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    Re: Intel design flaw: slowdown coming

    Quote Originally Posted by Fire$torm View Post
    So, a 4790K on Win7 that has had updates turned off for over a year, should not be affected at all?
    I hope so. I have no Win10 machines and all updates are off on the Win7s. Should be good to go.


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    Re: Intel design flaw: slowdown coming

    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.


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    Re: Intel design flaw: slowdown coming

    Quote Originally Posted by somanyroads View Post
    Should we or should we not update nvidia drivers?

    https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answ...tail/a_id/4610
    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
    intelmit2.jpg


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    Re: Intel design flaw: slowdown coming

    Quote Originally Posted by somanyroads View Post
    Should we or should we not update nvidia drivers?

    https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answ...tail/a_id/4610
    Just updated my nvidia driver on a 960 still running the same time.

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    Re: Intel design flaw: slowdown coming

    Quote Originally Posted by John P. Myers View Post
    Que apple claiming its on purpose so the older processor doesn't over heat!

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    Re: Intel design flaw: slowdown coming

    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.

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    Re: Intel design flaw: slowdown coming

    AMD confirms its chips are vulnerable to Spectre, is rolling out fixes

    https://www.techspot.com/news/72729-...out-fixes.html

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    Re: Intel design flaw: slowdown coming

    For some of its updates, it sounds like AMD can push out a CPU firmware update versus having to use an OS workaround patch.

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    Re: Intel design flaw: slowdown coming

    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.


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