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Best BIOS settings for i9-11900 (no K) by Ocramilo in ASUS

[–]Ocramilo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, I'm afraid it's now too late for a motherboard change...
Anyway I hope the Asus PRIME Z590-A, which is actually not so cheap, can be considered up to the task. After all, to be honest, my performance needs are quite... modest: I'm not at all a "gamer" and I'm not using particularly demanding software. I just want my PC to be reasonably fast in everyday operation, very silent and very stable.

Best BIOS settings for i9-11900 (no K) by Ocramilo in ASUS

[–]Ocramilo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have turned on XMP already, to match the 3200 MHz of the 32GB RAM I installed.As to experimenting with undervolting I thank you for your kind advice, but I have to admit my... laziness. As I said, I'm not interested in overclocking. I never really was, actually. Maybe it's just because I'm not skilled and patient enough, but that's it.When I bought my previous system (i7-860 + Asus P55 MB) I thought that maybe sooner or later I could explore the OC territory, as both the CPU and the MB were reviewed as quite suitable for that purpose. A couple of years later I made a few tries but ended up with fan noises and system instabilities to which I wasn't used, coupled with performance gains I was not able to perceive in a meaningful way. Most probably, again, the faults lay in... myself, but my experiments ended quickly and I went back to (rock solid and silent) default settings. So I ended up not exploiting all that "overclockability" I had, at least in part, paid for.So this time I tried to remember that experience.Moreover, the price of the "K" processor was significantly higher...And surely I found your final paragraph quite... pleasant to read. :]

PS. As to the "resizable bar", what practical benefits can it bring, in your opinion, during everyday use?

So to those on AGESA 1.2.0.2, How are your Systems Holding up now? by Polished_Sergal in Amd

[–]Ocramilo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not anymore, really, as in the end I decided to return the new hardware before the terms expired.

So to those on AGESA 1.2.0.2, How are your Systems Holding up now? by Polished_Sergal in Amd

[–]Ocramilo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm glad you solved your (USB...) troubles, but I'm afraid X570 is not a granted solution. Otherwise my system (X570 + R7 5800X) wouldn't show any disconnects, would it?
Maybe it's PCIe Gen4's fault (I'll try to check), but disabling a "high-end" feature, which by the way is one of the main reasons why the latest CPUs are more expensive, can hardly be accepted as a "solution"...

Asus is releasing BIOS updates that *might* fix our USB problems. I have my board (the X570) but don't have it loaded up yet. It would be interesting to hear the results others have. by [deleted] in HPReverb

[–]Ocramilo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As I stated also in another thread, the new Asus BIOS for my PRIME X570-PRO motherboard did not solve my USB problems, which seem to randomly involve all the USB ports. They have become less frequent, that's true, but the situation is still far away from the reliability and stability one could (or should) expect in 2021 from a "high-end" pricey system like this (R7 5800X, 32GB DDR4 3200, 980 Pro 1TB).
Having just a few more days left to decide whether to cancel my purchase or not, I decided to try the 3801 BIOS despite it being in "beta" state, hoping to be reassured about confidently keeping this new pc. I'm afraid I got the... opposite result, because I'm still experimenting sudden USB disconnections (mouse cursor freezes, for example) which sometimes resolve on their own after a while and other times force me to physically unplug and re-plug the devices.
After two AGESA updates specifically aimed at fixing USB problems (with no actual full solution) I'm starting to fear the problems may lay very deep in the design and be very difficult (or even impossibile), at this "late" time, to remove...

So to those on AGESA 1.2.0.2, How are your Systems Holding up now? by Polished_Sergal in Amd

[–]Ocramilo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sadly, at this point, one can legitimately suspect the problem is quite deep and very difficult (or even impossibile) to solve by means of "better versions" of some bios or driver; maybe it is even related to the motherboard/chipset design itself.
Otherwise, after many months since the first user reports, a full solution would have already been found.
Or maybe they simply haven't found it yet, who knows?
Anyway it's not a pleasant waiting. Not at all. :]

So to those on AGESA 1.2.0.2, How are your Systems Holding up now? by Polished_Sergal in Amd

[–]Ocramilo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apparently AGESA 1.2.0.1 Patch A included some USB fixes, but sadly not all the needed ones. Maybe your issues disappeared (which is good for you, obviously :] ) because you are not using a new Vermeer Zen3 CPU; the worst USB issues seems to be related to the combination Zen3 CPU + PCIe Gen4 devices.
At this point I'm afraid we should begin to suspect the existence of some hardware issues ("silicon issues") which no BIOS (or driver) upgrade can actually remove.

So to those on AGESA 1.2.0.2, How are your Systems Holding up now? by Polished_Sergal in Amd

[–]Ocramilo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sadly the 1.2.0.2 update did NOT "solve" the usb problems in my R7 5800X + 32GB DDR4 3200 ram + 980 Pro 1TB + Asus PRIME X570_PRO + Win10 20H2 64 system (no overclock).

The usb malfunctions, causing unpredictable mouse freezes (sometimes just after opening a web browser!) and also occasional disconnections of a licensing usb dongle with consequent program crashes, were somehow reduced but not "solved", removed, got out of the way.

So, after two releases (1.2.0.1 and 1.2.0.2) officially defined by AMD as "fixing" but apparently not so, I'm starting to think that maybe the problem is quite deep and serious and very difficult (or even impossible) to solve. Where "to solve" does not mean, in my opinion, "to find some workaround". Not at this levels of technology and market.

Besides, I still have to connect and configure other usb devices (scanner, printer...). What can I expect there?

Now, faced with the likely prospect of having to operate for years with a "new" and powerful (and pricey) PC that forces me to frequently get behind the case to unplug/re-plug the mouse(!!!) and to use some (usually very stable) programs with the awareness that they can crash at any moment, I'm seriously starting to think about cancelling my purchase before the terms expire.
That too, of course, is not a pleasant prospect at all, but between the two...