Experience with MSI PRO Z790-P or MSI PRO Z690 DDR5 Motherboards?

User Support Hardware Issues
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The MSI PRO Z690 DDR4 works good with Qubes. Somebody has experience with MSI PRO Z790-P or with the MSI PRO Z690 DDR5 Motherboards?

They supports also Coreboot.

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Dasharo v0.9 for the Z790 was released today for anyone with a paid subscription.

I don’t have any experience with the Z790 version, but I’ve been using the Z690 version for over a year, the early access announcement says the Z690 and Z790 have the same feature.

I just ordered an 13900K and MSI Z790-p DDR4, I’m fairly confident it’s going to work like the Z690.

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Why not the MSI Z790-p DDR5?

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I would save around $300 on the board and not having to buy new memory.

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What think you about this?

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I bought the Z690 ddr5 and flashed it using their DTS software and it works perfectly. Typing to you from it right now on Qubes.

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I’m looking for an ITX format, using stock UEFI, would any of this MSI support translate to a MSI MPG z760I Wifi board ? https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/MPG-Z790I-EDGE-WIFI/Specification

I’m thinking an i5-12600k cpu and 2 sticks of 48gb RAM

CORSAIR VENGEANCE RGB DDR5 RAM 96GB (2x48GB) 5600MHz CL40 Intel XMP iCUE Compatible Computer Memory - Black (CMH96GX5M2B5600C40)

which the MSI site seems to show as compatible at least with a version number

CORSAIR CMH96GX5M2B5600C40 ver3.53.02 DDR5 4800 5600 Spectek B 1.25 DUAL 48

Kind of a big investment, and everything has to be shipped, so trying to do due diligence.

Any comments ?

PS: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/certified-hardware/ says

To be compatible with Qubes OS, the BIOS must properly expose all the VT-x, VT-d, and SLAT functionality that the underlying hardware offers (and which we require). Among other things, this implies **proper DMAR ACPI table** construction.

would this board have a “proper DMAR table” ?