Anyone else with an ASUS X570 mobo on ABBA AGESA tried using the "OC Tuner" button in their BIOS?
I flashed the 1201 BIOS on my Asus Tuf Gaming X570-Plus (WiFi) yesterday, then accidentally clicked it having changed nothing else (including not even setting DOCP on the RAM). The system quickly reboot with a 4.1GHz base clock at 1.1v.
I ran Cinebench R20 MT and got higher scores than previously where it would also run Cinebench at 4.1GHz but at 1.33v. Of course, it wouldn't then boost beyond 4.1GHz on a single core.
Naturally, I figured that I could do better myself so I set the clock targets to 4.275GHz all core at 1.1v. Cinebench ran perfectly fine, and gave a MT result that was almost identical to when I previously ran 4.35GHz all-core at 1.425v in the past.
Of course, the ABBA AGESA was primarily supposed to be about achieving advertised boost clocks. Having not actually tested this on my accidental "OC Tuner" mess-around, I decided to reset the BIOS to defaults.
Cinebench MT runs remained the same at around 4.1GHz at unnecessarily high voltages. ST did boost higher than I'd seen on all previous BIOSes (other than release BIOS), and it ran Cinebench at around 4.325GHz, sometimes higher and other times lower. For the first time I got a score in excess of 500 at 502.
In HWINFO64 I also saw that at least 2 of the cores exceeded 4.4GHz in the, admittedly very brief, time that I had it running. Previously it would only get to 4.325GHz at best.
The question I have for myself is whether I feel it worthwhile to let it operate normally, or to utilise the OC Tuner function but use Ryzen Master to set it to target 4.275GHz. Do I feel it is worth the extra performance at default over reduced temps/power using OC Tuner?
As an added extra I also tried increasing the voltage in OC Tuner mode with increased clocks. I was able to run Cinebench MT at 4.375GHz for 1.325v, having previously only been able to run 4.35GHz at 1.425v. I set my new highest score of 3948 against 3874 in the past (3875 at 4.275GHz at 1.1v).
So two observations from my less than perfect testing merhodology with ABBA AGESA; higher clocks (at default and OC Tuner mode), higher scores (at default and OCTuner mode). A third observation was that my temperatures were (for the first time) very close to the 95C thermal limit under some of the test conditions.