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ucrdem

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5. I have an Athlon II X2 250 in an HP desktop I use a lot ..

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Sat Jan 13, 2018, 05:43 PM

Jan 2018

It's an ebay special first sold I think in 2009. I installed the Spectre update when they sent it a couple of weeks ago, and it caused a few burps and hiccups, but so far nothing catastrophic, knock on wood.

p.s. I looked for a list of affected chips and so far haven't found one.

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