@citay, FlyingScot
Thank you for your advice, which is impossible to follow for the uninitiated, who have been working with Intel cpus for years.
The transfer of bugs and the like is a matter between MSI and Intel, not the millions of users who trust MSI to make the “Auto” choices work.
It's unacceptable that, in 2024, we'll have to manually make all kinds of haphazard settings for “Out-of-the-box” operation.
Thank you for your feedback. On one level, I agree with your sentiments; but on another level I feel like we need to consider the uniqueness of a computer.
Computers used to fill a room and take teams of scientists to build and operate them. Computers have come a long way since then but unfortunately still remain a very complicated machine. It has nothing in common with anything else in our home, such as fridge, TV or DVD player. And, while it would be nice if everything a manufacturer defined in their Auto settings worked perfectly for our particular usage case, it’s unlikely we’ll see that in the near future.
A perfect example of this difference is the Windows operating system. A couple of years ago I built a spreadsheet of the settings from the main Windows 10 Settings menu to aid me in reinstalling Windows. It has over 600 rows, which means 600 settings! Then there’s the settings for your preferred browser, and more for your email client, your printer software and your applications. Even your typical game can take an hour or more to configure before you can get comfortable playing it.
The motherboard is no different from any other hardware component in your computer, such as your monitor, your graphics card, your sound device, your network device, etc. They all have default settings that you routinely change to suit your taste and usage scenario. I would also argue that the real brains of a computer is not the operating system, it’s the BIOS. Unfortunately, that means it comes with a lot of complexity.
Is there reason to be critical of motherboard manufacturers and CPU makers like Intel? Sure. Motherboard manuals could be a lot better, and so could their BIOS release notes. Could Intel have handled this Raptor Lake situation better? Hell, yes. Should Intel have taken more of a leadership role in reining in motherboard defaults? Absolutely. But even if that were the case, you would still benefit from changing BIOS auto settings to match your particular CPU to your motherboard…because every single CPU that comes off the production line is as unique as a human child. No two CPUs have the exact same atomic-level properties. Auto settings cannot easily account for these differences
and give you great power usage and thermals, especially when you consider that we have unique cooling solutions the motherboard manufacturer knows nothing about when the motherboard leaves the factory.
So, unless you have purchased a laptop, or a very well-configured pre-built, it would still behoove you to at least tune the BIOS for better thermals and power consumption. In addition, as an owner of a motherboard, you’re also expected to learn how to update your BIOS version to fix low-level bugs. To this end, you could just ignore all the advice that is outside of your curiosity or desire to learn and simply follow one of CiTay’s proven tuning guides. One of which can be found at the top of the Intel motherboard forum page. Cheers!
