The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/King_OneOlaf on 2024-12-22 15:50:59.

yesterday I discovered something new to me when I was trying to figure out and learn new features in bios after I saw someone’s post undervolting the same CPU with better results so I tried his settings and while I was discovering new settings that I never touched before I enabled secure boot mistaken it with fast boot.

I had been undervolting my cpu for 1 year now based on knowledge of people on the internet and my learning and its working fine with no issue that gave me the confidence to try and discover bios settings and since the describtion don’t usualy tells you what this setting do in some cases or sometimes the terms are different from one manufacturer to others so you lost your way to understand completely what this setting actually do and either you enable and test it or just leave it be until more clarification.

what happened is first I got logged out of my windows and luckly I have other options to login and reset my pin so I was able to login to my windows after all the most important thing was that my cpu power draw was very very high I usually don’t exceed 240W in most demanding programs like video editing or benchmarks but my cpu power draw was over 320W and whatever I change in bios like PL or ICCMAX it doesn’t respond to my settings. and since I changed several settings at the same times I didn’t know what the option that caused it until I disabled secure boot and it was back to normal power draw I used to get.

I want to ask is this behaviour is expected or my motherboard acted weird when I enabled secure boot I just didn’t change anything when the grey options was available under the secure boot and it just said its active after rebooting.

MB: gigabyte aorus elite ax z790 DDR4

https://preview.redd.it/2r6iobanvf8e1.png?width=701&format=png&auto=webp&s=f5e5f36223b33749cefeed0d79fcb8b12acce633

Edit: someone who have the same problem I’m facing

https://rog-forum.asus.com/t5/gaming-motherboards/14700k-goes-above-253-watts-with-previous-and-latest-asus-bios/td-p/1045685/page/2

Edit2: since Idk how to modify the title this problem with motherboard (Gigabyte Z790 A ELITE AX DDR4) latest bios F12 date: 09/27/2024