Asus Z490 stuff

[BloodBaron]

ROG STRIX BIOS 1002

Offer a Re-size BAR Support option to enhance GPU performance.

https://wccftech.com/asus-enables-re...-motherboards/

Nice

[KotOr368]

Anyone on apex xii facing an issue with front panel usb-c port? It causes I/O errors for me on Lian li o11 XL.

Well i have USB-C DVD-rom and on my new case with front USb-C it looks fine

[KotOr368]

Thinking that rocket lake is coming next year, is M12E actually PCIe 4.0 compatible? Asus has remained vague on that one, and officially all maximus xii boards are PCIe 3.0. I found a news article with an illustration [1]:

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[1] - https://www.world-today-news.com/it-...sus-in-flight/

Yes. From reviews looks like Asus equip only Extreme with necessary hardware. But let's be honest average consumer dont need PCIe GEN4.

[nerpish]

Yes. From reviews looks like Asus equip only Extreme with necessary hardware. But let's be honest average consumer dont need PCIe GEN4.

Yes, good point. I am telling myself that by the time I absolutley _need_ PCIe gen4, I'll also be needing DDR5.

[BloodBaron]

Yes, good point. I am telling myself that by the time I absolutley _need_ PCIe gen4, I'll also be needing DDR5.

yea considering the new GPUs dont lose much performance on gen3 (max 5% under certain games), load times are slightly better (maybe 1sec?) there's no point to spend what 600$+ for a rocket lake cpu, maybe a new mobo and 300$ for a SN850 1tb. that's my opinion anyway, that might change when DirectStorage/RTX IO becomes a thing but without any benchmarks for those its all speculation.

[BloodBaron]

yea considering the new GPUs dont lose much performance on gen3 (max 5% under certain games), load times are slightly better (maybe 1sec?) there's no point to spend what 600$+ for a rocket lake cpu, maybe a new mobo and 300$ for a SN850 1tb. that's my opinion anyway, that might change when DirectStorage/RTX IO becomes a thing but without any benchmarks for those its all speculation.

Sweet my Gaming X Trio 3080 came in last night, so happy it arrived before Cyberpunk, now i just need Nvidia to come out with resizable bar support

[martine-dee]

Yes. From reviews looks like Asus equip only Extreme with necessary hardware. But let's be honest average consumer dont need PCIe GEN4.

Yeah, shame about other models. Looking at the competition (per the article), it is a missed opportunity.

I suppose one won't gain much from PCIe 4.0 vs. PCIe 3.0. Personally, I am still very excited about it.

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Did someone get to test the M12E's new 1002 Beta BIOS from Nov 27, 2020? It is bad timing for me to play with it.

[kokotas]

Well i have USB-C DVD-rom and on my new case with front USb-C it looks fine

Thanks for the heads-up buddy!

[Braegnok]

Yeah, shame about other models. Looking at the competition (per the article), it is a missed opportunity.

I suppose one won't gain much from PCIe 4.0 vs. PCIe 3.0. Personally, I am still very excited about it.

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Did someone get to test the M12E's new 1002 Beta BIOS from Nov 27, 2020? It is bad timing for me to play with it.

Loaded it this morning, seems to be working fine on Extreme board.

[Braegnok]

Fwiw, my PC is just completing a successful memtest run with 3733 MHz, CL14. That is almost at the latency of 4000 MHz CL15, so I would conclude that the RAM frequency is the barrier. Iirc, even relaxing the timing to CL16 didn't make 4000 MHz work. And latency-wise that is way behind 3700 MHz CL14.

Anyway... 3733 MHz CL14 ftw! I will publish the full bios setup in this post later.

I've been test running new 1002 BIOS, setting up some memory profiles.

These settings are Prime95 stable on my rig.

@ 3733 MHz 13-17-17-33 (CL-RCD-RP-RAS) / 57-617-459-283-9-6-38 (RC-RFC1-RFC2-RFC4-RRDL-RRDS-FAW)