2 + M.2_2
Actual lane configuration is as follows
- PCIEX16_1 - 8x ( Nvidia GTX 1080 - for gaming for windows)
- PCIEX16_2 - 4x ( AMD RX 580 8gb - for big sur)
- M.2_1 - 4x (Samsung 980 Pro 1TB PCIe 4.0)
- M.2_2 - 4x (Samsung 980 Pro 1TB PCIe 4.0)
No OC just yet, AI profile set to XMP1 to get my memory running at 3600mhz. I do plan to OC the 119000 eventually, just haven't yet.
- SSD: See above BIOS lane assignments sectionOutstanding issues:
- Bluetooth randomly works some days and other days it doesn't... not really sure what's up with that.
- WiFi doesn't work at all but I know there isn't much support for the AX210 WiFi chipset.. yet.
I got super lucky and stumbled upon someone selling an MSI RX580 8gb GPU on eBay for $95 (it had been used for mining for 6 months but idc, I only use my Hackintosh for coding and surfing the web) so I gave up on messing with the iGPU of the 11900.
I'm not sure why your GB5 scores would decrease in that manner but if you find out more let me know. I just ran one and clocked in at 1536 with stock clock speeds. However, when I had my SSDT-PLUG enabled my score was half of that so I disabled it and haven't noticed any issues since.
I'm also not sure what BIOS version you're running but the latest one 0704 (Beta) gave me some seriously weird issues like random freezing, rebooting, etc. Just all around unstable. As soon as I downgraded to 0605 everything worked flawlessly and has been since.
I also run the ControlMsr2.efi driver to check my CFG-Lock and from what I can tell its unlocked by default? I haven't touched it but I haven't run into any issues with how it is.
As far as the Thunderbolt stuff goes, I've been using an SSDT from someone who mapped the Thunderbolt ports for the XIII (in that same Z490/z590 thread or possibly another one) and all 3 TB ports work for me in Big Sur (2x on the back and 1 on my PC case connected to my MOBO).
I've heard great things about the M1 chips and I know Apple is going full-steam ahead with them but I am hoping they eventually release native support for the Rocket Lake 11x chips so that they can be fully utilized. Agreed though, I would be surprised to see Alder Lake support especially with the M2 chip around the corner.
Attached is the latest copy of my EFI that I've been running with that has been working for me over the last several weeks with no issues. Big Sur 11.2.3 and OC 0.6.8.