tomshardware secret bios builds ?

[Soulkeeper]

"I spent a couple of late nights chatting back and forth with the fine folks at ASRock and Gigabyte, who helped in near real-time with BIOS builds. Eventually, I was able to get Gigabyte’s A75M-UD2H dialed in at nearly 3.4 GHz (it’d run in excess of that, but crashed under load) using a 23.5x multiplier and 145 MHz reference clock reflected as 143.5 MHz. The APU only needed a .05 V bump to achieve those numbers, too."
SOURCE

I've tried both the asrock and gigabyte boards and am not able to replicate this guy's results.
It would be nice if they made these bios versions public before they slapped a gold metal on them in their reviews. Still stuck at 100bclk here.

I can get 133+ bclk, but the sata drives no longer function. Purchased a new monitor because the VGA stops functioning at 133 bclk.
Do I really need to buy two pcie to sata cards !? all this for 133bclk

 

[Joseph F]

Hmm... Perhaps they only do this for reviewers.

 

[Idontcare]

You've been a member here since 2001, surely you don't need to be reminded at this point that overclocking is a YMWV (your mileage will vary) type of endeavor

IMO if I read a review and saw the author having to go through such torturous hijinks to attain their reported overclocking results then for me that is nothing but a big red flag because it says the platform is not robust and the standard deviation on end-user results is going to be huge.

 

[Rvenger]

Soulkeeper, I owned (3) A6-3650s. 1 was unstable at stock speeds, the next one would lock up with artifacts no matter what configuration I had, and sometimes the USB ports would stop working. I RMAed again and the third one worked fine, I didn't even bother overclocking it because I could barely get these chips to be stable to begin with. 2 different motherboards and 3 different types of memory. These chips are very finicky with RAM.

Also remember, that when you are using the iGPU and CPU in gaming and such, the memory will start to cook real fast. I would not recommend overclocking RAM unless its rated for a higher speed than your overclock.

 

[Ferzerp]

They don't make those bios builds available because they don't undergo the necessary testing to be a production build. The changes get incorporated in later builds if they can, but a company cannot just throw out every little build for public use. It would be a disaster for them.

 

[Soulkeeper]

I'm being limited only by bios at this point.

I need an FM1 motherboard that doesn't screw the overclocker.
It's upsetting to read reviews where they claim to get 133+ bclk
so I keep buying more and more hardware unable to do it myself.

The sata is being overclocked.
Eagerly waiting for a chance to run my mem faster :/

 

[Soulkeeper]

Another 133+ Things he says clearly don't happen.

 

[Soulkeeper]

You've been a member here since 2001, surely you don't need to be reminded at this point that overclocking is a YMWV (your mileage will vary) type of endeavor

IMO if I read a review and saw the author having to go through such torturous hijinks to attain their reported overclocking results then for me that is nothing but a big red flag because it says the platform is not robust and the standard deviation on end-user results is going to be huge.

Yes, i've been a member since 2001. Pushing the limits every since.
reading this PAGE you'd never think "torturous hijinks".

 

[Soulkeeper]

Unless someone has any ideas, my next step is to buy a pcie sata card.

 

[sm625]

Wont the pci-e bus be running at that same unstable 33% overclock? What guarantee is there that its bridge chip will function correctly?

 

[Soulkeeper]

Wont the pci-e bus be running at that same unstable 33% overclock? What guarantee is there that its bridge chip will function correctly?

according to this, atleast one of my PCIE slots is bound to work
I'm assuming anything coming off the FCH is gonna be shot, won't know anything unless I try I suppose.

I already know that sata and vga get overclock
hdmi and dvi don't
USB seemed to be detected at 133+ bclk in an OS
NIC, sound, pci are still questionable

 

[monkeydelmagico]

Sell/RMA it all. PCIE sata card is throwing good money after bad

It's a lemon, sorry.

 

[blckgrffn]

Sell/RMA it all. PCIE sata card is throwing good money after bad

It's a lemon, sorry.

As excited as I was about the Unlocked APUs, I have to agree 100%.

Show us what Trinity can do in a couple months