Prolimehost Blog CPU choices for gaming from expensive to entry-level

Across the web, we’re seeing a fairly wide variance in what CPU’s are recommended for various gaming applications, and that’s due in part to the Meltdown/Spectre fiasco. According to MeltdownAttack, those systems affected by Meltdown are: “Desktop, Laptop, and Cloud computers may be affected by Meltdown. More technically, every Intel processor which implements out-of-order execution is potentially affected, which is effectively every processor since 1995 (except Intel Itanium and Intel Atom before 2013). We successfully tested Meltdown on Intel processor generations released as early as 2011. Currently, we have only verified Meltdown on Intel processors. At the moment, it is