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    Meltdown fix on Coffee Lake refresh

    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...
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    Intel and AMD RAID with many disks

    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...
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    Atom Bay Trail dying because of LPC bus design flaw?

    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...
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    Intel launches Atom C2000 revision C0 - fixing AVR54

    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...