March 29, 2024 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards, and hardware solutions, is pleased to release the new BETA BIOS for all Z790 and B760 motherboards with Intel 14th Gen Processors, which provides the option to disable CEP (Current Excursion Protection) and deliver exceptional CPU performance with lower temperature and stability.

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For a long time, the CEP function on Intel B760 chipset was default enabled for 14th Gen CPUs and unable to be disabled. This always results in the requirement of higher power protection and voltage compensation settings to ensure performance with stability, or a sacrifice in performance instead. The new BETA BIOS supports disabling the CEP function by utilizing Intel's updated microcode. Additionally, GIGABYTE BIOS not only features optimized power settings that suits every different CPU but also offers exclusive easy settings, like PerfDrive, to enable a simple balance of performance, power consumption, and temperature with Intel^® Core™ processors. This ensures achieving the same performance at lower CPU operating temperatures as well as excellent stability and high efficiency, safeguarding the durability of CPU/VRM components.

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Through real testing, CPU and VRM temperatures have significantly improved under the same performance while instant high workload occurs. Taking the B760M AORUS ELITE AX as an example, CPUs above i5-14600 even show temperature differences of over 16 degrees compared to the previous BIOS at the same performance level.

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The new BETA BIOS with disabling CEP support are available now! Please visit GIGABYTE official website for the updated BIOS.

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Support Matrix of Disabling CEP (for 14th GEN CPU only)