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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.

Yeah 2505, I would start on 2702 and if you have bad CB and can’t solve, try 2505 before giving up.

But I had lots of issues on LN2 with this bios, main one is that instead of the usual CBB behavior of C5 or whatever, the board just didn’t react to start button. Then also just that high memory clock on ln2 was way less stable and I could only run -88. Lastly, this cpu did -180 to -190 before and now it freezes at -110. Also got socket replaced on it since then but I need to test old bios again. Main purpose of this anyway though was to compare ambient to ln2 frequency to gauge what my ambient goal needs to be

Have Renesas PMIC? There's no OC PMIC for RDIMM, but renesas can still be hacked. My new dimms have richtek so also 1.435 :( , and on Intel they have issues with oc, not sure why.

UNOFFICIAL BIOS for Z790 APEX Encore based on 9905 that: Fixes MCE on HX CPUs Fixes Tri/Quad GPU AVX512 for Alder Lake without breaking 0x11F Microcode switcher (not bclk ucode) Disables CPU_FAN warning by default Disables Armoury Crate by default https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Wo6kRuFDjjznaC6U-lrOC4fC9wxKx2ih/view?usp=sharing Need to flash with USB Bios Flashback (Rename to A5470.CAP) Change from before is that CSM now properly enables itself on its own for legacy GPUs and long/failed first boot fixed EDIT: Link updated to fix win 11 bsod

good enough?

Need to disable PCI for it to work on XP. On AM5 too. CPUz 2.0-2.03 works but is completely incorrect.

9 GHz KF was 114 lol

I think the font size for the competition/stage name should be the same as for the rest of the fields and tabs.

Haha don’t worry, this result was done using Liquid Nitrogen to cool the CPU, running the pcores at 7.6 GHz and the ecores at 5.9.

Ah so do you get freezing AFTER the score every time too? Most I could run without freezing after the end was 8280. Nice score though regardless!

Not over my last score of 8.902, which was at lower cpu/mesh/mem, for some reason it was slower than that, but this parallel framework made it faster. But over 3435X? Yeah I'm pretty sure 16 cores doesn't need 8 channel mem, so the higher cache and much lower latency helps, though I would still like to try one.

Why only 2.6 mesh out of curiosity? Should be able to do the max of 2.7 without any extra voltage

3DMark 2001SE Ryzen only all out - Misc I guess

If it didn’t crash it would get ECC errors :(

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cccDcSac5rxPATm_1D76TD2lOqs27Erj/view?usp=sharing Old bios but if you want it here you go

12600HX and 12900HX and 13900HX etc using BGA to LGA adapter. Can be found on aliexpress, just search 12600HX. (Raptor not yet)

Actually that’s really smart, because I think I remember Bill say that it turns out on its own at -40 or something 🤔🤔🤔