Asus Nerfed Bios?

[AskingAlex]

Well, I'm currently running a Maximus VI Gene, with a 1230v3. Up until today, I was running on the bios that came from the factory. I had no issues, and I was running at a 37 multiplier x 103.5 bclk, for a 3.83GHz speed across all the cores. Voltages were set to auto, barely any settings were changed (I know I could've ran at a much lower voltage than it gave me, but the CPU didn't break 60 degrees load with a "passive" Arctic Cooler i30 while gaming (with one rear exhaust fan at the end of the case spinning at 700 RPM, mind you)).

 

This morning, I wanted a fresh start. I completely formatted my SSD using the ROG secure erase function in the BIOS, and I completely wiped my HDD. Next I reinstalled windows, and all was golden. The OC was still there, working perfectly as before. But then I decided to update the BIOS.

 

Now, with the latest BIOS, I am limited to a 4 core multiplier of 35. Even when set to "per core" mode, when all cores are loaded the CPU will not go above 3.5GHz. If I increase the bclk to 103.5 as I did before, the highest speed I can get is 3.519 GHz as opposed to the 3.622 that i should get, as it appears the final boost bin is being limited, for whatever reason.

 

 

 

So, I used the BIOS flashing utility in the BIOS to roll back to the initial BIOS version that my CPU supports. But guess what? The problem with the lower OC still exists. So basically, through updating the BIOS, i've gone from 3.83GHz to 3.52GHz. This obviously is not a huge difference, but it's still annoying that I've lost speed through "upgrading". Has anyone else had any experiences with this, or does anyone know a BIOS mod that could fix this? It's left me pretty salty to be honest, never thought this kind of problem could even exist  :angry:

[DEDRICK]

Never update a BIOS if everything is working properly

[Bogica]

Never update a BIOS if everything is working properly

I have to agree with this!

[MrBucket101]

Never update a BIOS if everything is working properly

 

I have to agree with this!

You guys are so helpful

 

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Unfortunately, if you can't find some item nested in the bios to correct the problem, then you might be out of luck. My gut tells me asus changed it for a reason.

 

I would possibly try searching the ROG forums, or possibly posting there. Do you know what the factory bios revision was?

[AskingAlex]

You guys are so helpful

 

Unfortunately, if you can't find some item nested in the bios to correct the problem, then you might be out of luck. My gut tells me asus changed it for a reason.

 

I would possibly try searching the ROG forums, or possibly posting there. Do you know what the factory bios revision was?

 

Mine was revision 0711 - which I have flashed back but to no success. Seems like they may have updated that reverting the BIOS won't actually change -.-

 

I'm now tempted just to get a cheap Pentium and overclock it 'till it screams, seeing as my BIOS now supports it... (updated back to the latest BIOS version, because it couldn't have done any more harm at this point)

[arniks8]

OC potential hasn't changed for me, but I have an unlocked CPU.