Best bios settings for Maximus VII Hero for no overclocking?

[Joshua D]

Just looking into what to disable (already turned off Asus multicore enhancement). Not looking to overclock. I just want a nice, cool, long lasting pc.

 

[Tradesman1]

The mobo defaults should be fine

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Great choice on the board.

 

[Joshua D]

The mobo defaults should be fine

I turned off multicore enhancement and disabled my XMP memory profile, which fortuitously left my memory set to what it was supposed to be, anyway 9-9-9-24

Thank you for your response btw. You've been so helpful throughout my nerve-wracking build lol

Don't get me wrong; it went smooth. It's just so many things can go bonkers at any given time!

 

[Joshua D]

Great choice on the board.

Thanks! People probably wonder why I went with an i7 4790k and a Maximus VII Hero if I didn't want to overclock, but I wanted the improved thermal interface, hyperthreading performance, and 4.0 ghz performance of the Devil's Canyon along with all the wonderful ATX space, UEFI, overclocker-oriented reliability, and onboard Supreme FX (I've never been an audiophile, and I've never bought a sound card; but I do really appreciate nice audio off the board) of the ASUS MOBO.

 

[Tradesman1]

Well, down the road if you evr decide to play with OCing you are ready to go It's like having a free CPU upgrade just waiting for you

 

[Joshua D]

Well, down the road if you evr decide to play with OCing you are ready to go It's like having a free CPU upgrade just waiting for you

I'm foreseeing that to be quite a while with the games that I play... I think I hear my computer giggle when it's chewing through my flight simulators. I never knew what a choke point my old CPU was. Did I mention I upgraded from 8 gb RAM and a phenom II 1100t processor? lol It's like I'm seeing colors I never seen before!

 

[Tradesman1]

I prefer your experience of heading upward and onward, I get calls all the time and head out to see rigs that are older and slower, and sit down and feel like "OK I'll go have a smoke while I wait for FireFox to open, it's particularly frustrating when trying to teach people how to run a software package, or waiting around foorreeevvveeeeeerrrr for a malware or virus check to run 😉