I went to play some GTAV and was getting a lot of stutter/100%cpu usage, and even noticed hitting 100% cpu usage in more games.
I tried thinking of what really changed the past yr or so since I last played it, and couldn't think of nothing for awhile. Then was like oh ya Spectre and Meltdown.
I remember looking around at the time when hearing about it, I seen around 5% for a 4670k, but never really benchmarked it. After a little digging I found how to disable/enable it threw bat files. So i ran a couple firestike extremes and was kinda shocked.
After 3 runs with it off/on I took the middle score of both and seen physics score 6,370 vs 8,679. That's more like 27%
I also ran a few cinebench's
@4.5Ghz.. 521(multi)ON/641(multi)OFF
@4.5Ghz 167(single)ON/172(Single)OFF
Userbench went from 93% to 99% on cpu.
Was wondering if anyone was just turning them off for gaming, then turning them on for browsing?
If so how well dose it impact your gaming experience when turning it off?