SeanTwig
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Managed to get it to detect the USB drive. Used the same port but a small stick instead of a drive. I think it might have been because the other drive was not Fat32. So I installed the BIOS update and I restarted, everything went smoothly, however my BIOS doesn't look any different. It still lists only the 8th Gen CPU's but weirdly enough it shows me another few options that were greyed out before. I did however try to OC by turning the Auto setting for dynamic voltage control off, and set the Vcore to 1.35 and 4.7Ghz with a matching Uncore ratio. I also ensured XMP was on and turned the CPU LLC and VaxgLLC to High. Booted into windows find and ran a test with OCCT and it ran all cores at 5Ghz 70C stable for 10 minutes. Voltage was sitting a lot lower than 1.4V, somewhere around 1.3Vish. I'm gonna play a few games and see about the BIOS and whether I can get it to actually detect the 9th Gen CPU's or whether that's important or not. Also, tested Destiny 2 again last night, I'm still getting like 50fps average regardless of settings or resolution. I think that game is just broken lol
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I am running Windows 10, and I do have Q-Flash. Regardless, following the advice of Rufus' forum, I got the USB ready and still could not get it to show the device in the Q-Flash selection. It showed as a boot drive in the BIOS but I was unable to select it from the list in Q-Flash. I read something about it not being compatible with USB 3.0? I don't think I placed it in USB 3, but the Drive itself has the blue insides that you often find, however I though that was just a colouring? I am going to try again this afternoon after work to see whether or not I can get it to work. In other news, I ran Cyberpunk last night for the first time on this setup, and it ran BEAUTIFULLY! I re-installed the game after I refreshed windows nad I forgot that it would ahve reset my settings to Ultra. Loaded in and was like eww what's motion blur doing on, I thought I turned this off. Went to settings and everything was Ultra lmao. I was getting a solid 90fps in most areas at 1440p and my GPU was running at 95-99% throughout. Cpu was sitting at around 60-70%. Temps hovering at around 60C across the board (including VRM). Who knew that the buggiest AAA game from last year, ends up running the best lol.
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I tried installing it onto a fresh drive wiped with Rufus, put the files onto the drive and went to Q-Flash. Is that not what you're supposed to do? Do I have to actually attempt to force boot from BIOS onto that drive? It's honestly been over 10 years since I did this and even then it was a bunch of trial and error that took a few hours
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I have tried both and reset both to defaults to start fresh. Atm, I am currently trying to update my BIOS because I think it's not supporting the 9th Gen Intel's. I have an option for "CPU upgrade" and inside have all the available 8th Gen CPU's but they stop at the 8700K. I found the correct drivers and installed them with Rufus onto an external USB drive but it doesn't show in Q-Flash. I can see the drive as a boot drive, but it doesn't show up in Q-Flash. I even went and assigned a letter to the partition that Rufus makes to see if that made a difference, and nope. How is it current year and we are still using clunky methods to update BIOS?
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@Mister Woof @Bitter When you have time, look through this link: https://www.chiphell.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=1920322 The link is in Chinese and google translate can only do so much, but skimming through it, this guy seems to be getting the same things happen to his 9900K. High default voltages and also using a Gigabyte Mobo. His CPU seems to be working as one should expect from an enthusiast grade chip. Also, his Cinebench15 test was 2037 with all cores at 5Ghz. Mine was 1540. Now you see why I feel like I am leaving half the CPU in the box? Like I know that the Silicon Lottery is a thing and I could have a worse performing chip, but like, according to some of the benchmarks for the 8700K, that's where my CPU currently benches, which is a little less than desirable.
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Mind you, I did some testing last night running Doom Eternal with an uncapped framerate, and tried to watch a video on my second monitor and I ran into the exact same issue I was getting with my i7 8700. videos starts laggin and buffering. Change the game to cap framerate at say 144, and the video runs smooth. Something weird is definitely going on when it comes to resource allocation. It's like my PC is prioritising framerate in the game so much more that it just runs the second monitor at 10fps
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I mean, as long as it can reach 5Ghz or even 4.9 or something similar. Atm, I am running stock 3.6Ghz with some weird boosting going on. I understand that I likely won't be able to go to the moon so to speak with this mobo but, hopefully I can at least get what I paid for
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It is a Z370 board, but maybe it's because it is mATX? I didn't think that changed the BIOS for the manufacturer though. I do have another B350 board from Gigabyte that is basically unused, but I can't be arsed digging through the registry to find my windows 10 key to transfer it all. Plus, I was under the assumption that Z series boards were better for OC'ing anyway. As far as the LLC goes, what I'm going to try do is set to High and then check voltage. I might also try to find out where the dynamic voltage setting is and set it to 1.35V or something static. I definitely think that's why I am getting such high voltages in my monitoring programs. Should I just be looking at Vcore in HWiNFO64? My vague understanding is one of them is a reading for what voltage the CPU is asking for vs what voltage the CPU is currently getting.
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Hmm that's very interesting. I though there was only one way of overclocking. Increase mhz until it crashes due to low power to the cpu, at which point you increase voltage. Rinse and repeat. Very interesting to learn about the offsets. Now it makes more sense why people would use a negative offset (presumably to save power in idle states). With regards to the LLC, if I am increasing voltage to 1.35 (from what I presume the baseline would be 1V?), then would I need to put the LLC to High? Also, I would assume that in my case the dynamic voltage is the reason my CPU is cracking out 1.45V seemingly when idle and whenever it's under load it droops? That's something I still need to learn more about
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Welcome to the dangerzone! Haha But yea I think I get it. LLC basically gives your CPU more load as it needs it but if you're already increasing the base voltage, and LLC is still giving voltage it can accumulate to dangerous levels
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Yea those power limits I set through XTU. Like, I understand why everyone is saying don't use XTU it's shite, but that's how bad my BIOS is. XTU is easier to navigate lol. I think I'm going to try again tonight to mess with the LLC that @Mister Woofsaid. I have a feeling that all the settings I have set to auto are fucking with my voltages somehow. Coz there is a long ass list and all of them say auto, but don't tell you what they DO on auto lmao. Like, don't worry, papa Intel is gonna take care of those settings for you. Don't you worry about the 1.45V and throttling at 50C, we got it handled
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I don't know exactly what the LLC does, but learning via trial and error on this mobo is excedingly frustrating
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LoL I do see the irony in this, however from my perspective, I've been deliberating on this upgrade for months. I was only. Going to get a gpu. Which turned into ram because bottleneck. Which turned into cpu and cooler. Which may turn into motherboard. And yet on top of all this spending and all these extreme upgrades, I still have 70% gpu usage in my games with 70fps. My definition of hell is that did I just spend $2k for a 10% upgrade? At this point it seems so. Talk about buyers remorse lol
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I'll try that when I get home. I feel like I'm a blind man with a stick smashing buttons lmao. I don't remember overclocking to be this complex, although maybe it's changed in 10 years lol
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I checked for a bios update and it said it's up to date (2019). Please get me out of this hell
