Amd and Intel's security flaws and security vulnerabilities. The chosen one ISN'T BETTER THAN THE OTHER.

[Papusan]

On 5/23/2025 at 1:11 PM, kojack said:

Forgot to quote so you see it.  If you were building a system today what CPU would you use? 

 

There is nothing I like now. I don't like the new hybrid tile mess from Intel or the AMD Ryzen chips. If I had to build today I would look after the older Z790 platform. The same platform I use today. Aka Z790 and 14900KS. Also older 13900K(KS)/14900K if you  got it cheaper is an good option. And Intel offer extended warranty for the Raptor lake family so... This is what I prefer. The Z790 platform is a solid choice.

 

Also @Mr. Fox isn't all to  happy with the AMD platform. And he also hate the new Z890 platform from Intel. No HT and dummy tiles is damn stupid choice from Intel. Glued together chips/tiles is a step backwards and not forwards. Only designed to cut costs and maximize already sky high profits.

AMD plugs serious Ryzen vulnerability with new firmware update

[Mr. Fox]

40 minutes ago, Papusan said:

Also @Mr. Fox isn't all to  happy with the AMD platform. And he also hate the new Z890 platform from Intel. No HT and dummy tiles is damn stupid choice from Intel.

It truly is a situation of having to choose from undesirable options. There are no good options in the current hardware generations.

[kojack]

Ok. perfect. 14900k would be my choice too. For my workflow intel is way better than amd, plus I am just an intel user for years. I am on 10th and 11th gen processors and they still work perfectly for me. would love to have a 14th gen with ARC graphics for video work but it's not needed right now.

[Mr. Fox]

The only reason I have 9950X systems now is because I wanted something new and the 15th Gen "Core Ultra" product line is more of an undesirable mess.

44 minutes ago, kojack said:

Ok. perfect. 14900k would be my choice too. For my workflow intel is way better than amd, plus I am just an intel user for years. I am on 10th and 11th gen processors and they still work perfectly for me. would love to have a 14th gen with ARC graphics for video work but it's not needed right now.

13th and 14th Gen Intel CPUs are awesome. As long as you manually control the clocks and voltage and stay away from eTVB you should have no issues with degradation. Set a high LLC to normalize voltage and avoid the high idle and low-load voltage swings and spike. No need to use special performance-killing "intel failsafe" profile if you take control of things.

[kojack]

When I build new systems for us, I will be using the 14th gen. It sucks that all the laptops I would be interested in have the AMD HX 365/370 chips in them.  All across the board, intel beats them except for lightroom workloads which I don't use. 

[Papusan]

7 hours ago, Papusan said:

AMD plugs serious Ryzen vulnerability with new firmware update

AMD plugs serious Ryzen vulnerability with new firmware update

 

MSI pulls new AMD AGESA 1.2.0.3e BIOS due to memory stability issue

Update your Asus PC right now! A critical flaw can let hackers take over

 

6 hours ago, Mr. Fox said:

It truly is a situation of having to choose from undesirable options. There are no good options in the current hardware generations.

 

They can't even make firmware/software for their expenive hardware without bugs.