Soldato
It's all worthless without 1T, platform sweet spot is 6000-6600 1T.
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It's all worthless without 1T, platform sweet spot is 6000-6600 1T.
Odd, as I know someone who had to bin a number of CPUs to get pass 7000+ but as you say it could be all down to the board tuning and maturing on DDR5.
D5 is still barely getting out of the gate and we haven’t seen higher end bins yet. Adata has a 40/7000 xmp coming out for example. As for board maturity just count up the no of apex and unify-x beta bios there have been already and many more to come. Last I checked apex alone was closing in on 20. Very early days still.
I'd agree with that with ADL, RPL should improve the game again.
@Dave2150 I'm looking forward to seeing your results.
Oh, and didn't mention the ethernet dropping most days.
Mine says Rev 05, what does that make mine! It's working flawlessly btw.
Oh I thought all Z690 boards had Realtek 2.5G LAN ports as that's what they seemed to be when I was speccing a board up for this build
Windows Update will have installed the latest December 2021 driver, it did for me. I then manually updated recently to the January 2022 driver.