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Intel and motherboard makers are n’t on the same Thomas Nelson Page about what on the nose “ nonremittal ” means for high - death processor like theCore i9 - 13900KandCore i9 - 14900K. Intel has issued its first public statement regarding thewave of instabilityon its most powerful CPUs , but it does n’t plow the problem directly .
Here ’s the statement that was partake in with Digital Trends in full :
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“ Several motherboard manufacturers have released BIOS profile labeled ‘ Intel Baseline Profile . ’ However , these BIOS profiles are not the same as the ‘ Intel Default preferences ’ recommendation that Intel has recently share with its partners regarding the imbalance issues report on 13th- and 14th - gen K SKU processors .
These Intel Baseline Profile BIOS stage setting appear to be based on power delivery guidance previously provided by Intel to manufacturers that describes the various mightiness delivery options for 13th- and fourteenth - coevals K SKU mainframe based on motherboard capability .
Intel is not recommending motherboard manufacturers to utilize “ baseline ” power obstetrical delivery preferences on boards capable of high values .
Intel ’s recommended Intel Default preferences are a combination of thermic and power delivery features , along with a selection of potential power delivery profiles based on motherboard capabilities .
Intel recommend customers to follow out the mellow powerfulness speech profile compatible with each individual motherboard purpose as noted in the tabular array below . ”
Here ’s that board for address :
As if the situation with Intel ’s recent instability issues was n’t confusing enough , we ’re now image two different naming conventions . There ’s the “ Intel Baseline Profile , ” which we ’ve see motherboard trafficker like Asus , Gigabyte , and ASRock implement , and there ’s the “ Intel Default configurations , ” which is a list of recommend specifications now being allow by Intel .
Despite statingit was n’t blaming motherboard vendorsfor instability , Intel is pushing the responsibleness to solve the instability problems off on them . allot to the statement , the various baseline profiles we ’ve seen are base on earlier mount provided to motherboard vendors . That ’s lead in wildly different performance between vendors .
Gigabyte , for example , uses a maximum power of 188 watts with its baseline profile , while Asus use 253W. That can account for upwards of a 20 % departure in performance consort to testing done byHardware Unboxed .
Intel says that it expects the Core i9 - 13900 K and Core i9 - 14900 K to run in the Performance tycoon livery profile , signify they can reach up to 253W , while the Core i9 - 13900KS and Core i9 - 14900KS ravel in the Extreme visibility , reach out up to 320W. Anearlier rumorsuggested that Intel would enforce a 188W bound on all motherboards , but this recent instruction contradict that .
Although the assertion seems aboveboard , motherboard marketer tell Digital Trends that ’s not the case . The engineering squad from one major motherboard vender says that it ’s not clear how Intel ’s service line preferences should be enforce , and that this post “ has resulted in new muddiness on what should be the default scope . ”
Part of that mental confusion results from the non - stock setting motherboard trafficker have used for several generations of Intel releases . vender tell me that non - standard options that are safe and reliable are commonly used , particularly on higher - close motherboards . Intel has , in the past , said that these optimizationsare “ in specification ” and it relies on motherboard vendors to confirm stableness for its products .
We ’re still not out of the woodwind on the unbalance job facing Intel CPUs . The new direction will likely prompt motherboard vender to release new BIOS update , at which point we ’ll get a chance to try if performance hold up under Intel ’s recommendation . With the update we ’ve seen thus far , such as the one from Asus , lowering the power deliver profile canresult in a performance free fall .
