AGESA 1.0.0.6b

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.... wardog


Edited by Xaltar - 02 Feb 2018 at 8:54pm

AlbinoRhino wrote: Performance is degraded significantly on the Killer SLI A/C using the same Bios settings when updating from v3.1 to v3.2.  -221 points in Cinebench. Performance score dropped from almost 1700 points down to 1470.

This is with clearing the BIOS before flashing to 6b?

wardog wrote: [URL=][/URL] AlbinoRhino wrote: Performance is degraded significantly on the Killer SLI A/C using the same Bios settings when updating from v3.1 to v3.2.? -221 points in Cinebench. Performance score dropped from almost 1700 points down to 1470. This is with clearing the BIOS before flashing to 6b?

The procedure I used is one that I've always used.
1. Download bios, unpack it to my USB drive.
2. Boot into UEFI, Load Bios Defaults, Save and Exit, reboot into Windows once.
3. Boot into UEFI, flash new Bios, Save and Exit. Load Windows once.
4. Boot into UEFI, apply CPU OC, Save and Exit. Boot into Windows once.
5. Boot into UEFI, apply RAM OC, Save and Exit. Boot into Windows, Benchmark.

As soon as I reverted back to 3.1 using the above method my scores are normal again.

Next I will clear the CMOS with a battery pull and a jumper reset to see if it makes a difference.

No profiles are saved. You also can't use a profile you've saved on a USB drive on an alternate Bios. Ex: a saved profile from 3.1 will not be recognized at all on 3.2.

I do my CPU OC first since I always attempt a lower CPU voltage to see if the new Bios improves it.

The RAM OC is simply setting XMP to 2933 since I've given up on 3200 and cannot remember how I got 3066 stable. I wasn't expecting a change in the XMP profile this go around since it stated in the release notes that the compatibility code wasn't touched.

Kudos to ASRock on the change notes BTW.

Updated the BIOS on my Taichi from 3.0 to 3.1. IBT ran ~160.16 seconds on 3.0 and 163.09 seconds on 3.1. The max core temp increased from 65.5C to 67.5C. Cinebench cpu numbers went from 1718 on 3.0 to 1717 on 3.1 and the OpenGL numbers went from 95.35 on 3.0 to 94.66 on 3.1. I guess the differences could be attributed to needle quiver!?

However, using Pstates for the 3.9GHz OC under 3.1 the minimum idle Vcore drops to ~.368V versus the .900V in Pstate2. The minimum cpu speed dropped to 2200 as it should have based on the Pstate2 settings. That is a step backward from 3.0 where the minimum Vcore and cpu speed were the same as Pstate2 specified.

Edited by Ken429 - 07 Sep 2017 at 4:21am