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Gigabyte Z390 M Gaming build with working NVRAM

I knew, there was something, what motivated me to update to F9m:
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Also Point "4. Fix CPU Vcore and power behavior" was a reason, because I have overclocked the CPU. The F9m is more stable in overclocking than the F9l.

So for the moment, I will stay on F9l as far as it works stable. :)

I'm on F9l and have my i9-9900K overclocked too. I currently have it at an extremely stable 5GHz. I've also had it at an extremely stable 5.1GHz. I just backed it down to 5GHz to keep the system running a little cooler.
 
I didn't get it working anyway. I had the "Sonnettech Solo10G PCIe Card" and the card were only in Slot-4 detected. So I had to decide between the Titan Ridge and the Solo10G card. My choice was the Titan Ridge and I switched to the Thunderbolt version of the Solo10G card.

Here's my BIOS setting file. Be careful with this. It may not work for your CPU because every CPU is a little different and I also have my RAM overclocked.
 

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I knew, there was something, what motivated me to update to F9m:
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Also Point "4. Fix CPU Vcore and power behavior" was a reason, because I have overclocked the CPU. The F9m is more stable in overclocking than the F9l.

So for the moment, I will stay on F9l as far as it works stable. :)
Over clocking in my opinion is more about E-peen then actual real performance. Back when you could clock a cellron chip from 400 MHz to 1 Ghz now that was some notable performance increase. But running your chip at its turbo speed not so much.
 
Over clocking in my opinion is more about E-peen then actual real performance. Back when you could clock a cellron chip from 400 MHz to 1 Ghz now that was some notable performance increase. But running your chip at its turbo speed not so much.

I feel the biggest advantage to overclocking is the ability to run all cores at the full turbo speeds.
 
I feel the biggest advantage to overclocking is the ability to run all cores at the full turbo speeds.
Yea but other then seeing it running all cores at full turbo speed do you see lots of improvement. Like if you are playing a cpu intensive game do you see 15 FPS more or doe you see 1 or 2? Or when encoding a movie does it save you 5 mins or does it only save you 20 secs? How much does it really give you when applied to the real world not just benchmark numbers.. I guess my only point was if I had to choose between working tb3 and an over clock I would take TB3.
 
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Yea but other then seeing it running all cores at full turbo speed do you see lots of improvement. Like if you are playing a cpu intensive game do you see 15 FPS more or doe you see 1 or 2? Or when encoding a movie does it save you 5 mins or does it only save you 20 secs? How much does it really give you when applied to the real world not just benchmark numbers.. I guess my only point was if I had to choose between working tb3 and an over clock I would take TB3.

I haven't done any exact comparisons personally. It takes too much time, but others have...

The i9-9900KS is basically an i9-9900K that runs at 5GHz on all cores.

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Source:https://www.extremetech.com/computi...z-all-core-boost-takes-on-amds-7nm-ryzen-cpus
 
Overall it looks like very very little improvement. If you compare the K to the KS

I had my system overclocked to 5 GHz for a while. But I kept encountering periodic problems when converting movies with Handbrake. Finally, I just put my system back to stock. Sure, my GeekBench scores went down, but operationally, I don't notice much difference.

I just got a new-to-me (ie., used) case that has better airflow, although I don't really think cooling was a problem. I might try overclocking it again. Just in principle, I bought the "K" version in order to overclock, so I feel somewhat obligated to try!
 
I had my system overclocked to 5 GHz for a while. But I kept encountering periodic problems when converting movies with Handbrake. Finally, I just put my system back to stock. Sure, my GeekBench scores went down, but operationally, I don't notice much difference.

I just got a new-to-me (ie., used) case that has better airflow, although I don't really think cooling was a problem. I might try overclocking it again. Just in principle, I bought the "K" version in order to overclock, so I feel somewhat obligated to try!

I had RAM stability issues with some of the older versions of BIOS. Even standard XMP was unstable. F9l has been solid.

I've done handbrake conversions overnight with my overclock on F9l where I queued up 4-5 videos to be converted and no problems.
 
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