NorthAmTransAm
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- Jul 26, 2018
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- Motherboard
- MSI Pro Z690-A DDR4
- CPU
- i7-12700k
- Graphics
- RX 580
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
Nearly finished with my z790 Mac Studio 'alternative'.. Went all out on this guy. I was actively saving up for a real Mac Studio but my needed configuration would run about $6K, eventually I just said eff it and plunked everything down on this beast:
Gigabyte Aorus Master
Intel 13900K
Powercolor RedDevil 6950XT
Crucial Vengeance 128GB DDR5
I do a ton of content creator crap as well as a lot of VM stuff. In hindsight I'm probably making the right decision sticking with Intel as I will likely need to dual boot to a valid Windows at some point (not just a Parallels VM) for testing. I don't know the state of Parallels on Apple Silicon.
I'm going to attempt to make a build log page in a day or so if it helps someone else with a similar z790 system.
Minor issues:
1 - I'm sure this is easy but as the CPU is being spoofed as Comet Lake I have no idea how to manually fill in the blank.
2 - I don't care about wifi, but I haven't figured out the Marvell Aquantia AQC113 10gig ethernet yet. Not a huge issue, I'm using a Best Buy USB-C to Ethernet dongle for the time being but it would be nice to have.
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In NVRAM like so.