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It would happen after I chose an Intel processor this time around.
It seems that AMD Ryzen has a potential vulnerability to Spectre variant 1 but not variant 2 nor to Meltdown. The OS patching for all potential vulnerabilities will likely be applied to all chips, whatever the manufacturer. First major clusterfuck of 2018 but not the last?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/04/intel_amd_arm_cpu_vulnerability/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/04/intel_amd_arm_cpu_vulnerability/
Every CPU has bugs and flaws of course, it goes all the way back to the first computer, nothing is perfect.. but to be sure I'm hauling my Cyrix PR200+ down from the attick..
I wonder what modern games some of those old cpus could run if paired up with a really beefy gpu
Intel tries to spin it so they don't look so foolish:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/04/intels_spin_the_registers_annotations/
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/04/intels_spin_the_registers_annotations/
Not many, a Pentium 4 for example won't have the modern PCIE speeds, even on socket 775, memory speed will be limited, having one or at max two slow cores without all the optimalisations modern CPU's have you'd still have a slow machine despite a modern card, the card will be bottlenecked by everything else in the computer.
Looks like yer in luck, AMD is only vulnareble for CVE-2017-5753 (Spectre variant 1) if eBPF JIT is activated, by default it is switched off.
So far so good, my current desktop machines has a AM1 Athlon 5350 which is not fast by any standards so I am glad it won't be hindered by patches and other stuff.
Not according to what I've read - for example, it is potentially exploitable by Java Script code, albeit with difficulty in most modern browsers that run multiple threads.
https://spectreattack.com
ETA: Looks like untweaked Linux (BPF JIT disabled) running on AMD should be relatively safe provided there are no useful exploits from being able to access the address space of the same process:
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html?m=1
Not sure about Windows though...
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I remember buying the Athlon XP 2800 because it was 1/3rd the price of the Pentium 4 at the time, and the Athlon just blew me away with how powerful it was. I became an AMD guy from that point forward, except for recently, where I found a great deal on an i3. I'm hoping my system is unaffected, because this has been a great little processor.Oh well, I've got a Pentium 4 machine stashed away and some nice old Athlons..
Nope, anything with an "i" in its name will be vulnareble.. which also includes my laptop.. 
I have a retro machine, it actually has a Barton core 2800+ Athlon chip, pretty nice machine, it runs Win2K
as for the Pentium 4, an old relic, a Medion PC with mainly good quality MSI stuff inside, its a 2.66Ghz Pentium 4, Northwood, also running Win2K.
I have a retro machine, it actually has a Barton core 2800+ Athlon chip, pretty nice machine, it runs Win2K
as for the Pentium 4, an old relic, a Medion PC with mainly good quality MSI stuff inside, its a 2.66Ghz Pentium 4, Northwood, also running Win2K.
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Well, there's no question my next system will be AMD once again. That's what I get for experimenting!Nope, anything with an "i" in its name will be vulnareble.. which also includes my laptop..
I have a retro machine, it actually has a Barton core 2800+ Athlon chip, pretty nice machine, it runs Win2K
Ah.... OK Question answered.
Windows is going good still after the last Creator's update but there is one minor niggle I haven't been able to resolve. I am still having an issue with optical disks
I did a clean install too and still can't resolve this issue I'm having with optical disks. Sound is perfect but sometimes the video will play then kind of stop and continue playing as if it's being put on a swap file or something.
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Just found a 2.8Ghz Pentium 4 on the attic, it is fitted to a mainboard and I think these are the remains of an old server we ran, not very long because the P4 guzzled electricity at an alarming rate.. since then it has been lying in pieces on the attic.. will need to find out what kind of chip it is, it is Socket 487 in any case..
AMD have just announced price cuts so if you're interest
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12238/amd-updates-ryzen-sku-pricing-to-counter-intel
and their roadmap with the new APU models coming through.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/1223...ealed-with-ryzen-apus-zen-on-12nm-vega-on-7nm
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Thanks! Though any upgrading is more than a year in the offing, because this one took so long to get where I like it. What really sucks is I was going to upgrade it to an i5 or i7 in the next year or two, because everything on the motherboard is geared for Intel chips. I may still do it, because the patch has been, um, patched, and I only noticed a teensy decrease in the benchmarks. This motherboard can handle up to a 4th generation i7.
Bit behind the curve as they a now at 8th Gen.
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I don't have on the curve, or ahead of the curve money. I have to wait until the technology has been around long enough for prices to drop, often a steep drop. I also upgrade based on need. Right now, the i3 is handling the job just fine, but I know that power and processor requirements are ever changing, and so I try to keep pace as best as I can. I can buy a 4th gen i7 (and it has to be 4th gen or it won't be compatible with this system) for $200. That means I can save for a year or so, and then upgrade. Then my system will be safe from obsolescence for a good long while.
Lap top reacted poorly to a critical update on Windows 7 last night. It will not connect to the router. Using system restore to take me back to Christmas day.
Hopefully this means I get more presents.
My Lap top is a brick.
Hopefully this means I get more presents.
My Lap top is a brick.
