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Kryptonfly over at overclock.net did this BIOS mod using AI. Imagine that, AI did something useful for a change LMAO. He managed to do the BIOS edits using Claude which is just incredible and crazy. It's still a work in progress, getting into the BIOS menu is only possible on first boot, unless you CPU swap/re-insert 273PQE. This will hopefully be solved soon as it's making tuning/testing things a pain as you get one shot and if it breaks the boot, you cannot get back in until you do the process over again. I'm thinking about just getting a heavy metal pot and resting on the CPU while testing. I think that might work and would make testing much faster. So far I've only tested Battlefield 6, and it works beautifully. All cores boost properly to 5.4Ghz locked which is more than adequate for this chip. Speaking of boost, right now single core boost to 5.9Ghz is not working, but that might just be me needing to change a bios option. Will keep testing. I got a little heavy handed on first boot and wanted to change everything, and it got fussy at either C-States or XMP, my guess is XMP. It might be one of those FSP-M issues where I can only use manual tuning for memory, XMP might be a no fly zone. As long as I can tune memory, this chip will be awesome. So far I've booted 5600 Jedec 2x32gb, which is nicely above the 4800 I was locked to on my Industrial W680 board. Guess I can send that back lmao. Will report further findings as I figure them out. For now though, am loving this chip on Z790.

Sometimes this is why I love this hobby. O it's no supposed to work Intel? Lets see about that.

"Empowered" LMAO.

This looks pretty sick, I especially like that it’s coop.

Remember when they told us that 13th and 12th gen wouldn't work with APO? That is my biggest issue with Intel. They did say IBT has specific silicon "hooks" but I doubt. They said they're looking into bringing it in some fashion to ARL 1. Tells me they're waiting to see how initial sales look before they make that decision.

Being mislead by tech tubers telling you that you have to install 'additional' software was your first mistake. The Intel Performance Package is literally a motherboard driver that you install just like my 9850X3D has Chipset drivers that installs a 3D V-Cache Performance Optimizer and Platform Power Management drivers. No longer do you have to enable anything in the BIOS, it's all on by default, you no longer download the overlay (was never required before anyways) from the Microsoft store as it's all been brough in house, single Intel PPP Driver which installs everything. Intel PPP driver is now on the Intel website as well as your motherboard support page. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/869519/intel-platform-performance-package.html Intel simply brough it all under one roof now, a single driver that does it all which is how it should have been. It's a great fix. So PPP isn't a gimmick, it's literally Platform Power Management and Optimizations that every single vendor does. I'm not sure how this misunderstanding even started.

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/17330779 Geekbench doesn't like me being able to wipe the field of other x86 CPUs like this lol. Can't hurt AMD fanboy feelings. But I absolutely agree Intel needs to stop with the single gen optimization BS. They need to commit to a timeline, say 5 years of guaranteed support for SKU optimizations. It's my biggest gripe with this strategy. I do feel Intel is not going to stop here though with IBOT, I expect multiplayer games will be added soon, especially listening to Robert at Intel speak recently when he very quickly said "not yet". IBOT and the large cache next gen is very likely going to be a big game changer for Intel, they will eventually force IBOT on by default just like APO.

Yep! That 285K might have actually been better than my 285K I am running lol. I didn't really test the 2 fully, but that 285K I sold you did my 8400 CL38 tune, same voltages, ran 40x D2D no issue, and only had a very slightly higher P core voltage and ring voltage. But it still did the same 41x ring and 56x P cores. The chip I sold you also booted higher E core on auto voltages lol. I can boot the higher E core clocks on this chip, but the low voltage V/F stops it from scaling unless I go in adjust the V/F offset for point 8. I think that is mostly a function of interpolation failing, while your slightly higher voltage allows for better interpolation and boots with no adjustments. But ya my 285K can't do 40x D2D unless I run a manual voltage, but I've been gaming on it and testing it for a couple days now and no issue at 40x. If we had a higher ceiling you'd likely be able to go higher since you still have voltage room.

Are you on the latest BIOS? I updated last week and got around to tuning it a bit more. I've found on the latest BIOS, I can now tune VNNAON manually without issue, maybe I always could and never tried. I thought I remember it causing instability when touched around launch and I never tried again. Now latest BIOS, I can push D2D up to max 40x without issue, stable. I just can't use the Asus auto voltage for VNNAON. This sample needs 1.12v instead of auto 1.012v. I had a 285K that could do 40x auto voltage, but P cores were just ever so slightly worse so I kept this 38x-39x auto chip. Now I've been testing and using 40x for a couple days and it's having zero issues. Sure it doesn't amount to much, but more mental wanting to max it out lol. It's honestly a shame Intel has killed off 1851 entirely and 270K Plus will be all they release. My guess with same crap 40x limitations in place. Panther Lake has a very high D2D apparently and they've fixed the latency issues.

Nice results! That board and CPU look like a great value. I'm extremely confused by Intel's decision to delay a Refreshed SKU until that time frame given Nova Lake is supposed to be out later this year. Reminds me of 11th gen and 12th gen. Either they had to heavily bin to get chips able to run the new clocks or they actually fixed some things under the hood. I'm leaning towards heavy binning, but hoping for actual latency fixes that can make the refresh something that will be more impressive over an overclocked ARL chip. I also ordered a 12 core BTL-S chip lol. Mouser had them as out of stock backorder, and I decided I wanted something else to mess around with. The order went through and according to them, they have ordered one from the factory lol. I'll be shocked if it ever arrives, more shocked if it works. 🤞🤞

I haven't seen a A02 version of the board yet. I've only ever seen A01. But I assume that board was returned because of that fact. I had a board from Amazon that was terrible. The Nitro Path Asus is using has made 4x boards viable now. I wish they would have done some magic like that for the 2x boards. $300 for a Z80 AYW and 265K, absolutely insane.

I always thermal grizzly PTM sheet on the core. No pump out, excellent/even temps, and zero risk. Stock had a PTM pad as well. I’m super happy I was able to fix the memory temps. I figured it’s either a heatsink design issue or bad pads. Glad it was fixable with quality pads.

Decided I wanted to repad my RTX 5090 HOF VRAM as the memory temps are atrocious since I got the card. Even with an undervolt and gaming at 500-600w, the memory temps would climb to around 82-84c which is a bit toasty for me. My old TUF ran around 70c on memory temps under load. I for some reason though the pads were 1.5mm and so I ordered some thermal grizzly advanced minus 8 pads. Turns out they were actually 1.0mm (still tried them as they compress decently). They were just too thick and the core wasn't getting good contact and it was hitting 86c lol. Tore the card down again and tried some old 1.0mm I found in my closet collection. These were absolutely shit, worse than the stock pads. Hitting 96c on memory temps with good core temps. Thought I was out of options and was just going to put it all back together with the stock pads. Decided I would try my spare Asus TUF 5090 pads I had on a spare heatsink I had purchased (long story). Luckily the pads were all in good shape and I was able to easily remove them for use on the Galax card. They were also 1mm and super compressible. I applied the pads and booted up with my fingers crossed I wouldn't need to tear the card down again. These pads are amazing, my memory temps now peak around 66-70 under 500-600w gaming loads with better than ever core temps. Finally this card is running awesome with the air cooler. I still need to break it down and to full water, but I'm waiting for my rebuild with Nova Lake later this year lol. I'm planning to finally swap PSU, coolers, the works at that time. I figured I'll go water then. TLDR; the Asus thermal pads used on VRAM is actually some super quality stuff which is why their memory temps are so good compared to other brands. I think MSI also uses similar pads as their vram temps are also amazing and slightly better than both my Asus and Galax card.

LOL yep! Same exact PSU. I RMA'd with MSI and they sent me back that brand new ATX 3.1 version.

There are some new ones for just $431 on Amazon right now. I hope you get a good one! I actually had to return an Apex to Amazon for absolutely shit tier memory OC. I learned it's definitely possible to get a bad binned board, something I had not experienced before. I really want Intel to drop the ARL Refresh in January since I have vacation and will have time to tinker and bin. But I saw a rumor of a March release which to me is just wild. Why would they drop a new CPU refresh, about 6-9 months before Nova Lake. But maybe the rumor I saw of a fixed IO is the reason. If Intel actually fixed the IO, then we might actually see the latency fixed and there could be significant gains. The rumors of 10-30% gaming gains could be true then. If they fixed gaming that much without huge cache, then Nova Lake with this fix and huge cache could be an absolute monster.