Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability

Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by mosselman on Monday January 29, 2018 @08:04AM (#16257230)

So what can I do for my next self-built pc? Get some AMD equipment, or is that not enough?

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Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by hishnash on Monday January 29, 2018 @08:22AM (#16257307)

AMD have released patches (to reduce the near-zero risk of exploit to 0 risk) and they are not having any instability issues! so yes go with AMD

for server, Epyic is now finally available to purchase for desktop workstation Threadripper for desktop RyZen

for mobile... not many newer cpus out yet.. need to wait :(

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Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by avtar on Monday January 29, 2018 @12:24PM (#16258951)

I'm eyeing Threadripper for my next build but beyond that I'm going to choose a motherboard vendor based on the level of support they offer in this scenario. Some observations that I'm making:

* How promptly did they address the issue via official channels, i.e. did they leave users in the dark as they appealed to vendors in their forums (hint: most of them seem to have gone down this route) or did they share updates directly on their official sites, social media accounts, etc.

* Did they provide some estimates as to when users could expect patches?

* How much of their product catalogue were they willing to cover with security updates? Since this is a unique security issue with high impact I would have expected them to cover motherboards at least 4-5 years old.

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Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by ShroudedNight on Monday January 29, 2018 @08:25PM (#16262179)

For those in the market for an X399/TR4 motherboard, have you come to any conclusions?

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Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by avtar on Monday January 29, 2018 @08:48PM (#16262268)

MSI seems [1] to be fairly proactive right now with patches going back to several X99 motherboards. Asus for example has so far only committed to provide updates for two X99 motherboards.

[1] https://www.msi.com/news/detail/7yJ7XCklfBXt8mFhG8nkfSurJUz3...

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Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by ihsw2 on Monday January 29, 2018 @08:23AM (#16257312)

AMD equipment should be fine, current-gen Ryzen/Threadripper is more than adept at workstation tasks and next-gen Ryzen (named Ryzen 2 and Threadripper 2) will edge out any advantage that Intel's CPUs have.

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Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by ageofwant on Monday January 29, 2018 @08:39AM (#16257387)

I'll be getting a few high-end Intel CPU's that will soon flood the market on the cheap for home machines running arch.

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Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by chrisper on Monday January 29, 2018 @09:26AM (#16257637)

Depends on what you are building it for.

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Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by mosselman on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @03:15AM (#16263710)

I have my macbook for work and programming, my PC has windows on it (much to my dislike) and I use it for occasional gaming. I will probably not get new parts anytime soon though as performance is currently fine. Just wondering for when someone asks me to build them a PC.

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Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by chrisper on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @03:51AM (#16263849)

Well, I built my PC with gaming in mind and chose the i7 8700k. But I got it a week before the spectre/meltdown spectacle. I decided to keep it because of its superior singlecore performance.

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