Comment by seiferteric
8 years ago
Maybe this is what finally gets me to upgrade from my ~2012 i7-3770. Not because of performance improvements, but to avoid performance degradation from all these security patches...
8 years ago
Maybe this is what finally gets me to upgrade from my ~2012 i7-3770. Not because of performance improvements, but to avoid performance degradation from all these security patches...
I'm not so sure I'd bother, more of these attacks keep coming out, odds are you'll just buy a CPU that'll be vulnerable to the next one. Maybe AMD would save you from some.
I'm in this exact scenario. I am thinking I might just go with AMD this time around, even if it is mostly an illusory short-term strength over Intel. In the long run I will undoubtedly have to refresh my hardware as new exploits come out, but at least I can take solace in the fact that I'm only worried about a single machine and not a datacenter.
I feel the same, maybe I will switch to AMD next time I upgrade. On the other end, I am happy with my budget dedicated server: its Intel Atom N2800 is so "rustic" that it did not get affected by any of Intel vulns (yet).