Kernel memory leaking on Intel processors

[Pikey]

This might set most of our minds at ease. From work done last night benchmarking.

 

[Brainless]

How these patches will reflect on old systems with Sandy Bridge?

[Johnny_Rico]

How these patches will reflect on old systems with Sandy Bridge?

YMMV

 

But what I would do is to benchmark system as it is now

 

Then replicate the test again after applying the patch and see how it performs

Edited January 4, 2018 by Johnny_Rico

[StandingCow]

How these patches will reflect on old systems with Sandy Bridge?

 

We don't know until both the windows and intel patches come out and there are benchmarks.

[cichlidfan]

Wonder if Chizh or other Eagle Dynamics Team member will update us, as they are able to assess the issue.

 

About as likely as getting an update from any other gaming company. Zero.

 

They are not in a position to test every chip that is out in the wild, and without testing all of them there is no point in testing any of them.

[StandingCow]

Got the new windows update... one program didn't like it, ASUS AI Suite. When I tried to reinstall AI Suite it caused all but 1 of my USB ports to stop working in Windows (they worked in BIOS). After lots of troubleshooting I finally retraced my steps and tried uninstalling AI Suite and it fixed everything.

 

While the new update is VERY important (important enough for Microsoft to push this update ASAP) it could screw some things up.

 

Edit: Some Anti-Virus programs are throwing up bluescreens too: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4072699/important-information-regarding-the-windows-security-updates-released

Edited January 4, 2018 by StandingCow

[Gearbox]

, ASUS AI Suite.

 

Ergh, my new in-progress build uses an ASUS mobo and I was planning to OC the crap out of it. How essential to overclocking is the AI suite?

[Goa]

for now windows update service is DISABLED.

[funkyfranky]

Got the new windows update... one program didn't like it, ASUS AI Suite.

Pff, even more bad news. I use that as well :(

[Buzzles]

It's interesting there's two security flaws come out of this.

 

Meltdown is the first, affecting only Intel chips, but basically all of them from 1995 onwards.

 

But now we've got Spectre which is affecting lots of cpu's across the board, but is also the hardest to patch, but also split into 3 attack vectors, of which only some affect certain cpus.

 

Interesting times. Wonder if AMD will delay and fix their chip planned for this Q...

[SkateZilla]

Intel is only saying AMD is affected to save face, and because AMD licenses X86 from Intel.

 

But its already been discussed and shown that AMDs chip design does not have the flaws of the Intel Core I series.

[StandingCow]

Ergh, my new in-progress build uses an ASUS mobo and I was planning to OC the crap out of it. How essential to overclocking is the AI suite?

 

AI Suite only makes it super easy to overclock in the OS. You can still very easily overclock in the BIOS either using the simple BIOS tools or manually doing it if you know what you are doing.

[BitMaster]

AI suite controls my fan profile.

 

I am gonna throw this piece of junk towards caseking soon if this is all true.

 

i am not gonna take this ! I payed 429€ for this bs cpu

[Johnny_Rico]

good luck getting your money back on your CPU

[BitMaster]

good luck getting your money back on your CPU

 

yeah, lets see what the waves do next couple days...installing the patch as I type.....grrrhhhhh

 

 

could bite my a** for not picking the 1950x on black friday and got this ram-idiot cpu instead.

[Nealius]

Did this update hit Windows 10? I rebooted my computer today and suddenly lost about 10fps on NTTR. Caucasus seems to be fine. Not sure what happened.

[Johnny_Rico]

yes the update for this is out already for windows 10

other versions of windows will get it tuesday

[dburne]

Yes but would we not see notification and the update install?

[StandingCow]

Yes but would we not see notification and the update install?

 

Windows updates generally happen silently in the background. You can check in your windows update settings.

[BitMaster]

installed it, went away, came back, PC rebooted due to exception error.

 

Last 14 days my PC was mining 24/7 with 2 GPUs and CPU and had no such sudden reboots...

 

also...Asus AiSuite, as said above, doesnt work, havent looked into it, too busy with other things.

 

damn..this already hits everyday life, my fancontrol is useless, glad I oc in Bios this time

[Gearbox]

I appears that Spectre is worse than initially thought and affects AMD, and even affects iphones and androids.

 

edit: forgot link https://www.pcworld.com/article/3245790/mobile/spectre-cpu-faq-phones-tablets-ios-android.html

Edited January 5, 2018 by Gearbox

[dburne]

Windows updates generally happen silently in the background. You can check in your windows update settings.

 

Mine did update earlier today, but nothing in the installation notes about this fix so not sure if I have it yet or not.

 

I have seen some early reports that gaming is not really affected noticeably. Hoping that is the case.

[cichlidfan]

I don't use AI Suite for anything. I let my fans run full tilt and leave the automation out of the picture. No dependencies, no issues.

[StandingCow]

I don't use AI Suite for anything. I let my fans run full tilt and leave the automation out of the picture. No dependencies, no issues.

 

And a loud freaking PC, lol.

[BitMaster]

And a loud freaking PC, lol.

 

if you use Noctua alll over your PC and even use those included LowNoise Adapter with each, you are cool & quiet same time at max allowed rpm, whereas 8 Corsair fans full tilt are a completely different sound level. Like a Owl vs. a C-5 Galaxy