Ugh. Can I just say how much I fucking HATE how every single fucking product on the market today is a cheap, broken, barely functional piece of shit.
I swear to God the number of times I have to FIX something BRAND NEW that I JUST PAID FOR is absolutely ridiculous.
I knew I should’ve been an engineer, how easy must it be to sit around and make shit that doesn’t work?
Fucking despicable. Do better or die, manufacturers.
It’s not easy to make shit that doesn’t work if you care about what you’re doing. I bet there’s angry debates between engineers and business majors behind many of these enshitifications.
Though, for these Intel ones, they might have been less angry and more “are you sure these risks are worth taking?” because they probably felt like they had to push them to the extreme to compete. The angry conversations probably happened 5-10 years ago before AMD brought the pressure when Intel was happy to assume they had no competition and didn’t have to improve things that much to keep making a killing. At this point, it’s just a scramble to make up for those decisions and catch up. Which their recent massive layoffs won’t help with.
So this doesn’t apply to the Intel situation, but a good lesson to learn is that the bleeding edge cuts both ways. Meaning that anyone buying the absolute latest technology, there’s going to be some friction with usability at first. It should never surmount to broken hardware like the Intel CPUs, but buggy drivers for a few weeks/months is kinda normal. There’s no way of knowing what’s going to happen when a brand new product is going to be released. The producer must do their due diligence and test for anything catastrophic but weird things happen in the wild that no one can predict. Like I said at the top, this doesn’t apply to Intel’s situation because it was a catastrophic failure, but if you’re ever on the bleeding edge assume eventually you’re going to get cut.
Welcome to capitalism. Infinite growth is required, and when a market is well and truly saturated the next step is cutting more and more costs.
Incidentally, Cancer also pursues a similar strategy.
Ryzen gang
My 7800x3d is incredible, I won’t be going back to Intel any time soon.
7800X3D is so damn good, it also outperforms the newer Zen5 processors 💀
Me who bought AMD cpu and gpu last year for my new rig cause fuck the massive mark up for marginal improvement on last gen stats.
tldr: Flaw can give a hacker access to your computer only if they have already bypassed most of the computer’s security.
This means continue not going to sketchy sites.
Continue not downloading that obviously malicious attachment.
Continue not being a dumbass.
Proceed as normal.
Because if a hacker got that deep your system is already fucked.
It’s more serious than normal because if your PC ever gets owned, a wipe and reinstall will not remove the exploit.
“Nissim sums up that worst-case scenario in more practical terms: “You basically have to throw your computer away.””
I’m not that worried about it effecting me lol, i would be more concerned about my intel cpu dying, especially since it’s been around for decades.
Don’t be a fan of one or the other, just get what’s more appropriate at the time of buying.
im a fan of no corporation especially not fucking amd, but they have been so much better than intel recently that im struggling to understand why anyone still buys intel
Of all the CPU and GPU manufacturers out there, AMD is the most consistently pro-consumer with the least corporate fuckery, so I take mighty exception at your ‘especially not fucking amd’ comment.
Most of the shopping I’ve been helping people with lately has been for laptops. And while there are slightly more AMD options then before laptops are still dominated by Intel for the most part. Especially if you’re trying to help someone pick something while on a tighter budget.
thats fair if u are looking for the cheapest laptops basically nothing is amd, also i bet most people dont know what those powered by x stickers even mean nor care and honestly why should they. i didnt consider that, i was more thinking about people making their own pcs but it is also wierd that laptop manufacturers and oems prefer intel so much maybe efficiency is the biggest factor i know amds cpus tend to be more power hungry
Researchers discover potentially catastrophic exploit present in AMD chips for decades
They’re both very flawed
Despite being potentially catastrophic, this issue is unlikely to impact regular people.
Doesn’t seem very similar to me.
Sounds like some precious and sweet intelboi feels bad holding the bag…
This keeps getting slightly misrepresented.
There is no fix for CPUs that are already damaged.
There is a fix now to prevent it from happening to a good CPU.
But isn’t the fix basically under clocking those CPU?
Meaning the “solution” (not even out yet) is crippling those units before the flaw cripples them?
That was the first “Intel Baseline Profile” they rolled out to mobo manufacturers earlier in the year. They’ve roll out a new fix now.
As an i9-13900k owner, thanks. My chip has been great so far, better update when I get home
I have a i7-13700k that’s been sitting in the box since I got a deal on it last month. I was pondering returning it and spending the extra couple hundred to get an AMD setup.
I’ve been following all this then checked on the Asus site for my board and saw the BIOS updates…
Updated with microcode 0x125 to ensure eTVB operates within Intel specificatIons…
And this week there’s a beta release…
The new BIOS includes Intel microcode 0x129…
Remember Spectre? When they recommended disabling hyperthreading?
Not out yet. But you can manually set your clocks and disable boost.
I thought the point would be a depressed and self deprecating “I’m something of an Intel CPU myself”.
Glad my first self-built PC is full AMD (built about a year ago).
Screw Intel and Nvidia
7700X is what it was built with
This. Full AMD on my last build as well.
I don’t care about any corp, I was looking at best bang for buck at the time. I was shocked how everyone I knew was like you should get this intel or that Nvidia, and when I asked why not <comparable performance AMD at 2/3 the price>, all I was getting back was marketing blabber.
How many times are you going to post the same, unrelated link ??
Id rather exploit than hardware failure
r/ayymd
Amd 5700u and fx8150 still going strong
Can we talk about how utterly useless that default could cooler is? Like for relatively high end gaming CPU it really shouldn’t be legal for it to ship with something so useless.
Thank God i haven’t bought one with this. I was about to buy one.
bro think he amd gpu
You’re an AMD fan? Will you admit AMD is having just about the same exact problem?
Researchers discover potentially catastrophic exploit present in AMD chips for decades
Just goes to show fanboying for a company is bad for the industry and for yourself.
I’m not up to speed on the discovery you linked. It appears to be a vulnerability that can’t be exploited remotely? If so, how is this the same as Intel chips causing widespread system instability?
You should work for userbenchmark, if you’re not already. You got what it takes, kid
not gonna lie u look a lot like a fanboy urself idk ur just giving off “my beloved intel looks so bad here that i can directly say its better so ill just both sides with some dumb thing” energy
Buddy, Intel ain’t a woman and even if they were they’d never fellate you.
