Request for advice on fine-tuning my first Hack

After some time of trial and error, I finally managed to make my first Hackintosh work (with Wifi, BT etc.). I'm really excited that it seems to be working well, and this week I'm gonna give it a try on my work routine. However, I still face some small issues that I would like to hear from you:

System:

  • i5-13600K
  • RX 6600
  • 32GB RAM
  • Rog Strix B760-A Gaming Wifi D4
  • OC 0.9.8
  • Ventura
  • MacPro7.1

FIRST: I hear some cracking noises from my speakers on analog output (that I don't hear when listening to anything using Windows, or on BT). Probably something related to Realtek driver. Has anyone seen something like that?

SECOND: Windows only boots directly from UEFI, from OpenCore it goes direcly to the blue screen of death. By now, I'm keeping it this way because I intend to use it only as a backup in case the Hack doesn't perform well in my daily use - but would appreciate if there's some hint on that.

THIRD: Although Wi-Fi (Intel) has finally started working, I don't get the same speed that I get on Windows. Could it be anything related to Wi-FI 6 support on the driver? Would I have any better results if I buy a dedicated board in the future?

FOURTH: I've run some Geekbench tests to have some hint on overall performance, and got the following results:

CPU Single Core:

  • ~ 2500 on Windows
  • ~ 1700 on macOS
  • ~ 2400 on macOS with AppleXpcmForceBoost
  • Similar Geekbench setups on Mac: 2500~2800

CPU Multi-core:

  • ~ 11800 on Windows
  • ~ 8000 on macOS
  • ~ 11100 on macOS with AppleXpcmForceBoost
  • Similar Geekbench setups on Mac: 11500~13800

GPU:

  • ~ 76000 on Windows (OpenCL)
  • ~ 76000 on Windows (Vulkan)
  • ~ 61000 on macOS (OpenCL) - below average: 71.000
  • ~ 111000 on macOS (Metal) - above average - 103.000 (!!!)

My question here is: how (non-)recommendable it is to use AppleXpcmForceBoost? If not recommendable, what should I use instead to maintain my CPU performance at least similar to those results on Windows?

I've tried to turn AppleXpcmForceBoost off and run CPUFriend + CPUFriendDataProvider (my own data and others'), but the results made no difference at all.

Is there anything that I'm missing or doing wrong?

Thanks in advance!!!

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Below are some additional info on my setup:

Kexts:

  • AirportItlwm
  • AppleALC
  • AppleIGC
  • BlueToolFixup
  • CpuTopologyRebuild
  • CpuTscSync
  • IntelBluetoothFirmware
  • IntelBTPatcher
  • Lilu
  • NVMeFix
  • RadeonSensor
  • RestrictEvents
  • SMCProcessor
  • SMCRadeonGPU
  • SMCSuperIO
  • USBToolBox
  • UTBMap
  • VirtualSMC
  • WhateverGreen

ACPI:

  • SSDT-AWAC.aml
  • SSDT-EC-USBX.aml
  • SSDT-PLUG-ALT.aml
  • SSDT-SBUS-MCHC.aml
  • SSDT-USBW.aml

Drivers:

  • HfsPlus.efi
  • OpenCanopy.efi
  • OpenRuntime.efi
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