> Evan: From a security point of view (Rowhammer, Fallout, RIDL, ZombieLoad > ...) I would encourage you to consider an AMD processor. (Or better yet, ARM > - but that's not really viable on the desktop yet.) AMD isn't totally immune > to the plethora of recent attacks, but it's a lot better off. (I say this, > but I'm writing you from an 8th gen i7 bought in the middle of that series of > appalling revelations.) >
Honestly, the latest round of flaws are nothing special. For most desktop use case, I wouldn't worry. It is very difficult to exploit it. If you are really worried, go for something like an i3, which is essentially an i5 with HT disabled. I would be worried about several easier to exploit issues before worrying about MDS or L1TF. (Meltdown was different, but newer CPUs already have it fixed in hardware). Something like Spectre affects every single modern CPU which does speculative execution and we will be fighting it for a long long time. (Of course, if you are in a cloud environment, the situation is different). Dhaval --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk