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Speaking of desktop Broadwells, I was thinking about putting together a new HTPC since my current Atom 330 + Nvidia Ion setup is getting a bit old. I've been looking at the i5-5675C as the ideal candidate with it's integrated Iris graphics and as a plus, all compatible mini-ITX Z97 motherboards have a full-length PCI-E slot for any eventual future GPU upgrades. Everything was already in a shopping cart waiting for my credit card details, but then I saw this: http://news.softpedia.com/news/the-intel-broadwells-have-a-major-design-defect-when-running-office-2016-493094.shtml So apparently the desktop Broadwell family has a design flaw of some sort. Anyone know anything more about this, or have any experience with the Broadwells to share?
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# ¿ Oct 1, 2015 07:54 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 09:01 |
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VulgarandStupid posted:Seems like an awful lot of power for an HTPC, but more concerning than that is if you're actually going to run Office on your HTPC. No offense bro, but read the article: quote:The bug appears to users running on Windows 7, 8.1, 10, multiple Linux versions and even crashing a machine that was running a Linux virtual box Somehow, having a Linux setup crash all the time doesn't sound appealing to me since it defeats the purpose of a Linux install. I was also planning on having it eventually run a web server and a home file server, I probably don't need all that power but I kinda want to have it last for at least 6-7 years. With some Googling, I came up with these: https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/3meznc/design_defect_in_i55675ci75775ci75700hq/ https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103351 https://communities.intel.com/thread/80822
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# ¿ Oct 1, 2015 09:43 |
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BobHoward posted:CPU needs a microcode update
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# ¿ Oct 2, 2015 06:39 |
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JawnV6 posted:You think Asus is signing them? I was actually thinking more along the lines of "all manufacturers that claim to support Broadwell should publish BIOS updates" so as not to rely on a workaround using microcode salvaged from a single BIOS update. I'm really glad a solution is possible, though.
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# ¿ Oct 2, 2015 22:07 |