Hi,
 
Is there any way to control the power limits for the Z690 Dark? I didn't see anything in the bios that resembled PL1/PL2 control, but I was able to change it with Intel XTU. I just prefer the bios if possible. Thanks

babayega
i believe u cant control power on the dark, from z390 dark u couldnt, why would u need to? just reduce voltage/clocks and adjust loadline. 

Thanks for the response. I'm trying to replicate the TVB setup I had on my Prime Z690-A board on this Z690 Dark motherboard. Controlling the Power limits was how I able to manage good temps all core, while also giving me good single core frequencies/performance. Kind of like how they set it up on the OC.net link below. I really like this board as the DDR5 memory is exceptional. I'll try what your suggesting though..
 
https://www.overclock.net...by-core-octvb.1794957/

As a follow up to this, I was able to bring the PL/temps down to a reasonable level using a combination of max droop, C-states enabled, and negative offset using adaptive voltage. I also applied a little less voltage on the 4800Mhz section of the voltage curve. I was hitting around 80C before and now its in the low 60's with close to the same performance.
 
This is at 23C ambient, with 2 cores at 5400MHZ and all core at 5000Mhz. Also, I turned off enhanced C-states, as I was getting some weird issues with it on...
 

 

dbcooper11
As a follow up to this, I was able to bring the PL/temps down to a reasonable level using a combination of max droop, C-states enabled, and negative offset using adaptive voltage. I also applied a little less voltage on the 4800Mhz section of the voltage curve. I was hitting around 80C before and now its in the low 60's with close to the same performance.
 
This is at 23C ambient, with 2 cores at 5400MHZ and all core at 5000Mhz. Also, I turned off enhanced C-states, as I was getting some weird issues with it on... 
 

 

effective clock is not at 5.4ghz . 
https://drive.google.com/...s8Gei/view?usp=sharing
it should be close to 30k irrc. i forgot what i had gotten with r23, will send a vid running r23 later. your ambient temp cannot be 23c due to min core temp being at 13c, unless u are on chiller. 

babayega

effective clock is not at 5.4ghz . 
https://drive.google.com/...s8Gei/view?usp=sharing
it should be close to 30k irrc. i forgot what i had gotten with r23, will send a vid running r23 later. your ambient temp cannot be 23c due to min core temp being at 13c, unless u are on chiller. 

I'm running adaptive voltage at 5.0ghz all core and only 2 cores at 5.4ghz. All core effective clock always matches all core clock, but the effective clock only gets close to the core clock during single core bench, Ive never been able to be exact at all. I have no idea why my minimum core temp is that low, but I can assure you that I am not on a chiller and the ambient temp is around 22-23C. I upped the voltage on the top end of the VF curve and the effective clock is much closer to the actual core clock now..