Crosshair VI Hero: UEFI build update thread

[Raja]

Directly from Elmor:

Beta BIOS 3008 for C6H/C6HWIFI/C6E:

AGESA 1.0.7.1, temperature offset fixed after S3 resume, GPU Post function fixed, 0d with some GPUs fixed

http://www.mediafire.com/file/f95motjmh211e7h/CROSSHAIR-VI-HERO-ASUS-3008.zip
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ntn6i3jiub610ai/ROG-CROSSHAIR-VI-HERO-WIFI-AC-ASUS-3008.zip
http://www.mediafire.com/file/yj22ld2rmmedp01/ROG-CROSSHAIR-VI-EXTREME-ASUS-3008.zip





C6H Test BIOS 0020 with AGESA 1007 (405200c4e299c1eed9a0044edec9aba51f37cee1d70caabe40b9485b0604521a)

In order to get back to an older version after flashing, you have to use USB BIOS Flashback.

Let me know how it works for you, especially regarding cold boot issues. Any confirmed bugs in the bug report form please




Beta BIOS 1501

* Workaround for some CPUs stuck at 22x ratio if using override voltage
* Fixes PCIEX4 bandwidth setting getting lost after power is removed
* Same DRAM boot behavior as 1403 (no cold boot fix)
* Same DRAM profiles as in 9920
* Still has the Vcore value issue when booting with Offset Mode and switching to Manual Mode

Crosshair VI Hero 1501 SHA256 EDE223DC6897B7199C93D9985E28B7A2CD1B8A8DB2DCBF3D3555A521DB4F045D
Crosshair VI Hero Wifi AC 1501 SHA256 0D9F51F43AA3A56A4AC984B11A52F58451B76F8A7CCB9A04E1C3194231C9D4DA






UEFI build 9920 for the C6H:

* Improved DRAM cold boot, results in slightly longer POST time
* Fix for CPU Ratio stuck at 22x on some CPUs when using Vcore override/offset
* SenseMi Skew is now Disabled by default. If you want to return to previous behavior set SenseMi Skew = Enabled and Offset = 272.
* Added DRAM profiles for Samsung B-based DIMMs with tuned subtimings, including The Stilt's settings



C6H beta UEFI 1403

* Fixed W_PUMP and AIO_PUMP speeds during POST
* Fixed Fan tuning sometimes failing
* Fixed a few issues with AMD USB3.1 ports
* Some tuning on DRAM settings, let us know how they work for you. tRDRD_Sc is still at 5 above 3500 MHz as it helps with stability. For performance you want to force this to 1. We'll consider changing this in future releases as the performance impact can be quite noticeable in certain applications.

An update on DRAM Boot Voltage, currently it should be 1.35V by default if the DRAM Voltage is changed. So if you're setting DRAM Voltage to above 1.35V, you might want to sync this setting. Additionally there might be scenarios where you will have better luck by syncing DRAM Boot Voltage to DRAM Voltage even at lower values.




AGESA 1006 RC4 official UEFI 1401

Just tested quickly 3600 memory and cold booting, seems good but you guys are going to have to help me test this before we have a judgement. Seems CPU temp reading from SIO now has -20*C offset for XFR enabled CPUs.





UEFI build 1107





Older test builds:


Test BIOS 0079

Test BIOS with new AGESA 1004a, with a couple of bugfixes. Up to 5% performance increases in specific applications. Also has P-state overclocking working with BCLK increase. If you want to keep C-states, make sure to set Advanced\AMD CBS\Zen Common Options\Global C-state Control = Enabled. There are two new settings under AMD CBS\UMC Common Options\DDR4 Common Options\ you might want to take a look at, Fail_CNT and ProcODT. Fail_CNT decides how many times to retry when DRAM training fails (F9 -> 0d), default is now 1. ProcODT can help improve your DRAM overclocking. There's a setting available also on previous BIOSes under AMD CBS\UMC Common Options\DRAM Memory Mapping named BankGroupSwap. If you have 2x Single-Rank modules you can try setting this to Disabled and you might see some performance boost in certain applications.

Test BIOS 0081

Same as 0079 but has ProcODT default = 53.3 ohm

Test BIOS 0082

Same as 0081 but with a DRAM compability patch for the below part numbers

CMK16GX4M4A2133C13
AHU08GGB13CGT7G
PV416G240C5QK
F4-2400C15Q-32GRR
TCD44G2400C14BK
F4-2666C16Q2-64GRB
AVD4UZ126661504G
BLT8G4D26AFTA.16FAD
IMA41GU6MFR8N-C F0
MD16GK4D4266615AXR
HX430C15PB2K4/16
HX430C15PBK4/32
AX4U3333W4G16-QGZ
GAM4DBLBM2133D15IE041C
TC48G24S817
SP004GBLFU213N02
78.C1GM3.AF10B
F4-3200C16D-8GVKB

MTA4ATF51264AZ-2G6B1
MTA8ATF1G64AZ-2G3B1
MTA16ATF2G64AZ-2G6B1
HMA41GU7AFR8N-TF T0
HMA451U7AFR8N-TF T0
HMA41GU6AFR8N-UH N0
M378A2K43BB1-CTD
M378A1K43BB1-CRC
M378A1G43EB1-CRC

Test BIOS 0083

Same as 0081 but with "2T" DRAM Mode when using above 2666 DRAM Ratio.

[Syaoran]

Hurricane28 wrote:
Yeah, **** Assus man.. I really don't like them anymore and even less now Elmor left them. Its really telling that your R&D Engineer leaves your company..

I think he is better off with Gigabyte too and i hope the best for him. I knew there was something going on since the Kitguru video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvQ0W5YO-ec&t=0s&index=6&list=FLHHmdY5-k_ujhXpW5LR4vEg

As much as I don't like Asus based on my Crosshair VI experience, competition is good for the consumer. I do hope he makes it over to Gigabyte though. I am very happy with the stability and overclock on my X470 Gaming 7 right now but the Gigabyte BIOS definitely lacks some of the more advanced features unless you use a modded BIOS to unlock them. I messaged one of Gigabyte's Discord channel admins about his Asus departure and linked them to the thread and post. The admin said he would pass it on to the right people because they recognize who he is and what he has accomplished for Asus and in the overclock.net community. He will be an asset to whatever company he decides he wants to go with for a future job and career.

[jbasemoine]

haven't been on this forum for a while so sorry if i'm not the only one who asked the following the last couple of days/hours/minutes/seconds 😛
But is there any new Bios update for the CH6? last time i checkd 6201 was already up for 2 months and i read that they skipped one Agesa update and are w8ing for begin november/end of oktober for the next bios release with the newest ages update.

And you it's a shame Elmor left asus (which was made public quite a while ago) and i also wish him the best at gigabyte ?
Me also have a realy bad taste in my mouth when i comes to asus the f uped there own reputation! Asus products where good, verry good even now with the last gen of mobo's asus screwd up BIG ASS TIME specialy with the ch6!!!
And yes i think competition is a good deal (specialy for our wallets as a consumer) but it also brings TIME PRESSURE, every comapny wants to be the first so quality control will be less to beat the comeptition, hardware (and software alike look at the gaming industry) will be rused out and will fail or 2 years after the purchase and 10000000 updates later it will finaly almost kinda operate/work as advertised (look at the ch6 2 years later it is improved butt still not as advertise!!!!)
Personlay i prefer asus still 100000 times over FING gigabyte f*&@ers still screwin consumer with every REVISION motherboard.
I still can remeber my old AM3+ mobo, i had revision 3 or something on the box and on the website it was advertise as a premium mobo (with a verry special premium price ofcours) 1 year later Hardware.info made a articla about REVISION motherboard in particulair.
Gigabyte (and others, but gigabyte held the crown by far) kept advertising very premium aspect but with every revision the remove stuff from the mobo, so the extra fast wifi chip was availeble on revision 1 and was indeed fast on revision 3 you got a crappy crap crap chip, the japanese high quality capicitors where exchanged for crappy brandless chinese crap.. etc.. etc.. etc.... this was a big scandel a few years ago.
So i canged my am3+ mobo and my amd 8350 felt like brand new got like 30% fps increase and everything overall was 10000 time more smooth boot times where lowerd +/- 25% and most important **** WAS STABLE.

So gigabyte is a no go for me, and now with asus crapping out more and more (alot of people around me have problems with asus hardware) there are less and less brands of pc hardware which i trust and sell decent hardware :S

[Grainger]

jbasemoine wrote:

But is there any new Bios update for the CH6? last time i checkd 6201 was already up for 2 months and i read that they skipped one Agesa update and are w8ing for begin november/end of oktober for the next bios release with the newest ages update.S

There is a beta 6301, which fixes the fan issues.
An official update with new Agesa was announced for mid-october, but now it is said that it will appear in mid-november.

[mito1172]

6301 bios has not put on the site ASUS

[amalkumar]

mito1172 wrote:
6301 bios has not put on the site ASUS

Crosshair VI Hero dead 4 Month ago :confused::mad:

[Syaoran]

amalkumar wrote:
Crosshair VI Hero dead 4 Month ago :confused::mad:

RMA it! Mine barely lasted close to a year, but Asus did replace it. It is sitting int he box though not being used because I refuse to use it because I don't want the hassles, frustrations, and instabilities the board was plagued with.

[gupsterg]

I wish I had an AGESA update, as this C6H is so unstable 😛 ...



No I wish I had Gigabyte board TBH 😛 ...

[Hurricane28]

gupsterg wrote:
I wish I had an AGESA update, as this C6H is so unstable 😛 ...



No I wish I had Gigabyte board TBH 😛 ...

I don't see anything on this that indicates instability actually.

[gupsterg]

Hurricane28 wrote:
I don't see anything on this that indicates instability actually.

Indeed.

My post was meant in "tongue in cheek" ie I was being slightly humorous, with a twist of sarcasm.

I recently placed that same CPU/RAM in C7H. Reason why was so I could use a UEFI with AGESA 1.0.0.6. It was to see if indeed CPU boosted better under PBO on later AGESA. It did not as I suspected.

The reason the test was run is due to several posts back in this thread, or the other thread within ROG forum in regard to C6H UEFI. Someone stated other vendors have released UEFIs with AGESA newer than 1.0.0.2c and it enhances PB/XFR2. Well it defo doesn't.

You have also seen that in the beta for C7H with AGESA 1.0.0.6 only one new setting has come about. Which really isn't any thing much from what I have seen.



I don't know why people are so hung up with new AGESA needed...

bigtop1967 wrote:
@gupsterg I can't un-see that man! Surely not?

LOL, I'm sorry 😉 , IIRC this forum has no spoiler tags 😛 ...

Syaoran wrote:
BIOS version F3 for PC4-3600 and BIOS version F5 for low latency PC4-3333C14 and PC4-3466C14 has been excellent for me on my Gigabyte Aorus X470 Gaming 7 WiFi. The only BIOS that worked this well for me on the Crosshair VI was the 9945 and one of the 1xxx BIOS's, either 14xx or 15xx. It's been too long to remember. Gigabyte's BIOS's might not have as many options but I have had a much better experience with the X470 Gaming 7 in 4 months than I did in the 11 months I had my Crosshair VI before it died.

I gotta admit I have not had anything but ASUS in over a decade. Yes I have built some rigs for friends and family with other boards. Some seemed great but always something was lacking which meant I really didn't wanna leave the ASUS camp.

I had my C6H since launch, pre order board so very early build. I used 5 differing Ryzen gen 1 CPUs with it, 2 differing Ryzen gen 2, I also used a set of Corsair RAM, Cruical and 10 dimms of G.Skill 3200MHz C14. Imagine the number of times over the course of my ownership I changed combinations of parts, this is also without stating the differing GPUs used with it. I really can't say I had major issues. I can say I enjoyed it very much. Note the past tense, as I shipped it off yesterday to a new home and I hope the new owner treasures it like I did. Surprisingly as I packed it away yesterday even the wife noted my last longing look at it and made a comment, as I closed the box and packed it in shipping box.

Only solace is I may soon top the funds up and get an ASUS Crosshair VI Extreme 😄 .

[Hurricane28]

gupsterg wrote:
Indeed.

My post was meant in "tongue in cheek" ie I was being slightly humorous, with a twist of sarcasm.

I recently placed that same CPU/RAM in C7H. Reason why was so I could use a UEFI with AGESA 1.0.0.6. It was to see if indeed CPU boosted better under PBO on later AGESA. It did not as I suspected.

The reason the test was run is due to several posts back in this thread, or the other thread within ROG forum in regard to C6H UEFI. Someone stated other vendors have released UEFIs with AGESA newer than 1.0.0.2c and it enhances PB/XFR2. Well it defo doesn't.

You have also seen that in the beta for C7H with AGESA 1.0.0.6 only one new setting has come about. Which really isn't any thing much from what I have seen.



I don't know why people are so hung up with new AGESA needed...



LOL, I'm sorry 😉 , IIRC this forum has no spoiler tags 😛 ...



I gotta admit I have not had anything but ASUS in over a decade. Yes I have built some rigs for friends and family with other boards. Some seemed great but always something was lacking which meant I really didn't wanna leave the ASUS camp.

I had my C6H since launch, pre order board so very early build. I used 5 differing Ryzen gen 1 CPUs with it, 2 differing Ryzen gen 2, I also used a set of Corsair RAM, Cruical and 10 dimms of G.Skill 3200MHz C14. Imagine the number of times over the course of my ownership I changed combinations of parts, this is also without stating the differing GPUs used with it. I really can't say I had major issues. I can say I enjoyed it very much. Note the past tense, as I shipped it off yesterday to a new home and I hope the new owner treasures it like I did. Surprisingly as I packed it away yesterday even the wife noted my last longing look at it and made a comment, as I closed the box and packed it in shipping box.

Only solace is I may soon top the funds up and get an ASUS Crosshair VI Extreme 😄 .

Ah i see. Thnx for clearing that up.

Still weird we haven't heard from the ROG team yet.. I send Raja an pm but no answer.. If we want answers we need to contact Asus themselves instead of this forum, this is also not "official" They can release "official" BIOS but when you need support they say were not "officially" here so we have to contact Asus..

I don't get that man..