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Unless they are going to announce that they will stop letting motherboards lock your cpus, I don't see why I should be excited.
by MrStonedOne 6y ago
Unless they are going to announce that they will stop letting motherboards lock your cpus, I don't see why I should be excited.
- newsclues 6y agoWhy wouldn’t you buy a Ryzen because some epyc chips get locked?
- MrStonedOne 6y agoI can't support AMD as a company as long as they are doing that on any of their products.
- bildung 6y agoSo what kind of CPUs do you buy, with both Intel and AMD out of the game?
- argb 6y agoARM based platforms such as Allwinner and Rockchip CPUs which are free of these security measures. Though the performance is very poor in comparison, however over the next few years the situation might improve.
- dragontamer 6y agoNot my niche, but Talos II probably serves that niche well. Its workstation class, aimed at $5000 computers on a completely open framework. I'm not convinced that the AMD EPYC feature is malicious however. So I personally would still go with Threadripper or whatever.
- MrStonedOne 6y agoI'm mad at intel for what they did in the past, im mad at amd for what they are currently doing, which do you think will win out?
- bildung 6y agoAs Intel's Boot Guard is essentially the same feature, and not a thing of the past, my guess was neither of the two. I didn't try to be snarky, I'm really interested in alternatives.
- MrStonedOne 6y agoI can't find anything on google about Intel boot guard meaning that plugging a cpu into a motherboard can bind that cpu to that motherboard such that putting it into another motherboard no longer works.
- argb 6y agoCurrently using an Ryzen at the moment, my next CPU is likely to be a used Xeon because of AMD's PSP nonsense, which has reached a new low with the EPYC CPU 'bricking'. On the Intel chips the ME security has been cracked completely so in theory someone could write an open source ME firmware replacement, although this might require a hardware mod to bypass the signature checks.
- tedunangst 6y agoThis seems more like a reason to avoid Dell than AMD.
- MrStonedOne 6y agoI've always avoided dell, AMD should be avoided for giving Dell a chip API that let dell do what they did.