Question Gigabyte PerfDrive Extreme Setting on Aorus B860i Pro Ice?

[ITSteve]

This is my first time using this Motherboard and the Gigabyte PerfDrive has 4 options:
Intel Default settings - Baseline
Intel Default settings - Performance
Intel Default settings - Extreme
GBT Default

My setup is
ASUS Prime OC Geforce RTX 5070 12GB
Intel Core Ultra 285K Tetracosa-core 24 core 3.7 GHz
MSI MAG A750GL 750 watt power supply
Kingston Fury Beast Black B2 5600MT/s DDR5 64GB
AORUS B860I AORUS PRO ICE
Kingston KC3000 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 1TB SSD
ASUS Prime AP201 MicroATX White Case
Cooler Master MasterLiquid 360L Core ARGB 360mm

The Perfomance settings produce pretty good results, but the thermal is keeping the CPU below 80C, which seems a little low based on previous i7 and i9 processors using MSI and ASUS motherboards and the bios 'easy' OC settings.
Will using the Extreme settings cause the CPU to degrade possibly?
What is the GBT option?
I work for an architecture firm, so I want speed and stability, and about a 7-year lifespan.

Thanks.

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

GBT is short for Gigabyte, it's basically an optimization by Gigabyte's team. A good practice is to go through each profile and see if any values are skewed or conservative. The one with conservative numbers is the one you hold onto for maximum longevity.

Speaking of longevity, what BIOS version are you on for your motherboard?

 

[ITSteve]

Thanks for the welcome. I started building computers in 2017 and haven't done much tweaking other than turning on XMP (and turning it off it was unstable), then in the past couple of years checking the MSI/ASUS easy OC options.

I just started reading the CPU OC Guide and Tutorial on the sticky in this forum. Interesting that even the conservative profiles may be worse than manual settings.

BIOS is F6, 3/11/2025

Thanks.