skitzogreg

This essentially is a shoutout to those of you who own this motherboard to update to the newest BIOS revision (F4). Alright, so it's not "new" [9/21], but if you're like me then you don't check every day for updates. Ever since I updated to this BIOS revision, my computer has been far more stable. Link below.

http://www.gigabyte.us/Support/Mothe...3096#anchor_os

tgawn

I went and immediately update to the F4 but notice my 3d 2006 go from 15500 to 1500, and pc vantage from 6800 to 6000! Concerned, but persevered and upped to from 3.6 - 3.8 hearing that F4 is more stable. After that my 3d mark vantage score went from 9543 (3.6) to 9921 (3.8)! And its fully stable. The pc mark and 3d mark 2006 benchmarks are pretty low which i don’t get. Any ideas??

skitzogreg

I'm taking a wild guess, but usually with BIOS revisions comes some sort of improved power management settings. This could possibly have something to do with chip performance, but I honestly have no clue (keep in mind that my power settings changed by default with the F4 upgrade, and my voltages were tweaked automatically). Your guess is as good as mine.

Also, I was able to hit a stable 3.6 on stock settings with the F4 revision. Before I had to up the VCORE to 1.4+.