I’ve squeezed almost everything out of my TUF Z690-PLUS WIFI D4, but decided to upgrade the motherboard so it wouldn’t be the bottleneck anymore. I’ve had my ROG Strix Z690-A D4 for a few weeks now, but I still can’t decide which BIOS version to use before starting testing because of conflicting information—different sources recommend different versions.
Testing all of them could take months, so I’d really appreciate some advice on choosing the right one. I’m currently on 2305, but for a significant memory overclocking advantage, I’m even willing to downgrade - even if it means desoldering the chip and flashing it with a programmer.From what I’ve read on forums, it currently seems like 2602 or 2204 are the best options for 14th gen, but I don’t understand how much worse they are compared to 0901, which many people praise. Is it worth switching CPUs just to use 0901?
Right now my 14700K is running at fixed ring 50 / core 54, vCore 1.44, SA 1.33, LLC 5, and memory is 2x16GB dual-rank B-die at 4000 CL14 CR2. I’ve attached a screenshot of what I managed to achieve on the TUF:
This isn’t a fully finalized overclock - while tuning tertiary timings, I decided to switch motherboards, so not everything is fully dialed in yet. The final step was supposed to be finding the minimum stable voltages for SA, VDDQ, and VDIMM, since I still want to achieve better frequencies than 3400 at CR1 on the TUF.