Was away from my main home computer, out of the country for 1 year, so, naturally, had lots of Windows and applications updates to do upon returning this past mid-Sept; upon updating Intel's XTU, discovered my 7700K had been dropped from it's previous "XTU-approved" status, which removed my OC from stock 4.2 GHz all core to 4.7 GHz all-core turbo, still within balanced mode, so, only sustained those clock speeds under a full load, yet still idled down to just 800-1000 MHz when tinkering at the desktop, reading forums, etc... (Best of all worlds!) So quite irritated at the loss of the OC! (Not that it was noticeable, but, felt like Iost 'something', even if not noticeable!)
The good news---tinkered a few minutes in the Asus Z270A-Prime BIOS, and without any core voltage increase, let Asus do an 'auto-tune optimum OC', which then upped the all-core turbo to 4.6 GHz, still down 100 MHz from the XTU-target. Went into BIOS standard settings for manual which allows max clock speed for 1,2,3, and 4 core loadings, set them back to my previous beloved 4.7 GHz all core speeds (identified as 'Asus 11% OC in initial Asus splash screen at power on), and...success!
My psychological loss at the hands of Intel's XTU was defeated!
Posted for anyone else , just in case someone else running MCE mode with Intel's XTU and still in balanced power mode with a pre-10th gen Intel CPU, who might not have noticed the loss in all-core turbo speed just yet, until updating the XTU application. (I thought i read where latest XTU-update was now only compatible with 10th gen and above CPUs) (Likely not even noticeable unless checking/noting clock speeds in HWMonitor or Task Manager/ Performance when under a load. I, however, noticed it quite quickly as only turboing to 4.4 GHz all-core, a function of MCE at least still being enabled in the BIOS)
The good news---tinkered a few minutes in the Asus Z270A-Prime BIOS, and without any core voltage increase, let Asus do an 'auto-tune optimum OC', which then upped the all-core turbo to 4.6 GHz, still down 100 MHz from the XTU-target. Went into BIOS standard settings for manual which allows max clock speed for 1,2,3, and 4 core loadings, set them back to my previous beloved 4.7 GHz all core speeds (identified as 'Asus 11% OC in initial Asus splash screen at power on), and...success!
My psychological loss at the hands of Intel's XTU was defeated!
Posted for anyone else , just in case someone else running MCE mode with Intel's XTU and still in balanced power mode with a pre-10th gen Intel CPU, who might not have noticed the loss in all-core turbo speed just yet, until updating the XTU application. (I thought i read where latest XTU-update was now only compatible with 10th gen and above CPUs) (Likely not even noticeable unless checking/noting clock speeds in HWMonitor or Task Manager/ Performance when under a load. I, however, noticed it quite quickly as only turboing to 4.4 GHz all-core, a function of MCE at least still being enabled in the BIOS)
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