Hardware Thread 2021

HWinfo 702 is out.

Kol12 said:

My new ROG XIII Hero mobo has a "flex key" I can assign various functions. One of them is to make the flex key reboot directly to the BIOS. No more delete key spam.

Yes, but you have to reach in the case. You can do it from Windows, e.g. add a context menu "Boot to UEFI firmware":

Add Boot to UEFI Firmware Settings Context Menu in Windows 10

Or you can do it from the command line:

shutdown /r /fw /t 0

Tried and true, I have used that for a long time now

HWiNFO 7.02 Release Notes ...


Enhanced sensor monitoring on ASRock Z590 OC Formula and Z590 Phantom Gaming-ITX.
Fixed unintentional waking up of some NVIDIA dGPUs disabled by Optimus technology.
Added reporting of PCI Express Resizable BAR capability and status for all devices.
Enhanced sensor monitoring on MSI Z590 PLUS, MEG Z590 UNIFY and B560M PRO WIFI.
Enhanced monitoring of AMD Navi14.
Restored monitoring of AMD Navi21 with Radeon Adrenalin 21.3.1.
Fixed monitoring of Vcore and VDIMM on ASUS PRIME Z590-A and STRIX Z590 series.
Added ability to collapse sensor groups.
Aggregated some sensor values into nodes (collapsed by default) to reduce amount of information on the screen.
Improved GUI responsiveness in some situations.
Enhanced sensor monitoring on EVGA Z590 FTW and Z590 DARK.
Improved support of Intel Rocket Lake.
Fixed reporting of Core Performance Order on AMD Raven, Renoir and Cezanne.
Updated for proper support of AGESA 1.2.0.1 Patch A.
Improved detection of AMD ThreadRipper PRO and next generation ThreadRipper.
Improved reporting of Intel Integrated GPU clock.
Enhanced sensor monitoring on ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII EXTREME.
Added monitoring of Global Frequency Limit on AMD Zen2/3 CPUs.
Added monitoring of DRAM Read/Write Bandwidth on AMD Zen2/3 CPUs.

Time to make you tech enthusiasts cry

Cliff S said:

Time to make you tech enthusiasts cry

Lol, I would cry only if I had to pay all that money for stupid GPU.

1 Stick 2 Sticks or 4 Sticks of Ram In Any PC

So on a temp basis I have loaned 1 of my 16GB 3200MHZ DDR4 CL16 stick of ram to my 2nd pc build so I could use it 1 month early.

So my system 1 PC is my main rig/gamer & have noticed no difference in performance when playing games (GTA V & Racing games) my rendering times have not changed for video work either !

So is the only way to see a difference is in benchmarks, which (I think) do not relate to real world performance ???

Is there some theory you can throw at me & a program which shows me the difference. I will do the test with 1 stick then 2 sticks to see how much if any a difference we are seeing or does it not matter when I am using 1 X 16GB stick of ram which is running at 3200MHZ on both systems ?

It'd be nice to see stocks like that here in the states; especially some of those AMD 6900 XT's

Been waiting forever for one of those (not paying the 300 percent scalpers price).

@RoadBlaster no one replied so try

winsat mem

This is my score on the Z170 with 2 8GB GSkill 3600 MHz sticks, yours should be a bit lower. But you can use it to check to see if more ram gains a higher score.

Dude said:

Tried and true, I have used that for a long time now

The problem I have with that tweak is it takes forever to restart the PC and boot into UEFI. In fact I meant to ask Brink about it because it's so slow. I find it faster to just reboot, hit delete, and enter UEFI.