In the event you personal a Thirteenth or 14th-gen Intel CPU, then you definitely’ll be glad to listen to that the brand new microcode stability repair to your CPU is now beginning to roll out, due to Asus and MSI. Following months of stories about Intel CPU instability, together with recreation crashes in titles primarily based on Unreal Engine 5, the brand new Intel CPU repair is designed to tackle an error within the microcode of its CPUs, which the corporate claims is inflicting its chips to make “incorrect voltage requests.”
The replace is suggested for any CPU with a TDP of over 65W, which is the overwhelming majority of processors within the Intel Thirteenth-gen and 14th-gen lineups, together with its finest gaming CPU, the Core i9 14900K. To use the brand new replace, you’ll have to replace the firmware in your motherboard, in any other case referred to as flashing the BIOS, and each Asus and MSI have introduced that they’re beginning to roll out the replace on their motherboards.
Many homeowners of Intel CPUs have reported stability issues in video games, significantly in titles primarily based on the most recent Unreal Engine. One frequent error message says that your system doesn’t have sufficient video reminiscence, even in case you have among the best graphics playing cards with a great deal of VRAM obtainable. We’ve not too long ago seen this within the First Descendant out of video reminiscence error, and it’s appeared in quite a few different video games too, with Nvidia sending prospects to Intel help to resolve the difficulty.
MSI now says all of its motherboards primarily based on Intel 700 and 600-series chipsets will obtain a BIOS replace by the top of August 2024, however it’s already kicked off the method by offering new BIOS updates for a number of of its finest gaming motherboards on its web site, together with the next boards:
- MSI MEG Z790 Godlike Max
- MSI MEG Z790 Ace Max
- MSI MPG Z790 Carbon Max WiFi II
- MSI MPG Z790 Carbon WiFi
- MSI MAG Z790 Tomahawk Max WiFi
- MSI Z790MPower
In the meantime, Asus has additionally made beta BIOS updates obtainable for a number of of its motherboards primarily based on the Z790 chipset, which it says replace the microcode to model 129 to repair Intel instability. The listing contains the next motherboards:
- Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Hero
- Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Darkish Hero
- Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Hero BTF
- Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Hero EVA-02 Version
- Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Apec
- Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Apex Encore
- Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Components
- Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Excessive
- Asus ROG Strix Z790-A Gaming WiFi
- Asus ROG Strix Z790-A Gaming WiFi D4
- Asus ROG Strix Z790-A Gaming WiFi II
- Asus ROG Strix Z790-A Gaming WiFi S
- Asus ROG Strix Z790-E Gaming WiFi
- Asus ROG Strix Z790-E Gaming WiFi II
- Asus ROG Strix Z790-F Gaming WiFi
- Asus ROG Strix Z790-F Gaming WiFi II
- Asus ROG Strix Z790-H Gaming WiFi
- Asus ROG Strix Z790-I Gaming WiFi
- Asus ProArt Z790-Creator WiFi
- Asus Z790-AYW OC WiFi
So far as we are able to see, not one of the motherboards’ official on-line help pages have the brand new updates obtainable to obtain but, however Asus’ ROG staff has made them obtainable to obtain through Google Drive right here. We haven’t obtained phrase from Gigabyte and ASRock on this matter but, however hopefully each these corporations could have new BIOS updates obtainable quickly too.
In the event you’ve by no means up to date your motherboard firmware earlier than, take a look at our information on the way to flash your BIOS first, the place we take you thru the entire course of step-by-step.
