New microcode fix for 13th/14th gen. Thoughts?

[Rroff]

I am not overly familiar with XTU, but could that have made changes to what the default Intel profile was when selected..? Assuming that you have checked that tho.
Running R23 with the 253W max settings, as noted, will show the 253w as the maximum attained, within HWiFO64, as well as being the reason for the limitation.

I am unsure, some doubt was cast when @Grim5 posted a BZ video, not with the latest microcode, to suggest that Intel's Default profile is needed for the microcode to work....

14th Gen "Raptor Lake Refresh"

Have you taken a performance hit by doing so? I haven't benched to notice. But more than likely I have.

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not sure if that has changed.

The whole situation is messy.

I was only using XTU to display info, it wasn't changing anything. I think I need to do a proper reset of the BIOS.

From what I've seen so far the vmin shift problem seems to arise with certain chips and/or with motherboard settings especially enhancements - the incorrect voltage behaviour doesn't cause an issue for every chip.

Interestingly the problem seems to have been exposed by an older microcode update which fixed a problem with some chips and caused a problem with others and at microcode level it isn't possible to distinguish what chips need which approach.

 

[Vimes]

I was only using XTU to display info, it wasn't changing anything. I think I need to do a proper reset of the BIOS.

From what I've seen so far the vmin shift problem seems to arise with certain chips and/or with motherboard settings especially enhancements - the incorrect voltage behaviour doesn't cause an issue for every chip.

Interestingly the problem seems to have been exposed by an older microcode update which fixed a problem with some chips and caused a problem with others and at microcode level it isn't possible to distinguish what chips need which approach.

Not sure if it was due to doing a BIOS reset after flashing this latest microcode but it then seemed to work as expected. As you note, at some point that could be helpful for yourself.

I note "messy" due to uncertainty, ambiguity and so many other factors contributing, or not, to this situation. Board manufacturers profiles are a little "ambitious", it seems.........

 

[Nitefly]

@Gorbash12346 ?! As in… Flight of the Dragons?! Great username

 

[Gorbash12346]

@Gorbash12346 ?! As in… Flight of the Dragons?! Great username

It is indeed. Nobody seems to recognise it.

I'm still getting audio drop-outs on my 13900k/ z790 extreme. I'm trying to see if latencymon will log something while I'm running Rocksmith 2014 or + (both of them are doing it so I doubt it's not hardware related and nothing else has changed bar the BIOS revisions.)

Anybody have any suggestions for other software I can use to keep an eye on execution times etc?

I notice that now my BIOS revision has been labelled a Beta (It wasn't when i downloaded it.)

Thanks!


*edit* I've just seen they pulled the 2602 version and have released a new 2703 BIOS for my motherboard. Fingers crossed it helps as I'm completely fed up with the whole thing at the moment.

 

[Grim5]

Looks like 15th gen needs new microcode too
Intel programmers busy

 

[Gorbash12346]

Well I thought that everything was peachy.
BIOS version 2703 seems to have sorted my audio drop-out issues. Only I now find I have a new gremlin to deal with.

Playing Satisfactory and I keep getting a blank screen for a few seconds and then it comes back up with the monitor settings etc like the input has just been recognised.
not accompanied with a sudden fan speed increase though. Not sure if related or just coincidence but I had been running it for weeks before this with no issue.
Any thoughts before I give up entirely?

 

[G J]

MSI finally released the latest update for my Pro z690-A DDR4 and everything is fine on the stock Intel default profile regarding voltages/thermals etc... using HWiNFO though I dont have the fancy monitoring hardware some people have.

Too early to say regarding stability as it's only been a couple of days as my system was fine before the bios/microcode updates and I've not had any weird problems like Gorbash12346 and others have had though multiple runs of Cinebench, OCCT and CPU-Z are fine with no decrease in perfomance.