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    5 months ago

    But isn’t the fix basically under clocking those CPU?

    Meaning the “solution” (not even out yet) is crippling those units before the flaw cripples them?

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      That was the first “Intel Baseline Profile” they rolled out to mobo manufacturers earlier in the year. They’ve roll out a new fix now.

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          5 months ago

          I have a i7-13700k that’s been sitting in the box since I got a deal on it last month. I was pondering returning it and spending the extra couple hundred to get an AMD setup.

          I’ve been following all this then checked on the Asus site for my board and saw the BIOS updates…

          Updated with microcode 0x125 to ensure eTVB operates within Intel specificatIons…

          And this week there’s a beta release…

          The new BIOS includes Intel microcode 0x129…