*Official Benchmark Thread* - Post it here or it didn't happen :D

[Mr. Fox]

4 hours ago, electrosoft said:

I'm going to FAFO and give the Z890 Unify-X a whirl especially at $399.99 on Amazon. Worst case scenario, back it goes! I liked the MSI BIOS, but can readily admit I still find Asus BIOS to be my favorite especially now that EVGA no longer makes motherboards. 😞

 

I could see why they exited the GPU market, but I still don't understand why they also did away with their excellent motherboard division.  😠

Yeah it is a real bummer. I am puzzled as well. Maybe they didn't make enough on motherboard sales for it to be sustainable. I loved their hardware and firmware.

 

That will be a nice case upgrade for the wife. Antec makes good stuff, especially their cases.

 

I enjoyed the Intel Unify X, but the firmware kept me from loving the X870E Carbon. It was not terrible by any means, it just never rose to the level of seeming awesome... good versus great.

 

[electrosoft]

6 hours ago, electrosoft said:

In classic Asus fashion, new BIOS drops for the Z890-A Strix and now it won't boot G4 9200 at all.... 🤣 Going to retest 8000->8400+ but I'm not expecting any miracles.

 

 

 

So with the new BIOS and further tuning and goosing, I've encountered a few new things.

 

Vengeance 9200 sticks wouldn't boot with XMP timings because Corsair was Pushing Dram Write Recovery Time to 138 for some reason. That one, single XMP setting was shutting down the Strix every time. Took a little to track that one down.

 

This 265k gives up the ghost at 8400.

The Z890-A Strix gives up the ghost at 8800.

 

I can't do G2 8400 fail

I can do G4 8400 pass

I can do G4 8667 pass

I can't do G4 8800 fail

 

So the Strix-A is doing better than expected and it did fail HUB's 8800 check during its review so no shocker. May come down to binning boards at this lower tier. This is the entry level Strix board.

 

That Unify-X I ordered won't ship till next week so that gives me a few more days to at least see if I can get the board to 8800 which is my return/keep threshold.

 

If I can stabilize 8800 I'll keep it. If not, back it goes.

 

I'm thinking this 265k was an open box return to MC because someone tested the IMC and went "garbage!" and returned it. I'll probably go ahead and put some feelers on the OCN and/or grab at least 1-2 more 265k's to bin.

 

But the testing continues....