Origin Saint
Well-Known Member
Woke up today to one of my good friends who just bought a i5-8600k expressing a bit of...concern. There's been a ton of articles going around about a flaw in Intel's kernel memory paging system allowing for entry into the stored data, and as a result (since a simple micropatch can't fix it), it's going to take a "Up to 30% reduction in performance as a result to fix the issue".
PCGamer here seems to believe the issue will not affect gaming, ala some research and testing done by Openbenchmark.org on Linux which is currently the only OS with any patches for this in places other than Windows beta clients I believe.
Thoughts?
Here's some article dumping for easy access:
http://www.pcgamer.com/serious-inte...-but-probably-wont-affect-gaming-performance/
https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/7nptsc/intel_cpus_to_receive_a_530_performance_hit_soon/
https://www.techspot.com/news/72550-massive-security-flaw-found-almost-all-intel-cpus.html
https://hothardware.com/news/intel-cpu-bug-kernel-memory-isolation-linux-windows-macos
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/
PCGamer here seems to believe the issue will not affect gaming, ala some research and testing done by Openbenchmark.org on Linux which is currently the only OS with any patches for this in places other than Windows beta clients I believe.
Thoughts?
Here's some article dumping for easy access:
http://www.pcgamer.com/serious-inte...-but-probably-wont-affect-gaming-performance/
https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/7nptsc/intel_cpus_to_receive_a_530_performance_hit_soon/
https://www.techspot.com/news/72550-massive-security-flaw-found-almost-all-intel-cpus.html
https://hothardware.com/news/intel-cpu-bug-kernel-memory-isolation-linux-windows-macos
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/