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Hi! I would recommend Thermal Grizzly Hydronaut paste - Thermal Grizzly High Performance Cooling Solutions - Hydronaut. It has no silicone what makes it very good for long term exposure to high temperatures - I use it in many laptops, even those with 45W CPUs running at full load for extended...

Hello. Does anyone please have a clue if all Coffee Lake refresh processors have fixes for Meltdown and/or Spectre? This article at Anandtech suggest CFL-R has a hardware fix for meltdown (variant 3) and for variant 5: Intel’s New Core and Xeon W-3175X Processors: Spectre and Meltdown Security...

Thank you. I also have good experience with Intel RAID (but only using single array). Unfortunatelly my experience with AMD RAID is somewhat negative and would like to check with others.

Hello. Does anyone have experience running Intel desktop class chipset (say Z390, C246 and similar - not pure server such as C626) or AMD equivalents (say X470) with as many as 6 to 8 SATA drives in multiple RAID arrays? I plan to utilize 2x RAID1 arrays using server class SSDs (one of which...

Here is something about the impacts on congatec site: https://www.congatec.com/fileadmin/user_upload/Documents/Technical_Documents/BYT_xA30_Errata_LPC_USB_SD_Card.pdf LPC bus There is a firmware change which enables something called "LPC_CLKRUN# feature" what reduces the LPC bus utilization...

I did some research on this and found it likely impacts also 14nm Goldmont CPUs. There is a Specification Update for Pentium N/J4000 and Celeron N/J3000 series - Apollo Lake...

Thank you Patrick. We will see what they say.

Hello. Intel recently published PCN 116196-00 on Atom E3800 series CPUs stating they are going to transition to D1 stepping to mitigate LPC bus degradation issues: http://qdms.intel.com/dm/i.aspx/BF417A50-F5AE-4179-8393-08083292AC0D/PCN116196-00.pdf Summary of changes of the D-1 stepping: 1...

Hello. Intel created a new C0 revision of Atom C2000 (Avoton / Rangeley) replacing existing buggy B0. https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/specification-updates/atom-c2000-family-spec-update.pdf The only thing it fixes is the infamous AVR54 bug that causes the chip to...