EVGATech_ChrisB
Thank you everyone for your patience as we are in contact with Intel, and we are looking into this further with our team. 
 
We will update everyone once more information becomes available.

Thanks for the update, this MCU update needs to be available for ALL Z690/Z790 boards, no exceptions. 

Martin V
Yeah that is not bad at all. You could try pushing the offset a little more by setting it to -105 to -115 and see if you can drop the temperature on the cpu a little more as well as the voltage too.

You should see an improvement in your "Cinebench R23" score too or at least the same with margin of error.

I use "Cinebench 2024" which scores the cpus way differently than "Cinebench R23" does. I know when I did my tests, I improved my score by like 20 points which isnt huge but still nice.

Also, make sure that you set the "vcore pwm frquency" in the bios from 500 to 400.

Overall though, not bad at all! Good Job!

Hi again,

I did set the Vcore PWM Freq to 400 from 500.

This time, I set the offset to -110 and my CBR23 score for multicore increased from 33,638 to 33,984.

However I noticed my clocks (Ps / Es) were maxing out at 4599 Mhz and 3599 MHz respectively.

My CPU temperatures were: P-Cores (max) : 91-92 degrees celsius , and E-Cores (max): 83-84. During the testing that is.

Not that I care much about the scoring points, just trying to set the sweet spot between performance gains and minimizing CPU degradation.

Thanks again, I'll continue to play with these variables and also check out CB2024.

Yeah, when you lock the cores it stops the cores from going any higher than the speed you set as all the cores are in sync, so if you locked them at 54 (5.4 GHZ) then the speed will max out at 5400.

The same is with my 13900ks cpu, I have all my cores locked at 56 (5.6 ghz), so none of my cores go above 5600.

As you said, you will have to just keep playing with it until you find you sweet spot for your cpu. This is pretty much the only way to stop the cpu from degrading.

I am glad I could help, best of luck to you!

Talon2020
 

EVGATech_ChrisB
Thank you everyone for your patience as we are in contact with Intel, and we are looking into this further with our team. 
 
We will update everyone once more information becomes available.

Thanks for the update, this MCU update needs to be available for ALL Z690/Z790 boards, no exceptions. 

I 100% agree, both platforms should get 0x129 MCU

ilukeberry

Talon2020
 

EVGATech_ChrisB
Thank you everyone for your patience as we are in contact with Intel, and we are looking into this further with our team. 
 
We will update everyone once more information becomes available.

Thanks for the update, this MCU update needs to be available for ALL Z690/Z790 boards, no exceptions. 

I 100% agree, both platforms should get 0x129 MCU

Of course it should, Z690 is also affected with the voltage and TVB issue. Actually 13th gen probably sees the issue more than 14th gen according to reports. All other motherboard vendors provided updates for B660/B760 Z690 and Z790 boards because it's a CPU issue and the microcode needs to be present in the BIOS. 
 

My cpu must be made from the cpu gods themselves. 1.7 years on stock z690 dark kingpin bios settings. No issues yet. 

Personally if I was you, I wouldn't even bother with the micro code update or any other bios updates if you haven't had any issues so far.

As a new bios update will change the settings of the voltage of the cpu and what not, so if it isn't broke then don't fix it.

I would just leave it alone as is. Good to go!

Sajin
My cpu must be made from the cpu gods themselves. 1.7 years on stock z690 dark kingpin bios settings. No issues yet. 

Same here with my 13700K. It's been OC'd slightly and in use for 2 years in November with no issue's.  I flashed the latest BIOS with the MCU (0.129) and with all the same BIOS settings, my package temp went up 2 -3C.  I flashed back to the previous and all is running back to normal.

Dear EVGA Community,
 
Thank you everyone for your patience while our team worked on the updates per Intel for the Z790 motherboards. 
These updates include the 0x129 Microcode from Intel for the Z790 series motherboards.
 
We only recommend this BIOS for the Z790 with Intel 13^th or 14^th Gen. Processors.
 
The BETA BIOS can be downloaded at the links below:
 
·         121-RL-E799-KR - EVGA Z790 DARK K|NGP|N - v1.20
·         121-RL-E798-KR - EVGA Z790 CLASSIFIED - v1.17
 
Please take note that we do not recommend updating your BIOS if you are not running an Intel 13th or 14th Gen. Processor.

Sweet. Can't wait to try this on Z790 Classified and KingPin. I'll still do the manual voltage changes as I posted before, but now I can buy 14900KF, as I had KingPin still in the box.