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Yeah it was really hard, geekbench locked up the system completely and i spent an hour torching before I ran 7Z because it was easier. I know I degraded my chip running x265 4k (only to lose to ryzen shortly after), but I don't think I degraded it by 90mV and lower clock still than last time. Does your chip have "SA Bug"? Mine does, which gets significantly worse with all cores enabled. More than 1.1v SA acts horribly(ambient, ln2 sometimes needs even less, down to 1v), while for superpi and pyprime I can get away with a little extra. My 14900KF before didn't care about SA and was a lot easier to run MT on. I couldn't even run cinebench reliably with all cores on this chip. Ambient XMP doesn’t load windows lol

Binned the two sticks I got as a prize from the qualifier with all auto voltages for 1 boot attempt each, along with the one stick I already had. (The other stick I already had fails to boot below -90), maybe 2 minutes of binning combined this morning. I was just super ready to bench LN2 again, as I've been super busy with school, and my last session was for OCWC where I tried mem valid for the first time on ln2 on this platform with only 50 minutes before I had to go to class, so that session was cut pretty short lol.

Result hidden? Wanted to see what setup you were running :D

You need to run non-updated windows 8.1, later updates on win 8.1 and win 7 break it

Awesome, still need to get to this again myself :D

Also here's the bios I'm using for z790 apex encore, just to make sure it is shared, but there is nothing special about it. It is just 9905 with the ucode from 9933 so that I don't have to disable intel default and enable MCE every time, as well as cpu fan set to always ignore and armoury crate disabled. https://www.dropbox.com/s/6lzydh3a64mzwdz/z790ae9905uc129andbclkandstuffalreadyset.CAP?st=gyr6acjz&dl=0 (needs usb flashback)

Z890 Apex 0009 https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/da34meejvax2r8gm31t91/ROG-MAXIMUS-Z890-APEX-ASUS-0009.CAP?rlkey=nl4tai3zhl1etukzfa2ap7om1&st=mk8azyvl&dl=0

Latest Z890 Apex test bios: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/20fhm5ok9fh2d2hd3m7jc/ROG-MAXIMUS-Z890-APEX-ASUS-0005.CAP?rlkey=nfcu21ruvyb5rhnxbdzq66ob8&st=j9t9afki&dl=0

Blocking on ASUS is optional, worked fine without blocking on Z170-P D3 and others. Maybe it can prevent some current going where it isn't supposed to for safety I suppose.

Yep, though on the apex it is the third one up (trace is connected to 6th pin up on the nuvoton chip)

Solder a wire between the red circle and any yellow (ground) point. Easiest one is probably the biggest component: OU1C129 , which is the same place that the image in the post I linked used. Though could also do the shorted possible run by going right across to OR661.

Only need the one mod I showed with the boardview, the other is for flashing the bios, which you already did. Pretty easy thing to solder, and you can use so much better CPUs.

Yes 9350K would work and 8700K wouldn't. As for the mod: And in more detail:

Just kaby lake based CPUs, so the dual and quad core chips.

Y-cruncher failed even though benchmate says score is valid :( Will be fixed with next bm I think.