Hey all,
I grabbed myself some decent deals on some second hand parts this week, which has poised me with upgrading to the Skylake platform
The parts in question are:
Mobo: Asus z170-HD3
CPU: i5 6400
Ram: 3000 mhz 16 gb corsair vengeance.
Fortunately, i scored a board with the original F3 bios and it is still able to bclk OC out of the box. Played around a bit, was struggling to post so loaded up the non-k bios from here https://overclocking.guide/asus-z170-non-k-overclocking-guid… which has gotten me going, but with the caveats of that customish bios such as no core temp readouts and all power management features + ACX borked.
I've realised it was likely a misfire with my ram speeds being too high on the f3 bios that stopped me from posting, but I digress, which would be the best bios to use in this situation? the original older ones or the custom one with its disabled features? Does either have a greater overall benefit or are the basically the same?
Did you get the original ASUS disc with all the chipset etc stuff? Maybe that has the original bios on it, or Just go to Asus support and dl either the flash tool or use the bios flash and upgrade to the latest bios why use an old bios that has been superseded, if the board support K overclocking the latest bios will as well and should cure what was wrong, mind you don't fiddle with the bios first, like accept optimum settings to get it running