Jacob got his hands on a gaming PC for the first time when he was about 12 years old. He swiftly realised the local PC repair store had ripped him off with his build and vowed never to let another soul build his rig again. With this vow, Jacob the hardware junkie was born.
Intel 13th and 14th Gen instability issuesand would be rolling out a BIOS microcode fix come mid-August. It looks like the first of these are now officially rolling out from MSI and Asus.that it's releasing BIOS updates for Intel 600- and 700-series motherboards with a 0x129 microcode update to"mitigate the instability." for Asus motherboard users to download, but these haven't yet been pushed to official support pages like some of MSI's updates have.
The previous interim 0x125 updates that motherboard vendors were rolling out messed with voltages, specifically eTVB settings, to keep things ticking over safely until a root-cause fix could be delivered. This latest 0x129 microcode update, it would seem, is supposed to be that root-cause fix.If your motherboard isn't on this list, however, don't worry. MSI says that all 600- and 700-series mobos will receive the BIOS update"by the end of August.
I can't yet confirm what exactly this microcode update does other than to say it will presumably fix the"elevated operating voltage" that's the root cause of the instability issues. We'll be testing the 0x129 microcode update ourselves and will let you know how it tinkers with the latest high-end Intel CPUs as soon as we do.
Since then, Jacob's led a double-life as part-hardware geek, part-philosophy nerd, first working as a Hardware Writer for PCGamesN in 2020, then working towards a PhD in Philosophy for a few years while freelancing on the side for sites such as TechRadar, Pocket-lint, and yours truly, PC Gamer. Eventually, he gave up the ruthless mercenary life to join the world's #1 PC Gaming site full-time. It's definitely not an ego thing, he assures us.
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