Hello everyone
I have been planning a build for while now, and when I was almost sure about the CPU I would purchase, I was frustrated with the news of the bug in the Skylake i7-6700K. I will be using that build for an up-coming project involving a lot of CFD (computational fluid dynamics), FEA (Finite Element Analsyis) & Engineering Analysis (MATLAB, ...etc), which all require a heavy amount of calculations, and the Skylake suffer from a bug in performing heavy calculations involving Prime numbers, a scenario that is possible to occur when carrying out some heavy CFD & FEA.
Intel issued a fix as I found online. However, I am not quite sure what was fixed exactly, the chipset, chip or firmware. I found some CPUs from a local retailer, which is going to be better in terms of the local warranty, time to received the CPU (pay & pick), and the price, as it is sold locally (middle east) a few dollars cheaper than online, and I will not need pay for the shipping from the USA. However, I highly doubt the retailer is selling any newly produce CPU from Intel, as I suspect that the retailer is selling CPU from a stock that received a while ago (which is a very genuine scenario for small local retailers). I will order the MoBo from the Internet.
Thus, I would like to know if it is going to make any change if I order the CPU from a large retailers, such as Newegg or Amazon, that would probably sell a CPU from the latest bunches produced by Intel, or get an older stock CPU from a local retailer.
If the fix has nothing to do with the CPU, will what I mentioned be applicable to the motherboard. So, if I order a new MoBo that was produced after the fix had already been deployed by Intel, is it more likely that the fix was already implemented by the manufacturer to the MoBos ?!
Thanks in advance
Regards
I have been planning a build for while now, and when I was almost sure about the CPU I would purchase, I was frustrated with the news of the bug in the Skylake i7-6700K. I will be using that build for an up-coming project involving a lot of CFD (computational fluid dynamics), FEA (Finite Element Analsyis) & Engineering Analysis (MATLAB, ...etc), which all require a heavy amount of calculations, and the Skylake suffer from a bug in performing heavy calculations involving Prime numbers, a scenario that is possible to occur when carrying out some heavy CFD & FEA.
Intel issued a fix as I found online. However, I am not quite sure what was fixed exactly, the chipset, chip or firmware. I found some CPUs from a local retailer, which is going to be better in terms of the local warranty, time to received the CPU (pay & pick), and the price, as it is sold locally (middle east) a few dollars cheaper than online, and I will not need pay for the shipping from the USA. However, I highly doubt the retailer is selling any newly produce CPU from Intel, as I suspect that the retailer is selling CPU from a stock that received a while ago (which is a very genuine scenario for small local retailers). I will order the MoBo from the Internet.
Thus, I would like to know if it is going to make any change if I order the CPU from a large retailers, such as Newegg or Amazon, that would probably sell a CPU from the latest bunches produced by Intel, or get an older stock CPU from a local retailer.
If the fix has nothing to do with the CPU, will what I mentioned be applicable to the motherboard. So, if I order a new MoBo that was produced after the fix had already been deployed by Intel, is it more likely that the fix was already implemented by the manufacturer to the MoBos ?!
Thanks in advance
Regards
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