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Cool, thanks for that. It's green. Does that mean that Intel do plan to release a new MCU for Ivy Bridge?
Absolutely nothing since 2014 (before that the last bios was 2012!) bios wise from Gigabyte for this board.
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Yes, it's already released. Ivy Bridge says "Production" under "Production Status" and "0x1F" under "New Production MCU Rev". You can download it here (CPUID 306A9) if you wanna research how to inject it into your BIOS yourself.Cool, thanks for that. It's green. Does that mean that Intel do plan to release a new MCU for Ivy Bridge?
Absolutely nothing since 2014 (before that the last bios was 2012!) bios wise from Gigabyte for this board.
Yes, it's already released. Ivy Bridge says "Production" under "Production Status" and "0x1F" under "New Production MCU Rev". You can download it here (CPUID 306A9) if you wanna research how to inject it into your BIOS yourself.
Note there are other types of Ivy Bridge like Ivy Bridge-E, so this is only applicable for that CPUID.
Depends what type of BIOS you have. This guide is for AMI UEFI ones, for example.3570k.
Any guide out there how inject the binary?
It is rather poor that motherboard manufacturers are not providing BIOS updates for older models even though fixed microcode is available. All they have to do is inject the microcode into the last BIOS version and rerelease. Without this, end users have to roll their own, or resort to buying new hardware to ensure protection. Hmmm....
The Skylake one has been available for some time. Microsoft said the others would follow (Windows 10 only). This is a good solution for the typical, less technical, home user who doesn't want to mess with BIOS updates. This method is volatile though and so needs to load every time Windows boots.Some what contradictory article claims new MCU's to come through windows update.
I don't think either of those tools provides your actual CPUID. Use HWInfo64 to see, then check the PDF:
You can generally find the latest microcode files here.
Alternatively, if you are using UBU to update your AMI UEFI BIOS then it'll grab the latest version for you automatically anyway.
They haven't even bothered to release a patch with the Spectre microcode for 1803 yet even though this is available for earlier versions and would be trivial to do. They really like taking their sweet time.Some what contradictory article claims new MCU's to come through windows update.
Strange, I lost 3% in all 3dmark CPU tests. I have a 5820K and Gigabyte X99 SOC Champion. I was using the microcode patch supplied through Windows Update for version 1709 rather than a BIOS update though.I updated my Strix X99 motherboard to the 1902 Beta BIOS at the weekend. It seems to be stable so far with the previous overclock I had but I've only really done limited testing (couple of runs of cinebench / one run of 3dmark time spy). CPU scores actually seem identical as before. Weirdly my GPU score seemed a bit lower in time spy but I only did one run so might be margin of error (since I wouldn't expect that to be impacted ..)
For most people though their gaming PC is also their main PC that they use for everything else as wellUnless security is the issue I would not be worried about updating the bios. If it is only a gaming build I would prefer to go with more performance.
For most people though their gaming PC is also their main PC that they use for everything else as well