Question Best BIOS settings for music production New build.

[Hollywood691]

I decided to upgrade from my ole Lenovo P510 workstation and build a new computer in a 4U rack chassis. I dont know alot about Bios settings so need a little help doing this with focusing on stability, performance, and efficient resource management.

Ive built this"

• Asus Tuf Gaming z790 plus wifi MB with updated BIOS v1820 (Newest version)
• i9-14900K CPU
• 128GB Crucial ddr5 5600Mhz RAM
• Silicon Power 4TB US75 Nvme PCIe Gen4 M.2 2280 SSD
• EVGA 750 GT 80 plus gold PSU
• AISURIX RX 580, 8GB, GDDR5 GPU
• Toshiba X300 8TB, 3.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive
  CMR SATA 6 GB/s 7200 RPM 512 MB Cache HD
• ID-COOLING FROZN A400 Black CPU Cooler set in a push/pull config
• 3 case fans- 1-120mm intake, 2-80mm exhaust
• WIN 11 Home OS
• also have about 35TB of external storage

I run Presonus Studio One Pro 7

everything works well, have spent hours loading software, plugins back to my system now need to make sure the bios is set to the best settings I can. This machine is dedicated to mostly Just music production with the occasional music video (not very often, and the only reason I put the Graphics card in it). Any help on Bios would be greatly appreciated. I want to focus on stability, performance, and efficient resource management.

Thanks!!!

 

[COLGeek]

I would suggest leaving the BIOS at its default settings. Definitely NO overclocking.

Some may suggest undervolting/underclocking to reduce heat/power consumption, but those would be minor "gains" and can introduce stability issues.

The only possible exception, from the default settings, would be to enable XMP in the memory section.

 

[Hollywood691]

I did try to enable XMP and created a boot issue, so disabled it and left it alone. Thank you for your advice.

 

[COLGeek]

I did try to enable XMP and created a boot issue, so disabled it and left it alone. Thank you for your advice.

Is your motherboard BIOS the most recent version available for it?

Do you have all four memory slots occupied, or just two of them? If four, are they from a matched set?

 

[Hollywood691]

Is your motherboard BIOS the most recent version available for it?

Do you have all four memory slots occupied, or just two of them? If four, are they from a matched set?

yes most recent version bios, and yes all 4 memory slots filled. yes matched sets

 

[COLGeek]

Then leave well enough alone. If the system is stable and performing well to meet your needs, you are good to go.

Sometimes, populating all 4 memory slots can affect XMP settings. Bumping up the memory voltage a smidge can sometimes help with that.

If your situation, I would suggest the "juice isn't worth the squeeze".

 

[Hollywood691]

Then leave well enough alone. If the system is stable and performing well to meet your needs, you are good to go.

Sometimes, populating all 4 memory slots can affect XMP settings. Bumping up the memory voltage a smidge can sometimes help with that.

If your situation, I would suggest the "juice isn't worth the squeeze".

haha "juice isn't worth the squeeze". Ive never heard that one.....good one. Thank you for your advice. I'll leave everything as is. I reset Bios to factory default and will leave it alone. (except asus armoury crate I disabled auto download, and set the IGPU to enabled for multi monitor, I do run 2 monitors).

Thanks again for your help!

 

[COLGeek]

My pleasure. All I did was consider your stated uses. Stability is more important than raw performance for those uses.

You can always adjust later if something is not up to par.