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The BIOS itself comes with microcode. You upgrade your BIOS for whatever reason and it comes with new microcode applied on boot, which you can't disable. Sure,
by marcan_42 5y ago
The BIOS itself comes with microcode. You upgrade your BIOS for whatever reason and it comes with new microcode applied on boot, which you can't disable. Sure, if you don't upgrade your BIOS you can keep using the old microcode. But you might have to to fix bugs or improve performance.