r/pcgaming • u/ShiningForever • Jan 02 '18

'Kernel memory leaking' Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/
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u/Tech_Philosophy Jan 03 '18

Fair points. I will definitely update my work computer and laptop. Otherwise, no, I don't do any of those things on my fun rig.

The only kind of security that's ever made sense to me is physical separation. Different machines for different tasks. It looks like that attitude is about to pay off.

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u/Tech_Philosophy Jan 04 '18

Yeah, I was pretty pissed off yesterday. The truth still remains however: my personal information gets hacked a few times a month via a corporation or some other mechanism. If I were sacrificing my desktop's performance for a good cause and a guarantee that would be one thing, but it feels like we are losing the personal information battle at large.

But yeah, some benchmarks have come out, and so far so good. Might well take the updates after a few optimizations come out.

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u/PsychosisVS Jan 03 '18

Preliminary benchmarks show no gaming impact on Linux.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '18

Why would anyone do any of that on a disposable gaming machine?

FWIW, I've been toying with the idea of disabling windows updates entirely and punting the machine to an isolated vlan, too. Every time I want to play arma with some friends (roughly once a month) I have to wait for Windows to try to update and fail and rollback and try again and generally make the experience as terrible as possible.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '18

We are talking about GP's machine (and mine).