Gigabyte's Intel baseline profile runs some ABSOLUTELY INSANE core voltages.

Gigabyte paid for the whole voltage, so they will use the whole voltage

Imagine dropping the big money for a 14900k, not overclocking it at all, and having it crash on a single pass of Cinebench.

I saw 1.7V and thought that motherboard vendors were high on something. Now I see that this is technically within spec so now I know it's actually Intel that are high on something

the baseline spec is fluid and open to interpretation.

When BZ said "that's not even close to the highest voltage we're gonna see today" I went to get a brew and some snacks as I knew this was going to be good!

Intel is quite literally shooting itself in the foot without standard power & voltage limits. AMD made this mistake with the AM5 ASUS boards, assuming manufacturers would follow guidelines. They learned fast to force limits on at least the X3D chips. Now, it's Intel's turn lol.

Intel: where moving a mouse cursor needs 30 watts

Intel wanted to break the 6 GHz barrier, no matter if all of the silicon is really up to it. I think the board manufactures has been informed by Intel, that they "should" put out "plenty" of voltage for that boost frequency. It's cheaper than QC of all the CPUs, and set a max voltage norm. Why not set a stock CPU boost freq a few hundred mhz lower, and have it running healthy voltages and stable? This CPU arms race just got into mad mode. I'm sticking to AM4. Not even AM5 has got me excited. I like what just works! R9 5950X is an efficiency powerhouse (especially if you clock/voltage it a bit down)

Gigabyte still overvolting since the days my 4790k default was 1.55v for 4.4 which i think was 4.2 allcore when I managed to get 4.4 all core at 1.15v Luckily I was straight into the bios and noticed it before even installing an OS on the pc

Feel for you man, worst luck than me on silicon lottery lol. Appreciate the video as always.

12:00 While true, for cinebench purposes the 14900k isn't competing with the 7800x3d it's competing with the 7950x, which is still cheaper.

34:10 Gigabyte is undervolting on the new BIOS skin, my 12700K was 40/90 AC/DC_LL on the older BIOS skin, 13900K was 50/90, on the newer BIOS the 13900K is 40/90 AC/DC.

So instead of the mobo figuring out a stable overclock for us, now we have to figure it out ourselves FROM SCRATCH. Thanks for making this video.

The “Intel POR” profile has the values from Intel, not “Baseline”. Blame Gigabyte naming jank.

Around 1.5V continous is still high. I would like to see max 1.3V @continous on this size silicon. Almost 1.7V boost is just insanity with ambient cooling.

I have an Aorus Master Z790 with a 13th gen core i7 on it, and noticed the same pattern as you did, even unstable at some base MB presets with a very good watercooling solution on it, it took me quite some time to figure what's wrong. I just concluded that these intel chips are kind of "factory overclocked" since the competition is putting a lot of pressure on them, and they need that extra voltage to not crash. And since mine is a big silicon lottery looser, overclocking is out of the question, that's the 1st time i built a system for myself and not OC the CPU.

Hey could you test the intel baseline power feature in asus boards?, i have a 13700k with a z690-e strix and i updated the bios today to test this feature. I havent seen the vcore over 1.46v which seems fine, but it would be nice to watch a review from you on asus boards

In a fine moment of replacing my old AIO, I bent the pins on my old motherboard with my 12900KS. The new one is a Strix Z690-E, and then a 14900K to go with it. I just got it all assembled yesterday. I think the SP on the new CPU was 93 and would finish Cinebench boosting to 6 at times, but even with a new 360 AIO, it was boiling water in no time. Then, I saw the main Vcore voltage at 1.7v. I just finished locking the voltage to 1.25, with only the P cores enabled, and at a locked 5.5. She purrs like a kitty now. Edit: I was sustaining around 310=330w during the Cinebench run. The 3080 GPU will pull 350+ under full load. Yikes, I was closing in on the 1000w supply I have in there. I don't know what I'd be doing to fully use both GPU and CPU, but still.

As soon as multi core enhancement was introduced by board vendors i knew i was never going to be able to trust them again, and so from that day I never run defaults on my or a client's system

One thing i dont fully understand about the 188w power limit is that I've been getting this on my asus z690 as well and cant seem to get it to draw any more power unless doing full bios reset and allowing asus to use it's own "auto" optimized settings