Many PC avid gamers have been ready with bated breath for an actual non-bandaid repair for Intel thirteenth and 14th Gen instability points. After months of reported issues, investigations, and workarounds, in July Intel lastly stated it had cracked the difficulty and can be rolling out a BIOS microcode repair come mid-August. It appears like the primary of those at the moment are formally rolling out from MSI and Asus.
MSI studies that it is releasing BIOS updates for Intel 600- and 700-series motherboards with a 0x129 microcode replace to “mitigate the instability.”
There are additionally obvious 0x129 BIOS updates on the Asus ROG discussion board for Asus motherboard customers to obtain, however these have not but been pushed to official help pages like a few of MSI’s updates have.
The earlier interim 0x125 updates that motherboard distributors have been rolling out messed with voltages, particularly eTVB (enhanced Thermal Velocity Enhance) settings, to maintain issues ticking over safely till a root-cause repair might be delivered. This newest 0x129 microcode replace, it might appear, is meant to be that root-cause repair.
Listed here are the “first batch” of motherboards MSI has rolled out the newest BIOS replace for:
MEG Z790 GODLIKE MAXMEG Z790 ACE MAXMPG Z790 CARBON MAX WIFI IIMPG Z790 CARBON WIFIMAG Z790 TOMAHAWK MAX WIFIZ790MPOWER
In case your motherboard is not on this checklist, nonetheless, don’t fret. MSI says that each one 600- and 700-series mobos will obtain the BIOS replace “by the top of August.”
To test whether or not your motherboard has obtained the replace, go to its official msi.com web page and go to Assist -> Drivers & Downloads -> Firmware/BIOS.
I can not but verify what precisely this microcode replace does apart from to say it should presumably repair the “elevated working voltage” that is the foundation explanation for the instability points. We’ll be testing the 0x129 microcode replace ourselves and can let you know the way it tinkers with the newest high-end Intel CPUs as quickly as we do.
