While Intel and motherboard vendors investigate instability issues, here's what you can do to prevent crashes on your PC.
Despite being among the best processors you can buy, some high-end Intel CPU s have faced a wave of instability over the past few months. Intel is investigating the problem, but the company and its motherboard partners have already worked toward some temporary fixes to improve stability on high-end Intel CPU s — even if it comes at a performance cost.
Get your weekly teardown of the tech behind PC gaming Check your inbox! Privacy Policy The issues come up mainly when playing games. Oodle, a decompression technology used in PC games, attributes the problem to “overly optimistic BIOS settings” and says affected users will see problems not only in games, but also “standard benchmark and stress test programs.” In games, the crash may show up as an “out of memory” error, despite the fact that the failure is related to the processor.
For starters, open the BIOS by hitting the Delete key on your keyboard while your PC is booting. Head to the overclocking section and look for the CPU cooler tuning setting. Change this to Boxed cooler, which will turn the power limit down to Intel’s specification of 253 watts. Once you’ve updated your BIOS, you can find the Intel Baseline Profile option under the Ai Tweaker section. After you’ve enabled the setting, your PC will reboot and apply the changes. According to some early testing of this profile, your CPU could see upward of a 9% drop in performance. Thankfully, that performance drop isn’t present in most games.
For Gigabyte motherboards Similar to Asus, Gigabyte has also released BIOS updates for its Z790 and B760 motherboards. You’ll need to install this new BIOS if you want to access the Intel Baseline Profile. Although it carries the same name as the profile found with Asus motherboards, Gigabyte’s adjustments are different — and that affects performance quite a bit.
For ASRock motherboards Rounding out the major motherboard vendors is ASRock, which just released a BIOS update for its B760 motherboards that enables the Intel Baseline Profile. At the time of writing, ASRock just posted these updates, and there aren’t currently updates for Z790 motherboards .
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