Recent Intel Flaws

[laiT]

I had purchased a Core I7 8700k three weeks ago from a well know e retailer up north.

I was hoping that I could with all these flaws and security patches affecting performance I was in my rights to get an exchange or refund under the Customer Rights Act. But they have rejected my claim... just wondering what my possible options are.

 

[laiT]

Normally I would just use it, but this vulnerability is just too hard to ignore knowing that AMD does not have these issues and who knows what the next flaw is going to be!

 

[laiT]

THE LATEST flaw was disclosed a few days ago is what you should have said. There have been security issues with Intel CPU's going back 18 months or so, all have been widely discussed on this forum and others. If someone was stupid enough to not do the homework required before buying a cpu, then why on earth should any retailer take it back ?

They should take it back because it is faulty.
Homework required to buy a CPU? So a consumer is expected to know everything about a product before buying it?? get at life mate..

 

[laiT]

When you buy a car, don't you first look online for potential issues and customer reviews?
So yes at this certain age, and always since the 90s, it does require to do your homework when buying computer parts. If you did it due to ignorance, then there is no excuse, especially in 2019 where takes 1 minute to do a google search.

A 1 minute google on a Core i7 8700k processor wouldn't bring up reviews that say "oh by the way the chip has fantastic performance but it doesn't have any hardware protection against security exploits", you can do all the homework you want but until you get a product in your hands and use it for yourself all reviews are pretty much worthless.
So referring back to the OP, the CPU to me is inherently flawed and Intel knows about this and the recent flaws but continues to sell it like nothing is wrong, thankfully we have Consumer Rights Act which addresses the shortcomings of marketing that sells you all the highs and none of the lows.

 

[laiT]

One difference between the 9th gen and the 8th gen is hardware protection against some of these security exploits, which were mentioned a while ago.

As the others say, sell it, take the hit, and move on with Zen2. Alternatively you could start a crusade by calling your local Citizen's Advice for returning faulty goods under legislation. However this is very time consuming and in the end it might be difficult to prove that these new security flaws can easily threat general home usage.

To be honest I don't give a **** about these exploits for home usage. These threats are a lot less severe than those 0 day exploits of Windows 10. The 8700K is still a decent choice for gaming.

For future purchases, to counter buyer's remorse, you could initiate a return request as unwanted for every order you make on the 14th day after delivery, so that you always have about one month of cooling-off period. 99% of the time I end up not returning anything, even if I initiate the return request, but this procedure gives you maximum rights.

That's a good strategy for returns but this isn't a case of buyers remorse, I love the 8700k but when I'm running vms for work and development that involve sensitive data I don't think it's acceptable that they continue to sell the processors to consumers without an adequate warning. I would not have brought this processor if I had known what Intel had known months ago.