If you own an MSI B450 or B350 motherboard, get the latest UEFI BIOS update ASAP! The new updates add support AGESA version 1.0.0.6. We believe AMD may have MSI pull these updates soon. Why you ask? The new firmware lets you overclock the Athlon 200GE processor, something you used to not be allowed to […]
Intel has another update on its Spectre microcode patch for us. Here’s hoping for no more bugs! Intel has now completed the fixed version of its patch for 6th-gen (Skylake, 100 series chipsets), 7th-gen (Kaby Lake, 200 series chipsets), and 8th-gen (Coffee Lake, 300 series chipsets) CPUs. This includes Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X (X299 chipset) […]
ASRock has new BIOS updates available for more than a dozen of its AM4 motherboard spanning AMD’s X370, B350, and A320 chipsets. They include the X370 Killer SLI/ac, X370 Killer SLI, Fatal1ty X370 Gaming K4, Fatal1ty X370 Gaming X, Fatal1ty X370 Gaming-ITX/ac, AB 350 Pro 4, AB350M Pro 4, AB 350M, Fatal1ty AB 350 Gaming […]
ASRock released BIOS updates for its Taichi, Fatal1ty Gaming, and Pro series motherboards to support AMD’s new Ryzen 5 processors. The company also announced that it has entered a strategic technology partnership with Sapphire Technology, a Hong Kong component manufacturer and supplier, to “launch cutting edge motherboard, CPU, and VGA card configurations” to offer gamers […]
MSI has announced an approximation RAM profile system called A-XMP for the Ryzen AM4 pltform. It is basically takes the framework and value add of Intel’s XMP (eXtreme Memory Profile) and brings it over to the Ryzen motherboards. For those of you who don’t play in the UEFI* (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) much, A-XMP […]
EVGA has had a hard week amid reports of serious overheating issues in certain models of its GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 graphics cards. It has become apparent the heatsink on these cards only covers the GPU core, rather than covering the core, memory, and VRM. EVGA responded, saying in recent tests it has been […]
Three days after ASRock updated the BIOS on its motherboards to squash a serious bug on Intel’s sixth generation (Skylake) processors, Gigabyte came out with its own BIOS update to remove the same bug that froze or crashed computers during complex workloads. The problem was discovered with Prime95, a program that stress tests the CPU […]
While GUIs for OS’s and CE devices have improved greatly over the years, there has been one major exception – the GUI for the motherboard BIOS. While we have moved over to UEFI for BIOS, the pace of UI improvements hasn’t done much in the last ten years- adding mouse support wasn’t enough folks. […]
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a report offering advice to PC manufacturers on how they can assist the public good by protecting the BIOS used on servers. The report (PDF) is a draft, and comments can be left with the agency until September 14, 2012. The report follows a […]
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