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MAXIMUS IX & X FORMULA New Bios?

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Good to hear it works now :thup:

One thing about BIOS releases. You can expect a lot of new releases just after motherboard premiere. After that there are only significant changes and bug fixes so if there is one BIOS per 2-3 months then is still good. Also use the best BIOS, not the last one. All those who are overclocking "for sport" test various releases and stick to the best one, even if it's old version.
ASUS ROG has much longer support than "standard" series so you can be sure that if anything is wrong then ASUS will fix it in some time. Usually ROG motherboards have at least 6-12 months longer BIOS suppport and it's also included in ROG higher price.
Pretty much all motherboards are performing additional training above ~3600. 4133 memory, even on the QVL list is nothing else than overclocked setting so motherboard sees it the same as low frequency overclocked kit ... just that manufacturers tested and confirmed it will work at XMP settings.
Looking at your results, BIOS is not the limiting factor and all results are good. Stability and other things can be BIOS related but OC in general is as good as expected. Don't trust what most other users are showing in the web. A lot of results are fake or not tested right and it's really easy to cheat on the screenshots.
 
Good to hear it works now :thup:

One thing about BIOS releases. You can expect a lot of new releases just after motherboard premiere. After that there are only significant changes and bug fixes so if there is one BIOS per 2-3 months then is still good. Also use the best BIOS, not the last one. All those who are overclocking "for sport" test various releases and stick to the best one, even if it's old version.
ASUS ROG has much longer support than "standard" series so you can be sure that if anything is wrong then ASUS will fix it in some time. Usually ROG motherboards have at least 6-12 months longer BIOS suppport and it's also included in ROG higher price.
Pretty much all motherboards are performing additional training above ~3600. 4133 memory, even on the QVL list is nothing else than overclocked setting so motherboard sees it the same as low frequency overclocked kit ... just that manufacturers tested and confirmed it will work at XMP settings.
Looking at your results, BIOS is not the limiting factor and all results are good. Stability and other things can be BIOS related but OC in general is as good as expected. Don't trust what most other users are showing in the web. A lot of results are fake or not tested right and it's really easy to cheat on the screenshots.
Yeah you're 100% right about people faking o/c is very true...

I redid my o/c with Bios v1101 I found my voltage much higher than before with stability.

My o/c are cooled by EK

I'm using custom liquid cooling loop, Dual RAD setup... 420mm/45mm & 140mm/45mm with D5 pump and 4 Furious Vardar 140mm 2500 RPM Fans.

I got my 8700K to 5.2GHz stable but at 1.48v @85c loads... It's ok for benchmarking....only....+ very high 50 dB noise...my Fan controller Fan Xpert 4 pushing my Furious Vardar 140mm to 2650 RPMs...is crazy lol.... My 5.2GHz 8700K is not Delidded... I wish I had one...Delidded 5.2GHz 8700K are 1.425v range with 75c loads temperatures much better temperature than stock.

My every day o/c is my 8700K @5.1GHz @1.40v @75c loads.

75c is the highest day to day temperature limit. My Furious Vardar 140mm are set to nice 70% power 1750 RPMs base...with idle around 20c purity good.

Bios v1101 is good. At least on my X FORMULA board. 5f1a9b15d452dfa2174986dcae31a22d.jpg c1cc971374fca136d32e74e13161e0e6.jpg 33c3e2bcecb127de2fb9d1653817ee1c.jpg f52e447502e0fd64191f05c627477919.jpg 389765c6423cebfb036261d10145b87d.jpg 798ee146c765d60e4b42527f48b450c2.jpg f474117791b7f8147145385bfa09a24f.jpg 7c6ab5a6b4cf367ce893edd5796367dc.jpg 7ef78bad66604699cf3374538ea1c196.jpg

 
With Bios v1101 my DDR4 4133MHz RGB CL17 is running perfectly! No extra training is necessary.

100% using XMP profile setting.

4133MHz 17-17-17-37

I don't touch my memory in my o/c, I let Intel XMP do its job at stock settings.

My RAM is G.Skill Trident Z RGB 4133MHz CL17 32GB kit

(F4-4133C17Q-32GTZR)

It's the fastest this X FORMULA board can handle. ac589cf565b627a04f95784d393e3328.jpg 8400f9d27dd1ecf375ab56dcded3bdf3.jpg 308568f3a436028524b640847556a6ab.jpg 98330e3ab83995ba9cf47e744921e79e.jpg

 
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