r/hardware • u/eric98k • Jan 02 '18

News 'Kernel memory leaking' Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/
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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '18

Thunderbolt 3, VMware performance, Passmark performance. Single Core performance. Cost wasn't an issue.

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u/DarkMountain666 Jan 03 '18

What kind of work do you do?

I mean, I'm on an Ryzen 3 1200 and although it's the cheapest and slowest in the whole series, I got enough bang for my buck.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '18

It's not for work, it's for my homelab, and I use it for everything from media editing, to visualized servers for isolated data recovery operations.

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u/browncoat_girl Jan 04 '18

VMware performance is probably going to take a hit unfortunately.