{"id":2127,"date":"2025-01-29T23:04:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T12:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/?p=2127"},"modified":"2025-01-29T23:20:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T12:20:03","slug":"msi-bios-update-broke-my-i5-13600k-overclock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/29\/msi-bios-update-broke-my-i5-13600k-overclock\/","title":{"rendered":"MSI BIOS Update broke my i5-13600k overclock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ntsbl-1206550645\" class=\"ntsbl-before-content ntsbl-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6288941070289539\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px;\" \ndata-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6288941070289539\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"9356781486\"><\/ins> \n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Issue<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I have an i5-13600k running in an MSI PRO Z790-A WIFI (MS-7E07) motherboard, BIOS A07, with a Deep Cool LT360 Cooler.<br>I originally used the following guide to easily obtain a stable overclock of 5.5Mhz on the P-Cores and 4.2Ghz on the E-Cores, running 1.2 volts as per the article<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kE_vmGCq_E8&amp;t=461s\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kE_vmGCq_E8&amp;t=461s <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scores on Cinebench R23 around 25250 +\/- 250 points, and temps maxing out at around 78 on the P-Cores and 66 on the E-Cores<br>So today I flashed my bios to A.E0, and using the same settings as the article and I could not get the overclock to apply?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is going on?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Investigating?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When booted and looking at HWiNFO, I could see this before the bios update:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code class=\"\">Turbo Ratio Limits (P-cores) - IA\/SSE:    55x (1-8c)\nTurbo Ratio Limits (E-cores):             42x (1-8c)\nTurbo Ratio Limits - AVX2, Resolved:      55x (1-8c)\nMaximum Per-core Ratio Limits (Fused):    51, 51, 51, 51, 51, 51, 39, 39, 39, 39, 39, 39, 39, 39\nMaximum Per-core Ratio Limits (Current):  55, 55, 55, 55, 55, 55, 42, 42, 42, 42, 42, 42, 42, 42\nCPU Current:                              5486.6 MHz = 55 x 99.8 MHz @ 1.2396 V<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>After the BIOS update and applying the settings exactly as per the video (and was working previously) I could not get the settings to apply and HWiNFO showed this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code class=\"\">Turbo Ratio Limits (P-cores) - IA\/SSE:    55x (1-8c)\nTurbo Ratio Limits (E-cores):             42x (1-8c)\nTurbo Ratio Limits - AVX2, Resolved:      55x (1-8c)\nMaximum Per-core Ratio Limits (Fused):    51, 51, 51, 51, 51, 51, 39, 39, 39, 39, 39, 39, 39, 39\nMaximum Per-core Ratio Limits (Current):  51, 51, 51, 51, 51, 51, 39, 39, 39, 39, 39, 39, 39, 39\nCPU Current:                              5087.6 MHz = 51 x 99.8 MHz @ 1.2397 V<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>See that the CPU Current is saying 5087. It benched at stock 5Ghz and I was not seeing the Cores spike in Turbo mode to the higher core speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next I fired up the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility and saw this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"616\" data-attachment-id=\"2129\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/29\/msi-bios-update-broke-my-i5-13600k-overclock\/image-7\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image.png\" data-orig-size=\"1363,820\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-300x180.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-1024x616.png\" src=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-1024x616.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-1024x616.png 1024w, https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-768x462.png 768w, https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image.png 1363w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So, although the Performance Active-CoreTuning section seemed to pick up the bios settings, the Performance Per-Core Tuning was still saying 51 P-Core and 39 E-Core.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I adjusted these values upwards via the IETU and applied the changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This seemed to fix the issue and the 5.5Ghz overclock was now running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I returned to the BIOS I was able to see what the IETU had actually done and now I know how to successfully apply the overclock from the BIOS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to apply the Overclock on BIOS A.E0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>So below is how the video originally applied the overclock which used to work:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-attachment-id=\"2130\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/29\/msi-bios-update-broke-my-i5-13600k-overclock\/image-8\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-1.png\" data-orig-size=\"1024,768\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-1-300x225.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-1.png\" src=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-1-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-1-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>These are the settings that actually allowed the overclock to be visible at the OS Level<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-attachment-id=\"2131\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/29\/msi-bios-update-broke-my-i5-13600k-overclock\/image-9\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-2.png\" data-orig-size=\"1024,768\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-2-300x225.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-2.png\" src=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-2.png 1024w, https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-2-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-2-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The changes that were made over and above the instructions in the video are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Set the &#8220;Per P-Core Ratio Limit&#8221; to &#8220;Manual&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Leave all the Cores set as AUTO<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to overclock your E-Cores, you do the same:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Set the &#8220;Per E-Core Ratio Limit&#8221; to &#8220;Manual&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Leave all the Cores set as AUTO<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>When saved and you go back into the OS you see in HWiNFO:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code class=\"\">CPU LFM (Minimum):                       800.0 MHz = 8 x 100.0 MHz\nCPU HFM (Base):                          3500.0 MHz = 35 x 100.0 MHz\nCPU Turbo Max:                           5500.0 MHz = 55 x 100.0 MHz [Unlocked]\nTurbo Ratio Limits (P-cores) - IA\/SSE:   55x (1-8c)\nTurbo Ratio Limits (E-cores):            44x (1-8c)\nTurbo Ratio Limits - AVX2, Resolved:     55x (1-8c)\nMaximum Per-core Ratio Limits (Fused):   51, 51, 51, 51, 51, 51, 39, 39, 39, 39, 39, 39, 39, 39\nMaximum Per-core Ratio Limits (Current): 55, 55, 55, 55, 55, 55, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44, 44\nCPU Current:                             5486.6 MHz = 55 x 99.8 MHz @ 1.2399 V<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are my temps P-Core\/E-Core and scores on CineBench R23 and  2024, running at 1.200v for a few runs. Stable \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code class=\"\">- CPU Multicore - Max Temp 76\/64  - 25919 pts  - Cinebench R23\n- CPU Multicore - Max Temp 76\/66  - 25936 pts  - Cinebench R23\n- CPU Multicore - Max Temp 76\/65  - 26070 pts  - Cinebench R23\n- CPU Multicore - Max Temp 76\/66  - 26052 pts  - Cinebench R23\n- CPU Multicore - Max Temp 75\/65  - 1467 pts   - Cinebench 2024\n- CPU Multicore - Max Temp 76\/66  - 1469 pts   - Cinebench 2024<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Hopefully this will help you get your overclock back<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The overclock on my MSI Pro Z790 board is broken after applying the latest BIOS update<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware-issues"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}