X570 Aqua 1.60 BIOS report - All good!
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Topic: X570 Aqua 1.60 BIOS report - All good!
Posted By: midnightcruise
Subject: X570 Aqua 1.60 BIOS report - All good!
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2019 at 6:30am
Just a quick report in on the new 1.60 BIOS with the AQUA motherboard.
New BIOS: 1.60 released on 2019/11/15 (AMD AGESA Combo-AM4 1.0.0.4 Patch B).
Original BIOS: 1.41
Flashed my ASRock X570 AQUA with 1.60 BIOS yesterday and:
1. Benchmarks are a few % better.
a. Cinebench R20 score went up from 7204 to 7220.
2. CPU temperature is 5-7c cooler under load and at idle.
3. CPU clock was rarely hitting 4.2GHz before the update, now I see 4.5GHz often.
4. Memory latency has not improved, but I was not expecting it to.
5. Boot time has greatly improve. I have not timed it, but it's very noticeable.
With 1.60 BIOS:
UserBenchmarks: Game 116%, Desk 169%, Work 159%
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X - 100.1%
GPU: Nvidia RTX 2070 - 110.4%
SSD: Nvme Samsung SSD 970 2TB - 403.9%
SSD: Edge NextGen SSD 2TB - 312.7%
RAM: G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3600 C16 4x16GB - 126.2%
MBD: Asrock X570 AQUA
With the 1.41 BIOS:
UserBenchmarks: Game 113%, Desk 155%, Work 153%
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X - 95.4%
GPU: Nvidia RTX 2070 - 109.5%
SSD: Nvme Samsung SSD 970 2TB - 375.7%
RAM: G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3600 C16 4x16GB - 124.6%
MBD: Asrock X570 AQUA
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Replies:
Posted By: grrnmo
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2019 at 10:24am
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Awesome - did your tb3 ports work before the update? Mine did not, and they do now...46/999
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Posted By: midnightcruise
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2019 at 10:39pm
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Sadly, I do not have any TB3 devices to test... Did your ports not work till the update to 1.60?
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Posted By: grrnmo
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2019 at 5:05am
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They didn't work at all until the update - not just for TB3 devices, but even for c-type USB devices (note: the front panel usb-c port on my case - fed by the mb - worked fine)...
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