And if the manufacturers of motherboards stop these “optimizations” which cause more problems than they provide solutions?
Only a few days after the publication of a new BIOS at ASUS, another Taiwanese motherboard giant is following suit. Gigabyte is doing the same backpedaling as its competitor.
The objective is therefore to return to the specifications put forward by Intel for its processors and to put an end to the optimizations specific to each manufacturer, to each motherboard. End it, really?
ASRock, ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI in the same boat?
Entangled in a story of a new BIOS which led to incessant crashes as soon as we wanted to access… the BIOS, Gigabyte finally reacted on several fronts at the same time.
First of all, the brand has updated the BIOS of its AORUS PRO Furthermore, Gigabyte has decided to follow its competitor ASUS by putting online a BIOS (in reality this same F5f) designed to ensure better stability on the Core i9-13900K and Core i9-14900K processors as well as their closest versions ( KS in particular).
Please note that these processors have precise specifications, signed by Intel, in particular in the management of their thermal envelope. These specifications are far from always being respected by motherboard manufacturers, whether ASRock, ASUS, Gigabyte or MSI to name only the best known in France.
The Intel Baseline Profile option
In order to distinguish themselves from their competitors, these brands actually tend to boost the power supply of the most high-end processors, pushing them beyond Intel’s recommendations for use.
Loaded with lots of watts, the Core i9s are then able to deliver better performance, and it’s up to the brand of motherboard that will break the records… But in this little game, not all processors are equal , and too often, players find themselves with a Core i9 incapable of maintaining the pace imposed by default by the motherboard, leading to repeated crashes when the load is heavy.
ASUS is the first to have reacted with a BIOS integrating an “Intel Baseline Profile”, in other words a profile returning to the official Intel specifications with regard to its chips. The profile in question is not activated by default, and you therefore still have to go to the BIOS to activate all this, but it is a first step towards more stability. Today, it is Gigabyte which is doing the same with its BIOS dated April 23.
On the changelog it says “ Add Turbo Power Limits: Intel BaseLine support for 13th/14th GEN K-SKU CPU “, i.e. the integration of an Intel Baseline profile in order to support the power limits of the Core i9 “K” of 13e and 14e generation. Here again, however, you have to go to the BIOS to activate said profile, as you can see in the screenshots.
Source : TechPowerUp
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