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Toad32 t1_j63q6nx wrote

Server admin here - I started buying AMD instead of Intel back in 2018 when Spectre cam out (Intel CPU slowed down by 30% after patch). I am not dealing with that again.

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1derwymin t1_j64sbge wrote

Really? But heartbleed was not even a CPU vulnerability; it was an OpenSSL problem. Are you thinking of Spectre and Meltdown?

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Toad32 t1_j65wpww wrote

You are correct - its hard to remember all the names when there have been so many.

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semitope t1_j644ang wrote

somebody will find a vulnerability in AMDs relatively new processors and force you to deal with that again.

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DaisyPK t1_j64ywfd wrote

It’s all about the “sockets”. Once you change processors you have to change the hardware and that’s a lot of money.

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