I'm highly disappointed and angry at the same time with the new BIOS versions. I'm experiencing massive(!) instabilities in every aspect when making any changes of the "new" standard settings (Intel Extreme Profile) in the BIOS and a huge loss of pow...

Err... I'm not defending Intel or ASUS. That was never my intention. I think you misinterpreted some of my statements, did you?I fully agree with you saying that these microcode patches are needed because the hardware is faulty. No doubts about that....

Best chance of a CPU not degrading. While although it's true that 0x129 with appropriate tuning may be safe, we really don't know all the changes introduced in 0x12B. Who knows what issues the "address elevated voltage requests during idle or light a...

Microcode 0x12B is addressing the root cause of the faster aging (degradation) of the known vulnerable oscillators of the CPU cores. Actually, it's up to you if you wanna risk this negative behavior.

Reverting to an older BIOS is no option for me. I stay at 1703 and use ThrottleStop because it's working really great. It's the only alternative I know for now that makes most sense to me.ADDENDUM:And remember, the protection measures against the deg...