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Gamers dont care about obscure vulnerabilities on their gaming rigs. So I think this is some sort of misguided hit piece against intel. Everyone knows pcs are
by simonsays2 7y ago
Gamers dont care about obscure vulnerabilities on their gaming rigs.
So I think this is some sort of misguided hit piece against intel.
Everyone knows pcs are riddled with security flaws less obscure than this. People who run their business on cloud servers might care. Gamers though? No.
- mfatica 7y agoThey should care, considering some of these vulnerabilities are exploitable just by JavaScript, meaning merely visiting a bad website could leak sensitive information
- simonsays2 7y agoLol. You are out of your league here fearmonger. Gamers are are the 5 dollar whores of the security world, they are riddled with bugs and the dont give a crap.
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- bartimus 7y agoDid not know this. Thanks. https://react-etc.net/entry/javascript-spectre-meltdown-vulnerability-check-for-browsers https://react-etc.net/entry/javascript-spectre-meltdown-vuln...
- ryacko 7y agoThis however does remove the benefits of ASLR. The only two mitigations is either disabling hyper-threading or disabling JIT.
- simion314 7y agoI bought a non K CPU (without hyper threading) , If I would have bought the K version and later Intel announces "disable the hyperthreads to be 100% safe" I would not be happy, even if I am 99.99% safe with HT on, (I personally did not enable or disable any security thing, I run the Ubuntu defaults). IMO Intel customers should not be indifferent, what you thought you bought was not what you got latter, you lost performance and you have to do advanced stuff to disable the security patches and be unsafe Edit: My bad, I considering buying i7 and got an i5 , I got confused(my i5 is a K CPU 6th gen).
- jefft255 7y agoThe K thing is about overclockability, not HT.
- makomk 7y agoYeah. As the article says, losing hyperthreading effectively downgrades your Core i7 to a Core i5, since (depending on generation) that's one of the main differences between the two processor series.
- gsnedders 7y agoAs of the 9th generation, Core i7 doesn't have hyperthreading.
- sq_ 7y agoIs it possible they're talking about a chip where the K version had hyperthreading but the lower end of that line didn't? Haven't kept up on Intel well enough for the last two years or so to be sure, but I seem to remember there being a generation where that happened.
- simion314 7y agoMy bad, I considering buying i7 and got an i5 , I got confused.
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- adrianN 7y agoIntel doesn't make its profits with gamers. It's data centers that buy Intel chips by the boatload.
- asveikau 7y agoI have no data, but it would have to seem to me that gamers are a tiny market compared to what Intel sells in any given year.
- NullPrefix 7y agoSome games have internal currency or items that can be sold. I'm pretty sure there's malware targetting those items.
- paulie_a 7y agoGamers are not the only target market. Gamers are a fairly small market.
- znpy 7y ago"Gamers" don't game 100% of the time. They also do normal web browsing (possibly to buy the next gaming pc). Your argument is invalid.