A Chiphell forum user reported,After replacing the motherboard, the Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus I purchased was uniformly recognized by CPU-Z, Windows 11, AIDA64 and even the BIOS as the higher-spec Core Ultra 7 270K Plus.This user had previously used the Colorful motherboard and everything was normal. However, the problem suddenly occurred after switching to the Gigabyte B860I Mini Ice Sculpture motherboard.
The CPU box is clearly marked as Ultra 5 250K Plus, and the core number is indeed 18 cores instead of the 24 cores and 24 threads of Ultra 7 270K Plus, but all software and hardware tools give the wrong model name.
The user stated that he had updated the BIOS to the latest version, but the problem was still not resolved.
Judging from the BIOS update log of Gigabyte B860I AORUS PRO ICE, this motherboard theoretically supports Core Ultra 200S Plus series processors.
At present, the problem most likely lies in the CPU identification reading logic of the motherboard BIOS, which may pass the wrong SKU name string to the operating system and third-party monitoring software, leading to a chain of misjudgments in all downstream tools.
