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I can’t believe the Z690 classy was $300. I haven‘t had a classy board since my X58 Classified so I’m excited to jump back in with these boards. I plan on slapping a 12400F in it until 13th gen is launched and then I’ll upgrade to the top tier chip (13900k I’m guessing). I know it’s silly to have a 12400F in a board of this caliber but I’m coming from a 9900k so even the 12400F is a little bit of an upgrade.
Anything I should know getting started or just update to the latest BIOS and I’m good to go? Any quirks I should be aware of? I’ll be running Windows 10 and I’m not willing to upgrade to Windows 11, any issues here with Alder Lake?
Thanks in advance.
saw ur post yesterday and it took me a day to figure out wat to suggest.
see my sig below? (rhetorical) i've only used BIOS v1.03 but i bet u want to OC so...
1. Use v1.03 that came with ur MOBO for installing OS.
2. Load Optimal Defaults.
3. Turn OFF: Fast Boot in BIOS & Disable CSM.
4. Install OS.
5. Test without OCing.
6. Don't use the CPU-Z's SPD Tab. Actually, ur best off disabling the SPD scan option: Open "cpuz.ini" change line from "SPD=1". Change it to "SPD=0". Note: there's a bug if u don't. It's different with Optimal Defaults and BIOS v1.03: 1st time u open SPD Tab in CPU-Z all seems fine. But when u open it a 2nd time and haven't restarted then it doesn't function.
7. After OS seems fine on Optimal Defaults and u back it up or not because that's ur prerogative... then maybe it's time to update BIOS.
8. BIOS v1.14 is suppose to address the SPD bug in CPU-Z. But i found SIV (System Information Viewer
v5.65) was a good alternative combined with just leaving SPD disabled in CPU-Z until everyone that uses a newer BIOS version confirms all problems have gone away. So that's also a prerogative. I explained using it in a post:
Replacement For Any Need For CPU-Z SPD Tab. The nice thing about the SIV approach is eliminating one thing (CPU-Z SPD scanning) from the problem and focusing on
other things is getting other things accomplished. And it leaves trying all versions maybe v1.10 would work better or v1.12. And after all, SIV
v5.65 did find and addressed the problem last July and it doesn't seem CPU-Z has.
GL
post edited by Bee_Dee_3_Dee - 2022/08/08 18:02:34