https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/7nl8r0/intel_bug_incoming/
 
https://translate.google.com/translate?depth=2&hl=sr&ie=UTF8&nv=1&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=de&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=https://www.computerbase.de/2018-01/intel-cpu-pti-sicherheitsluecke/
 
AMD processors are not affected!
 
This kind of news I hate most. 
 
 
Kernel memory leaking' Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/
 

Performance drop 5-50%.
Imagine if our processors suddenly start to work 30% slower after some Windows Update.
I think that would be revolution. 
From Nehalem to Skylake-X. 
Same as I need to revert Update if I want SBZxR to work.
Can you imagine such mix of Rage and Rabies. 
New Skylake-X i9-7900X same as Ryzen 1800X. Hahahahahaaaaaa but price still same 1000$.
 
 
 
More and more news show up... all of them before few hours.
Looks like fix will drop performance because some hardware bug.
 
https://hothardware.com/news/intel-cpu-bug-kernel-memory-isolation-linux-windows-macos
 
http://www.pcgamer.com/se...ct-gaming-performance/
 
Serious Intel CPU design flaw may require a Windows patch, but probably won't affect gaming performance
 
http://www.pcgamer.com/se...ct-gaming-performance/
 

Wonder if this effects xeons and fully decked out new iMac Pro... $14k....

It’s at multiple sources the performance drop is going to happen. The only speculation is how much performance we are going to lose.

Where the issue resides Intel cannot fix it with a microcode fix. It is going to have to be resolved at the OS level. Soooo we are kind of going to get bent over without any lube. Some of us will be forced to upgrade especially on aging hardware. The result will be people going with AMD.

Well... It’s a good thing gpus do all the heavy lifting nowadays :-)

I wonder if it has any impact on mining rigs...

From other side from AMD arrive completely different news.
AM4 will be used until 2020. That mean at least 3 generation of processors will be compatible with these motherboards.
Maybe even up to 50% upgrade in total. 
Damn lack of OC.
 
Intel's CEO sold his stocks.
It will be tragedy if performance of Intel Skylake-X drop for 20-30%.
People will sue Intel. I don't see other way to finish this.
People want to sue Apple because they only little slower older models.
But if they sold processors with bugs to people this will not finish good for them.
Only 15-20% Performance, even 10% completely change picture of their processor compare to AMD.
Now you need to pay 600$ more for same performance as 1950X. 
 
I'm only not sure is it bug fixable complately, or bug could be fixed only with performance loss as news say.
Cooperation between IT companies is similar to cooperation between services during September 11 2001 and before.
That's tragic what they do and how much they charge. I see use as donkeys, all of us. 
Special beople who hurry to replace Z270 1151 V2 with Z370 1151 V3 and processors are not compatible, even RAM manufactuterers launch different memory modules and motherboards vendors sabotage some of them with BIOS. 
That's not Z270 QVL memory, you need new kit.... Hahahaa

ok so if you use windows 10 and they patch it will any machine amd or intel based both get hit with performance 

The Intelpocalypse?! 
 
I bet the performance decrease isn't as serve as it's being hyped up. I bet this does negligible damage to Intel's market share. I bet for gaming this has no noticeable impact.
 
I sure as hell not going to go AMD. Abu Dhabi not welcome!

Here is the statement from Intel
 
https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-responds-to-security-research-findings/

News from TPU...
 
AMD Struggles to Be Excluded from Unwarranted Intel VT Flaw Kernel Patches
 
https://www.techpowerup.com/240187/amd-struggles-to-be-excluded-from-unwarranted-intel-vt-flaw-kernel-patches
 
At the end MS will cripple everybody in name of peace. Hahaa haaa...
 
 

thatKingKong
ThreadRIPPER time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Yes and goodbuy OC.
I'm not sure how all processors are stable on Turbo if they can't work 200MHz higher clock.
Everything under 4.3-4.5GHz have serious impact on gaming performance no matter on core number. Don't even to talk about less than 4.0GHz.
I don't say that CPU should work on 5.0GHz with 4 cores. But something between, 6-8-10 cores on 4.5GHz is best. 

Quite a few people over at Guru3d.com have already received the patch and claim that there is no performance hit that they can find, using Cinebench and some other benchmarks.  Supposedly the patch mainly effects Virtual machine.  Time will tell...but so far, news is encouraging...
 
Patching info starts on page 8 of the thread
 
https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/kernel-memory-leaking-intel-processor-design-flaw-forces-linux-windows-redesign.418750/page-8

bobmitch
Back in the day with the Pentium bug...I remember Intel replacing all the Pentium CPU's after the bug was found and fixed.  This just may be the straw that breaks the camel's back.  Depends on how Intel decides to handle the situation...

If you're talking about the Floating Point bug in the 2'nd Generation Pentiums (P75, P90, P100) it was a very obscure bug and a lot of us didn't bother going through the hoops to take advantage of Intel's offer to replace the bad CPUs.
 
Microsoft HAS announced it will be patching Windows 7 8 and 8.1 to fix the issue - but the applicable patch won't be "auto-updated" as soon as the Windows 10 version.
That info is in one of the links in one of the articles posted in the original post.
 
 

bobmitch
Someone requested the security patch for other OS...here you go...
 
Win7
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4056897/windows-7-update-kb4056897
Win8
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4056898/windows-81-update-kb4056898

Thank You!

Just tested Firestrike after the update and no changes to anything (GPU or CPU test).  Actually I got a better score than when I ran it on Sunday.