30% performance SLOWDOWN for Intel CPUs?!

A design flaw in Intel CPU has been discovered and it may reduce performance. The research so far suggests that your PC's CPU may possibly slow down by up to potentially 30% due to this.

Thoughts? Are you still happy that you chose Intel over AMD?

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theregister.co.uk/2018/01/04/intel_amd_arm_cpu_vulnerability/
catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB4056897
catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB4056898
youtube.com/watch?v=_qZksorJAuY
twitter.com/SFWRedditGifs

We've already discussed this at length. We decided this is more of a reddit concern than anything else.

>may possibly slow down by up to potentially 30% due to this
keyword possibly and up to. I have experienced literally zero difference so far after the update.

The slowdown only affects servers running VMs. It has no affect on general purpose or gaming. Try actually reading, fag.

The update is coming next Tuesday, there are also no vidya benchmarks yet from reputable US sources running the early version of the patch, which means Intel is desperately trying to hide something.

Did you ENABLE the fix?
You need to enable it, not just download it.

Why should I realistically care to begin with?

it affects AMD too

>?!
Reddit detected.

Why do I need to update? This is a serious question

Yes i'm happy to have a CPU that can actually emulate.

>get mad when win 10 comes out because of telemetry
>d-dont be mad at intel guys, they're just creating backdoors into your computer via the processor that barely anyone could possibly steal all your passwords and sensitive data

>intelshills out in the force

just do it bro, 30% performance boost
these AMDlets don't know shit about computersryzen+ can't come soon enough

well the entire fuck up is security related, anybody can just waltz in and have access to everything at the kernel level easily, that's the big deal and why corporations WILL absolutely drop intel until they either fix it without the major performance hit or switch to amd

Put the pitchforks away you fucking faggots. This only affects system that put a heavy load on their kernels. Normal everyday computers users will barely feel a difference
theregister.co.uk/2018/01/04/intel_amd_arm_cpu_vulnerability/

>a reddit concern
What does that even mean?

I rarely update my PC and I have never had a virus.

Would it even really affect me? Like this seems like something used to target corporations for juicy info and not some dude on the internet has an empornium account.

>please don't notice

>on Linux

Probably not directly nah, this will be a definite rough patch for intel to get through. Could be worse I guess

For video gaming, its not much of an issue.

For those gaming on windows vm via Linux, this is going to hurt them. If you're running VM, with the patch it will reduce performance by close to 50% in some cases too.

Also NVMe drives and other kernel level things

Multiple benchmarks from various sites have already confirmed there's no performance hit in gaming, video/photo editing, live streaming and other gaming workloads, so you're fine

Redditors breathe too, you better stop doing that

It is now possible for software to exploit holes in the Intel CPU architecture to read kernel memory.
Kernel memory is the area that safes all critical information like log in details, passwords, certain security caches.
This is a MAJOR fuckup (not only because most intel CPUs since 1995 are affected). Its been titled "Meltdown" for a reason.

>Its now possible to access a host machines kernel memory from a fucking guest machines VM.

Thats like accessing the main vaults of a major bank from an atm in a

As long as nobody gets my Steam password and all my VIDEO GAMES then i'm fine.

have they released a windows pre release patch?all i heard of is initial testing of linux systems

Hacker 1: "We can blackmail major corporations for millions and millions of dollars with this."
Hacker 2: "Or... OR... hear me out.. We could STEAL... some random Anons Steam Account that has like 60 games on it."

I think you can get a beta version. Official patch is always gonna drop on patch tuesday

why not both?

Knowing dudes on Sup Forums they will be likely do what Hacker 2 says. Or maybe they just do both?

>A design flaw in Intel CPU has been discovered and it may reduce performance.

I thought the fix for the design flaw is what reduces performance.

Windows 10 has already pushed out an automatic update.
Windows 7 and 8.1 will automatically update on Tuesday, but you can manually install the security updates now.

Windows 7:
catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB4056897

Windows 8.1:
catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB4056898

Dude I dunno shit I just saw Reddit freaking the fuck out about this and some claiming it's gonna kill PC gaming so I decided to make a thread here and see what people thought.

it's Intel marketing trying to capitalize on what they view as a blind hatred of reddit on our end; making a blind association between the bug and reddit as a desperate plea to get us to buy a lazy "nothing to see here".

Well its unlikely hackers will target single people, unless they hold a grudge against someone. They could however attack the valve servers and then bulk sell the data if they use intel architectures. So you can't really do anything to prevent your password from being stolen.

Yeah because I'm sure Intel employees don't have anything better to do right now than shitpost about Reddit on Sup Forums

But what about STEAM GUARD and an AUTHENTICATOR? I just want to know if my video games will be safe.

Typical, uniformed mass hysteria commonly seen on. _Sup Forums_ Give it a day or two until there is more information on it. Its not like billions of computers will be hacked to pieces in a single night.

It will mean fuck all since the data will be stolen directly from Valve servers. No matter how elaborate your password is, if it gets taken on their end, anyone can get in using the info they have obtained, unless the hole is plugged immediately and unless you change the password right as soon as it happens.

>don't update
>don't go to bad websites because I'm not retarded
>don't download weird shit because I'm not retarded
>don't disable noscript because I'm not retarded
>nothing happens, nothing changes, life goes on

Haha.

Except you're posting on Sup Forums which contradicts at least three of those statements

What the fuck, guys. Web sites don't store your passwords in plaintext. At best, the hackers find a bunch of hashes.

youtube.com/watch?v=_qZksorJAuY

It's

Fucking

Nothing

Are you trying to tell me that the .png of the chink eating a bagel actually contains a self-launching screamer virus? Fuck off, retard.

Do we look like we know how a "web sight" works? We just wanna get outraged about things we don't understand.

No, I'm saying that posting on this site contradicts at least three statements.

I doesn't affect gaming.

YES

You can't seriously think Intel cares about what Sup Forums thinks.

Only for Pre-Sandy Bridge CPUs.

The whole problem is mostly dangerous for datacenters and servers, if you don't run one then you have nothing to worry about since it wont affect you, even if you patch your computer.
The thread is just FUD posting.

The site recently added ads that temporarily got past ublock/umatrix. Sup Forums can't be trusted.

Just buy the latest intel CPU if you care about performance so much.

30% isn't anything and it's time for an upgrade anyways.

Which is blocked by uBlock Origin stock filter since day one.
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Reminder to upgrade your filter lists every now and then.

That is true, but that is not where the exploit takes root. It allows you to dump the kernel of a cpu in realtime. Which means they can read your input way before valve servers hash it. They just dump the cache and get the passwords of hundreds of users that are currently logging in.
pic related

The 30% performance hit is only for Nehalem and older.
Sandy and newer are only 1-4%, which you wont see in games.

>slowpoke.jpg

>30% isn't anything

Absolute brainlet detected.

>AMD is winning now
Wew

no, all of the CPUs suffer from up to 80% (at least on Linux, no idea on Windows) slowdown, problem is that slowdown only appears when you have loads of syscalls.
If you don't do that then affect is negligible.

>We've
>We
Hello plebbit.

>he fell for the soul hackers meme

That game is fucking shit user-kun

>password is e10s3b48
>first type it with a hidden "faggot" in there
>e1f0sa3bgg4o8t
>selectively delete the f, a, g, o, and t
>enter

Can't keylog me if I use my mouse to select things

Go back to your personer fucking pleb

>design flaw
You arent dumb, are you? Thats a designed backdoor that got leaked

You know, if they really wanted they just could of logged the password field and what ever you do will be logged no matter how much you play with your dick

AMD and ARM have the same issue and are hit with the same performance hit you mongrel

The windows updates are out already, the microcode updates come out next week. The operating system updates are what slow performance, not the microcode updates.

Also, AMD is only immune to variant 2 of spectre, it is still vulnerable to the other two exploits.

They log the deletes and mouse usage too, retard.