Intel 400-series Chipset Motherboards to Lack PCIe Gen 4.0, Launch Pushed to Q2

gamefoo21 · Jan 30, 2020

Tomorrow said:
Care to elaborate on this? As far as i know once you enable SVM (Secure Virtual Machine) in BIOS you should have virtualization support. Unless you are talking about IOMMU because that's the motherboard makers area.

Pretty sure that AMD had to disable the hardware VT extensions because of bugs with the implementation on the CPU. If you look up specs Zen+ CPUs all lack a check box next to hardware assisted VT. Running software based VT is so slow and clunky. Zen 2 fixed this.

I just checked even the 2990WX lacks hardware VT. It's there but AMDs microcode has it disabled.

Tomorrow · Jan 30, 2020

Ok that's news to me. I don't remember any reviews mentioning this at the time.

gamefoo21 · Jan 30, 2020

Tomorrow said:
Ok that's news to me. I don't remember any reviews mentioning this at the time.

Yeah, I noticed even looking at reviews of the 2990WX there was a lack of them talking about VT in the review.

Zen+ is ironic because it supports ECC ram, but no HW-VT.

Zen 2 flips and generally doesn't support ECC ram, but has working HW-VT.

Super XP · Jan 30, 2020

gamefoo21 said:
Yeah, I noticed even looking at reviews of the 2990WX there was a lack of them talking about VT in the review.

Zen+ is ironic because it supports ECC ram, but no HW-VT.

Zen 2 flips and generally doesn't support ECC ram, but has working HW-VT.

Lol hopefully ZEN 3 marries all these features into one.

gamefoo21 · Jan 30, 2020

Super XP said:
Lol hopefully ZEN 3 marries all these features into one.

A boy can dream can't he?

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