I'll give Monterey ago so. May aswell save the headache of upgrading later.
I was gonna use the one off HackinDROM (image attached).
Do you have a link to any of your Z590 builds and i'll take a look?
Thanks again!
A bit late here...
Re performance: All other things being equal — which they never are — If you get your kit over-clocked like a champ, and the 12th gen cores all working full steam you can expect the following geekbench
11900K: 1820 / 11400
12700K: 1950 / 15000
So that's a 7% bump on SC, which is irrelevant to any workload, and a 25% bump on MC heavy lifting. Which might be meaningful to some workload but not a game changer.
Studio Max comes in at something like:
1750 / 12500
OK so a hack can get same perf as M1 Max... The trick for the Intels is cooling: you can't cheap out or you'll be thermally capped or unstable. And getting your overclock config up to champ you will have to play with going over the edge to learn where the edge is... This is work!
Whereas with Apple you just unbox.
All the handwringing about being able to swap drives and RAM is noise. You really save nothing even given Apple's inflated prices because if you don't really need the pricey storage why are you worried about upgrading, and if you do really need the storage buy what you need which after you cost time and take your write-offs which additional price is negligible.
And if you can't tell the difference... Well there's no basis to judge.
Apple price premium means it's a solid upgrade with no surprises and help if shhh hits the fan.
NOTHING IS PERFECT BUT A HACK IS AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE LESS PERFECT.
Hacks are a hobby that easily can cost 10x an Apple kit in time spent nerding out. If you have time, but can't convert it into money, a hack might be a great deal. Just understand this also means that you don't exist as a real part of the economy, so there's no business justification for it, by definition.
If you work for pay, get tools that let you get work done.
Anyone building a hack for business who also has to ask on forums which hack config they need has no business sense.
The dood who cares for a suite of hacks in a studio setting has the job of hack system administrator, which obviously is its own cost burden.
Time is money. Unreliability is therefore money. This cannot be cheated.
If your "business" angle is "I'm scrappy and I'm lucky" then every system question becomes academic.
Please don't misunderstand about having fun. I spent huge amounts of time on my hack and it runs well, and is a point of personal enjoyment and pride. But it's the most insanely uneconomical project I've ever done. Completely crazy. Seriously to be avoided on every productive principle.
