Intel Meltdown/Spectre bugs and microcode updates
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Topic: Intel Meltdown/Spectre bugs and microcode updates
Posted By: Greywolf
Subject: Intel Meltdown/Spectre bugs and microcode updates
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2018 at 8:23pm
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" rel="nofollow - I own a Z97 Extreme 6, and I'm just wondering on what Asrock's response to the Meltdown and Spectre bugs is going to be. Are they going to add updated micro code to legacy motherboards ? |
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Posted By: Grom0X
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2018 at 8:43pm
| I'm interested on this also. I have Fatal1ty H97 Performance. Cheers |
Posted By: PetrolHead
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2018 at 9:22pm
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Please note that Meltdown and Spectre variant 1 cannot - according to current knowledge - be fixed with a microcode update. According to The Register, Skylake and later CPUs will receive a microcode update to counter the Spectre variant 2 (which requires kernel countermeasures as well), but I don't know if that's actually necessary or if it only makes the performance impact of the kernel countermeasures smaller. In any case, hopefully ASRock will be able to provide all available updates to those affected. ------------- Ryzen 5 1500X, ASRock AB350M Pro4, 2x8 GB G.Skill Trident Z 3466CL16, Sapphire Pulse RX Vega56 8G HBM2, Corsair RM550x, Samsung 960 EVO SSD (NVMe) 250GB, Samsung 850 EVO SSD 500 GB, Windows 10 64-bit |
Posted By: Krautmaster
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2018 at 2:55pm
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" rel="nofollow - U guys seriously expect a Meltdown / spectre fix from Asrock for more than 3 month old MBs? its no secret that ASROCK stops the support after that interval. See the Intel ME bug and buggy bioses being uptodate forever without fixing them. I'd be more than suprised if every Z270 board will receive an update. But seriously. Normally users should have known before buying asrock. Good HW, bad support. Thats why u mostly save some money grabbing Asrock boards. Edit: I mean, look at that forum. Seems to be setup by a student back in the 90s. |
Posted By: Barmalley
Date Posted: 12 Jan 2018 at 5:40am
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" rel="nofollow - B75 Pro3 user ... As I understand it is better not to purchase AsRock products, since there is no support for outdated boards ? |
Posted By: Krautmaster
Date Posted: 12 Jan 2018 at 6:06am
| there is not even support for actual ones as u can see |
Posted By: ok2018
Date Posted: 12 Jan 2018 at 6:24am
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short answer> wrong long answer> no, it is no better or worse than any other manufacturer. for now. we will see differences in a month when we compare who patched what... |
Barmalley wrote:Posted By: ok2018
Date Posted: 12 Jan 2018 at 6:28am
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" rel="nofollow - msi sends beta bios for z87 board to forum user... since I had msi board before (it broke eventually and I replaced it with asrock) while troubleshooting problems few years ago I did receive few beta bioses myself from msi so I thing this is legit here https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=297707.0;all post 172. also read post 171. its really worse than we think |
Posted By: MountainDolphin
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2018 at 7:47am
| As least as far as the server-class mobos (AsRockRack) are concerned, the company is acknowledging that they are aware of the issues and working on releasing FW fixes: http://www.asrockrack.com/support/faq.asp%3Fid=33" rel="nofollow - http://www.asrockrack.com/support/faq.asp%3Fid=33 |