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ASUS Announces Raptor Lake UEFI Updates for its Z690 Motherboards

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How 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.
Yep,
Done 101 flashes and still no brick.
 

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How 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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How 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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I 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.

ABout 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.


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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I 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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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.
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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I 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.

The 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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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.

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.
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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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.


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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