Is this with an ES chip as in your sig? If so then AFAIK Intel didn't provide any microcode updates for ES. IOW it's probably not patched since the latest ucode that I'm aware of for that CPU is 0x14 dated Jul-2015. Latest for production CPU is 0xB000038 dated Jun-2019 although 0xB0000036 is considered patched?
Hey man ever so slight necro. I guess it's kinda interesting.
So tonight I tried to upgrade another X99 rig. It's an Alienware board and has a 10 core Broadwell ES in. So I expected the 16 core to drop right in there and spring to life. It didn't. I swapped it 4 times and sure enough the 10 core worked perfectly.
Kinda bummed out I looked about for info and found nothing.
Then I remembered what you'd said here about my 14 core rig so looked at the microcode again. Then I looked at the microcode for the 10 core, and it was totally different. However what's interesting is that in CPUID the microcode states it's patched for Spectre.
So I did some digging and it's the exact same microcode as the 6900k and other retail CPUs. Nothing there to overly help me, but very interesting nonetheless.
I've bought a board now that does 100% support the 16 core, and that like the 14 core won't be patched.
Which made sense. Alienware would never allow a retail built PC to run something that could be vulnerable.
Again, not of much use *but* what was very useful was you posting that and getting it into my head because basically I would have gone home, taken my water cooled rig apart and drained, put the 16 core in there which would have worked, then returned here with the 14 core only to find it wouldn't have worked lmao.
So yeah, cheers for the info man I appreciate that!
https://valid.x86.fr/75s2cz
There, one ES that was patched fella. So how lucky was I when I bought that for a board that would not run any other kind of ES?
