Maximus viii hero bios 1402

[herbolla]

So bios 1402 finally came out for the Hero today. Has anyone installed it and had grief with it? I'm weary of installing it since the last 2 gave me so many problems. But I've heard it works well on the other VIII motherboards. Please post your thoughts. Thanks!

[The_F34R_Channe]

Firstly, there's no bug as I understand it; Skylake does not support AVX 512 and it was said it wouldn't, and secondly, it doesn't fix it but probably omits something, simply because handling such a thing can't be done after the design of the CPU microcode has been done 😉

I flashed 1402 as well today, but didn't do anything else in it, because...reasons 😉

[meankeys]

I read in another Thread someone had updated there bios to the latest and he had to up his voltage on his overclock. Well I too had the same problem. I updated to the 1402. With the same settings 5100 MHz uncore @ 44 and Memory running 3700+ Voltage 1.475v I had to up the voltage to stay stable to run the encoding and the GIMP test would crash every other time. I then reverted back to the 0401 bios same settings and voltages and managed a 114909 score. Seems like you guy's need a bit more tweaking on the next bios release.

M8E - 16 GB TridentZ - 6700K

[NemesisChild]

meankeys wrote:
I read in another Thread someone had updated there bios to the latest and he had to up his voltage on his overclock. Well I too had the same problem. I updated to the 1402. With the same settings 5100 MHz uncore @ 44 and Memory running 3700+ Voltage 1.475v I had to up the voltage to stay stable to run the encoding and the GIMP test would crash every other time. I then reverted back to the 0401 bios same settings and voltages and managed a 114909 score. Seems like you guy's need a bit more tweaking on the next bios release.

M8E - 16 GB TridentZ - 6700K

I'm using the exact same voltages for my overclocks with 1402 compared to 1302.

[misterbeam]

NemesisChild wrote:
I'm using the exact same voltages for my overclocks with 1402 compared to 1302.

Maybe, your voltage was already a bit too high 😄

Anyway, my cpu right now really can't go to 4.7 GHZ anymore, no matter what voltage i put in ... i was already at 1.36V, it's stable with 1.32V @ 4.6GHz though.

[NemesisChild]

misterbeam wrote:
Maybe, your voltage was already a bit too high 😄

Anyway, my cpu right now really can't go to 4.7 GHZ anymore, no matter what voltage i put in ... i was already at 1.36V, it's stable with 1.32V @ 4.6GHz though.

1.295v for 4.6GHz seem a bit too high?

[misterbeam]

NemesisChild wrote:
1.295v for 4.6GHz seem a bit too high?

No it doesn't 😄

But, i have no idea how can you stabilize those frequencies with such low voltages :confused:

[FlanK3r]

meankeys wrote:
I read in another Thread someone had updated there bios to the latest and he had to up his voltage on his overclock. Well I too had the same problem. I updated to the 1402. With the same settings 5100 MHz uncore @ 44 and Memory running 3700+ Voltage 1.475v I had to up the voltage to stay stable to run the encoding and the GIMP test would crash every other time. I then reverted back to the 0401 bios same settings and voltages and managed a 114909 score. Seems like you guy's need a bit more tweaking on the next bios release.

M8E - 16 GB TridentZ - 6700K

Im at 1202 at M8H...Seems, will be better to stay on 1202 than upgrade to 1402. Right? Of course-because OC. I dont care about issues in PRIME95 🙂

[The_F34R_Channe]

In 1202 & 1302 I was able to run 4.5 @ 1.185v which jumped up to 1.200v occasionally when needed. That's good then. Haven't tried on 1402 yet because, issues.

[The_F34R_Channe]

Maybe with the help of the LLC? I set level 5.

[NemesisChild]

It all boils down to the silicone lottery, I got lucky with a good chip.
1.32v for 4.6GHz isn't that bad. You will probably need 1.39-1.41v for 4.7GHz.

And Fear Channel is right, LLC setting of 5 will help avoid Vdroop under CPU load.