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You're joking right? Have you actually taken the time to compare the scaling between results for Ryzen 4c/8t and Intel 4c/8t in both versions of CPU-Z and other relevant metrics?

I think it may have been partly due to their 'neural net prediction', but that's entirely a theory of my own and not based on any factual evidence.

I wonder just how many they've managed to get dropped already. I mean surely there had to be at least a dozen already. Microsoft sold a product that the end user could continue to use as they upgraded their PC until the end of it's life and they changed the terms. They basically took half the product away so they could force users into a single version with capabilities that should not exist as mandatory or even as default on in any device. It's been wrong in phones for a decade now and it's still wrong in desktops.

Not really - they were accurate for the workload, but the workload may have been flawed and not real world indicative.

Interesting, I didn't see a GUI version when I checked mine. I had to look in my registry. At least they're not vulnerable over the network when AMT is disabled (though still vulnerable locally as it could be turned on)

You will likely have to lower your settings. You have only 4gb of VRAM on that mid range card and even the 1080TI is taken to it's knees by ME.A in 4k results. ME.A is pretty resource intensive on the highest settings.

CPU-Z has changed the code behind it's bench marking and scoring. The new scores reflect lower for all CPUs. The scores from version 1.79 cannot be compared to older versions as a result. The change in the benchmark code also appears the have a larger negative impact on Ryzen because Ryzen was significantly faster at processing a specific segment of the code in the benchmark than any previous architecture. CPUID says that they could not find any other benchmark or real world performance indicators that reflected this discrepancy exclusive to Ryzen and that their new code more accurately represents real world performance. http://www.cpuid.com/news/51-cpu-z-1-79-new-benchmark-new-scores.html Personally, as long as the new benchmark version stands more in line with other benchmarks, productivity and gaming thread to thread than the previous version, I support the change. I also think this could make an interesting topic to investigate in a quick video for LTT or possibly a tech quickie.

I cannot confirm that the software support for it ships with the Optiplex 790, but I did the system check on mine with a blank media windows 7 install and it definitely did detect the firmware and the revision of it. It does list as isamtenabledinbios as 00 so it's probably disabled tho I may have done that myself, I don't remember. Even though it is a clean install of Windows, it still reports in the AMT detection tool results in the registry that it's a Dell Optiplex 790.

The mobile 970 by about 10-20%. The 970M is the mobile 9 series chip that starts to beat the 1050. The 960M does not and the 940M is not game-able.

It does appear that fewer consumer chips include it than they did in the sandy bridge days. Only one I was able to find was the 7700 from the current generation.

People have been upset the entire time - even before any flaws were discovered. It's something that has no business being in consumer level hardware in the first place, only corporate hardware.

You know since it does have the ability to intercept display it could potentially subvert some DRMs. I am unsure about audio.

I suppose I should change the title to Intel acknowledges security flaw, because the point is they have issued an official advisory and are working on fixing it.

The Intel Management Engine (ME) has a security flaw; a remotely exploitable security hole. Even if the remote management features are disabled, the machine flaw can still be exploited locally. This flaw has been known for years, but nothing has been done about it until recently. It is possible that this flaw is being used out in the wild. The issue exists because the Intel Management Engine (ME) controls network ports and has direct memory access. The ME has the ability to write to and read from any memory in the system. Including encrypted disks once they have been unlocked. The ME also has the ability to read and write to the display as well as send data out over the network. These activities can be done without leaving any log traces behind. The features of the Intel Management Engine are strongly helpful to IT departments in corporate environments but are of little to no use to average consumers, yet the features appear in part or in whole in almost every Intel product. Intel is working on patches, but for OEM systems it will be up to the OEM suppliers to provide them. Some smaller OEMs may not be able to offer the patches, while others may only offer patches for products within their warranty period. Due to the wide time frame of products with the flaw, a situation similar to the latter could leave a large amount of vulnerable systems as up to half or more of the products affected would be out of the warranty period. https://semiaccurate.com/2017/05/01/remote-security-exploit-2008-intel-platforms/ Read intels advisory here: https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00075&languageid=en-fr EDIT - it appears this flaw only exists in the components of the Management Engine used in vPro enabled CPUs. It may also require a compatible chipset and network interface. Here is a list vPro CPUs. You will notice some consumer products are indeed in the list such as Sandy Bridge. http://ark.intel.com/Search/FeatureFilter?productType=processors&VProTechnology=true More reading: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-amt-vulnerability-me-dangerous,34300.html

Capacity https://pcpartpicker.com/product/X998TW/pny-internal-hard-drive-ssd7cs1111480rb Balanced https://pcpartpicker.com/product/3kL7YJ/samsung-internal-hard-drive-mz75e250bam Pure speed https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147593 These are my opinions anyway.

AdamLZ videos with the Japanese drift are interesting. 2 week vacation at a set of tracks. https://www.youtube.com/user/LZBMX/videos

PSU is poo. Pick any PSU in the first three tiers of this list. My go to is EVGA GQ.

It's possible her workload would benefit from the 6gb 1060.

Stepping up to the R7 would really push her budget hard.

If you have zero intention of overclocking, I'd splash the extra on the 1600x, but the 1600 should fairly easily reach 1600x levels of performance. Pretty much all Ryzen seem to be perfectly fine at 3.8 to 4ghz.

I've seen two different brands of ram work together in dual channel, actually I'm using that computer right now. I highly doubt you will have issue running two identical kits of dual channel in quad.

I agree with both those comments. Do not go i5 for production work. Here's something I spec'd out for myself that may prove interesting to you. Although you may need cuda acceleration so swap the 580 for an nvidia card. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/CWtbf8 Actually here. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/YXMtBP Add your own monitors and peripherals.

PCIE m.2 in a riser card is possible. Depending on the motherboard and cpu it may work as additional storage or as a bootable option or not at all. As far as raid, unsure, check with motherboard manufacturer regarding add-in-card raid. Heck, compatibility can be checked with most mobo manufacturers as well.

It sounds like you already have an adapter at some point in the chain because you said your wall outlets are 2 prong.

I can not say for sure about your adapter, but given the rating you should be fine in that department. In theory it should support up to 2500 watts. As I mentioned before though, the third prong that is missing on your wall socket is the grounding plug and for surge protection you most likely need that grounding plug connected. I'm guessing you live in a rather old building to not have 3 prong wall sockets. http://www.rapidtables.com/convert/electric/10-amp-to-watt.htm