diff --git a/deploy/kubernetes/images/stable-master/image.yaml b/deploy/kubernetes/images/stable-master/image.yaml
index 43c5e4b42..d51f8e1ba 100644
--- a/deploy/kubernetes/images/stable-master/image.yaml
+++ b/deploy/kubernetes/images/stable-master/image.yaml
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ metadata:
   name: imagetag-csi-snapshotter
 imageTag:
   name: registry.k8s.io/sig-storage/csi-snapshotter
-  newTag: "v7.0.2"
+  newName: us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/psch-joonix/psch-csi-snapshotter-testing/csi-snapshotter
+  newTag: "it-testing3"
 ---
 
 apiVersion: builtin
diff --git a/test/e2e/tests/setup_e2e_test.go b/test/e2e/tests/setup_e2e_test.go
index bd6de4581..7e61e7493 100644
--- a/test/e2e/tests/setup_e2e_test.go
+++ b/test/e2e/tests/setup_e2e_test.go
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ var (
 	serviceAccount            = flag.String("service-account", "", "Service account to bring up instance with")
 	vmNamePrefix              = flag.String("vm-name-prefix", "gce-pd-csi-e2e", "VM name prefix")
 	architecture              = flag.String("arch", "amd64", "Architecture pd csi driver build on")
-	minCpuPlatform            = flag.String("min-cpu-platform", "rome", "Minimum CPU architecture")
-	mwMinCpuPlatform          = flag.String("min-cpu-platform-mw", "sapphirerapids", "Minimum CPU architecture for multiwriter tests")
+	minCpuPlatform            = flag.String("min-cpu-platform", "AMD Rome", "Minimum CPU architecture")
+	mwMinCpuPlatform          = flag.String("min-cpu-platform-mw", "Intel Sapphire Rapids", "Minimum CPU architecture for multiwriter tests")
 	zones                     = flag.String("zones", "us-east4-a,us-east4-c", "Zones to run tests in. If there are multiple zones, separate each by comma")
 	machineType               = flag.String("machine-type", "n2d-standard-4", "Type of machine to provision instance on")
 	imageURL                  = flag.String("image-url", "projects/ubuntu-os-cloud/global/images/family/ubuntu-minimal-2404-lts-amd64", "OS image url to get image from")
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ var (
 	// Multi-writer is only supported on M3, C3, and N4
 	// https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/sharing-disks-between-vms#hd-multi-writer
 	hdMachineType    = flag.String("hyperdisk-machine-type", "c3-standard-4", "Type of machine to provision instance on")
-	hdMinCpuPlatform = flag.String("hyperdisk-min-cpu-platform", "sapphirerapids", "Minimum CPU architecture")
+	hdMinCpuPlatform = flag.String("hyperdisk-min-cpu-platform", "Intel Sapphire Rapids", "Minimum CPU architecture")
 
 	testContexts          = []*remote.TestContext{}
 	hyperdiskTestContexts = []*remote.TestContext{}
diff --git a/test/remote/instance.go b/test/remote/instance.go
index 554e7612e..5e5846f3f 100644
--- a/test/remote/instance.go
+++ b/test/remote/instance.go
@@ -86,23 +86,23 @@ func (i *InstanceInfo) GetLocalSSD() int64 {
 
 func machineTypeMismatch(curInst *compute.Instance, newInst *compute.Instance) bool {
 	if !strings.Contains(curInst.MachineType, newInst.MachineType) {
-		klog.Infof("Machine type mismatch")
+		klog.Infof("Machine type mismatch (current: %v, new: %v)", curInst.MachineType, newInst.MachineType)
 		return true
 	}
 	// Ideally we could compare to see if the new instance has a greater minCpuPlatfor
 	// For now we just check it was set and it's different.
 	if curInst.MinCpuPlatform != "" && curInst.MinCpuPlatform != newInst.MinCpuPlatform {
-		klog.Infof("CPU Platform mismatch")
+		klog.Infof("CPU Platform mismatch (current: %v, new: %v)", curInst.MinCpuPlatform, newInst.MinCpuPlatform)
 		return true
 	}
 	if (curInst.ConfidentialInstanceConfig != nil && newInst.ConfidentialInstanceConfig == nil) ||
 		(curInst.ConfidentialInstanceConfig == nil && newInst.ConfidentialInstanceConfig != nil) ||
 		(curInst.ConfidentialInstanceConfig != nil && newInst.ConfidentialInstanceConfig != nil && curInst.ConfidentialInstanceConfig.EnableConfidentialCompute != newInst.ConfidentialInstanceConfig.EnableConfidentialCompute) {
-		klog.Infof("Confidential compute mismatch")
+		klog.Infof("Confidential compute mismatch (current: %v, new: %v)", curInst.ConfidentialInstanceConfig, newInst.ConfidentialInstanceConfig)
 		return true
 	}
 	if curInst.SourceMachineImage != newInst.SourceMachineImage {
-		klog.Infof("Source Machine Mismatch")
+		klog.Infof("Source Machine Mismatch (current: %v, new: %v)", curInst.SourceMachineImage, newInst.SourceMachineImage)
 		return true
 	}
 	return false