Is Spectre/Meltdown Finally a Reason to Upgrade Sandy Bridge

[CTX-SLPR]

Howdy,

 

I've noticed since the whole Spectre/Meltdown news broke publicly my Sandy Bridge based daily driver is slower than it used to be though that might just be placebo.  Regardless if the slow down is real, I think I've read that most of the fixes to really get rid of the problems won't roll back past Haswell.

 

Is this the straw to finally upgrade a Sandy Bridge based system or does that soldered processor just keep on trucking if surrounded by modern stuff (SSD and GTX-1070 here) like that other Canadian tech channel's tests suggest 

 

Thanks

[LienusLateTips]

Fixes are being issued all the way back to the Pentium I.

 

I'd upgrade when Ice Lake or Zen 2 comes out.

[NumLock21]

I think you mean from sandy bridge not to sandy bridge.

Need for bios update before making that decision.

[Damascus]

If wait for these bugs to be fixed on a hardware basis next gen.

[Droidbot]

Nope, not placebo. 

 

Sandy doesn't support high speed Meltdown fix, instead it does it in software. You can disable the Meltdown fix for higher performance by using InSpectre by Gibson Research. 

[CTX-SLPR]

Sounds like it's time to just sit tight on Sandy Bridge (or maybe Ivy) till it's "All Fixed"

 

Thanks Guys