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  • Re: Intel's having a bad year... but it looks like it's going to be wor

    From rms@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 11 15:36:41 2024
    Recent revelations about the "Sinkclose" bug

    Looks like there's an updated bios for my motherboard already: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/MAG-X570-TOMAHAWK-WIFI/support

    rms

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  • From Anssi Saari@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Mon Aug 12 03:58:44 2024
    Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> writes:

    Recent revelations about the "Sinkclose" bug could be devastating for
    the company, since not only is a serious issue, but it effects a much
    wider range of products. "Sinkclose" leverages the System Management
    Mode built into x86 processors since at least 2006, and allows
    hardware access even below 'ring zero' security levels (and any such
    access would generally be undetectable by the OS).

    Hmm, didn't I see a RISC-V motherboard heavily discounted just the other
    day? Yep, the HiFive Unlimited is going for $299 on Mouser.

    Still, RISC-V has a long way to go until it's competitive with anything,
    let alone having software support for anything gaming but at least you
    can get a board in a PC format unlike ARM.

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  • From vallor@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Fri Aug 30 13:46:25 2024
    On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 22:20:00 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

    On the plus side, AMD has just announced an upcoming patch that would
    update the branch prediction for its Ryzen Zen 5000/7000/9000 series of CPUs, allowing up to a 10% performance gain (also, so far only for
    Windows 11, but I assume that Torvalds and his cadre of 1337 hackers
    will fix that ommission PDQ).

    Given that Intel's recent malarkey cost me about 10% performance (and
    they still haven't gotten back to me about an RMA), this is just AMD
    rubbing salt in my wounds. I get it AMD; I chose poorly.

    It still doesn't do anything about their Sinkclose bug, but I assume
    that -were I to buy a new AMD CPU in a few months- I'd not have to worry about that anyway.

    Anyway, releasing a major performance-enhancing patch like that is
    terrific optics after getting hammered for Sinkclose. Meanwhile, Intel
    is still acting like a bunch of schlubs.

    I love my 64-thread Threadripper. Compiles on RAMdisk are _fast_.

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