Those who don’t know the connections, let them know GIGABYTE adds the Intel Baseline profile to its motherboards It can be a little worrying, so in this case it is appropriate to start by giving the background and of course what this measure taken by the technology company consists of, which ultimately responds to the effort to meet the growing demand for this makes sense to users who are primarily looking for stability.

They have been starting to report for some time now stability issues from users of Intel’s two latest generations of high-end chips, i.e. Raptor Lake and Raptor Lake Refresh, integrated as i9-13900K and i9-14900K with their derivatives. A huge problem because the great performance they provide is seriously compromised if we see a noticeable loss of reliability in return.

The fastest solution to alleviate this problem is to reduce the voltage received by the CPU, but this adjustment is of course beyond the reach of many users, since we are talking about a complex operation that can carry certain risks. Intel’s response, which received a quick response from manufacturers such as GIGABYTE, was to create Intel Baseline profiles that are applied at the BIOS level and reduce the maximum performance of the chipbut in exchange they avoid the problems that can occur with an integrated at maximum performance.

After the necessary clarifications, the message is now as follows The beta BIOS of the Z790 and B760 families of GIGABYTE motherboards already includes Intel Baseline profiles.which revert any changes that may have been made to the chips’ operation, returning them to their basic configuration (with which they left the factory), which Intel claims will provide users with the stability they expect.

Of course, it is important to emphasize this at this point Using the Intel Baseline profile results in significant performance degradation, while not all computers with Intel Core 13 Gen. and 14th Gen are necessarily plagued by a lack of stability that seems to be limited exclusively to the use of certain games. Therefore, we emphasize that it is not necessary and even less advisable to use them if we do not experience stability problems.

It is also important to keep in mind, although it is easily deduced Using the Intel Baseline profile directly interferes with the use of performance enhancing features and toolsso if we start from a system in which we use features like GIGABYTE PerfDrive and activate the new Intel profile, we will probably see a drop in performance even more, so it is worth using this “safe mode” only if we have stability problems.

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