Is There an Intel Bias on Cpu Review and Comparison Sites?

no, intel has better cpu's their i3 lineup is really only good for workstations, but everything else is better, amd doesnt make good cpu's and they arent marketing them right, just like nvidia with the gtx 970's 3.5gb of ram, they dont sell past quad cores, their 8350 is proven to be essentially a quad core with hyperthreading based upon its design, they are also using a less efficient (and slower) cpu dye (each mhz is different on different archetectures) intel wins every time because they are more efficient, have better speeds, reduced power consumptin etc

1. What is Intel Security Assist?

What does Intel Security Assist doIt is a service that is installed and enabled when Intel's Management Engine is installed. As for its specific purpose: given IME's strong ties to server-level hardware, and the lack of specific documentation on Intel's website, I suspect it has something to do with hardware-level anti-tampering detecting supported by the CPU itself.why is it installed?Intel Security Assist is simply a component of the Intel Management Engine which you happen to have installed.The Intel Management Engine (Intel ME) refers to the hardware features that operate at the baseboard level, below the operating system. By enabling interaction with low-level hardware, Intel gives administrators the ability to perform tasks that previously required someone to be physically present at the desktop.Intel vPro: Three Generations Of Remote ManagementThe Management Engine is connected to Intel Active Management Technology (AMT). Intel Active Management Technology (AMT) is hardware and firmware technology for remote out-of-band management of personal computers, in order to monitor, maintain, update, upgrade, and repair them. Out-of-band (OOB) or hardware-based management is different from software-based (or in-band) management and software management agents.Intel Active Management Technology.

2. Do IBM and Intel make proprietary software?

Proprietary? How can ANY company who writes software for Windows be proprietary? 98% of the computer mfgs in the World use Windows. You want proprietary, look at Apple

3. is this laptop good for world of warcraft?

Its ok... you will be able to run WoW just because the game is designed to run even on old computers. The only bad thing is the X4500. which is graphics provided by Intel. You wo not be able to play any big game the last 3 years. Like Bioshock, Crysis, COD4 or MW2, L4D and so on... You can try but you will have to lower the res and the settings. Basically the only factors you needed to put to determine if it can run a game is the CPU, GPU and RAM. Stuff like the audio system wo not run a game any better so leave that out.

4. Is this a good pc price for the build?

You should be able to play most games on Ultra/Max. But than again I do not know much about AMD.. I only know Intel and NVIDIA. But it seems like a pretty good price to build.

5. When did Intel undergo the SEX change?

None, as that's a function which is only needed if a CPU operates on words longer than 8 bit - something no previous 8 bit (intel) CPU did.It was a new instruction created for the 8086, so a 8 bit value could be sign extended to 16 bit for further 16 bit operations. Mr. Morse, who did the whole instruction level design for the 8086, named it SEX in his design, but got overruled later on. So if you excuse extending the pun, it was never a girl, the proud father just hoped for one :)As a side note, as Martin Rosenau reminded me in his comment, the Motorola 6809, released the same year as the 8086, did call their sign extension operation SEX, which extended an 8 bit value in accumulator B into the 16 bit accumulator D (where B is the lower half anyway)

6. Which intel CPUs are affected by spectre/meltdown?

This Intel Public website has been updated recently with the full details of affected Intel products. Relevant text and listing has been quoted as following.The following Intel-based platforms are impacted by this issue. Intel may modify this list at a later time. Please check with your system vendor or equipment manufacturer (see links above) for more information regarding your system.The product listing was likely added between 16 and 17 January 2018, looking at the page history on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine and hinted by this thread on Intel Communities. The original release of information was found at Intel Product Security Center, dated 3 January 2018 and was revised on 17 January 2018 (tally with updated listing on Intel public website).Additional listAccording to contributors on GitHub, at least one variant of bug seems to affect legacy CPU products. Unfortunately, there seems to be no simple listing that can be pasted here. See issue 19 on paboldin/meltdown-exploit, which was found via issue 104 on speed47/spectre-meltdown-checker. There are 245 comments to this updated date, and each comment may contain more than one model of CPU. Visit the link and use CtrlF to look for your CPU model.