lol, GDPR Cat could totally be Operant Conditioning Cat - my RL cat is suffering from some serious operant conditioning right now. she's laying on the floor of my spare room because she thinks that doing so will result in her getting treats
Then again, the Hyper 212X is essentially a proven design that works.
Some storage benchmarks after applying a BIOS/UEFI firmware update to Astaroth (which uses an AMD Ryzen processor), adding Spectre mitigations. The benchmark results are surprising, with both benchmark results being markedly better. Old result first, new result second:
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-SpeculationControlSettings
Speculation control settings for CVE-2017-5715 [branch target injection]
For more information about the output below, please refer to support.microsoft.com/en-in/help/4074629
AMD CPU detected: mitigations for branch target injection on AMD CPUs have additional registry settings for this mitigation, please refer to FAQ #15 at portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance/advisory/…
Hardware support for branch target injection mitigation is present: True
I wonder if this performance improvement is due to the SSD having had its firmware updated?
Of note was that while CrystalDiskMark was found to be CPU-bound, Anvil's Storage Utilities was not.
In any case... Spectre patches have no meaningful impact on the storage performance of AMD Ryzen systems.
@Bob Seems like a fairly gaming specialised build. I hope he's nothing like you with keeping 3000 tabs open, because it won't be very good at much else than gaming.
Trying out Amazon Prime Video... click documentaries...
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u wot
oh look there's another one
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