Building a new Computer

Padawanbater2

Padawanbater2

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I just bought a Crosshair VI Hero motherboard with an AMD Ryzen 1700 CPU. So looking forward to the new rig!! I've been using the same PC since 2005. That is almost unprecedented without an upgrade. The job I have now allows me to do it. So what are some of your favorite games to play these days?
 
canadian1969

canadian1969

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So many good ones last few years man, Witcher 3, Skyrim, Far Cry3/4/Primal, Fallout 4, Middle Earth shadows of Mordor, Hitman Absolution, Battlefield 1, Watchdogs 2, Ghost Recon Wildlands, Prey, Tomb Raider(s), Mass Effect Andromeda , just about anything they gave a Game of the Year Award to over the last decade as well. Should keep you busy, happy gaming man!

edit oh oh and Dying Light.
 
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ANC

ANC

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I'd surely get an AMD processor now with that shit with the new security hole
 
ANC

ANC

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Jesus i8ts the biggest news of late. There is a massive security flaw in the architecture of the designs of probably the last decade's systems on a hardware level.
The only patches they can get to work around these are rumored to bring the performance of the system down by as much as 30 percent.
 
vostok

vostok

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Padawanbater2 said:
I just bought a Crosshair VI Hero motherboard with an AMD Ryzen 1700 CPU. So looking forward to the new rig!! I've been using the same PC since 2005. That is almost unprecedented without an upgrade. The job I have now allows me to do it. So what are some of your favorite games to play these days?
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Stranded Deep heavy pc demands pov survival

Gold Mining in Alaska same as the shitty tv show again unity 5 and heavy pc demand

Steams Ms Flight sim FSX

waiting for the Turkish Mount and Blade sequal

in truth theirs few new good games around

old pc's can still play Skyrim doom etc

I turning into playing great older games let them noobs do the hard work

messing with them new games ...lol

good luck
 
see4

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The exploits are Meltdown, which on affect Intel chips, and Spectre, which affect Intel, AMD and Arm chips.

It's really not a big deal for the average consumer. And it's being patched as we speak.
 
Terps

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see4 said:
The exploits are Meltdown, which on affect Intel chips, and Spectre, which affect Intel, AMD and Arm chips.

It's really not a big deal for the average consumer. And it's being patched as we speak.
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Were they ever able to find a solution to the Apple chips?
 
see4

see4

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Terps said:
Were they ever able to find a solution to the Apple chips?
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Afaik, Apple released their own patch. Suspiciously Apple stated they had a fix for this problem almost within a day of Intel's release of the problem.
 
Terps

Terps

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see4 said:
Afaik, Apple released their own patch. Suspiciously Apple stated they had a fix for this problem almost within a day of Intel's release of the problem.
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From what I was reading some were saying the only way to really fix the errors in those chips was to replace them.
 
see4

see4

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Terps said:
From what I was reading some were saying the only way to really fix the errors in those chips was to replace them.
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Well there are two "holes" that need to be fixed. The Spectre and Meltdown holes. Intel has already released the Spectre patch. It has some glitches on older processors, but seem to be holding up on the new ones. The Meltdown patch is coming soon. From what I understand, about 90-95% of all Intel chips will be patched by end of January. I assume the older processors will cover the remaining 5-10% that don't get patched.

That being said, the performance hits the news is covering is mainly with servers and commercial class systems. It's doubtful a casual gamer at home will notice a difference, since much of the processing power is handled by the GPU.
 
curious2garden

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see4 said:
The exploits are Meltdown, which on affect Intel chips, and Spectre, which affect Intel, AMD and Arm chips.

It's really not a big deal for the average consumer. And it's being patched as we speak.
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^^^^ this is the right answer.

If you aren't running a server or a cloud server you really aren't at risk. Essentially these are array-bounds attack and the branch-predictor attack which can be taken care of with browser patches.

@Terps here's the Apple specific paper on it: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208394
 
Nafydad420

Nafydad420

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okay man you need to get Player unknowns battleground 100%, Rainbow six siege, Grand theft auto 5, darksouls trilogy, CSGO, Tom clancys the division, Tom clancys ghost recon wildlands, star wars battlefront 2. Those are the main ones out right now, cheers :)
 
Padawanbater2

Padawanbater2

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Nafydad420 said:
okay man you need to get Player unknowns battleground 100%, Rainbow six siege, Grand theft auto 5, darksouls trilogy, CSGO, Tom clancys the division, Tom clancys ghost recon wildlands, star wars battlefront 2. Those are the main ones out right now, cheers :)
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What do you think about the microtransactions for Battlefront 2? I heard a lot of people complaining about that
 
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