New reports suggest that Intel Z890 motherboards will come with Intel baseline power settings enabled by default, to avoid a recurrence of the instability issues that have plagued Intel’s 14th-gen CPUs. It’s unclear if Intel or motherboard makers are behind this, but it follows Intel’s push to make safer power settings the default option on existing boards earlier this year.

It seems this approach will carry over to the first Intel Arrow Lake motherboards, helping Intel CPUs stay within the company’s official power limits. Intel faced initial criticism earlier this year when it blamed problems with Intel’s Raptor Lake CPUs on motherboard manufacturers for running CPUs with voltages well above the default settings. The best gaming motherboards out there all offer settings for configuring your CPU power settings, but if these rumors are true, then Intel could be looking to take a much tighter grip over the default power settings for its next-gen lineup to avoid repeating the disaster.

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