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*** The Official Alder Lake owners thread ***
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Not yet, waiting on £150 (£100 from mobo, £25 from mobo review, £25 for AIO review). Will prob arrive in the new year, it's ASUS so we know we're covered.
Oops I have not, I'm still running at XMP speed/settings but all manually set. I should have tried it today as I had the case all open changing GPU but forgot!
I see there is now, version F6d but the changelog is only showing this:
So no point me installing that really as I have a K CPU!
I used to find with my previous Gigabyte board some of the smaller changes within it never made the update page when released. Just the highlights as such.
This was when I would often update using beta BIOS's, listed on a different site, and when the final was released the update page only showed some of the many changes made.
So I updated anyway.
I haven't yet nope, My case actually has a reset switch button that I could just switch the jumper to the HW_RES header as the switch connects directly to that. I never use the reset button on the case anyway so repurposing that to be the CMOS reset instead would be handy I guess.
Another task for another time
Another task for another time
After 3 updates stating XMP fixes you'd hope so that they fixed it by now!
I don't mind either way as manual settings have been working fine and I won't be changing RAM again for a long time so basically I am all set for the long haul until DDR5 becomes actually good in a few years time I think.
I don't mind either way as manual settings have been working fine and I won't be changing RAM again for a long time so basically I am all set for the long haul until DDR5 becomes actually good in a few years time I think.
That's what I am thinking. This gigabyte board will be fine for the DDR4 Alder Lake experience. It is more than adequate.
It did take gigabyte some time to get my DDR4 sticks working with XMP on the previous Z390 Master. The thing that bothered me with that is that they are only 3200Mhz rated Corsairs. Nothing extreme or fancy. Eventually they did work, altho it only meant I no longer had to manually put the settings in. Not a big deal I suppose but one that was bothersome.
They do state tho that the last couple of BIOS changes for your board has been for the 3200-3600Mhz range of DDR 4, so you might be covered..?
If not you could report it here...
GIGABYTE Latest Beta BIOS - TweakTown Forums
and Stasio reports back to them.
It did take gigabyte some time to get my DDR4 sticks working with XMP on the previous Z390 Master. The thing that bothered me with that is that they are only 3200Mhz rated Corsairs. Nothing extreme or fancy. Eventually they did work, altho it only meant I no longer had to manually put the settings in. Not a big deal I suppose but one that was bothersome.
They do state tho that the last couple of BIOS changes for your board has been for the 3200-3600Mhz range of DDR 4, so you might be covered..?
If not you could report it here...
GIGABYTE Latest Beta BIOS - TweakTown Forums
and Stasio reports back to them.
It's highly probable they have fixed the 3200-3600 XMP profile now but it's not bothersome enough for me to reflash having only flashed the other day! I will do a dust clean soon so the case will be open, that will be the time to give whatever new version is out by then a flash and try XMP I guess. I missed the chance today due to being distracted by the GFX 
I won't be trying any beta BIOS though however as this machine is my main gaming and production PC so need absolute stability hence why I use the nVidia Studio drivers too instead of Game Ready ones.
I won't be trying any beta BIOS though however as this machine is my main gaming and production PC so need absolute stability hence why I use the nVidia Studio drivers too instead of Game Ready ones.
DDR5 6000Mhz and above is already faster than DDR4, as well as using less power and having on die ECC. Literally nothing better about DDR4 technology wise.
Only bad thing about DDR5 now is stock - though it's not impossible to get (I've obtained two kits already).
Whilst it might be faster, that has not translated into real world performance difference that make the extra cost a convincing one especially as right now you have to make do with the lesser specced DDR5 since the higher rated stuff is not in stock anywhere.
I have yet to see any review that shows a viable performance gain in real world use outside of benchmarks with current DDR5 vs fast DDR4. You gain much more upgrading CPU and GPU than RAM.
Edit* @Vimes Don't think I will have the chance to bother with XMP as looks like I have to keep my RAM voltage manually set. I've been keeping an eye on random CTD in Cyberpunk 2077. I know the game itself is still buggy but this is odd as never had it on the 32GB RAM kit so figured it was gaming stability on 64GB as already had upped the RAM volts to 1.37v but it seems on long sessions this isn't enough either so am now on 1.38v and after a couple of hours mucking around in 2077 have yet to see the CTD so looks like for 64GB (2 modules, dual ranked, Samsung chips) I need to push 1.8v. Fine by me, the modules don't feel hot at all so must just be a stability thing.
I have yet to see any review that shows a viable performance gain in real world use outside of benchmarks with current DDR5 vs fast DDR4. You gain much more upgrading CPU and GPU than RAM.
Edit* @Vimes Don't think I will have the chance to bother with XMP as looks like I have to keep my RAM voltage manually set. I've been keeping an eye on random CTD in Cyberpunk 2077. I know the game itself is still buggy but this is odd as never had it on the 32GB RAM kit so figured it was gaming stability on 64GB as already had upped the RAM volts to 1.37v but it seems on long sessions this isn't enough either so am now on 1.38v and after a couple of hours mucking around in 2077 have yet to see the CTD so looks like for 64GB (2 modules, dual ranked, Samsung chips) I need to push 1.8v. Fine by me, the modules don't feel hot at all so must just be a stability thing.
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The google search engine is able to show you real world results of 6000Mhz+ DDR5 vs DDR4.
https://wccftech.com/review/g-skill...00-mhz-cl36-memory-kit-review-now-thats-fast/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN6a57f-LB4&t=1s
Bear in mind the video review is comparing 6000Mhz DDR5 to 4000Mhz ddr4. Most people buying DDR4 are buying the basic 3200Mhz, 3600Mhz kits, so will be slower than the performnace seen in these benchmarks.
At the end of the day the difference is minor - though fast DDR5 does give increased minimum FPS in gaming, which is one of the most important metrics IMO. Productivity workloads also benefit nicely. It makes perfect sense when buying into a new platform such as Z690, to take advantage of the latest memory standard, as long as this is in your budget and you have the patience/quick reaction times to buy a DDR5 kit when they appear in stock. Fast forward to January, February, DDR5 kits should be arriving on mass, meaning they'll be cheaper as well as easy to buy, then it'll be a complete no brainer to opt for DDR5 for Z690.
Then again, there'll be waves of people selling DDR4 systems when they upgrade to Alder Lake, Raptor Lake and Zen4 next year. I imagine 32GB DDR4 will be £50 by the end of the year, due to being obsolete and unwanted. This will make for very good budget oriented builds, ideal for combining with i5 12th gen CPU's or lower.