MSI has Started rolling out our new Z790 BIOS. which implements the “Intel Default Settings” profile for 14th and 13th Gen CPUs.

As motherboard vendors began to follow Intel's recommendation, MSI developed an updated BIOS profile for its Z790 boards to address the stability issues of the 14th and 13th Gen CPUs.

Following Intel's official statement recommending that motherboard vendors use “Intel Default Settings” over “Baseline Defaults”.MSI has quickly developed its latest BIOS, first for Z790 motherboards, which helps set power limits according to the default profile provided by Intel.

The new BIOS implements two important features, the first is a warning message stating that setting the cooler type to the “Tower Air Cooler” or “Water Cooler” profiles may reduce system stability on 14th and 13th Gen CPUs. will go After that, you can enter the “CPU Cooler Type” BIOS setting which gives you three options:

• Intel Default Settings: 125W PL1 / 253W PL2 / 307A current limit
• Tower Air Cooler: 288W PL1 / 288W PL2 / 512A current limit
• Water cooler: 4096W PL1 / 4096W PL2 / 512A current limit

Following are the official “Intel Default Settings” profiles provided by Intel. You can also distinguish between “baseline”, “performance” and “extreme” modes. The baseline default has been completely removed and all of its values ​​have been moved to the “Performance” profile.

The Intel Default Settings profile on MSI motherboards previously known as “Boxed Cooler” set PL1 to 253W by default. So you can already tell that the latest BIOS has a significant reduction in power limits that had to be done to comply with Intel's recommended default profiles.

Now setting your Intel 14th Gen and 13th gen CPUs to their default profiles will definitely result in lower performance than the “Efficiency” and “Extreme” configurations. You will see lower power consumption and lower temperatures but one should expect to trade performance for CPU stability.

The new MSI BIOS is already available in their Z790 and Z790 MAX series which you can get from the official support page here..