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Intel cpu bug fix will slow intel processors down
A serious design flaw in "all modern" Intel cpu's has been discovered.
It potentially allows access to what should be protected kernel memory. All the vendors are rushing to patch the bug soon, but the fix will slow down the systems by as much as 20% or more. The bug shows up in context switching. Details are still proprietary, but here's useful info. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/0...u_design_flaw/ |
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Intel cpu bug fix will slow intel processors down
Jason wrote:
A serious design flaw in "all modern" Intel cpu's has been discovered. It potentially allows access to what should be protected kernel memory. All the vendors are rushing to patch the bug soon, but the fix will slow down the systems by as much as 20% or more. The bug shows up in context switching. Details are still proprietary, but here's useful info. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/0...u_design_flaw/ In today's (Friday 5th Jan) Telegraph I read something like "MS have already issued updates and more expected shortly." Last night I note) I had a '2018-01 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1703 for x64-based Systems (KB4056891)'. Run winver says I am on version 1703 15063.580. Q1: There's no explicit reference to it so presumably that WU did not include any fix for this major flaw? Q2: Has there been an update for other users that *does*? Q3: Anyone know when we can expect to get confident indications of the performance impact for desktop PC users, of various types. I'm apprehensive that my 18 month old i7 6700K (4.0GHz) will shortly become some 25% slower on this Win 10 Pro PC. Terry, East Grinstead, UK |
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Intel cpu bug fix will slow intel processors down
On 05/01/2018 13:43, Terry Pinnell wrote:
Jason wrote: A serious design flaw in "all modern" Intel cpu's has been discovered. It potentially allows access to what should be protected kernel memory. All the vendors are rushing to patch the bug soon, but the fix will slow down the systems by as much as 20% or more. The bug shows up in context switching. Details are still proprietary, but here's useful info. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/0...u_design_flaw/ In today's (Friday 5th Jan) Telegraph I read something like "MS have already issued updates and more expected shortly." Last night I note) I had a '2018-01 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1703 for x64-based Systems (KB4056891)'. Run winver says I am on version 1703 15063.580. Q1: There's no explicit reference to it so presumably that WU did not include any fix for this major flaw? Q2: Has there been an update for other users that *does*? Q3: Anyone know when we can expect to get confident indications of the performance impact for desktop PC users, of various types. I'm apprehensive that my 18 month old i7 6700K (4.0GHz) will shortly become some 25% slower on this Win 10 Pro PC. Terry, East Grinstead, UK perhaps they want us to buy into new equipment? |
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Intel cpu bug fix will slow intel processors down
On 1/3/2018 5:35 PM, Jason wrote:
A serious design flaw in "all modern" Intel cpu's has been discovered. It potentially allows access to what should be protected kernel memory. All the vendors are rushing to patch the bug soon, but the fix will slow down the systems by as much as 20% or more. The bug shows up in context switching. Details are still proprietary, but here's useful info. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/0...u_design_flaw/ The issue is only a major issue on servers running a lot of processes and virtual machines. On a standard desktop PC, they are talking about a most a 5% performance hit in certain games, that's all. Still kinda bad, but not as bad. Yousuf Khan |
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Intel cpu bug fix will slow intel processors down
On 10/01/2018 23:13, Yousuf Khan wrote:
they are talking about a most a 5% performance hit in certain games, that's all. Still kinda bad, but not as bad. Yousuf Khan Hey Yousuf, Is this bad for you? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/01/10/a-7-year-old-pakistani-girl-was-raped-strangled-and-left-in-a-dumpster/?utm_term=.049bfe46963b We are certainly horrified to read such things in our papers but you must be immune to these things. -- With over 600 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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Intel cpu bug fix will slow intel processors down
On Thu, 11 Jan 2018 04:33:49 +0000, Good Guy
wrote: On 10/01/2018 23:13, Yousuf Khan wrote: they are talking about a most a 5% performance hit in certain games, that's all. Still kinda bad, but not as bad. Yousuf Khan Hey Yousuf, Is this bad for you? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/01/10/a-7-year-old-pakistani-girl-was-raped-strangled-and-left-in-a-dumpster/?utm_term=.049bfe46963b We are certainly horrified to read such things in our papers but you must be immune to these things. Hey Prick (Good Guy) Your sick comment had nothing to do with this thread. so f..k off |
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