Z690 Chipset Motherboards and Alder Lake CPU

[xtreem.p]

With Alder Lake being so new, I'm really glad there are those pushing the development of getting macOS running on the new platform. Personally, I'm pretty happy with my workflow and running with my almost 3 year old Z390 Designare with 9900K for music that has been flawless and still plenty of power even on heavy track/plugin count in Logic. Ill be following the progress in this thread though!

 

[ori69]

Let's update the table:

• CPUFriend enabled
• AppleXcpmForceBoost disabled

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First test 8 P-Cores HT-ON

Last test 8 P-Cores HT-ON + CPUFriendDataProvider.kext

 

[AndyKramer]

First test 8 P-Cores HT-ON

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Last test 8 P-Cores HT-ON + CPUFriendDataProvider.kext

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Nice! I am wondering what would be the case when adding a 128GB DDR4 since it is supported by the motherboard. Would we be able to see a significant difference?

 

[ori69]

Nice! I am wondering what would be the case when adding a 128GB DDR4 since it is supported by the motherboard. Would we be able to see a significant difference?

I will check tomorrow because I do not have 128GB of RAM.

 

[nottooshabby]

Wow 2000 single core scores compared to around ~1300 for i9-9900K at 5GHz. That's awesome. Do these systems feel noticeably faster. I can't imagine something more responsive than what I have now, but you know when you use it.

Will be interested to see benchmarks with DDR5 and eventually Raptor Lake.

 

[AndyKramer]

First test 8 P-Cores HT-ON

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Last test 8 P-Cores HT-ON + CPUFriendDataProvider.kext

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This is really interesting, for reminder on a MacBook Pro M1 Max you get 1759 Single-Core Score and 12514 Multi-Core Score. For the price/speed, we still got years to come with the Hackintosh.

 

[darthsian]

First test 8 P-Cores HT-ON

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Last test 8 P-Cores HT-ON + CPUFriendDataProvider.kext

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Which SMBIOS are you using in the first test? "CPUFriendDataProvider.kext" i dropped here have injected frequency vectors from iMacPro1,1... so if you are using SMBIOS iMacPro1,1 it should have the same Geekbench result with and without this kext.

Do you have enabled AVX512 in BIOS? If all E cores are disabled, AVX512 should be able to be turned on and you can take little bit more points in Geekbench 5

 

[CaseySJ]

@CaseySJ what about AirPlay? It works?

Oh yes!

Here I'm playing Foundation on tv+ app on iPhone 13, but AirPlaying it to this Z690 Hackintosh (Monterey 12.0.1). Furthermore, the photo was AirDropped from the same iPhone 13 to this Hackintosh.

 

[ori69]

Which SMBIOS are you using in the first test? "CPUFriendDataProvider.kext" i dropped here have injected frequency vectors from iMacPro1,1... so if you are using SMBIOS iMacPro1,1 it should have the same Geekbench result withand without this kext.

Do you have enabled AVX512 in BIOS? If all E cores are disabled, AVX512 should be able to be turned on and you can take little bit more points in Geekbench 5

From the beginning I use SMBIOS iMacPro1,1, because it achieves better results. Perhaps this increase occurred because I turned RAM up to 3400MHz.

BIOS Settings AVX:

 

[darthsian]

From the beginning I use SMBIOS iMacPro1,1, because it achieves better results. Perhaps this increase occurred because I turned RAM up to 3400MHz.

BIOS Settings AVX:
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So, if you are using iMacPro1,1, don't use CPUFriend + CPUFriendDataProvider.kext provided here, its created for MacPro7,1.

Whats in "AVX Disable"?

This is how enable AVX512 looks like on Asus BIOS.