BIOS Update for Spectre and Meltdown For Older MBs

I updated my h97 fatality killer and z97 pro 4

here are ssd benchmarks
i also posted this on intel reddit

I5 4460 Asrock h97 fatality killer Crucial mx100 256

Before

Seq read 517 write 331

4K read 22 write 76

4K 64Thrd read 364 write 179

Acc time read 0.094 write 0.062

Score read 438 write 289

948

After

Seq read 470 write 313

4K read 21 write 61

4K 64Thrd read 379 write 253

Acc time read 0.109 write 0.071

Score read 447 write 346

1018

I7 4770k Asrock z97 Pro 4 Crucial 512 m550

Before

Seq read 493 write 455

4K read 23 write 89

4K 64Thrd read 381 write 317

Acc time read 0.085 write 0.061

Score read 454 write 452

1143

After

Seq read 471 write 434

4K read 21 write 67

4K 64Thrd read 379 write 270

Acc time read 0.098 write 0.067

Score read 448 write 382

1063

Microsoft AHCI driver

Didnt look before, but i looked now at cpu utilisation and on i5 its 4K write at 22% and read at 11% and on i7 is 4k write 11-16% and read 5%

I hope i wrote all numbers without mistakes. Some numbers are higher and some are lower. I change ms ahci and intel driver sometimes. have intel before rusults and maybe will post results with intel driver later

It will be interesting to see if maybe crucial and other ssd manufacturers release new firmware (i really dont know is it anything they can do) but to be honest i am a little tires of firmware update on hardware without warranty!

Z77 Extreme4 user with i5-3570K still waiting for a bios update. I hope you won't let me down. I've been using ASRock mainboards for many years now. Not just for my own PCs but also always recommending (and building) them for friends / family.
Getting bios updates or not for our "dated" mainboards will be taken into consideration when buying / recommending future hardware.

Lenovo for example are rolling out bios updates for many EOL notebooks. I got bios updates for all my Sandy Bridge Thinkpads. Even older Core2 models will get updates. Guess which manufacturer I will prefer when buying / recommending future notebooks.

So please, ASRock, keep rolling out bios updates for older mainboards. It is your chance to show why we should keep buying your products.

Here is the z77 Extreme 4 UEFI with Specter and Meltdown patches and some other driver updates:

https://www.win-raid.com/t3440f16-Specter-and-Meltdown-for-ASRock-Z-Extreme.html#msg50068

Please, press thanks if this helps.

Edited by JCorrea - 26 Mar 2018 at 10:41am

JCorrea wrote: Here is the z77 Extreme 4 UEFI with Specter and Meltdown patches and some other driver updates: https://www.win-raid.com/t3440f16-Specter-and-Meltdown-for-ASRock-Z-Extreme.html#msg50068 Please, press thanks if this helps.

JCorrea
This Bios you posted for me.
It would be corrupted, with error, or it would be for another Motherboard Model.
But the problem has now been resolved.
I re-recorded Bios through a Recorder.
Thank you

Joe88 wrote: The 3.30 bios for my board have been removed from asrock's site

Yes, they have done this with the B250M-HDV too. They released 2.30 with microcode updates. Then deleted it from the website. Later, they released 2.50. Now, there is no download in between firmware 2.20 and 2.50.