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G20 with Intel 8th & 9th Gen Coffee Lake Processors

spartan_hoplite
Level 10
This started months ago when I opened ver.1402 G20ci Bios with MMtools. I found out that this latest G20ci bios have coffelake intel 8th gen microcode inside. Asus must be prepared for coffe lake processors with G20 intel 200 chipset, but intel didnt allow it.
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This made me curious to try the coffelake processors with my G20ci. so I tried i5 8400 on it, but it didn`t work.
With some research finnaly i found that intel not allow intel 200 chipset board to recognize coffe lake processor if the board using intel ME 11.8.x.xxxx firmware, so i downgrade the firmware to 11.7.0.1229 with flash programmer.
And voila, i5 8400 was detected, and runs well. Then i tried i7 8700, it didnt work, but after learning from here: https://www.win-raid.com/t3413f16-GUIDE-Coffee-Lake-CPUs-on-Skylake-and-Kaby-Lake-motherboards.html finally i am able to make it works.

Not stopping there, i am also tried 9th gen CPUs by adding another microcode, tried i5 9400f and i7 9700k, both works well.
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Now I am using Intel Core i9 9900k on my G20ci.
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The main problem is the Board`s VRM get very hot when running 6 core processor and above. So I put extra heatsinks on the vrms chip.
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i9 9900k with 16 thread wont run stable, VRM gets too hot easily and pc will shut off automatically when running apps. Then I disabled the Hyper threading and runs with all 8 core without HT, it works well.

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1. use the non-oculus otherwise it wont work. tell lost_n_bios about the S-Spec of your cpu you want to put on.
make sure you have a ch341a bios writer accessible ~10$
2. use simple capton tape this makes a perfect job. just be careful about the pins form the socket non of them should be bended while inserting.
i had a bend 'cause of a not careful enough placement of the cpu
also add heatsinks on the vrms like shown in earlier posts
3. make sure you have a backup of your own bios
4. once you have a bios form lostn't bios you may need to change the setting “IA AC Load Line” and “IA DC Load Line”, to "1" to boot windows. with my 9400f i had instant shutdowns after a few minute booted windows before changing “IA AC Load Line” and “IA DC Load Line”

I went with the coffetime route to flash the bios everything works well, but i cannot seem to go above 3.8ghz with my i9 9900K seems bottlnecked, i put the heatsinks as you described in your post. How did you manage to turn the hyperthreding off i cannot find the setting on the bios menu.

Hi,

The HT setting is in the BIOS... just look around. It is there.

Yes. With the original BIOS settings and mainly the original VRM hardware, the i9 9900k suffers from a bottleneck. The VRM.


    There is only one HighSide-FET for each VRM Phase on the board. - I fixed that by soldering a second identical one to the 3 places on the mainboard.
  • Temperatures of VRM... it gets hot when at max. (default 79A) - I used copper heat sinks relaxing that issue a bit. And an additional low-profile blower fan connected to the PCH - Fan helps.
  • There are many unpopulated capacitors on the bottom side of the CPU socket. - I used all cemaric capacitors of identical defective board and soldered them on my board.
  • In addition I soldered 3 identical of that electrolytic capacitors to the cpu voltage rail. PRIMARY (19V) and SECONDARY (VccCore around 1V) side - THAT does the trick mainly. With this I am able to sink around 111A without thermal throttling of the VRM!!!



To drive that high currents I use ThrottleStop. There you see in the settings the Imax of 79A. I set mine to 120A.

All these modifications killed that bottleneck.

Mollari wrote:
Hi,

The HT setting is in the BIOS... just look around. It is there.

Yes. With the original BIOS settings and mainly the original VRM hardware, the i9 9900k suffers from a bottleneck. The VRM.


    There is only one HighSide-FET on the board. - I fixed that by soldering a second identical one to the 3 places on the mainboard.
  • Temperatures of VRM... it gets hot when at max. (default 79A) - I used copper heat sinks relaxing that issue a bit. And an additional low-profile blower fan connected to the PCH - Fan helps.
  • There are many unpopulated capacitors on the bottom side of the CPU socket. - I used all cemaric capacitors of identical defective board and soldered them on my board.
  • In addition I soldered 3 identical of that electrolytic capacitors to the cpu voltage rail. - THAT does the trick mainly. With this I am able to sink around 111A without thermal throttling of the VRM!!!



To drive that high currents I use ThrottleStop. There you see in the settings the Imax of 79A. I set mine to 120A.

All these modifications killed that bottleneck.



Intresting, i will give it another look with the HT settings in the bios. As for the extra board i might order a defective one on ebay. Did you use hotair to solder them into the unpoulated spots?

And an extra fan on the copperheatsink isnt a bad idea, ill try that too 🙂

Edit:
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Can't find the HT option in the bios-

Btw, do you have a picture of your motherboard with the new soldered components?

Mollari
Level 8
Hey, you upgraded your G20CI to an 9900k. I am trying the same, but my pc gets stuck on bootlogo, hitting F2 or DEL does nothing.

I have a I9 9900k R0 SRG19.

what exactly you did, to get this run?

Mollari
Level 8
Meanwhile my 9900k is running. In addition I did some hardware hacks (second MOSFET on high side, that was unpopulated by default, heatsinks, additional low profile blower). Performs well with some changed settings in BIOS.

But it runs only with HT disabled. How did you managed it running with HT enabled???

I want use i7 8700 on g20ci, i need a bios flasher or just downgrade me firmware? Thanks.

Mollari
Level 8
You will need a bios flasher. As I know, downgrading ME without pulling out the BIOS Flash Chip is not possible. Have a look on win-raid.

Mollari
Level 8
UPDATE: To run a 9900k on G20CI you simply need CoffeeTime 0.99. This tool will fix everything you need to run without issues.

Mine runs stable at 8c/16t, but with some modifications on the VRM. On the bottom side of the board you see in the CPU area that there are solderpoints with unpopulated ceramic capacitors. I took all of a old defective G20CB board and added 3 additional electrolyte-capacitors (the same ones near the Inductors, everything low ESR). Doing this you will be able to run such a cpu above the board specs without getting Thermal Throttling of the VRM and resulting in much more performance. Simply adding this capacitors I won the performance of 2 (!) single cores, because the VRM can deliver a higher current, set to 120A (CPU-Z Points 4900), instead of 79A (CPU-Z Points 3600). Modifying BIOS to deliver such a high current is possiple, using ThrottleStop is the best way to keep original values in BIOS if something goes wrong.

Mollari
Level 8
Here I marked the Primary side. Blue are the FETs and red are the electrolytic capacitors for the 19V rail

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After soldering the FETs and C on primary side:

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The secondary side needs the red marked capacitors and every ceramic capacitor from a spare board (mine was a G20CB rev. 1.02 from where I got every C.

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The electrolytic capacitors have to be soldered on the bottom side of the board, otherwise there is no place. I do not have a photo from this.

To solder the FETs I prepared the place first. You need hot air and a good iron to prepare the surface with solder. After that you simply place the part on the surface. With hot air in that region solder will melt and you got it. Do not use to much solder and use any kind of hotair gun with a very small nozzle to heat only the region of interest. Be careful not to burn and delaminate your board. Here is a photo of the G20CB from where I got the cemaric capacitors:

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For HT you can find it here:

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It is possible, that you can´t see that entries because you do not have access to them.

I unlocked many features of the BIOS. Instructions for that you find on win-raid.com . For each hidden setting you have to set access mode to "supervisor". I dont remember wether the HT feature is locked or not.