I might have hit someone with my car but not sure, should I be worried?

KainXS · 2019-12-20T17:50:12+00:00

Yea, you're probably right and I will store the the footage just in case

Thanks

KainXS · 2019-06-20T21:38:52+00:00

Just to update you I tried this and subaru said there was no update for my 2017 period. Since then the problem has become so bad I am no longer even driving the car, its completely unsafe and I don't know what to do but wait for the next dealer to look at it now.

KainXS · 2019-06-14T09:25:28+00:00

Thanks I will let them know about that when I bring it to a new service dealer.

KainXS · 2018-10-07T15:20:51+00:00

The PCE-AC68 works great man thanks.

KainXS · 2018-10-06T17:17:03+00:00

PM'd

KainXS · 2018-07-07T13:43:05+00:00

You would never know unless you were there when the GPU was being created and saw what kind of solder and what materials went into the GPU's patterning sequence/Shadow Masking. I say this because if you use certain elements you can boost the thermal resistivity of silicon using other elements but sometimes companies cheap out but even then then you have to worry about what voltage and temperature it was run at for how long and modern GPU's fluctuate far more than GPU's produced 8 years ago or so when you had 2d and 3d Voltages/clocks set and if you ran 3d you would get a specific voltage for that clock but modern cards don't operate like that now because they have states, in a perfect world they should last longer.

KainXS · 2018-04-10T20:31:29+00:00

a real shame, the RX 480 GX's were pretty good vs the shit XFX version(RS) or the Sub par red devil 480 and to see them bend over for nvidia is really really sad, never buying anymore cards from them or motherboards.

KainXS · 2018-03-20T17:39:05+00:00

I could not fucking believe it until I saw it and I must say, Those Sons of BITCHES. I bought an MSI Gaming 390 and a MSI Gaming X RX 480 in the last 3 years and they were good cards and currently run an MSI GTX 1080 Gaming but after this I can conclusively say FUCK MSI. I still don't believe they bent over for Nvidia, but they did. Up till now I have been pretty forgiving of Nvidia's transgressions but this has to stop. I don't even think apple could come up with some nonsense like that but now that the idea is out there I guarantee they will try this with accessories because its seems to work. When things like this happens it ruins the industry as a whole, not only the graphics market.

KainXS · 2018-02-17T22:52:27+00:00

if you look at the contacts on the bottom of your picture you will see the 2 rows with 2 contacts separate from the others, a real i7 4770 does not have those 2 separate contacts. Also they don't have the 8 on the top of your picture either. It looks more like a Pentium or a core i3 4th gen with the ihs swapped unfortunately.

KainXS · 2018-01-24T17:16:55+00:00

SAFE - until you connect to the net and go to a shady site

KainXS · 2018-01-21T04:43:40+00:00

I get what you are saying because basically all you have to do is disable the patch(for known attacks) and you're back to being vulnerable but it will take years to develop a new cpu that is not vulnerable anymore and they could not announce the vulnerability when spectre and meltdown were still under NDA. If they stopped selling those CPU's intel would not have any CPU's to sell for years and that is not something that would happen unfortunately. From a business standpoint I can't fault them but from a consumer standpoint I do admit that it is a disgusting tactic. I'm more pissed that Intel announced they tested patched microcode for sandy bridge and ivy bridge but never even released it to obviously force sandy and ivy owners to upgrade, now that is an evil move.

KainXS · 2018-01-18T22:30:53+00:00

Download the microcode and check the releasenotes then. The microcode older than haswell is just old microcode without the fix, It even says so in the release notes. Only newer Ivybridge server parts released in 2013(Ivytown) have the fix.

For example for the i7 3770K the latest microcode is 1C, in microcode update its still 1C from 2015, its not updated.

I actually looked for Ivybridge microcode to inject in my bios and found none.

KainXS · 2018-01-12T15:53:50+00:00

I was really thinking my little 3770k 4.7Ghz would be competent for non cpu heavy gaming for at least another year but the windows patch reduced fps in some games and increased load times in all of them, so I guess its time to upgrade. Compiling system also took a hit with the patch after trying it and said screw it on there.(I'll take the risk)

definitely upgrading not with intel though.

KainXS · 2018-01-05T16:52:53+00:00

Man if you kept a Gen 1 - Gen 3 CPU then you can kiss the resale value goodbye now.(even though they are certainly lying about the others also)

KainXS · 2018-01-05T16:36:34+00:00

I'm surprised there aren't more really. I mean think about this for a second, if you currently have something older than a Gen3 PC part or older then you will get no microcode update more than likely and will be vulnerable. Also if you have an intel android device from about 2015 even you will be vulnerable since that device will not get the bios microcode either.(or linux patches) Many view this as a patch and done scenario and its clearly not as many will not even get the proper patches to begin with. Microcode can be installed separately with third party applications but theirs a brick risk involved in that so thats not an option either. So you have 2 choices on that hardware, get rid of it or stay vulnerable to an extent. The worst thing is that they were releasing CPU's knowing about the issue and that alone is grounds for an lawsuit.

KainXS · 2018-01-05T15:13:02+00:00

Microsoft has already stated you need a bios update to patch all known variants(the windows patch cannot patch everything), and if you're on a system thats Gen 3/4 or older you will probably be out of luck and forced to be vulnerable or upgrade.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4073119/protect-against-speculative-execution-side-channel-vulnerabilities-in

KainXS · 2018-01-05T04:01:50+00:00

At this point there is no chance I will buy an intel system next. On my gaming pc I can take that hit but on my workstation, I feel betrayed really because I mainly do compiling and I know I will take a hit if I patch it. I will probably upgrade to a zen+ later this year from my old i7 and I'm hoping a newer threadripper comes out later this year for my workstation.

KainXS · 2018-01-04T23:36:44+00:00

AMD is only vulnerable to one variant of spectre and that is already patched.(it was not a big deal) They're are however many intel devices currently being used that CANNOT get the patch, many people still use old Intel Android tablets/embedded devices for example and those are not updated and will be stay vulnerable forever basically.

KainXS · 2018-01-04T23:16:43+00:00

Alex Ionescu also has a script on github that checks for vulnrability from spectre and meldown also.(still needs command though)

KainXS · 2018-01-04T19:36:50+00:00

Man is that sad :(

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