Mr. Fox

@Falkentyne - this is with the BIOS using fixed voltage set at 1.375V. I am almost thinking the voltage values reported are wrong. Look at how low the temps are. CPU-Z shows a reasonable value similar to what I have set in the BIOS, but HWiNFO and Core Temp both show an insane value. I'd like to ignore the HWiNFO info, but I don't want to kill this CPU if the information is accurate. I am wondering if the SVID is being reported erroneously (which I would normally disable, but don't see an option for that in this BIOS). The behavior is the same with stock BIOS F3, F5 and F6b and now with X4. How could my temps be this good if the voltage was really as high as what Core Temp and HWiNFO say it is? (I seriously doubt the voltage can be that high with the temps this low.) Here's what it shows in the BIOS. And, here is what HWiNFO and Core Temp are telling me. Edit: @Falkentyne - another discovery and question. It is normal for SpeedShift (not SpeedStep) to cause TurboBoost to be disabled if SpeedShift is disabled? Is that something new, or do I need to just return this motherboard and buy something different that actually functions correctly? This was my first-ever Gigabyte product and so far I'm extremely unimpressed with the firmware. I'm used to Asus and EVGA firmware, but I don't know if this nonsense I am seeing affects all Z490 or just this Aorus Master motherboard's firmware.

Sweet. Thanks, Brother @Falkentyne. I will investigate that further. I was about ready to send this board back to Amazon and try something different, so here's hoping I can get it under control. Great post of yours over at the Asus forums on Z390 tinkering. I was reading it around 3:00 AM trying to figure out what the heck is going wrong. It was running great and I lost my BIOS settings and now I am struggling to get the behavior back under control again at 5.5GHz. It's working perfect at 5.3, but I want my 5.5GHz "daily driver" settings back again. How is the Asus board you're using? Their BIOS has to be better than this. Does it have the ability to disable SVID? I am not finding that option on the Gigabyte board.

@Sparky's__Adventure and @Hicookie - thanks much. I just flashed X4 on my Aorus Master. Do you guys, or anyone else, have any suggestions on how to control the idle voltage. On my 10900KF the BIOS has voltage set a 1.452 (Fixed) but at idle in Windows it is well above 1.600V. What am I doing wrong?

This seems to be the new normal now. Far too frequent. The 'Bot just ain't what it used to be. Of course, it seems like everything "new and improved" is the exact opposite now.

Nice job. Second place (tied for first, congratulations). But, wonder why so few points awarded?

Same issue for me and the other two team captains on our team. I can view the team home page and the pages of HWBOT members that are not team captains, but cannot access my profile or the profiles of other team captains. However, if I authenticate with my user name and password, the team page produces the error in the second screen shot. I can only view the team page as an unauthenticated visitor.

Nice! Welcome to the team, bro.

Thanks for the kind words yesterday. You are posting some pretty amazing scores as well. Nice work.

Thank you! I appreciate the kind words.

@leeghoofd - thanks for the explanation. The fact that 1.91 validation is more difficult makes sense. I had not thought of that. I appreciate the reply. Now it doesn't rub me the wrong way. Take care.

I've never liked cropped screenshots, so this is not a change for me. I've never not updated to the latest version of CPU-Z, so again... not a change for me. But, I'd be lying if I didn't say I am not curious what the rationale is behind requiring CPU-Z 1.91 or later. What's up with that? I'm sure it wasn't just for giggles. Mind sharing why?

awesome job, bro

Hopefully, it is a simple fix and a moderator can address this for you, bro.

Nice!

Lots of gold with the Celeron

nice

Nice!

awesome score

On water, too. It was a happy thing. ?

You need to update the GPU model to 1080 Ti. Click on the edit link near the upper right area.

LOL Happy Tuesday.

THANK YOU. Yeah, weird way to enter the URL, but that worked. Now we both have identical PCMark 7 scores. How do you like my 8700K? http://hwbot.org/submission/3714129_

Nah, I have tried exactly what you said at least a half dozen times. No dice. I think John might be onto something with the permissions. Here's my link... https://www.3dmark.com/pcm7/1130624 Edit: Just tried it again to see if it has been fixed yet and it has not. Used URL without www or anything to the left of 3dmark as suggested and I still get exactly the same error.

Just saw this other thread, so you can merge this with it. http://forum.hwbot.org/showthread.php?t=173062 Removing the "s" does not work. I tried doing that twice and get the same error. I have tried this multiple times and removing the "S" in the URL does not work. Still get the same error about the URL.

Several members of HWBOT.org have discovered it is not possible to submit results for PCMark 7. The submission form is not recognizing the compare URL. We are attempting to submit everything required and the submission form is throwing errors. Example of the problem is shown in this screen shot: