Hail The Brain Slug
Diamond Member
I spent a lot of time tweaking my CPU and memory overclocks and dialed them in "just right". I was pretty satisfied with the memory bandwidth I got, which is here:
And I just updated to the latest bios from ASUS for my motherboard. After doing some stress testing to make sure it was stable (I tweaked my overclock a little) I am getting this:
The CPU and cache overclock is slightly higher (The reporting isn't quite correct).
Pre update: 4.4 GHz core, 4.275 GHz cache, 1508 MHz ram
Post update: 4.5 GHz core, 4.375 GHz cache, 1500 MHz ram
The memory speed is slightly different due to a difference in bclk, but every timing setting is identical between the two. I'm at a bit of a loss for an explanation, so I'm wondering if anyone has any idea how a bios update did this? I'm certain it isn't my overclock tweak as I've tried to stabilize this specific overclock before and it had a negligible effect on memory speeds.
And I just updated to the latest bios from ASUS for my motherboard. After doing some stress testing to make sure it was stable (I tweaked my overclock a little) I am getting this:
The CPU and cache overclock is slightly higher (The reporting isn't quite correct).
Pre update: 4.4 GHz core, 4.275 GHz cache, 1508 MHz ram
Post update: 4.5 GHz core, 4.375 GHz cache, 1500 MHz ram
The memory speed is slightly different due to a difference in bclk, but every timing setting is identical between the two. I'm at a bit of a loss for an explanation, so I'm wondering if anyone has any idea how a bios update did this? I'm certain it isn't my overclock tweak as I've tried to stabilize this specific overclock before and it had a negligible effect on memory speeds.
