- Joined
- Apr 1, 2021
- Messages
- 35
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Z590i Vision D
- CPU
- i9-11900K
- Graphics
- W5500
Yeah these early Z590 BIOS' are a mess. On MSI, before I returned it, it wouldn't hold an all-core overclock on Rocket Lake in Cinebench... it would down clock to 4.6 GHz. I've heard YouTubers complaining about the same thing.
At least the f5a BIOS on Gigabyte didn't have that issue if you disable TVB frequency clipping. But Thunderbolt hot plug is broken. I reached out to Gigabyte last week about missing hot plug and some other weird quirks in their BIOS. For instance, if you disable the Thunderbolt controller, save, restart, the Tthunderbolt settings disappear from the BIOS, and you can't access them until you clear CMOS or load Optimized Defaults.
They haven't gotten back to me yet. But it seems that Gigabyte has pulled F5a (at least from their worldwide site, not sure about other locales) from their website: https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Z590-VISION-D-rev-10/support#support-dl-bios
I have had the same experience with the Gigabyte Z590i Vision D.
I have found out, that Disabling the TVB frequency clipping and setting the CoreCurrent Limit(Amps) with the Core Power Limits to a higher value like 250A helps. But getting a good OC and setting Powerlimits to fit your cooling is working weird right now.
And I couldn't really get a much better result than just loading default settings and then enabling Adaptive Boost Technology. This is what I am using now.
This was my best yet: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/7280853
And this is what XMP+ABT gives me: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/7293848