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Guru3D.com » News » That EVGA X299 Dark BIOS BIOS Update With Stress Tests is Now Available

That EVGA X299 Dark BIOS BIOS Update With Stress Tests is Now Available

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 07/17/2018 07:15 AM | source: EVGA | 17 comment(s)
That EVGA X299 Dark BIOS BIOS Update With Stress Tests is Now Available

A new BIOS Update is available now for the EVGA X299 DARK Motherboard which features several brand new exclusive features. This new update is further proof of EVGA’s commitment to the enthusiast community, and these new features will also be standard on all future EVGA enthusiast motherboards.

The new stress test allows you to test and stress from the bios to see if an overclock is stable or not.  That saves you the time to boot into windows and test there, crash and start over again. You can likely expect the feature to end up in the high-end SKUs motherboards. The test itself would be close to Prime95-like CPU stress loads, the BIOS will display frequency, voltage, and temperature of the CPU.

Key Features of the New EVGA GUI BIOS:

  • Built-in CPU Stress Test – Test your CPU overclock with the click of a button from directly in the BIOS! No reboot needed.
  • EVGA OC Robot – Automatically test and find a stable overclock for your system.
  • Gamer Mode – Set a conservative overclock in seconds.
 

 

Clever, it likely won't be long before other manufacturers will do a similar thing in their BIOS. But props where props are due, this is very handy for any CPU tweaker.



That EVGA X299 Dark BIOS BIOS Update With Stress Tests is Now Available




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Dazz
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#5565601 Posted on: 07/17/2018 07:26 AM
About time i have always wondered why this is not been included took long enough, they say UEFI is like a mini Operating system and is much better testing in the BIOS rather than risking corrupting your Windows and boot partition image.

cryohellinc
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#5565602 Posted on: 07/17/2018 07:27 AM
Great feature indeed, I hope more modern mobo manufacturers implement it.

fantaskarsef
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#5565606 Posted on: 07/17/2018 07:42 AM
This can only be good. Nobody has to use it, but it helps overclockers a lot.

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#5565629 Posted on: 07/17/2018 11:35 AM
Love my EVGA motherboards but i'm skipping the X299 chipset altogether because it doesn't do what i need it to do so there would be no point in upgrading from X99. What i'm hoping the X399 (or whatever name they give the next intel HEDT chipset name), is for bootable RAID0 over PCI-E to be an option via hardware without the need for VROC. And for 4K UHD blu ray playback to be made possible on PC without needing intel SGX and an iGPU.

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#5565660 Posted on: 07/17/2018 01:43 PM
Might as well if the space is there - old tech probably gets more expensive then newer (sizes). Otherwise a bootable thumb stick does the trick.

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