News Intel Z890 motherboards reportedly ship with the Intel Default Profile by default — alternative profiles are allowed but only selectable by the user

[Admin]

The report says that Intel Z890 motherboards must ship with the Intel Default Profile as standard. However, manufacturers could still add other power profiles that users can select in the BIOS during setup.

Intel Z890 motherboards reportedly ship with the Intel Default Profile by default — alternative profiles are allowed but only selectable by the user : Read more

 

[Amdlova]

Don't care ... they have FSB overclock? Miss old times.

 

[acadia11]

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“Intel Z890 motherboards reportedly ship with the Intel Default Profile by default”​

Let’s just think about what you wrote there for a second.

 

[thestryker]

If this report is accurate then that simply means Intel will finally be doing what they should have for over a decade. Ever since the early days of MCE I haven't really understood their hands off wild west of settings approach to motherboard defaults. By all means have a bunch of optional settings and profiles but there really needs to be a consistent out of the box experience.

 

[why_wolf]

Seems like the sane choice. Just like with OCing RAM. By default it runs at that generations stock speed and the user has to manually tell it to OC. Frankly it should have always been like this. I guess for a long long time it was until every OEM decided they needed to pre-OC their boards to have another marketing blurb to slap on the box.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

There's nothing preventing the vendors activating their own profile prior to shipping the motherboard out. Just more of "The more things change, the more they stay the same".

 

[Pierce2623]

So now anything above the baseline profile is equivalent to PBO, right? 90% of users will never do it.

 

[Pierce2623]

There's nothing preventing the vendors activating their own profile prior to shipping the motherboard out. Just more of "The more things change, the more they stay the same".

It literally says that they have to SHIP with the Intel baseline profile as default. So yes there is something stopping them, unless you think Asus is paying the retailers to switch it for them. I’m quite sure Intel has no interest in re-living this nightmare. We need Intel to get back healthy. Things only advance when there’s competition.

 

[Amdlova]

Hey guys! building here the Gigabyte z690 ud4 First put the latest bios f29E with the 0129 intel update... with no CPU no ram q-flash thing... placed the cpu and ram... alright time to see on windows if all working right... Default setting on the Motherboard PUT 280W PL1 and 4096W PL2.
On a 35w chip! (14600T)

Where is the intel correction?

 

[Pierce2623]

Hey guys! building here the Gigabyte z690 ud4 First put the latest bios f29E with the 0129 intel update... with no CPU no ram q-flash thing... placed the cpu and ram... alright time to see on windows if all working right... Default setting on the Motherboard PUT 280W PL1 and 4096W PL2.
On a 35w chip! (14600T)

Where is the intel correction?

I’m pretty sure they don’t force Intel baseline profile on anything but new z890 boards. Older models will still have Asus’s hot sauce settings but should have the micro-code fix as well if you’re on the newest bios.

 

[BILL1957]

With the cost of PC components these days longevity is more important than a little faster clock speed to most folks.
If I need more speed I will just move up the tier to a faster CPU if possible.

Figure that what the higher performing CPU's and GPU's are pulling power wise stock these days and the heat generated as a result one is almost better off to consider undervolting and underclocking than doing any overclocks.