Inspectre reported:
Vulnerable to Meltdown: NO
Vulnerable to Spectre: YES!
Performance: SLOWER
I'm going to disable the meltdown protection. I don't go installing things on this rig anyway, unless it's from Steam.
Glitch in Intel cpus may result in security patch with big perf hit
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Microsoft Issues Windows Out-of-Band Update That Disables Spectre Mitigations
You can do this yourself with the Disable Spectre Protection button in Steve Gibson's Inspectre utility. It's just a registry setting to ignore using new instructions in the updated BIOS.
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Re: Glitch in Intel cpus may result in security patch with big perf hit
Yeah I disabled mine.