right down to the RTL’s and IOL’s.
If you have capable memory, it’ll
deliver the goods and I’d even say
you’ll not be able to get better
performance than this profile.
It’s unfortunate that you cannot load
the DRAM memory profile on its own
and for some reason it must be tied to
a CPU overclock (5.2GHz) but none the
less you can easily adjust this to the
particular abilities of your CPU.
The performance (memory
bandwidth and latency) is so
good, that this is the setting
I will be using going forward
for all testing. AIDA64 reports under
38ns in memory latency, and over
60GB/s right across memory read,
write and copy.
SOFTWARE
There isn’t much to write about
here as EVGA is rather thin on
the software part. What you get
are the standard Intel chipset
drivers, EVGA’s Audio driver and
package and that’s pretty much
it. In fact, the E-Leet program
must be downloaded separately
(isn’t included with the USB drive)
and at that you’ll need to pick the
right version. There’s one that’s
fundamentally a super version of
CPU-Z and the other more relevant
to overclocking doesn’t need to be
installed. It allows tuning of the CPU
clock, North Bridge clock, voltage,
clock, control short cuts etc. The
great thing about both versions is
that you can assign programs to
threads etc, so you get a Process
Lasso of sorts (obviously without
all the functionality). Outside of
this there’s not much else. Since
the board isn’t in any shape, way
or form playing the RGB game,
there is no such application.
Unfortunately missing as well
is an EVGA Fan control profile
program. Either I missed it or there
isn’t one at all, but you may have to
resort to 3rd party programs for
this functionality within windows.
DRY ICE OVERCLOCKING
On other motherboards built for
overclocking, one typically loads
the LN2 profile but adjusts it
accordingly for the limitations of
dry ice and off you go. However, on
the Z390 Dark, that would not be a
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