Since I got myself a Micro from UK and had time to tinker with it and my 7920X I‘d like to give some feedback for further improvements through bios updates.
First of all the board is pretty easy to work with and with a bit of experience overclocking is a walk in the park. The VRM heatsink was no issue so far. DRAM performance out of the box is pretty poor due to loose auto timings set from the mobo even @XMP but can be adressed manually.
This is what I could achieve with very tight second / third timings @ 3100Mhz Mesh. I think Write should be higher, but judge for yourself:
From other mobos I‘m used to have more advanced options in the bios, so I‘ll provide a list of options that are missing from the bios and that are crucial for some serious overclocking.
Missing options:
Disable SVID control
Load Line Calibration levels
Turbo boost 3.0
( and an indication of the rank of the individual core, helpful vor per-core overclocking )
Toggle over-current-protection /
Raise current limit for CPU
Missing RAM options:
RTLs/IOLs,
IO latency,
signal slopes (+ offsets),
DRAM ref voltage control
That‘s all that I can think of for now from the top of my head. Feel free to comment.
Bottom line: It’s nothing a new bios can’t fix. Hopefully EVGA puts their bios guys on it and implements some vital options. A pretty bios is one thing but enthusiast want all the options available to them and if pretty much all the competition has these options on their boards that‘s probably for a reason.
Edit: Also I found the nvme performance of my 960 Pro is around 15% lower than it should be. Read should be more like 3500 MB/s.
post edited by Snipes7 - 2017/11/27 08:45:49