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Quite average

GG tweak

His system was the only one that was able to run any benchmarks on Helium ^^

Can you upload the exact BIOS rom?

I get identical performance here with XOC bios and Nvidia FE bios. Can someone send me the exact bioses and conditions where there's a performance difference?

Ok, thanks for the report. Will look into it.

Are you guys checking what the actual frequency is during the benchmark for the comparisons (reported, not set frequency)? Compared to default Strix 1080Ti BIOS performance is identical.

I believe all you need is to run this tool from The Stilt StrixRX480_LN2, sticks after reboot.

Better speed up with development then

Try without it and see if you still get stuck at A2.

Which BIOS? Could it be one of the devices plugged into the board like storage or add-in cards?

Can you describe exactly what happens? Stuck at some POST code or can't enter OS? Most likely it's because DRAM frequency drops with temperature.

I can't, but our BIOS team has you covered MAXIMUS-IX-APEX-ASUS-0010-USBOC

After a quick test on M8I with 3401 and 7700K 4266 XMP works 4266 1T with loose timings works 4000 1T C12 tight works On 3401 with 6700K 4266 XMP works 4266 1T with loose timings works 4000 1T C12 tight works On 0019 with 6700K 4266 XMP doesn't work 4266 1T with loose timings works 4000 1T C12 tight works Please make a detailed report with exact settings that are not working (dump settings to FAT USB drive under Overclocking profiles, save to drive, Ctrl+F2). In case of Skylake, please provide a comparison with previous working BIOS.

Did you try 3401? Just to confirm, Kaby Lake memory overclocking is not good at the moment?

OEMPreinstall or Floppy support missing. It's in the guide for Maximus VIII.

Are you serious? Complaining about it taking a few months to enable an EOL OS on an EOL platform, released over 1.5 years ago? Yeah how many companies are ready to support that? Anyhow, I tested 3401 on M8I and it works fine with XP Try it and report back.

Sorry, no leaks from me. Might want to check out this thread though Intel Management Engine: Drivers, Firmware & System Tools

We're pretty swamped at the moment with several new platforms in the works. I don't have any update and can't promise any time frame.

OC Panel II firmware works on OC Panel I

BIOS for IGPU benching (higher voltage limits without LN2 Mode enabled) MAXIMUS-IX-APEX-ASUS-0009

I can't make any such general statements, you'll have to test yourself. New AGESA from AMD has a few bugfixes, and some improvements for DRAM performance. Manual is completely wrong regarding Q-codes, blank-8 means the CPU is not operational (for example has crashed due to instability).

Test BIOS 0079 Test BIOS with new AGESA 1004a, with a couple of bugfixes. Up to 5% performance increases in specific applications. Also has P-state overclocking working with BCLK increase. If you want to keep C-states, make sure to set Advanced\AMD CBS\Zen Common Options\Global C-state Control = Enabled. There are two new settings under AMD CBS\UMC Common Options\DDR4 Common Options\ you might want to take a look at, Fail_CNT and ProcODT. Fail_CNT decides how many times to retry when DRAM training fails (F9 -> 0d), default is now 1. ProcODT can help improve your DRAM overclocking. There's a setting available also on previous BIOSes under AMD CBS\UMC Common Options\DRAM Memory Mapping named BankGroupSwap. If you have 2x Single-Rank modules you can try setting this to Disabled and you might see some performance boost in certain applications. Test BIOS 0081 Same as 0079 but has ProcODT default = 53.3 ohm Test BIOS 0082 Same as 0081 but with a DRAM compability patch for the below part numbers CMK16GX4M4A2133C13 AHU08GGB13CGT7G PV416G240C5QK F4-2400C15Q-32GRR TCD44G2400C14BK F4-2666C16Q2-64GRB AVD4UZ126661504G BLT8G4D26AFTA.16FAD IMA41GU6MFR8N-C F0 MD16GK4D4266615AXR HX430C15PB2K4/16 HX430C15PBK4/32 AX4U3333W4G16-QGZ GAM4DBLBM2133D15IE041C TC48G24S817 SP004GBLFU213N02 78.C1GM3.AF10B F4-3200C16D-8GVKB MTA4ATF51264AZ-2G6B1 MTA8ATF1G64AZ-2G3B1 MTA16ATF2G64AZ-2G6B1 HMA41GU7AFR8N-TF T0 HMA451U7AFR8N-TF T0 HMA41GU6AFR8N-UH N0 M378A2K43BB1-CTD M378A1K43BB1-CRC M378A1G43EB1-CRC Test BIOS 0083 Same as 0079 but with "2T" DRAM Mode when using above 2666 DRAM Ratio.

Seems one of the devices connected over PCIE has issues. Try different VGA card, using M.2 drive?

Easiest would be to stay with the 2666 DRAM Ratio and increase reference clock. Or you could try higher DRAM Ratio with 18-16-16-16-35 timings. You can check what others could do here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YSZB70P71Kd4iAyxSpAZf0lc2GmyALKJOQ7vA1MhV2s/pub?output=html&widget=true