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Re: GIGABYTE Latest Beta BIOS
The problem I have with my board is this.
If I stay as I am with a vid of 1.250v, DVID set to 0.050v - which should give me 1.300v - and LLC set to Auto/Normal/Standard/Low I then get two different voltages depending on CPU load. For example, in gaming I will see 1.300 - 1.310v, in emulation like PCSX2/Dolphin etc.. I see upto 1.315v - again I don't really mind this, and the same for video encoding. But try something like Prime95 and the voltage jumps up to a mental 1.480v and nearly 90c.
If I then lower the DVID to compensate for the 1.480v jump then the PC will blue-screen or just reboot because the voltage is now not nearly enough.
My only option that I know works is to run the voltage at a set amount such as 1.300v, leave power saving modes on so the CPU will still be 1.300v, even at idle clocks of 1.600ghz, and simply put up with idle temps of 44c roughly, as opposed to 30c and 1.000v using DVID.
What annoys me the most is that I know this is BIOS related because my first ever BIOS update for this board worked fine. Problem is, I cannot remember what BIOS this was, or what BIOS the board came with. It may have been F8, I cannot be sure, but also at the time the BIOS I used may have been a few revisions newer around F14. Not 100% sure.
I am not going to be running Prime95 daily, so for now I just deal with it, but there may come a time when my PC is encoding video, I'm not around, and the voltage decides to jump back upto 1.480v and 90c.
The problem I have with my board is this.
If I stay as I am with a vid of 1.250v, DVID set to 0.050v - which should give me 1.300v - and LLC set to Auto/Normal/Standard/Low I then get two different voltages depending on CPU load. For example, in gaming I will see 1.300 - 1.310v, in emulation like PCSX2/Dolphin etc.. I see upto 1.315v - again I don't really mind this, and the same for video encoding. But try something like Prime95 and the voltage jumps up to a mental 1.480v and nearly 90c.
If I then lower the DVID to compensate for the 1.480v jump then the PC will blue-screen or just reboot because the voltage is now not nearly enough.
My only option that I know works is to run the voltage at a set amount such as 1.300v, leave power saving modes on so the CPU will still be 1.300v, even at idle clocks of 1.600ghz, and simply put up with idle temps of 44c roughly, as opposed to 30c and 1.000v using DVID.
What annoys me the most is that I know this is BIOS related because my first ever BIOS update for this board worked fine. Problem is, I cannot remember what BIOS this was, or what BIOS the board came with. It may have been F8, I cannot be sure, but also at the time the BIOS I used may have been a few revisions newer around F14. Not 100% sure.
I am not going to be running Prime95 daily, so for now I just deal with it, but there may come a time when my PC is encoding video, I'm not around, and the voltage decides to jump back upto 1.480v and 90c.
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