Friday, April 26th 2024
Superior Stability by GIGABYTE BETA BIOS with Intel Baseline on Z790/B760 Motherboards
GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards, and hardware solutions, released the latest beta BIOS with Intel Baseline feature on Z790, B760 series motherboards for enhanced stability, regarding the feedback from Intel that high power consumption settings may cause system instability with 13/14th generation CPUs.
GIGABYTE always prioritizes user experience, focusing on both performance and stability. Additionally, as a close ally of Intel, we promptly introduced the Intel Baseline feature with the latest beta BIOS. When using 13th and 14th generation K-SKU CPUs, the Intel Baseline setting will appear in the "Turbo Power Limits" option under "Advanced CPU Settings". After enabling Intel Baseline, the performance will be expected to be limited due to the power setting adjustments.
If users aim for enhanced and optimized performance, we also provide the GIGABYTE PerfDrive feature tailored for each GIGABYTE motherboard to allow users enjoy premier system performance. Please note that when enabling Intel Baseline, the PerfDrive settings will revert to default and be grayed out due to option linkage.
The beta BIOS with Intel Baseline feature for Z790 and B760 motherboards is available now.
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Gigabyte
GIGABYTE always prioritizes user experience, focusing on both performance and stability. Additionally, as a close ally of Intel, we promptly introduced the Intel Baseline feature with the latest beta BIOS. When using 13th and 14th generation K-SKU CPUs, the Intel Baseline setting will appear in the "Turbo Power Limits" option under "Advanced CPU Settings". After enabling Intel Baseline, the performance will be expected to be limited due to the power setting adjustments.
The beta BIOS with Intel Baseline feature for Z790 and B760 motherboards is available now.
90 Comments on Superior Stability by GIGABYTE BETA BIOS with Intel Baseline on Z790/B760 Motherboards
"The European Union (EU) has fined Intel $400 million for anti-competitive practices that took place between 2002 and 2006. The fine stems from actions that blocked rivals, such as paying HP, Acer, and Lenovo to delay or stop rival products."
That is just one antitrust lawsuit they have paid for but what's the incentive to stop the practices when you make more than the fine cost.
Perks of Intel owning their own fabs is that they can scale up/down as they choose.
AMD has to get TSMC allocation, priority to server chips, then everything else.
AMD laptop CPUs being "launched" and consumers struggling to find laptops using them in stock is a very common scenario, for this reason.
What you guys are talking about may have some impact I can't say for sure, as with most vague allegations, but logistics is firm data.
Quoting 20 year old examples as proof of things happening today isn't exactly compelling IMO.The advantage is you can buy them. Intel also provides excellent OEM and software support.
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-18/intel-wins-new-boost-in-eu-court-fight-over-1-06-billion-fine?embedded-checkout=true
They were lucky enough to win this one.
Lost this one in 2015
Case ID: 5:11-cv-2509
Offense Group: competition-related offenses
Primary Offense: price-fixing or anti-competitive practices
Penalty: $103,750,000
It's not just bribes, even knowing that Intel is using bribes in any form they can think of for the last 25 years at least.
All the current gen chips are competitive, people tend to forget that.
The issue is supply, support, and cost. Intel does well on all three, hence they are the most popular for laptops and prebuilts.
AMD being competitive means there is a reason OEMs not preferring AMD. Intel being competitive means OEMs will keep building more products with Intel inside anyway. Also, before the hybrid CPUs from Intel that finally turned the tables on core count and offered an advantage to Intel, OEMs where sabotaging AMD based models by not offering the same subsystems as those offered with Intel products. Worst SSDs, worst battery, worst keyboard, worst screen options, single channel memory, worst something anyway, to limit the success of any AMD based model. Probably not just to avoid having huge demand for AMD based models that AMD wouldn't be able to fulfill, but also to keep their bonds with Intel strong.
After that fine for anticompetitive practices, Intel just changed the way it was bribing OEMs. So instead of paying them directly to stop using AMD CPUs, it gone the route of paying them as a way to... help them design systems with Intel inside. I don't remember exactly the name of that program but I think it's there for at least the last 15 years.
Even if we see new reviews with baseline settings, all those reviews that are posted by now, will still remain online. Sites are not going to remove them or replace their findings that got with max unlocked settings. Fun part, Intel is changing sockets. So when the new top Intel CPU is tested against a 14900K limited to baseline settings, it will be looking even much faster. Win for Intel marketing.
I think the more interesting point is that Intel seems to be releasing products so close to the red line than when you use those motherboard manufacturer power targets it degrades the CPU. Maybe it's time intel started running their own race and stopped releasing products so close to the red line and for the motherboard manufacturers to start selling motherboards with intel official power targets.
Just clarifying you are consistent here.
If you going to claim, the vendors ran the chips outside of spec based on Intel's instructions, I would like to see a statement from someone affiliated to the board vendors, as Intel turning a blind eye is not the same as directing them to do it.
For me the board vendors are to blame for both of the recent Intel/AMD problems.Didnt you boost tjmax?
Just don't pick a CPU that needs 100 more watts to stay somewhat relevant.
Intel will come back, they have too much knowledge and money to not to, but right now for gaming, frankly a 7800X3D is the most-efficient and balanced choice
Or... you can electrocute yourself with too much voltage, claim victory and return CPU to a shop you bought it at.And because Intel was complicit in this practice, remaining silent, while being happy with high bars and percentages in review benchmarks.Advertised, yes; implemented by default, no.