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ASUS Announces Raptor Lake UEFI Updates for its Z690 Motherboards

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At the end of last month, ASRock revealed its UEFI/BIOS updates for its 600-series motherboards for the next generation of CPUs from Intel and now ASUS has announced that it will offer updates for its Z690 motherboards. We're not sure why ASUS has limited itself to only Z690, but we'd expect updates for all of its 600-series chipset motherboards to arrive in due time. ASUS has been just as short on details as ASRock, although in the case of ASUS, all the Z690 boards will start on the same UEFI version—160x—when it comes to Raptor Lake support.

ASUS will offer updates for its ROG, ROG Strix, ProArt, Prime and TUF Gaming boards at this first stage. ASUS recommends using the BIOS Flashback functionality on the motherboards, or its EZ Flash 3 program in Windows. To get the latest UEFI update for your motherboard, you need to head over to ASUS' support site and download it manually according to the press release.
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33 Comments on ASUS Announces Raptor Lake UEFI Updates for its Z690 Motherboards

#26
eidairaman1
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TheDeeGeeHow does one brick a flash even?

I always use a USB 2.0 FAT32 formatted thumbdrive and flash via the BIOS tool, never caused any issues.
Wrong bios used, drive failure, download glitch, power outage
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#27
Patriot
TheDeeGeeHow does one brick a flash even?

I always use a USB 2.0 FAT32 formatted thumbdrive and flash via the BIOS tool, never caused any issues.
Sometimes you are just unlucky. Had a supermicro board finish the flash, tell me it was successful and to hit enter to reboot.... and bricked. I had to clip on a rom flasher to recover it.
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#28
skates
RavenmasterI just updated to these new BIOS on my Asus Strix Z690-E motherboard. BIOS 1601 (the new update) is actually more stable than the previous one (1505) for me so far. Adding Raptor Lake support is just a bonus I guess :)
I have the same board, thanks for posting this. I'll update as well.
P4-630ABout 20% faster in multithreading according to tom's

ANd
Raptor Lake is rumored to feature even faster clocks than what's possible with the Alder Lake generation. In addition, new advanced overclocking modes and other refinements could allow Intel to crow about the first 6 GHz consumer CPU.

www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-raptor-lake-engineering-sample-benchmarks

I wait and see.
For now I'm satisfied with my i7 12700K.
I'm actually not so satisfied with my 12700K. It seems pokey. I don't want to throw more $ at the build, but may do so if the bench results are good. I can't help myself...
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skatesI have the same board, thanks for posting this. I'll update as well.


I'm actually not so satisfied with my 12700K. It seems pokey. I don't want to throw more $ at the build, but may do so if the bench results are good. I can't help myself...
Pokey, how? i think mine is very snappy even stock. They are faster than a 5800x stock, the ST speed is very good and MT is not too bad either.
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#30
skates
TiggerPokey, how? i think mine is very snappy even stock. They are faster than a 5800x stock, the ST speed is very good and MT is not too bad either.
I don't have specifics to point to. The overall experience feels slower, but I'm really liking Windows 11 now. app load times seem slower for some reason.
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#31
P4-630
skatesI have the same board, thanks for posting this. I'll update as well.


I'm actually not so satisfied with my 12700K. It seems pokey. I don't want to throw more $ at the build, but may do so if the bench results are good. I can't help myself...
Maybe it's your DDR5 4800Mhz memory.
skatesThe overall experience feels slower, but I'm really liking Windows 11 now. app load times seem slower for some reason.
Only thing I can say that the boot time isn't very fast but I don't use any hibernate/fastboot options.
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#32
skates
Well, I updated the bios on my Z690 and it totally borked the PC, windows 11, would post, but would not launch windows. I rolled back the bios and same, no windows launch. I tried windows repair and going to an earlier save, no go. I've never had a bios update kill a PC so hard the past 25 years. Anyway, flashed bios again to same previous version and installed windows fresh on a new partition.

My PC runs much better now, so there is that. It's no longer pokey or slow. Go figure.
skatesWell, I updated the bios on my Z690 and it totally borked the PC, windows 11, would post, but would not launch windows. I rolled back the bios and same, no windows launch. I tried windows repair and going to an earlier save, no go. I've never had a bios update kill a PC so hard the past 25 years. Anyway, flashed bios again to same previous version and installed windows fresh on a new partition.

My PC runs much better now, so there is that. It's no longer pokey or slow. Go figure.
Mobo is Rog Strix E-gaming wifi.

Bios which killed my PC:
ROG STRIX Z690-E GAMING WIFI BIOS 1601
"1.Update Microcode for next generation Intel Processors.

Bios I rolled back to which works fine after second install:
Version 007
2022/02/25
PD FW update tool
-Modify quick charge function
-Improve system performance.
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skatesWell, I updated the bios on my Z690 and it totally borked the PC, windows 11, would post, but would not launch windows. I rolled back the bios and same, no windows launch. I tried windows repair and going to an earlier save, no go. I've never had a bios update kill a PC so hard the past 25 years. Anyway, flashed bios again to same previous version and installed windows fresh on a new partition.

My PC runs much better now, so there is that. It's no longer pokey or slow. Go figure.


Mobo is Rog Strix E-gaming wifi.

Bios which killed my PC:
ROG STRIX Z690-E GAMING WIFI BIOS 1601
"1.Update Microcode for next generation Intel Processors.

Bios I rolled back to which works fine after second install:
Version 007
2022/02/25
PD FW update tool
-Modify quick charge function
-Improve system performance.
I have got this bios 1601 for my board, have not tried it yet.

Edit just installed 1601, rebooted ok. hate having to go thru the bios and set everything how it was though.
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