Agesa 1.0.0.5 for Rog Crosshair VIII Hero

[digmeahole1]

Almost a month and not even a beta bios.......

I mean come on... Msi had it out for weeks now. Wake up Asus. Critical updates in there that we need.

Republic of Guess who's not getting bios updates?

[arcanexvi]

It's definitely new enough that normal tools are having a hard time identifying what AGESA version it is but I can say that after some light benchmarking that on DOCP standard settings, the new BIOS benchmarks about 150pts higher (all core) in Cinebench. So regardless of if it's 1.0.0.5 or 1.0.0.6 or some ba$tard version of current and future, it's performing better which is all I really care about.

Beta HWINFO detects microcode - 8701021

Also of interesting note... With the new HWINFO showing how much over/under the rated power limits are...

Idle power rating is ~120% of rated vs under load it's around 90% which is interesting. It looks like for single core boosting they're utilizing more power in this BIOS vs multi-core they're actually under the power limits a by about 10%. The previous BIOS was the opposite.

[HeroLXIX]

arcanexvi wrote:
It's definitely new enough that normal tools are having a hard time identifying what AGESA version it is but I can say that after some light benchmarking that on DOCP standard settings, the new BIOS benchmarks about 150pts higher (all core) in Cinebench. So regardless of if it's 1.0.0.5 or 1.0.0.6 or some ba$tard version of current and future, it's performing better which is all I really care about.

Same here, I get 7350-7400 in Cinebench R20 with a 3900X now (used to get ~7200).

[xeizo]

So they did a Gigabyte? Not ok as it's OC as default, OC should always be optional.

The new C7H bios has no such tendencies.