Modded bios Rampage VI

[RichKnecht]

Rather than older versions of bios, its the old microcodes inside which bring more performance. So u can mod a newer bios with old versions of microcodes, like 29 in CLX, and your rig will work a bit faster.

I guess I'll try and use the previous bios for my Omega which has been modified with the older microcodes to see if I can get any more out of my OC.

[RichKnecht]

On another note, has anyone running the previous bios on their Omega noticed any OC instability with the newer bios?

[BigJohnny]

I can’t speak for the Omega but can say that MC49 drops temps by 3-4C on the R6E and R6EE for me. The newer micro codes are all about vulnerability patches that slow you down. My Network is so twisted with everything going through the ISP router to anther router on one port so you first have to figure out that port then get through a hardware firewall and into the router where everything is connected and also in a twisted fashion. If you can get that far then have at it. All my sensitive information is on encrypted drives.*

[LunaP]

Question for R6 Encore owners, which is the recommended bios currently? I got my board recently and running 0702 ( out of box ) and wanting to check which is recommended for good performance / OC ( ram especially ) for w/e reason on my R6EE I can't boot at 4000 on mem, but on my old R6E despite the bios version I could. Have loosened timings / pushed Ram voltage/vccio/vccsa etc more + vcore and still nothing, so I'm thinking it might just be bios related. I heard there were issues w/ the same on the 050X revisions, so curious if 06xx or 04xx or a custom of one of them would be better to test with?

Running a 10980XE for anyone curious. RAM is Samsung B-die Gskill kit, and easily boots at 3800 CL15 @ 1.42v w/ no issues in TM5/HCI I've tested uptwads to 22CL with no avail, so definitely has to be something I'm missing.






I thought the TJ MAX for this CPU was 86 though, wouldn't hitting 90's etc degrade it over time? I'm running 4.9 24/7 @ 1.23v but still get 90's on realbench, CB20 def hits thermal, curious how your setup is, I have avx offsets of 8 and 15 for AVX2/512 and still see temps spike up on that, wondering if there's something else to adjust for that.





vmanuel is there a guide on how to modify it? I'd be interesting in testing this w/ my CPU to see any gains/performance if possible, and if so which do you recommend for the 10980XE?







Ran both of these as well to validate things are off, though saw no change in performance, so assuming I need to ensure its disabled at the hardware level correct? As for which is that always included in the custom bios?

Since this got cut off on the previous page, bumping in case people missed it, So far no change with 0702, so curious if the previous modded Microcode bios for 10980XE would be recommended instead, just trying to find out if anything will improve temps or performance at this rate.

[TSportM]

Since this got cut off on the previous page, bumping in case people missed it, So far no change with 0702, so curious if the previous modded Microcode bios for 10980XE would be recommended instead, just trying to find out if anything will improve temps or performance at this rate.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/19eI...SxCwMNdkC/edit

i use 702 with mc29 you have more performance gains also more OC headroom in my case, being 1.362v for 5.1all cores Vs normal stock bios 1.4v for 5.1 cores,less voltage overall in the board a less tweaking necessary,even if you use it default it has better performance


you have a few discussions a pages behind:

https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthrea...170#post811170

[SlayeRC]

Hi Guys,

I own one X299 APEX motherboard, tried to mod myself the latest bios (3201) with lastest modules but i could not.
Is someone of you so nice to share yours ?]

Thank you,

[zocker]

Why have the 3201 Bios Perforance Drops, is it fixable?!
Using a RA6 Board.

[LunaP]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/19eI...SxCwMNdkC/edit

i use 702 with mc29 you have more performance gains also more OC headroom in my case, being 1.362v for 5.1all cores Vs normal stock bios 1.4v for 5.1 cores,less voltage overall in the board a less tweaking necessary,even if you use it default it has better performance


you have a few discussions a pages behind:

https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthrea...170#post811170

Correct 702 is the one I'm on , which I found 0 diff from the officia 702 after updating to, so I guess I'll try 0603 then as I didn't see any performance changes from that custom bios, still requires the same voltage unless there's something else I should be doing/disabling

As for the discussion you linked it had no useful information since it only mentioned how good the 0603 was but no mention on how good 702 was. I've read through the thread and asking now since its been a while.

How are you keeping a 10980XE @ 1.362v ( I thought 1.3 was deemed max safetyand any more is considered degrading ) cool and not overheating?, I have a huge waterloop (4x 480 RADS x 32 fans AP15's ) and still overheat @ 1.285+ when at 5.1ghz( unable to stress test basically )

Are you using a chiller?

[RichKnecht]

I can’t speak for the Omega but can say that MC49 drops temps by 3-4C on the R6E and R6EE for me. The newer micro codes are all about vulnerability patches that slow you down. My Network is so twisted with everything going through the ISP router to anther router on one port so you first have to figure out that port then get through a hardware firewall and into the router where everything is connected and also in a twisted fashion. If you can get that far then have at it. All my sensitive information is on encrypted drives.*

I flashed the 3006 MC49 Bios and when checking the microcode in the bios, MC49 was not there. Still the same microcode as the non-modded bios. That has me a bit confused. I thought maybe that MC49 was not Cascade-X compatible, but you said you are running MC49 on your 10980, so I am not sure what's going on.

[Int8bldr]

@tistou77,

You are the master of BIOS and mCode testing and evaluation.

In your professional experience, what is the best performing mCode and BIOS combo for the 10980XE on R6EE?

I'm asking because every time I "upgrade" performance goes down and i lost track of all possible combinations and how they performed through otu teh last 1 year.
I remember performance was good with BIOS 0401 and I think also with 0504 both with uCode F00 (cascade lake X of course). I think remember that F01 was also good performance but that everything after that has been straight down hill (I think) at least as far as uCodes are concerned.

So what's the best package BIOS and uCode for Cascade lake X? (You've posted Bios 0603 with F01 on the front page.

And yeah disregard all security concerns for this comparison, they are largely academic anyway so...

Thank you for all the work that you do on this forum!