Asus website help

Wing-Man · 19 May 2023 at 11:25

Can anyone ceg on the asus website page for asus h110i-plus bios, i just keep getting an error message but all the other motherboard i put in work just fine..

Im trying to help my friend speed up an old PC, we have get a new CPU and some ram in the post but his bios is from 2016 and XMP wont work passed 2133mhz..
im wanting the most up to date bios file

Orcvader · 19 May 2023 at 12:06

This board? https://www.asus.com/supportonly/h110i-plus/helpdesk_bios/?model2Name=H110I-PLUS

BIOS downloaded just fine for me (version 4242).

Wing-Man · 19 May 2023 at 12:09

That’s so strange I just clicked the link on my phone and it works.
On my pc it says site is down for improvements..

Anyway thanks very much I got it now

Tetras · 19 May 2023 at 22:44

Wing-Man said:
Im trying to help my friend speed up an old PC, we have get a new CPU and some ram in the post but his bios is from 2016 and XMP wont work passed 2133mhz..

Which CPU is it? H110 is still restricted to 2133 with 6th gen, XMP can't bypass that, but 2400 is possible with 7th gen.

Wing-Man · 19 May 2023 at 23:15

Tetras said:
H110 is still restricted to 2133 with 6th gen,

dam... yes it is a 6500.
i remember having 2666mhz but i did have a z170

Tetras · 20 May 2023 at 13:44

Wing-Man said:
dam... yes it is a 6500.
i remember having 2666mhz but i did have a z170

Yeah, Z170 was unlocked for memory, but they didn't unlock other boards until 10/11th gen (B560), though I think H610 is still locked even now (it just doesn't matter unless you buy a DDR5 one: 4800 max with 12th gen).

Wing-Man · 23 May 2023 at 08:04

I haven’t ordered my friend a 6th gen cpu yet. If I get a 7th gen will the ram run faster?

He needs an upgrade but can’t afford it so I was going to grab him a 6700 but I have get a 7700 for a few £££’s more

Tetras · 23 May 2023 at 12:09

Wing-Man said:
If I get a 7th gen will the ram run faster?

Yeah, but the benefit of 2400 is minimal really, the main advantage of kaby cpus is that they each have an all-core clock about 300 Mhz faster.

Wing-Man · 23 May 2023 at 12:11

He would be moving from single channel 2133 to dual at 2400mhz and 6500 to 7700

That would feel a lot smoother in games ?

Orcvader · 23 May 2023 at 12:33

Wing-Man said:
He would be moving from single channel 2133 to dual at 2400mhz and 6500 to 7700

That would feel a lot smoother in games ?

Moving from single channel to dual channel alone will be a huge boost in terms of memory bandwidth, but in terms of real world performance it will depend on the rest of the system. What GPU? HDD or SSD? Resolution?

Wing-Man · 23 May 2023 at 12:38

It was a pre build system from a long time ago. it had a GTX780 but a few years ago he added a 5600xt

CPU i5 6500
GPU is a 5600xt
Storage is a 1tb MX500 SSD
Games at 1080p
and a single 8gb 2133 stick of green ram

He cant afforded a new system, i can afford ram and CPU for him. im looking at spending £80 for both