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Hardware / Re: Corona benchmark with i9

« on: 2019-07-24, 11:21:22 »

Ok, I've found the solution and obviously it was a bulls***.

I went on Asus' website looking for a BIOS update and I discovered that my BIOS version (1001) wasn't available anymore for download (last one was 0905). So I searched on Google another download link for version 1001, and I found this post on ROG Asus forum: https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?111420-WS-X299-Sage-10G-Memory-issue-with-BIOS-1001

The guy basically had my same problem, so I performed a BIOS flashback via USB to version 0905 and the magic happened: Corona benchmark now runs in about 1min at more than 8millions ray/s, just as it should be. LOL.


Thanks to all of you for your support and your suggestions, I just hope that my experience could help someone else in the future.

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Hardware / Re: Corona benchmark with i9

« on: 2019-07-23, 19:20:36 »

Thanks for your very quick reply, sprayer.
Here are the sceenshots of all the things you said.

Something could be strange or wrong, in your opinion?

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Hardware / Corona benchmark with i9

« on: 2019-07-23, 18:26:56 »

Hello to everyone!
I'm in desperate search for help to use Corona at its best on my new workstation, which has the following specs:

OS: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU: Intel Core i9-9960X @ 3.10GHz
RAM: 64GB DDR4 @ 2666Mhz
MB: ASUS WS X299 PRO (LGA 2066 R4)
GPU: ASUS Turbo GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB
SSD: Samsung 960 PRO 512GB M.2

The problems are:
1. I'm getting VERY bad results with benchmark v1.3 (around 7 mins with less than 1 million ray/s).
2. The PC become unusable while running the benchmark (CPU always @ 100%), when older machines allow me to work in the same scenario (CPU @ 90-98%).

I've already tried to update MB BIOS, re-install Windows 10 and and change SSD, RAM, GPU, but still no luck.


Any ideas would be much appreciated, thanks a lot in advance.