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Intel’s fix for unstable CPUs is here, in beta, and if you’re worried it’ll slow down your PC, it doesn’t appear to be.

Intel’s long-awaited microcode update, which should fix (or at least serve as a preventative measure) instability issues with its 13th and 14th generation CPUs, is about to arrive, and Team Blue has assured us that the update won’t bring any nasty side effects in terms of performance.

The patch is now indeed available in beta BIOS builds, notably from Asus, which as Phoronix.com reports has rolled out these beta builds to a wide range of motherboards, and the tech site ran some performance tests (under Linux). So how does that match up to Intel’s own benchmarking? Let’s dive in and find out…

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