ASUS AMD Beta BIOS Releases

[Daveburt714]

Dave - Why the Big Bang Conq? It's going to be FX990 chipset (at least I think it is... ). Just simply because it's the next chipset up, on a board designed for bulldozer rather than a board that happens to work... or are there other reasons to move? I was all keenly looking forward to choosing between FX990 at launch, but now that it seems my IV Formula is going to work, I'm thinking to myself why upgrade, FX990 isn't supposed to be that different.

I agree with you Halk ....
The fact that the C4F will accept BD is pretty sweet!
I'll probably hang on to it now and see where the new boards shake out as far as performance goes...

I've been testing the 3012 bios this weekend on my 1090T and I've made some interesting discoveries.

1) They took away alot of the granularity in voltage control across the board.
It's not really that big a deal, but I do kind of miss the detail we had with 1304.

2) CnQ seems to stay on, reguardless of what you set in Bios.

3) It looks like they put quite a bit of effort into LLC (this is a good thing!)...
I always used to run LLC @ 100% even though alot of the pros said it wasn't advisable...
I just couldn't get decent clocks with it off due to the V Droop.

LLC seems to be MUCH better on the new bios!
Neither Off, nor 100% seems to be the best option now...
Setting LLC @ 50% works the way I always thought it should (even though I still think there should be a 75% w/ no droop at all )...

Reguardless of CPU v's I've never seen the droop go more than .03v's @ 50% LLC.
Thats a huge improvement compared to what we had with 1304!

It doesn't look nearly as good in EVO where I could get away with 1.435 CPU core...
Now Evo shows 1.5 CPU, but in reality it's about the same (according to CPU-Z) as it was with the OV from 100% LLC.

Long story short, 50% LLC results in a managable droop and I don't have to worry about the crazy ov's I was with 100% LLC on 1304....

Now I just need to tune my Memory!

BTW: NEO, It could just be my kit, but I don't have an 1866 mem option, and I've never had any problems with the bios not detecting all my ram...

Oh, BTW... Here are the results of my weekend testing of 3012. My CPU craps out about the same place it always has, but the IMC and Mem clocking seem better.