All these Intel security flaws with Intel are suspicious, to me it feels like they want people with older CPUs to upgrade by means of either scare tactics or poor performance (by "patching" these flaws, decreasing performance to make a new CPU seem better or your once good performance poor) - so many people I know still use earlier 2nd 3rd 4th gen series CPUs because there still great performers, even I still have my old i7 2600 rig and it runs EVERYTHING out there fine and if we stick to them it means less sales for Intel, they cant have that.