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Although in the author's case, he seems to be waiting on a BIOS fix because the microcode fix doesn't actually work.

That's as well my understanding of the situation => does anybody have more infos?

I was really about to upgrade from an i7-8700 to a Ryzen 3700X but after reading this I froze and now I feel totally insecure... .

EDIT: was answered by "iforgotpassword"



I have a 3700x system (but running Windows) at home. Check with the motherboard vendor first? My board¹ has received three or four updates since I got it (which .. is an entirely different can of worms and doesn't exactly inspire confidence yet). At least they do seem to propagate things "quickly" I guess..

①: https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/X570-GAMING-X-rev-10/su...




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