Updates and patches have become big parts of our daily digital life these days and last few days both AMD and Microsoft have dropped some big ones; although, with very different results.
First up is AMD and its promised fix which we reported about in our in-depth coverage of Ryzen 3000 processors' boost-clock controversy. If you haven't yet read it then please do so for some much needed context and insight on the matter. Here is a TLDR version:.
With the recent debates over boost-frequency of Ryzen 3000 series desktop processors, AMD promised an impending update that would fixate any oddities in boost behavior that bars the processor cores to hit the max-boost ceiling. The chip-maker claimed in a blog post that it has identified a bug which is responsible for sub-optimal performance of its boosting algorithm under certain workloads.
So, does the fix works? For the most part, yes it does. Some review-sites have already got their hands on the updated firmwire containing the fix and put their Ryzen CPUs through tests. Techpowerup's Ryzen 9 3900X clocked higher on the new BIOS with AGESA 1.0.0.3ABBA and even boosted beyond its 4.6GHz rateing which wasn't possible with the old BIOS.
Tom's hardware also has observed a similar increment of boost-frequency in their testing at the cost of a slight bump in power consumption. The resulting performance increment however isn't very significant which is hardly surprising considering it's only a ~50-100MHz boost we're talking about.
While the extra boost isn't bad to have, it doesn't do much to change our view of Ryzen 3000 CPUs, except perhaps bring closure to this whole clock-speed saga.
Things are not that rosy for Microsoft on the other hand and when it comes to its latest KB4515384 cumulative updates, some of the outcomes are downright thorny.
Things started with many users complaining about post-update broken audio with missing audio channels, lower volume output and inferior sound quality being among the symptoms. Gamers with multichannel audio set-up suffered the most, specially in some very popular tittles like PUBG, WOW and Overwatch. Mind you, this is not the first time users questioned Microsoft's lackluster approach of handling audio in Windows 10.
According to Microsoft, the situation is due to some alterations in the audio codes of the latest patch which the company intends to revoke soon. Meanwhile there seems to exist a few workarounds which you can find here and here, if you find yourself among the affected.
But things have deteriorated since and reports of missing Ethernet and WiFi adaptors, non-responsive search function, broken Action Center have been added to a seemingly unending list of problems that users are facing right now.
Worse is the fact that the update KB4515384 was supposed to be fix itself for a previously reported issue of high CPU usage. At the moment, it seems, Microsoft's fixes need more troubleshooting than the problems! And that's not
First up is AMD and its promised fix which we reported about in our in-depth coverage of Ryzen 3000 processors' boost-clock controversy. If you haven't yet read it then please do so for some much needed context and insight on the matter. Here is a TLDR version:.
With the recent debates over boost-frequency of Ryzen 3000 series desktop processors, AMD promised an impending update that would fixate any oddities in boost behavior that bars the processor cores to hit the max-boost ceiling. The chip-maker claimed in a blog post that it has identified a bug which is responsible for sub-optimal performance of its boosting algorithm under certain workloads.
So, does the fix works? For the most part, yes it does. Some review-sites have already got their hands on the updated firmwire containing the fix and put their Ryzen CPUs through tests. Techpowerup's Ryzen 9 3900X clocked higher on the new BIOS with AGESA 1.0.0.3ABBA and even boosted beyond its 4.6GHz rateing which wasn't possible with the old BIOS.
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Tom's hardware also has observed a similar increment of boost-frequency in their testing at the cost of a slight bump in power consumption. The resulting performance increment however isn't very significant which is hardly surprising considering it's only a ~50-100MHz boost we're talking about.
While the extra boost isn't bad to have, it doesn't do much to change our view of Ryzen 3000 CPUs, except perhaps bring closure to this whole clock-speed saga.
Things are not that rosy for Microsoft on the other hand and when it comes to its latest KB4515384 cumulative updates, some of the outcomes are downright thorny.
Things started with many users complaining about post-update broken audio with missing audio channels, lower volume output and inferior sound quality being among the symptoms. Gamers with multichannel audio set-up suffered the most, specially in some very popular tittles like PUBG, WOW and Overwatch. Mind you, this is not the first time users questioned Microsoft's lackluster approach of handling audio in Windows 10.
According to Microsoft, the situation is due to some alterations in the audio codes of the latest patch which the company intends to revoke soon. Meanwhile there seems to exist a few workarounds which you can find here and here, if you find yourself among the affected.
But things have deteriorated since and reports of missing Ethernet and WiFi adaptors, non-responsive search function, broken Action Center have been added to a seemingly unending list of problems that users are facing right now.
Worse is the fact that the update KB4515384 was supposed to be fix itself for a previously reported issue of high CPU usage. At the moment, it seems, Microsoft's fixes need more troubleshooting than the problems! And that's not
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