e6300 need this upgrade?

Wat rasa u wan? me update liau. Rasa masam masam manis la..haha
Of course u won;t feel the different la. it's just a fix if there is a problem there. Example BSOD. It fixed that. But if ur pc no problem then no rasa la..

Erm, they've released it so many times before this. It's just that no one bothered to read it.

yea, i've been wondering too. can someone pls enlighten us?

I tried the update and it says i don't need it.

Btw, using C2D T7100 proc.

That guy is famous for 'loose cannon' anyway.


Anyway microcode patch has already been in used for x86 CPUs for long time. Even old Debian Linux have options to include microcode patches.

If ur proc starts with E, better panic

any application or software that can caused bsod with this particular bug?

^^

eh... what r u trying to do???

It's just random IMO, no particular software will cause it unless the perfect condition is acheived. And then, it's BSOD. Personally, I used my Core2Duo series for 4 months now, and never once I BSOD'ed. Microsoft released this as a precaution measure, because the chance of it happening is quite low in the first place.

can u extract more bout it?

For programmer point of view, will it be problem when compiling their programs?

If you are asking, then no.

^^
as long you follow intel recommended workaround.. it shouldn't be any problem

you'd be surprised that even intel cpus have it's own 'software' which are called microprograms which runs on 'microcodes' (these are stored in the cpu itself, compared to windows in your hard disk). the errata happens when these microprograms is not handling the operations correctly.

and dont blast me im just giving a very crude example.

so the hotfix is basically a 'microcode update', fixing the problems in the cpu.
i think MS has released microcode updates before for intel cpus.
but usually nothing serious...previously the more serious one was called the FDIV bug, go give it a wiki