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[/.]Microsoft advice against Nehalem Xeons snuffed out

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"In an article outlining hidden strife in the processor world, Andreas Stiller has reported the scoop that Microsoft advised against the use of Intel Nehalem Xeon (Core i7/i5) processors under Windows Server 2008 R2, but was pressured by Intel to refrain from publishing this advisory. The issue concerns a bug causing spurious interrupts that locks up the Hypervisor of Server 2008. Though there is a hotfix, it is unattractive as it disables power savings and turbo boost states. (The original German-language version of the article is also available.)"
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Originally Posted by hajile View Post
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ha ha ha ha...so Intel doesn't want the world to know this...hilarious
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god i hate intel. i7's are great but the conduct of the company is atrocious. and don't give me that BS shareholder/profits excuse. every exec uses shareholder interests as a scapegoat to do anything (however disgraceful) to earn more money.

because they hey, they justify themselves a payrise.
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Another FDIV bug anyone?

I guess you really can't blame them. Millions of dollars in R&D already put out, far too late to do a whole product recall, the best they can hope for is to cover it up. I imagine any company would do this if they had the money and power.
Has this errata been fixed with the newer i3/i5/i9? Or is this unfixable (hardware-wise)?
LOL @ everyone flaming intel. Its what every single corporation in the world would do. Welcome to capitalism.
Has any one at all read the article? It sounds like it is easy enough to blame Microsoft on it.
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god i hate intel. i7's are great but the conduct of the company is atrocious. and don't give me that BS shareholder/profits excuse. every exec uses shareholder interests as a scapegoat to do anything (however disgraceful) to earn more money.

because they hey, they justify themselves a payrise.

Intel's current products is the byproduct of their atrocities.
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Originally Posted by 003
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Can't a BIOS fix be issued?

CPU's don't have BIOS's.
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Originally Posted by TFL Replica
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Our atrocities are not like your atrocities.

ROFL
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Originally Posted by JKBenchmarks
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CPU's don't have BIOS's.

No, but the motherboard which the CPU is plugged into does. They could have a fix that makes the board operate in such a way that the bug is corrected or bypassed. That has been done plenty of times in the past, most notably with AMD's TLB bug on the original Phenom.

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Intel's current products is the byproduct of their atrocities.

Is that so? Well in that case, let them commit more atrocities because their CPUs rock!
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Originally Posted by 003 View Post
Is that so? Well in that case, let them commit more atrocities because their CPUs rock!
except on Windows Server 2008 R2. Read the thread gosh.
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Originally Posted by 003
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Is that so? Well in that case, let them commit more atrocities because their CPUs rock!

You think like a genuine nVidia company, strong arm your rival, then charge high prices for your own products.

003 enjoys paying more for less!
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