Weekend Open Forum: Have recent CPU security concerns made you reconsider your next build?

[centrino207]

Component cost is far more of an issue than the security problems for me. The security risk is low for me, but the cost cannot be avoided. I would have considered a $1500 build sufficient overkill for my needs a year ago, but now I'm not sure that that's the case anymore. A high performance build with plenty of storage easily tops $2000.

I was originally considering the Ryzen refresh as an upgrade path, but I'm not sure I am willing to spend the money for it now.

Also just stick with 8GB of RAM for now it is good enough for 90% stuff people do.

Well unless you a hardcore gamer or do a lot of video editing you don't need 16GB of RAM.

 

[captaincranky]

Also just stick with 8GB of RAM for now it is good enough for 90% stuff people do....[ ]...

8 GB might as you say, "be sufficient", but I'll take 2 x 4 GB over a single stick of 8 GB, any day of the week.

One stick cripples he dual channel function in all modern mobos, halving the memory bandwidth in the process..

@centrino207 I might have misunderstood your "8 GB" statement. If that's the case, my apologies.

Although, I am sticking with my story about stuffing one stick of 8 GB in, and buying another later when the price comes down, is not the best idea. (In case any beginners are watching).

 

[Legionnaire]

I'm still sitting on an i5 2500k.

It's still chugging along happily.

I'm nowhere close to being a target of choice for people trying to exploit meltdown/spectre.

I do want to upgrade soon-ish, but not so badly as to pay the current sky-high prices.

I.e. I'm exactly where ive been for the last three years, and it doesn't look like anything other than a significant drop in prices will puch me over that edge.

You might not be important, but everyone gets affected by ransomware. I didn't update against that ransomware that came out around 6 months ago, and luckily I didn't get affected. But I definitely learned from the experience. I'm keeping my eye out on updates and fixes for this thing...

 

[Tgard]

Yes and yes. I planned to build @ Novemberish, but memory prices and especially GPU prices have made me decide to wait. I really wanted to wait to see what Ryzen 2 was gonna be about anyways but it has mostly been the inflated hardware prices that have held me back. So right now in a holding pattern for the foreseeable future.

 

[ET3D]

A $200 or $300 video card is good enough for 90% games out there.

You'd have to be more specific about what you call a $200 or $300 video card, and where it's possible to get one. Consider the $400 price for the GeForce 1050 Ti which captaincranky mentioned. The speediest cards which seem to be around are the GeForce 1050 and Radeon RX 560. Is that what you claim is good enough for 90% of games?

 

[yeeeeman]

Yeah, the effect is that I will keep my Skylake CPU not updated, to be attacked by aliens And I intend to keep it at least 10 years, since upgrading is an obsession not a necessity.

 

[senketsu]

I knew things were bad, but when the Snowden information came out I was still shocked. Worse than I ever thought.
I feel the same way now about modern devices and the push by manufacturer's to get them in our hands. We know things are insecure, but the last year in particular, wow. Krack, Meltdown, Spectre, IoT's, endless hacks like Equifax, and yet we push on. Voice operated shi...stuff in every home, Alexa, Bixby, Cortana, yes corporations and criminals you can have and own everything we do, say, type, it's all yours...
When I shell out my money for Intel's finest, I expect a product that works, not one that is fundamentally flawed, not to get into even the IME. Two years I own cpu, needs 3 microcode updates and IME update, OS patches. Still push for self-driving cars, hell yeah, lets go for self flying planes too (top corporate execs get first ride..of the test flight)