13700KF and ROG STRIX Z690-A GAMING WIFI D4 Bios, SVID, Overheating.

[Pleasehelpme96]

Hello, i have recently updated my bios to the latest version, 3701, following which, i proceeded to normally use my pc. After some gaming i noticed my cpu was thermal throttling. I promptly started researching and found both here and youtube many others with similar problems. As i understand it, rollbacking bios is not an option because this update fixed mobo defaulting to insane values, which caused many chips to die.

I have been running in circles trying to understand how to properly setup my bios settings to use my pc without either burning my cpu or without gutting its performance. I tried both Intel Default Settings and ASUS Advanced OC Profile. With the first my SVID gets set to Intel Fail Safe and when running Cinebench i thermal throttle within 5 seconds. Also the results of the benchmarks are half of when running ASUS Advanced OC Profile, which, as i understand it, emulates how the cpu was being ran with the previous bios. I then saw jay2 video where he said to lower pl and all of those things which, when running ASUS Advanced OC Profile, are set to absurdly high values, outside of intel's limits.

I'm going to say i am a normal user with just a tiny bit more knowledge than the normal user. I game and watch some movies and thats it. Could please some expert tell me how should i setup my bios so i can be at peace? Its been days of research and half of what i read i dont even understand. Right now i am running Intel Default Settings  with SVID set to auto because the default setting of intel fail safe was making my pc throttle. Is this how i should keep it? Cause in benchmarks the cpu is way underperforming in time spy, cinebench (gpu,single,multi). Or should i go back to ASUS Advanced OC Profile? But it looks like it pushes limits too much... Should i use one of the two but change some things? I have no idea.

If someone could please lend me a hand so i dont ruin my fairly new pc i would appreciate it immensely.

[PauloPanda]

My BIOS settings are:

ASUS Multicore Enhancement - Disable - Enforce all limits

SVID Behavior - Best-case scenario

[Adrian1983]

You must have an above average chip, What CPU are you running? 

I am on an average or slightly above average 14900K chip with a global SP of 100 P core SP 108 and E core SP of 85 and I cannot even run Best case SVID and more than likely neither can most people.

14900KF I meant...

[Wesley1]

IMHO you should roll back to BIOS 3401. Before they added those messed up Intel Profiles.
Intel Profiles are meant to stabilize already degraded CPUs. Since they're already degraded, they need higher base voltage to boot up and work without crashes.

So roll back to BIOS 3401, load Asus optimized Defautls, and set a few things manually to be safe.

If you don't overclock then it's fairly simple:

Block max electric current to CPU.
ICCMAX set at 307A # Intel recommends to never exceed above 400A (Ampers)
ICCMAX Unlimited set to Disable # It allows to go beyond 512 Ampers, it is for OC competitions, extreme overclocking.

Set CPU voltage curve to be less aggressive for none OC scenario.
CPU Load Line calibration set to 3 # On Asus boards, on MSI boards values are different meaning ( on MSI they are reversed).

Disable Automatic OC and voltage tweaking functions:
TVB, eTVB, CEP.

Enable power saving functions:
C-States, Intel Speed Stepping, use balanced power profile in Windows when not gaming.

If you want to be extra safe set CPU power limits PL1 an PL2 to 253 Watts.

If you want to be extra, extra safe you might want to enable the default Power Limit Duration, but this will lower performance.

Here are Intel defaults, but I would recommend the setting mentioned above. And stay at BIOS 3401, till they add something meaningful. 

https://community.intel.com/t5/Processors/June-2024-Guidance-regarding-Intel-Core-13th-and-14th-Gen-...