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What are you plans, Intel guys?

Posted on 1/4/18 at 7:43 am
Posted by Gusoline
Jacksonville, NC
Member since Dec 2013
7629 posts
Posted on 1/4/18 at 7:43 am
Will you be switching to AMD immediately?

Is there a way to avoid these updates that will cost you 30% performance?

What " vulnerabilities" are we talking about specifically?

Should your avg Joe even care about it?

What does it mean for us!?!

Been needing to upgrade the old 4th gen anyway. I guess I just need to know if i should get a discount 8th gen( assuming they even drop in price) or switch brands.

Posted by HailToTheChiz
Back in Auburn
Member since Aug 2010
48942 posts
Posted on 1/4/18 at 7:46 am to
Hell I was thinking of switching to Intel until I just read that.

I'll be keeping my AMD
Posted by CorporateTiger
Member since Aug 2014
10700 posts
Posted on 1/4/18 at 8:48 am to
quote:

This is the question being asked after the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities were revealed yesterday, affecting almost every modern computer in existence, in particular those based on Intel, AMD and ARM processors.


Source

Don’t get too comfortable with that AMD processor. Also the most significant hit is expected to be virtual machines, normal desktop performance is less.
This post was edited on 1/4/18 at 8:54 am
Posted by Srbtiger06
Member since Apr 2006
28259 posts
Posted on 1/4/18 at 8:57 am to
I just bought an 8700K (upgrade from 3770K) over the weekend.

I'm keeping it. The benches I've seen don't show much of a decrease for what I do.
Posted by SG_Geaux
Beautiful St George
Member since Aug 2004
77964 posts
Posted on 1/4/18 at 9:33 am to
quote:

What are you plans, Intel guys?



I will continue gaming. MAYBE I will replace my CPU with a newer Intel next year.
Posted by bluebarracuda
Member since Oct 2011
18234 posts
Posted on 1/4/18 at 9:52 am to
My 5960x beats out all AMD CPUs (1800x and below) so I'm sticking with this beast
Posted by LSU Coyote
Member since Sep 2007
53390 posts
Posted on 1/4/18 at 11:14 am to
No.

Its not big of a deal.
Posted by Jonathann3891
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Jul 2012
170 posts
Posted on 1/4/18 at 3:02 pm to
What exactly is happening to cause this?
Posted by DoUrden
UnderDark
Member since Oct 2011
25965 posts
Posted on 1/4/18 at 3:48 pm to
Security breach, the fix they are rolling out appears to reduce the performance up to 30%.
Posted by UltimateHog
Oregon
Member since Dec 2011
65805 posts
Posted on 1/4/18 at 4:57 pm to
I'll see what Ryzen 2 brings and decide from there.
Posted by Drewbie
tFlagship
Member since Jun 2012
57876 posts
Posted on 1/4/18 at 5:06 pm to
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I'll see what Ryzen 2 brings and decide from there.
I'm still using the rig you recommended 6(?) years ago. Only thing I've had to replace was the hard drive.
Posted by LSU Coyote
Member since Sep 2007
53390 posts
Posted on 1/4/18 at 7:20 pm to
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Security breach, the fix they are rolling out appears to reduce the performance up to 30%.

Not across the board.

Some instances see gains in certain kernel calls. It is weird.
Posted by Korin
Member since Jan 2014
37935 posts
Posted on 1/5/18 at 6:05 pm to
Update doesn't affect gaming.
Posted by sgallo3
Dorne
Member since Sep 2008
24747 posts
Posted on 1/6/18 at 2:19 am to
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Update doesn't affect gaming.


i'm AMD but yeah this shite doesnt matter honestly
Posted by UltimateHog
Oregon
Member since Dec 2011
65805 posts
Posted on 1/6/18 at 2:24 am to
Yeah, my 8700K went from 1568 Geekbench before, to 1499 after the Windows and bios update. Not bad.

Basically a 4.5% compute performance loss. Still lame though.
This post was edited on 1/6/18 at 2:26 am
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