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[Talon]

1 hour ago, Mr. Fox said:

Yes, everything is maxed out on power and current limits. This is 57x all P and 50x all E. Same score. 1.385-1.400V and all return the same score, give or take about 50 points. Weird. 

And, only 76 processes running in Windoze 11. Temps are fine. No thermal throttling. 

 

What BIOS version and ME are you using @Talon?

Im on the latest version, but I’ve heard people say it has internal limiters or something and you can’t downgrade.

 

Something does seem to be limiting you. 
 

I know you could probably score higher by undervolting (very small undervolt with offsets) on P/E cores but it might introduce instability long term. 
 

When I get home I’ll check my score tomorrow. On the road till then unfortunately. 

[Mr. Fox]

38 minutes ago, Talon said:

Im on the latest version, but I’ve heard people say it has internal limiters or something and you can’t downgrade.

 

Something does seem to be limiting you. 
 

I know you could probably score higher by undervolting (very small undervolt with offsets) on P/E cores but it might introduce instability long term. 
 

When I get home I’ll check my score tomorrow. On the road till then unfortunately. 

No rush. It is working fine otherwise. I tested 9931 and it is the same as 9901. I'm surprised if they were not able to downgrade using the flash recovery method. That always worked before (and does on AMD) even when ASUS says you cannot go back. I may test that on one BIOS position to find out if it is really true or not. I may just take a Macrium image of my current OS and install an older version of Windoze with no debloating mods to rule that out as a possible cause.

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