https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/7oeh84/performance_impact_of_windows_patch_and_bios/
bios patch +windows patch
bios patch +windows patch
X99 is old ?? socket 2011-3 ????Why big CPU boards (and older ones at that) before latest boards? Because it suits you better? Personally I would do latest chipsets first then work backwards, seems the logical approach.
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/windows_vulnerability_cpu_meltdown_patch_benchmarked
8700K(ASUS M10F BIOS 1003) +960Pro
4K Read
13415.77 IOPS ---> 10423.99 IOPS
52.41 MB/s ---> 40.72 MB/s
4K Write
45250.04 IOPS ---> 37399.2 IOPS
176.76 MB/s ---> 146.09 MB/s
Fact is that all OSes will need to be patched, yours as well. For Windows, this will be done through an incremental software update, and very likely your motherboard will need to be upgraded with a new BIOS as well. On Tuesday that patch will automatically become available, and who knows perhaps it is propagating already. The new security patches for Windows 10, however, can be download as standalone already. I decided to grab it, install it and see what happens.
Then you better isolate the gaming machine from the rest of your devices.sigh.... i really want to pass on the bios update... seriously..
So you don't login to email or any secure sites that might contain personal private or financial data on that computer?i really don't care if they hack this machine... its my gaming machine.... at most they will find what? a few pictures of my doberman, some screen shots of the games i play, and my steam gaming directory.
I said older, my point being that companies will likely start at newest models first. And yes, considering the several chipset revisions between, in technologies standards, it is considered "old".X99 is old ?? socket 2011-3 ????
sigh.... i really want to pass on the bios update... seriously..
i really don't care if they hack this machine... its my gaming machine.... at most they will find what? a few pictures of my doberman, some screen shots of the games i play, and my steam gaming directory.
Even then for me to be hacked, they would need to single me out of millions, and then get past my firewall and network.
Hell by the time they got that far, it would obviously be an inside job, and i honestly think someone in my family has a higher chance of downloading a adware virus before i get hacked and compromised via meltdown/specter.
This is something that I've noticed. No mention of the micro code bios patch that is going to cause the big hit to performance, because it affect speculative branch prediction more so than the OS update. They mention the motherboard bios upgrade, but only grab the windows update! Expect further losses in performance!
Kim Jong un... "shall we play a game?"
Kim Jong un is going put his vast warehouses of human tech labor and Dyno powered mechanical computers running Win 2000 to work on this.
Is a motherboard UEFI/BIOS patch necessary in addition to the OS patch?
I knew you'd be back with your "anything is possible" argument. You do realize your bolded part basically says that it's entirely possible the CPU may be hacked in some other way? Well of course, that's true for any CPU and for any other type of hack method. You also realize by the same argument, these patches wouldn't block that attack either, because the patch specifically fixes issues associated with these 3 forms of attacks.
Well, looks like this will be a big year for AMD and their Threadripper.
Hey you never know, this security issue affects nearly every relevant Intel CPU from that last 10 years.
Their stocks is tumbling and AMD will be right on their heels.
This might just fire up the CPU race again.
Intel stock is nearly back up where it was before the news hit, it is down less than 5% now. Seems that AMD has reaped more benefit (up 15%) than intel has been punished by this.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/INTC/
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AMD?p=AMD
Epic Games servers after applying patches to one server
https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/forums/news/announcements/132642-epic-services-stability-update
Good god that's almost apocalyptic. I hope that's not the norm.
All of them? Most servers for multiplayer games process large amounts of very small packets, much smaller packets then web-servers. Mining pools servers will probably get hit as well - lots of small packets and lots of IO when syncing blockchain.That is pretty bad. I wonder how many other game servers are going to suffer the same fate?
Win 2000 is too much for them... They just use Windows 95.Kim Jong un... "shall we play a game?"
Kim Jong un is going put his vast warehouses of human tech labor and Dyno powered mechanical computers running Win 2000 to work on this.