Your posts aren't making much sense to me, but maybe because I've only had two cups of coffee this morning here
You said in Post #1 that "I just changed my H370 Stinger's CPU from i7-9700T to i5-9600K", which are 9th Gen CPUs, and "I tortured the CPU with Prime95 Small FFTs and it continued running at 4.3GHz all cores."
Then in Post #3 you said "I'm looking to place an i5-9600K but bios required is 1.04, therefore how do I update bios without an older cpu?"
So if you had an either an i7-9700T or i5-9600K (both 9th Gen.) running in your board, that means it has BIOS 1.04 or newer installed to be compatible with the 9th Gen. CPUs..Look in the BIOS and see which version it has..Then flash to the latest version, which is
Version 1.08 as of now.
You should set the
CPU Multiplier Control to Manual from Auto, then set the CPU Multiplier Setting for all cores to whatever the Max Turbo Frequency of the CPU is, which is 43 for an
i7-9700T and 46 for an
i5-9600K and using the default 100MHz BCLK.
Also, if you want the CPU to run a max clock all the time for some odd reason, set the Windows Power Plan to "High performance" in the Windows Control Panel -> Power Options..You could do that only when benchmarking or gaming, then simply and quickly set it back to "Balanced" or "Power saver" without needing to go into the BIOS to make changes.
The
Intel Extreme Tuning Utility (XTU) is a good utility for you to have for making some adjustments dynamically "on-the-fly" without having to go into the BIOS to make static changes, and for benchmarking and stress testing.
So what's going on?..You getting another/new mobo, or what?