Should we or should we not update nvidia drivers?
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answ...d3clMjElMjE%3D
Edit: updated nvidia link
Last edited by somanyroads; 01-13-18 at 02:01 PM.
I'm avoiding it, but i haven't yet heard of any slowdowns from updating. I rarely update GPU drivers anyway as they just seem to get more and more bloated as time goes on. Nearly 400MB now...geez...
On another note, it's nice of M$ to try and shill for Intel again on this issue by saying when using Win10 with the newest CPUs would have single digit impacts, yet Intel's own testing shows up to a 12% (looks like 2 digits to me) impact on a brand new 8700K
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I'm not going to be able to hold off my Windows 10 update (1709) for much longer.
I would like to create a "before" benchmark now and again after I get updated for comparison purposes.
Any suggestions on a benchmarking application that would point up the CPU/OS performance change due to this update.?
I would be clearing my prefetch and temporary file areas as well as shutting down as many background applications as possible, including antivirus and BOINC, for each run.
Benchmarks come in all shapes and sizes to test individual components, component groupings, and entire system performance.
I'm not real hardware technical savvy, and may not know the best way to get an analytical handle on want is about to be done to me.
I may notice a day to day usage performance drop, but I would like to make an attempt to quantify it for each of my machines.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks.
AMD confirms its chips are vulnerable to Spectre, is rolling out fixes
https://www.techspot.com/news/72729-...out-fixes.html
For some of its updates, it sounds like AMD can push out a CPU firmware update versus having to use an OS workaround patch.
Not so sure about the author of that article...AMD and Google both stated 11 days ago there was a very slim chance of *one* of the Spectre variants affecting AMD in a very specific scenario. That article acts as if that was never stated, and then claims it was both variants of Spectre which ProjectZero's testing never showed to be true...at least to my knowledge. Aside from that, it's the Meltdown patches that's causing the speed reduction, not Spectre.