Hardware & Technical Anyone recommend a good high end Ryzen motherboard...

[Space Dandy]

Gaming performance doesn't seem to be affected, at least on Linux. Ars Technica are suggesting that gaming-in-general is likely to be unaffected, for all intents and purposes.

Just watched the video posted above - "desktop users, particularly gamers, really have nothing to worry about."

This disappoints me, as I was hoping to use the vulnerabilities and their patches to justify buying a Ryzen 7 CPU and MoBo, which I can now no longer do without lying.

*edit*

The Register have a rather amusing analysis of Intel's recent press release on the issue. It made me giggle more than once.

Well while gamers might not be affected directly we will be affected indirectly since game servers are likely to take a hit.

 

[Jon flint]

Well, weighed up the pros and cons, while Ryzen was an excellent alternative, I'm going to stick with Intel and Z370, mostly for ease of overclocking/memory compatibility and my general familiarity with intel, also the 8700k is currently in a box on my coffee table... convenience FTW! Although I really did like the look of that sexy MSI gaming M7 Ryzen board!

From testing the currently available windows patch on my current/old machine (i7 4790k), gaming seems entirely unaffected, my 3d mark and valley benchmark scores remained the same, I also saw no change in rendering times, a scene in Maya that took 1hr 21 min to render pre-patch still takes 1hr 21.

I can always upgrade to the hopefully unaffected 9xxx series of CPUs when they launch sometime in 2018 (assuming Z370 chipset will have a 2+ year cycle and they don't change the socket for the next release!)

Panic over