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Legit benchmarks are up! Check them out ;) Doesn't look too bad, though we're yet to see how the patch affects serious server environments.

Intel CPUs are a security mess right now, with more holes than a Swiss cheese... And people wondered why AMD released Ryzen Pro CPUs (mainly for OEMs) ;)

  1. PCGuy_5960
  2. Morgan MLGman

    Morgan MLGman

    First! :D What a coincidence, haha

  3. AresKrieger

    AresKrieger

    Yeah I wish certain people on the forum listened to me when I tried to tell them it was unaffected, but they didn't at least now my stance in vindicated

  4. Morgan MLGman

    Morgan MLGman

    The worst part is, those security vulnerabilities have been in CPUs literally for YEARS, I'm sure there's more of them - some are easily fixable and some are not...

    This also goes for AMD, I'm sure there are security "holes" in their CPUs as well, we just don't know about them yet. Although, judging by the history, size and R&D of Intel as a company, it amazes me that there are as many issues with their CPUs, just recently the ME vulnerability, and now this... Luckily, my new motherboard has a patch for the ME issue, unlike my previous one.

     

    As a side-note, my new motherboard is pretty damn awesome! :D

  5. AresKrieger

    AresKrieger

    Oh most certainly, and though AMD was less affected by this one it is almost certain there is another issue elsewhere its simply a question of when it will be discovered and how severe is the issue.

     

    And neither of them will fully be able to fully fix spectre as that would require thousands of programs to rewrite their code.

  6. Princess Luna

    Princess Luna

    Now we can all rest in peace until the next discovery...

  7. PCGuy_5960
  8. Morgan MLGman

    Morgan MLGman

    @PCGuy_5960 Yeah, to Spectre which AFAIK is easier to fix, but Meltdown is exclusive to Intel CPUs and this one is supposed to be more troublesome to engineers from what I read so far on the issue :P

  9. AresKrieger

    AresKrieger

    @Morgan MLGman Umm from my understanding Meltdown is more directly hazardous but easier to fix, Spectre is less so but very difficult to fix since it requires patches to how programs function and would require changes to how OSs handle programs in general or for programs to be individually fixed

     

    This may have changed with new info, but that was what I was seeing.

  10. AresKrieger

    AresKrieger

    The fact spectre doesn't have a patch currently leads me to stick with my knowledge I have for now

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