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*** The Official Alder Lake owners thread ***

It says version F8a, so I assume a b is planned and they are letting people be beta testers for a!

I will pass the BIOS version along to the next person with a very long stick :D
 
Gigabyte have released F8b BIOS, I will not update still because.... reasons :p

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Seems to note more compatibility for RAM modules. I have everything working perfect so won't be touching it lol.
 
Yeah at 3600MHz mine is unstable, at 3500MHz it is 100% stable, that's with tweaked memory voltages and system agent etc too. Performance wise it is a 0% difference so I just keep it at 3500MHz.
 
I've bumped up my dram voltage to 1.37v as had an out of the blue CTD from Resident Evil Village recently. I'm actually not sure whether to do that or just notch up the VCCSA however. I guess if it remains stable at this, keep as is.
 
Yep 1:1 is 3200MHz which by default will be Gear 1. I don't know what the Gigabyte board does with auto for gear mode but I guess I will set it manually and retest a bunch of apps. I am not bothered about gaming performance as the 3080 Ti flies through everything and I have Gsync ultimate so framerates are a non issue. It's mostly my workload stuff that I would like to maximise the RAM bandwidth for as exporting/processing etc takes up large chunks of this 64GB kit and this kit is CAS 18 so not exactly "gaming grade" but still adequate I think without being ludicrously priced like lower timed kits seem to be now.

I will try Gear 2 now at 3600MHz and leave everything else as is and test an export in Lightroom with say 20 RAWs and see how long it takes in both. Lightroom now supports GPU accelerated exporting, so I fully expect the GPU VRAM and system RAM to play a key role in how they handle each other's respective bandwidth differences.
 
Hmm so good news and bad news! In Gear 2 with the RAM set at 3600MHz, I get no boot and the system boots after a hard reset with a message saying boot failure detected and that some settings may not be compatible. Can enter BIOS, load optimised defaults etc. So it would seem that with 64GB (2x16GB modules), on this board, the system isn't stable when the RAM is at 3600MHz. I did get it to boot once but I got a BSOD within moments of the desktop and apps re-appearing where I left off.

I have dropped to 3200MHz so it's all 1:1 and did some testing in Lightroom.

Exporting 50x RAW files full res to JPEG to the desktop (NVMe gen 3):

Gear 1 @ 3500MHz: 28s
Gear 2 @ 3600MHz: BSOD!
Gear 1 @ 3200MHz: 27s

So basically no different between 3200MHz Gear 1 and 3500MHz Gear 1 l lol if my simple test is anything to go by. If this translates to other apps as well (Lightroom exporting is system heavy tbf) then I think the stability of 3200MHz and the 1:1 of Gear 1 will be the sweet spot.
 
Vimes said:
@mrk IIRC going from Gear 1 to 2, or Auto wasn't as simple as making a change and then restarting the PC. I needed to do a full reset of the BIOS, get that to boot ok and then go back in to restore my fan profile and make other adjustments. By default it seemed to pick up the appropriate Gear move as required, per SPD rating of the RAM.

Overall a decent result for you. Hopefully it will work out well with your usage.
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Hmm interesting, that would explain that then. I'm at 3200MHz 1:1 and cba with the faff again so will just leave be I think. Lightroom export has shown that there is no difference which I imagine is thanks to the recently added GPU acceleration improvements Adobe have enabled. I will leave be I would say now.
 
The joys of chipsets, BIOS and mobos eh.

I will keep an eye on things but I've come to realise that the bigger numbers aren't always all that, at least not without faff.
 
Hmm well my temps have been low since day 1 so if one day I get a TG Frame, I know my temps are likely to end up being even lower still so that's good news at least. I am unlikely to change anything until 13th/14th gen though so Freezer II will remain in place for quite some time yet. I think my application of the grizzly paste has filled in any deviation in contact gaps between the AIO block and the IHS which has resulted in good levels of thermal transfer.
 
I have the Gaming X - No major issues with it, depending on the RAM you have, there might be some issues running it at 3600MHz out of the box so may need to tweak voltages/RAM settings etc as per previous posts in the thread. Otherwise a fine board.
 
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