Microsoft reveals how Spectre updates can slow your PC down

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in short:
>Windows 10 users with 6th gen or later Intel CPUs should be fine.
>Windows 10 users with 4th gen or earlier Intel CPUs are mostly fine but might see some slower performance.
>Windows 7 and 8 users with 4th gen or earlier Intel CPUs are fucked.

what about windows xp?

what about 3rd gen or earlier Intel CPUs?

you're fucked

Not installing the update then, good thing I don't run random .exes

So don't patch. Not a problem. Use patched Linux for transactions and Windows for gayming.

Security is knowing you can't and sometimes should not try to harden everything.

Who here is stupid enough to use Windows for anything you object to being monitored?

w-what about AMD?

in short

>avoid Intel CPUs

>haswell
>4th gen
I knew I should have waited a few months for broadwell

I'm on i5 3570k and downloaded the patch on windows 7. Haven't noticed any performance loss in games.

>Windows 7 user with 4th gen CPU

Oh nice

You won't... No one will.

javascript or CSS is enough.

>install new update
>display has issues, constantly having to force shutdown and restart computer
>revert back to previous version of Windows
>programs won't open, laggy as hell

This has been the final straw. I'm putting Linux on my computer tonight. Windows deserves nothing but pain

still using an OC'd 3770k. will hold out for zen2.

99% of all old PCs wont get any BIOS update anyway

Not affected because Metldown bug is intel only! Intel has hardware bug in their processors for the last decade ha ha ha!!!!

IMPORTANT QUESTION:

What will happen with video game minimum and recommended requirements now? Will they have to be updated because Intel was a retard and designed their processors badly?

This is their way of fucking over the used PC market. All those Thinkpads in /tpg/, rendered useless by a patch. Fucking Intel.

MS ended XP and Vista support long ago.

This won't affect video games.

Mine still werk just fine though.

POSready 2009 still gets updates
Server 2008 still gets updates
MS said they are working on patches for "older OSs"