[Request] Old Microcode for All Core Max Turbo Speed on Haswell

Special Topics CPU Microcodes
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Good evening all.

I am trying to force Max (3.7GHz) Turbo Boost speed with All cores loaded on my Haswell E3-1265L v3 CPU. It seems that I may need a microcode update as currently, settings in BIOS make no change.

Could someone recommend to me which microcode version has this feature still enabled?

EDIT by Fernando: Thread title shortened

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@ca_cabotage :
Welcome to the Win-RAID Forum!

Since the UBU tool just offers the latest matching CPU Microcode (no matter, which specific feature it supports), I have moved your post into the specific “CPU Microcode” Sub-Forum and hope, that you will get an answer here.

Good luck!
Dieter (alias Fernando)

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So after further reading I believe that one of the following microcodes will be suitable - however I’m having trouble finding them:

cpu000306c3_plat00000032_ver00000001_date20121030.bin

cpu000306c3_plat00000032_ver00000002_date20121130.bin

cpu000306c3_plat00000032_ver00000004_date20121208.bin

cpu000306c3_plat00000032_ver00000006_date20130116.bin


I got these versions and dates from MCExtractor by searching by CPUID 306c3.


Does anyone know of a source where I could download these old microcode versions?

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I’ve gone through all of the microcode.dat files at https://downloadcenter.intel.com/downloa…ocode-Data-File

The lowest version I was able to find was cpu000306c3_plat00000032_ver00000012_date20130702.bin which was contained in the 20130808 bundle.

I was able to insert version 12 into an early BIOS version and flash it - but it didn’t solve my problem. I remember reading somewhere (can’t remember where) that prior to version 7 this would work.

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I think you could downlaod UBU V1.69.17.4,it contains these files what you want.

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Really? I’ve only ben able to get the latest microcodes working from UBU? How do get these older microcodes? I can’t even find these on the github repository of microcodes.

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From UBU 1.64_1

306C3_1to21.zip (353 KB)

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Wow, thank you so much! Where were you able to get these from?

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Yes,I’m sure. I mean old version UBU such as V1.64 already contains these files.And you could find them under this path:UBU folder->files->intel->mcode->1150.
I guess you could run UBU updating bios file directly,after replace these files.
By the way, lfb6 provided files should come from that folder.

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Those microcodes were part of an old UBU version, as I wrote before.

ubu.jpg

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Where can I download one of these older versions of UBU? All I can find are links to the latest.

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I think you could use latest UBU.Deleting newest mcode files,then copying old files that Ifb6 supplied on #7 to same folder.

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The thread " [Tool Guide+News] "UEFI BIOS Updater" (UBU) " mega download link include UBU V1.69.17.5 and you could try it.

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It’s described several times here, I think:
You can copy the microcode in %ubu-folder%\Files\intel\mCode\1150<br />Edit %ubu-folder%\Files\intel\mCode\MCUpdate.txt
for 306C3 ver4 like:
#LGA1150
40671 1150\cpu40671_plat22_ver0000001E_2018-04-03_PRD_FFFE5286.bin
306C3 1150\cpu000306C3_plat32_ver00000004_date#08-12-2012.bin
#306C3 1150\cpu306C3_plat32_ver00000025_2018-04-02_PRD_5F430452.bin
#306C2 1150\cpu306C2_plat32_verFFFF0006_2012-10-17_PRE_30531EB4.bin
#306C1 1150\cpu306C1_plat32_verFFFF0014_2012-07-25_PRE_E86E3EB1.bin
and UBU will exchange to an older microcode, too.

You don't need to delete files, simply comment them out by setting an '#' first sign of the line.
(If you have more than one active line for the same type (306C3) UBU will insert them all. I don't know which one your bios is going to choose in this case...)
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Thank you,Ifb6.You teach me this new knowledge what I didn’t know before

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thanks everyone - revision 6 got my xeon locked at max turbo speed on all cores!


Does anyone know if it’s possible to modify BIOS in order to use BCLK Straps on an E3-1265L v3?

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@ca_cabotage - what BIOS? Either link stock and I’ll look, or upload your current mod BIOS you’re using now.

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@Lost_N_BIOS Thanks! Here is the BIOS that I’m currently using to lock my multiplier to 3.7GHz!

mod_Z97Ex42.60.zip (5.24 MB)

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@ca_cabotage - I checked this BIOS and do not see any Bclk straps options, not for CPU or memory strap either (not even in the hidden/debug folder too)
I do see BCLK/PCIE Ratio in OC Tweaker, can you see that?

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@Lost_N_BIOS I can see and adjust BCLK, but not PCIE ratio

It would be nice to be able to underclock PCIE, memory and iGPU while turning up BCLK.

Right now I have options for memory and iGPU frequencies, but nothing I change in them sticks.