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Update, figured since it's a new BIOS version and so far things have been booting and running good, that I'd try booting at 3600MHz, keep in mind I had trouble booting on previous BIOS versions at 3600 gear 1, well now it's all good! Looks like it took Gigabyte 5 versions before finally nailing it lol. Everything is back on auto as well.

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That's shaved off over 10ns latency, I could probably drop to CL17 and get the latency down further but I want to check stability in games etc first for a few days just to be doubly sure all is good.
 
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Oh yeah I'm on 2T and have yet to try 1T, need to look into how much of a difference that makes to latency first then have a play if it's significant I guess :D
 
Yup nothing is really taxing my 12700KF and I'm exclusively using AV1 for video encoding now via the 4090 which is absolutely amazing so have no desire to go quicksync let alone 14th gen really :D

All photo editing now is purely GPU accelerated too so the 12700 leads an easy life in both games and workloads which is nice.

I'll upgrade the bios once a new one has a a feature ok likely to utilise I guess, but it's nice to see gigabyte actually improving the UI. For me the old one is fine as all my most commonly changed settings are saved to the favs page there, no need to search around etc
 
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Ok so got home an checked GB's wbesite, they note an Intel CPU microcode update in the latest BIOS with the new UX, I guess this is a security patch or something?

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I see the newest BIOS version has fixes for that UEFI/BIOS logo exploit, tempted to install it and get a gist of the new UI too but want to know if it is compatible with fan profile backup and restore from the old UI? I know settings backup and restore is not possible as it isn't right now on the same UI anyway, but fan profile backup and restore has always worked.
 
Updated just now, all good. Funnily enough somehow it seems those DRAM voltages and things that we tweaked ages ago had reset to auto (whilst other settings remained at my custom values, so for who knows how long I've been running fine with all voltages and XMP enabled without issue like I was before. Weird.

I notice there's a setting for acoustic noise control when the CPU is in a deeper sleep state, the noise is like high pitched coil whine that would be mitigated if you disabled C1E in the C-States page (affected nothing else other than the noise) - Have not heard the noise with the noise mitigation setting on default (off) so will keep an ear out I guess.
 
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I need to enable dynamic tuning as Intel will release the APO driver to support 12th gen soon so will get round to doing that once that happens. Other than that, GNA seems like something I'll never use really but hardware supported so I guess keep n eye on software making use of it then turn it on.
 
If even at all, the number of games that actually use APO can be counted on 1.5 hands last I checked (Rainbow Six: Siege, Metro Exodus, Guardians of the Galaxy, F1 22, Strange Brigade, World War Z, Dirt 5, and WoW). IMO it's a bit of a dead horse, and GNA is subject to a specific niche.
 
Interesting one, I noticed that Cyberpunk was crashing randomly, I thought maybe it was some mods but then remembered the saga from the past with BIOS updates and things.

I ran the benchmark with XMP enabled as normal, keep in mind every other app and Windows is stable and fast, just like before, it's only Cyberpunk that crashes randomly and the game's logfile states access violation and not being able to read from a location in memory:
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I then ran the benchmark with manually set timings but the frequency at 3200MHz and 1.35v:
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interesting that the min fps has dramatically increased, there's no more hitch to just under 60fps now which was unexpected, I'm guessing this new BIOS has brought back some of the RAM quirks from the early BIOS builds which only affects certain games that are very CPU/Memory system heavy.

I'll leave it on 3200MHz for as long I have this RAM config I guess. DDR5 next build, which is a good couple years away at the least...
 
I did try 3600 but it was unstable in some games back then but it was then fine after a further BIOS update at 3600 manual timings just not XMP, I then was able to use XMP for all this time and only recently after this latest BIOS update from December am I seeing the random CTDs return in Cyberpunk although saying that, I had a quick go earlier in Cyberpunk and got the CTD again which now leads me to think it is in fact one of my mods being the cause, I think I have close to 100 mods installed to be fair.

But the benchmark result is definitely accurate, I retested at 3200MHz and the higher fps min value remains the same so there's definitely more efficient memory handling at 3200MHz with these modules it seems, maybe not faster MT/s, but more efficient resulting in no hitching causing a lower min fps value to register during the benchmark test it seems.

I'll have to one by one go through the mod files and remove things I suspect might be the cause I reckon in Cyberpunk :o
 
Hmm that is interesting, I don't really want to wipe clean the game and install again as setting all the mods back up is a massive task. I have removed manually mods that I don't care about any more though so will monitor with a play session this evening and see if it happens again.
 
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After much searching around I think I tracked down the cause of the Cyberpunk crashing. After updates like these to the game, it seems that two things can affect the issue, binding keys on the mouse such as mouse 4 or 5 which are the side buttons. This for some reason can cause crashes.

The other is Razor RGB software (though I don't have any such stuff).

The other which may not apply to you is using the night vision Kiroshi Optics mod, I did have that, now removed. Since resetting the keybind away from the mouse side buttons and removing night vision, so far so good but will

Just thought to mention.
 
That message has been there since the early days :p Fan profiles always survived BIOS flashes though, you just had to restore them from a save profile as it wipes everything post-update.

the latest BIOS working fine here though, no problems to note.
 
Yeah pump control has always been there for mine, it doesn't really change much as the AIO Pump fan header on the mobo is a fixed max value anyway since it's controlled by the AIO, the fans on the AIO are controlled dynamically by the AIO controller too (although depends on the AIO, I have an Arctic Freezer II for ref and the fans are disconnected from the AIO pump and connected directly to fan headers which I've profiled. The pump itself is connected to the AIO_PUMP header and that's always at max output regardless of BIOS setting.
 
Ah I see, that's cool having the control. I'll be sticking to the II until the next CPU upgrade, which won't be for years. This thing is really good at keeping the 12700KF in silence at high 20s to low 30s just normal browsing, and under 50 when gaming, still using a silent fan curve profile, the fans are set to only ramp up once the CPU reaches 55 degrees and up which only really happens now when running a synthetic benchmark and nothing else!
 
Makes you wonder why other brands charge so much for their flagship AIOs. I don't care for RGB so would skip any such models too :p

AF also sent me the revised gasket that fits below the cold plate, not fitted it yet as no change in CPU temps which indicates the old gasket is still good. Probably even last until next upgrade tbh since my CPU doesn't get hot enough to degrade the original gasket!
 
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