Hacker News Reader

Haswell and older will see more-significant slowdowns, Skylake and newer will see less-significant slowdowns... what about Broadwell? I have a 6850k.

View on HN

6850k has launch date 2016. So you are fine.

Microsoft claims CPUs post 2015 only have unnoticable slowdown.

I have a i7 5500 so I am also interested in this. Broadwell is a shrink of Haswell (22nm->14nm), a "tick" in intel terminology. So Broadwell users might not be that lucky?

Great, thanks! I'm mainly on Ubuntu anyways, so I'll still have to see how I'm affected when I update my microcode.

On the bright side, finally a reason for me to upgrade my desktop 3770k?

> finally a reason for me to spend money although everything previously worked

FTFY

yeah, you're right there. in actuality i still can't pull the trigger, it's a perfectly fine machine and nearly 5 years old if i remember right.

it could do with a pcie sdd and maybe a gpu upgrade but it's still perfectly serviceable. the only thing that has failed is the motherboard (was able to replace that for 110 AUD) and the CPU fan (i bought the wrong one and burned the bearings out because it was for lower TDP cpus).

Still rocking my 3770K here too - that thing is rock solid.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com