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Intel 'Downfall': Severe flaw in billions of CPUs leaks passwords and much more (www.pcworld.com)
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[–] 8 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (12 children)

I'm dumber, can you tell me how to find the numbers after the dash? Mine is an i5, that's all I know.

Edit: On linux. Sorry, should've specified, I'm so used to everyone on lemmy running linux lol.

'Nother edit: i5-5200U, "Broadwell-U" version. So looks like I'm good (and this pc is 5yr newer than I thought lol.)

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Check out the processor in Task Manager's Performance tab

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Linux! But thanks!

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Well I had expected someone running linux to know that lol

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Well you expect wrong! Lol tbh it isn't often I need to know the specific model of processor I have, typically "sticker says i5" works just fine, but this time not so much lol.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I don't know how much you care about this, but even within each product class (i5, i7, etc) there can be a huge performance delta between specific models, especially in laptop chips. The same applies to AMD.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    This will be a concern next time I buy (or build) a pc, but this laptop is a "Hey Ma, do you still have that old laptop you don't use from 2010? I wanna try linux" machine.

    Turns out after I installed Fedora I was never able to stop using it since it is so much better than windows so now I'm going on year 2 of "shit I guess I don't really need to upgrade if it works this well!" Lol

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Probably search files/run in the start menu, then type dxdiag

    That's what it normally is on Windows, I can't remember the Linux command

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