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I was looking at that, but the 16 core Ryzen Threadripper 2950X has a higher clock speed and actually gets a better Passmark rating.
Ryzen Threadripper sales just went through the roof. If they would only address the spectre nonsense. I was ready to build new system and then spectre hit.
AlleyTrotter
my attachment makes me think I got it right?
Last edited by AlleyTrotter; 05-25-2020 at 07:22 AM.
If they would only address the spectre nonsense. I was ready to build new system and then spectre hit.
Maybe I'm out of the loop, but what haven't they addressed? According to their security page, it seems everything that is affected has some way of mitigating it.
Or were you thinking more of releasing CPUs that aren't affected by Spectre? If that's the case, it requires time for them to redesign the architecture to prevent it. AMD has reported that Zen 2 will do this, but that isn't estimated to be released until 2019. I don't know if Intel has announced when they'll have hardware mitigation in their processors.
Maybe I'm out of the loop, but what haven't they addressed? According to their security page, it seems everything that is affected has some way of mitigating it.
Or were you thinking more of releasing CPUs that aren't affected by Spectre? If that's the case, it requires time for them to redesign the architecture to prevent it. AMD has reported that Zen 2 will do this, but that isn't estimated to be released until 2019. I don't know if Intel has announced when they'll have hardware mitigation in their processors.
Waiting for the patching to be in the hardware. I am not confident in following multiple threads / websites to be sure I'm patched.
Sorry but I won't buy known faulty hardware.
perhaps you could provide a step by step for i5-3570K, because the best i am seeing with 4.18.9 and latest 14.2 updates is
Code:
dmesg | grep -i microcode
[ 0.000000] microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0x20, date = 2018-04-10
[ 3.938976] microcode: sig=0x306a9, pf=0x2, revision=0x20
[ 3.939659] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.2.
thanks for the reply
guess I will wait for next year.
john
Last edited by AlleyTrotter; 05-25-2020 at 07:22 AM.
Waiting for the patching to be in the hardware. I am not confident in following multiple threads / websites to be sure I'm patched.
Sorry but I won't buy known faulty hardware.
No manufacturer has addressed these issues in hardware yet. The only thing I'm aware of that is on the horizon is Zen 2, which is estimated to be a 2019 release... I haven't read any estimates on when Intel will have this addressed in hardware.
But it also seems that Intel has been hit a *lot* harder than AMD with this (especially being the only one susceptible to Meltdown and more variants of Spectre than AMD).
How to handle this with future hardware purchases is difficult, but with the way things have been handled so far, I'm not disappointed with purchasing my Ryzen 7 CPU...
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Originally Posted by AlleyTrotter
perhaps you could provide a step by step for i5-3570K
I haven't kept up with mitigation, especially with Intel, as most of my computers run AMD. I do know that Intel processors require some hoops to jump through to update their microcode, usually (or only?) adding it to an initrd, whereas AMD is able to push new updates through kernel firmware. The best I can recommend is make sure you're using the latest intel-mircocode package available on SBo and hopefully Intel keeps your CPU updated against the latest attacks.
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