Running all cores at turbo boost frequency.

[KHADER87]

Hi,
I have i7 4790 on asus b85m-g motherboard.

I read couple of threads where people managed to overclock non k cpu on non z boards, or atleast have all cores run at max turbo boost which is 4.00ghz, on my situation i can only run 4 cores at 3.8ghz. I tried all bios available with no luck except first bios cuz asus seems to have blocked it to be used.

Is there another way? Bios version? Or how to upload the first relased bios and avoid error message due to unspportef downgrade of bios.

 

[KHADER87]

MERGED QUESTION
Question from KHADER87 : "BCLK unlock on Asus b85m-g"

Hi,

I saw threads were people used bclk on the same board to lock all cores at max turbo boost frequency, 4.00ghz for my i7 4790, which i could only lock them at 3.8ghz although i changed all cores to 40 multipliers.

Any thoughts, bios version maybe?

 

[BFG-9000]

Intel removed the ability for non-z87 chipset boards to multiplier overclock K processors in microcode sometime in July 2013.

Of course non-K Haswell processors cannot be multiplier overclocked at all. Sandy and Ivy Bridge had allowed up to 400MHz overclock on non-K but this was removed for Haswell like yours.

As your non-K i7 has Turbo, it was technically possible for ASUS to implement all-core Turbo (in ASUS-speak this is called multicore enhancement) in any BIOS revision regardless of microcodes but they probably chose not to do this except in z87 boards to avoid offending their supplier Intel.

In short, that first release BIOS you are after probably only allows overclocking K processors, which is not what you are looking for.

 

[COLGeek]

MERGED QUESTION
Question from KHADER87 : "Increasing Core Voltage on Same Core Frequency"

Hi,
I have i7 4790
GTX1070FE
Asus B85m-g

Since my cpu and mobo are not overclocking compatible, im now running all cores at fixed 3.8ghz on core since my mobo doesnt at all cores to run at 4.00ghz, and running 4.00ghz on cache frequency.

I noticed the cpu it at full usage while playing blackout Beta, BF1.

And im having anniying FPS drops mainly due to my cpu.

What i did is set the core and cache voltage at 1.1 instead at 1.004.

My question, does increasing voltage give the cpu extra boost since watt consumption is only 50 max during gaming?

Note. Temps are in 50s, no throttling.

Thanks.

no just increases power comsumption and heat

 

[COLGeek]

MERGED QUESTION
Question from KHADER87 : "Unable to downgrade Bios"

Hi,

I have asus b85m-g, i want to downgrade bios to 0306 version to unlock CPU BCLK to overclock CPU to have all cores running at max turbo boost frequency, but bios is not allowing me and keeps poping wierd messages which indicates i cant downgrade.,

What is the soulation?

I'm not sure where you came up with version 0306. The B85M-G BIOS 0309 was the First release Bios. There was no B85M-G BIOS 0306 listed. But even 0309 was dated 2013/06/03. The motherboard was manufactured well after the CPU BCLK was replaced with the current multiplier overclocking format.

So even if you flash the first release BIOS for your motherboard, you will be stuck with the same overclocking method in use with current Intel Processors


Version 0309 2013/06/034.6 MBytes

B85M-G BIOS 0309
First release Bios

https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/B85MG/HelpDesk_Download/

 

[COLGeek]

Please don't start additional threads to ask variations of the same basic questions. Stick to one thread and following up with members who ask questions/provide input.

Thank you.