Yes. Z690 Gaming X.
Monterey booted up on EFI without any add-ons. All cores are seen.
So far I only have a problem with setting the memory with the right timing.
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XMP profiles are not working. It ran on a manual setting of 3200MHz DDR4.
Ventura:
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Thanks for this quick look at perf...
Take aways: 10 cores of 13th gen do what 8 cores of 11th gen do plus 5%.
But prolly with less fussing and a lot less power.
Also gen-to-gen costs are decreasing a lot as this i5 does what i9 was doing 18 months ago.
This makes hack proposition seem still plausible as you might build a M1 Max equiv rig with 4x RAM and 4x onboard storage for same $2000 US as M1 Max.
(hand waving)
$ component
350 i5
250 board
100 case
75 cooler
100 PS
500 128G
350 RX6600
250 2T
On flip side, you get all the hazards of a hack—which are substantial—plus mind-numbing glitches & incompatibilities, fuzzy future, all for about 1TB of onboard and 64G RAM which prolly doesn't really help your work.
I've a split take:
The young nerd in me likes to see the opportunity!
The wiser old engineer thinks "man, Apple really, really did their homework to create amazingly capable HW" in a space where they should have been a decade behind the curve.
Intel announcing massive layoffs tells more about how the overall trend of PC advances has taken on a new shape in last 2 years.
A massive inflection has just happened.
I think the new Nvidia 4080 is the capstone of a sea change (sry
where it's so completely excessive — such brute engineering — that the PC industry must be just a complete mess.
Software has become everything and on this front we're all out of ideas even as we see a sort of rolling shazam from the new ML (AI).
Meantime the world is literally catching on fire and civilization, or maybe even life itself, may collapse...
Be of good cheer!