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This is really great Stilt, amazing work! One thing I wanted to point out. I have an FX 8350 in an ASRock 990FX Extreme9 running BIOS 1.01 (which was pulled months back). When I opened your tool, it gave me the option to apply the ERRATA fix and said I needed to update my BIOS. Is it really possible that ASRock's BIOS doesn't contain this ERRATA fix? I know the BIOS sucks and is buggy, and they have failed to release even a single update for it, but this would really put me over the edge if it's true.
Formerly XIP, now just P.
Checked both of the bioses (1.00 & 1.10) for ASRock 990FX Extreme9.
Both of the bioses are based on an old AGESA version (V1.2.9.0), while the official launch AGESA version for Vishera was V1.5.0.0.
Due the old AGESA version the microcodes are outdated too:
Zambezi (OR-B2) - Installed: 06000626 (01/04/2012), The most recent version: 0600063D (03/06/2013).
Vishera (OR-C0) - Installed: 06000817 (05/24/2012), The most recent version: 06000822 (01/03/2013).
Version 0600063D (OR-B2) contains 10 errata fixes, while the 06000822 (OR-C0) fixes 8.
in 32M its awesome boost, I tried with decent summer stable OC profile...
more than4m 30s better result!!!! Woow. I think, 32M with LN2 could be quickly fun now with Vishera, maybe around 10minutes only.
ROG Power PCs - Intel and AMD
CPUs:i9-7900X, i9-9900K, i7-6950X, i7-5960X, i7-8086K, i7-8700K, 4x i7-7700K, i3-7350K, 2x i7-6700K, i5-6600K, R7-2700X, 4x R5 2600X, R5 2400G, R3 1200, R7-1800X, R7-1700X, 3x AMD FX-9590, 1x AMD FX-9370, 4x AMD FX-8350,1x AMD FX-8320,1x AMD FX-8300, 2x AMD FX-6300,2x AMD FX-4300, 3x AMD FX-8150, 2x AMD FX-8120 125 and 95W, AMD X2 555 BE, AMD x4 965 BE C2 and C3, AMD X4 970 BE, AMD x4 975 BE, AMD x4 980 BE, AMD X6 1090T BE, AMD X6 1100T BE, A10-7870K, Athlon 845, Athlon 860K,AMD A10-7850K, AMD A10-6800K, A8-6600K, 2x AMD A10-5800K, AMD A10-5600K, AMD A8-3850, AMD A8-3870K, 2x AMD A64 3000+, AMD 64+ X2 4600+ EE, Intel i7-980X, Intel i7-2600K, Intel i7-3770K,2x i7-4770K, Intel i7-3930KAMD Cinebench R10 challenge AMD Cinebench R15 thread Intel Cinebench R15 thread
Many many thanks, this is much appreciated and something I didn't even dream about!
This goes into AMD Hall of Fame I wonder what will be the response from both the community and AMD engineers
1. ASUS Sabertooth 990fx | FX 8320 || 2. DFI DK 790FXB-M3H5 | X4 810
8GB Samsung 30nm DDR3-2000 9-10-10-28 || 4GB PSC DDR3-1333 6-7-6-21
Corsair TX750W | Sapphire 6970 2GB || BeQuiet PurePower 450w | HD 4850
EK Supreme | AC aquagratix | Laing Pro | MoRa 2 || Aircooled
I wonder if it would be possible to mod these kinda fixes into bios like they do with SLIC tables and SLI certs (if you dont know what those are, head over to mydigitallife.info and read the bios forums)
AMD FX-8350@4.6(280/2520/2520)| 32gb gskill ares ddr3 1866|
2*sapphire dual-x 7870ghz|16896.8 GB hdd space|
2*hp ZR24w+Gateway FPD1976W(video playback)|Asus Xonar DX|
z5500 5.1 speakers|Windows 7 x64|CoolerMaster Cosmos Medusa
PcPower and Cooling TurboCool 1200watt
AMD FX-8350@4.6(280/2520/2520)| 32gb gskill ares ddr3 1866|
2*sapphire dual-x 7870ghz|16896.8 GB hdd space|
2*hp ZR24w+Gateway FPD1976W(video playback)|Asus Xonar DX|
z5500 5.1 speakers|Windows 7 x64|CoolerMaster Cosmos Medusa
PcPower and Cooling TurboCool 1200watt
Last edited by The Stilt; 07-17-2013 at 05:47 PM.
Dammm That looks awe full. So much outdated or even worse :'(
I wonder if the Intel platforms have similar problems.
System Specs: -=Game PC=- | -=Lan Box=-
Strange that higher revision Gigabyte UD3 boards would revert back to older AGESA code than the older revision board.
Rig 1:
ASUS P8Z77-V
Intel i5 3570K @ 4.75GHz
16GB of Team Xtreme DDR-2666 RAM (11-13-13-35-2T)
Nvidia GTX 670 4GB SLI
Rig 2:
Asus Sabertooth 990FX
AMD FX-8350 @ 5.6GHz
16GB of Mushkin DDR-1866 RAM (8-9-8-26-1T)
AMD 6950 with 6970 bios flash
Yamakasi Catleap 2B overclocked to 120Hz refresh rate
Audio-GD FUN DAC unit w/ AD797BRZ opamps
Sennheiser PC350 headset w/ hero mod
Mhm i get an error "cannot initialize driver" on Sabertooth 990 FX R1.0 1604 Bios.
Anyone has a clue?
1. ASUS Sabertooth 990fx | FX 8320 || 2. DFI DK 790FXB-M3H5 | X4 810
8GB Samsung 30nm DDR3-2000 9-10-10-28 || 4GB PSC DDR3-1333 6-7-6-21
Corsair TX750W | Sapphire 6970 2GB || BeQuiet PurePower 450w | HD 4850
EK Supreme | AC aquagratix | Laing Pro | MoRa 2 || Aircooled
1. ASUS Sabertooth 990fx | FX 8320 || 2. DFI DK 790FXB-M3H5 | X4 810
8GB Samsung 30nm DDR3-2000 9-10-10-28 || 4GB PSC DDR3-1333 6-7-6-21
Corsair TX750W | Sapphire 6970 2GB || BeQuiet PurePower 450w | HD 4850
EK Supreme | AC aquagratix | Laing Pro | MoRa 2 || Aircooled
Threw mine in here also. I ran each run without patch (the top Super PI) and with the patch (the bottom one). Very cool update. THis was with my 24/7 5ghz vishera. My chip uses only 1.475v to get the 5ghz and it shaved off 4 minutes from the 32m, so I am gonna play with the higher clocks it can do. Will throw some updates in here shortly. Good job STILT.
Here is the updated with Vishera at 5200mhz. Broke 15mins on 32m finally. LOL. If this improves performance on other programs that might have some similar code to super PI that would be nice. I read some said PhysX.
Last edited by ga1ve1an; 06-24-2013 at 05:47 PM.
I know this is OT, but I've been playing with ASRock boards myself lately...
The specs and hardware look good, but the bios support has been questionable to say the least!
I bought a 990FX EX9 and was pretty disappointed with it. Bios support is seriously lacking, and the fact that they haven't even bothered to update the AGESA code is pititful.
It's pretty sad when you buy a companies top of the line board and there hasn't been a decent (lasting) bios update in six months...
You can get decent clocks from the EX9, but it takes a lot of effort, and winds up being a random luck of the draw setting that makes no real sense to a decent overclocker. ...
That being said, the bios does fine at close to stock. Guess I need to put together a rig for Craigslist and get rid of this board.
For whatever reason (MicoCenter Combo deal?), I went with ASRock once again and grabbed the 6600K/ASRock EX6 (FM2) board.
I have to admit that it's heads above the EX9, and at least there have been a couple bios updates that have stuck and were actually usefull...
Maybe ASRock is short on bios talent and they're directing it all towards FM2. Reguardless, I'd recommend the EX6, but steer folks away from the EX9!
AMD FX-8350 (1237 PGN) | Asus Crosshair V Formula (bios 1703) | G.Skill 2133 CL9 @ 2230 9-11-10 | Sapphire HD 6870 | Samsung 830 128Gb SSD / 2 WD 1Tb Black SATA3 storage | Corsair TX750 PSU
Watercooled ST 120.3 & TC 120.1 / MCP35X XSPC Top / Apogee HD Block | WIN7 64 Bit HP | Corsair 800D Obsidian Case
First Computer: Commodore Vic 20 (circa 1981).
I also agree that on current Motherboards, the most limiting factor are BIOSes that are missing features or have them badly implemented. You have examples like this, and this, of what issues are present when BIOS aren't fully compliant with specifications. Manufacturers usually don't go back to fix BIOS-related issues, even if from the Hardware side the Motherboard is perfect. This sometimes leaves you with non functional features (AMD-Vi for IOMMU virtualization comes to mind) because the BIOS developers seems to be ridiculous lazy. This include even if AMD wants to patch this via microcode, even if earlier AM3+ Motherboards could work with it, I doubt many will receive BIOS upgrades to do so.
How I would love that Coreboot could become more accessible to get rid of that propietary code crap...
Now, for some offtopic...
@ The Stilt
How in-depth is possible to analyze a BIOS BIN/ROM file with automatic tools and none to little knowledge? I suppose that at least someone must be able to easily retrieve AGESA version from a BIOS file to make the table you did there in a timely manner. Doubt someone could physically test THAT many Motherboards just for that purpose.
I'm looking for creative ways to be able to check if a Motherboard has proper AMD-Vi support or not by checking if it has a ACPI IVRS table (Or ACPI DMAR for Intel VT-d, for that matter), however, I have no idea of how exactly it should be inside a BIOS file to know what I should be looking for (Besides that I should also uncompress the BIOS modules first, I suppose). The idea is that anyone interesed in this feature for virtualization, would be able to discard Motherboards that don't have it functional before purchase by checking the BIOS for that table and at least some insight if the values retrieved seems to be valid.
Yep, absolutely non-related to x87, but its worth a shot.
Last edited by zir_blazer; 06-25-2013 at 01:15 AM.
I wonder if there are any other than SuperPI applications that got improvement?
Another question, does the older BIOS AGESA microcode impact performance, or it is x87 only?
Windows 8.1
Asus M4A87TD EVO + Phenom II X6 1055T @ 3900MHz + HD3850
APUs
A small update: Bulldozer Conditioner R1.02B
Original package checksum (MD5): BCC929498EF1B01B7F99B8F2DA805F46
Bulldozer Conditioner R1.02B
Changes:
- Enhanced the NRAC fix
- Added a UAC prompt (admin rights) for Windows Vista / 7 & 8.
- Updated the AGESA version info
The enhanced fix included in BDC R1.02B is around 10 seconds faster in SuperPI 32M than the one in R1.00 / R1.01 versions
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