For anyone considering whether to disable these for desktop performance, I tried to do some research on how much it helps, at least for my workload. From what I

For anyone considering whether to disable these for desktop performance, I tried to do some research on how much it helps, at least for my workload. From what I was able to read, for gaming, the performance differences are negligible. There also seems to be some indication that disabling mitigations is also harmful to performance on more recent CPUs, since more and more of the mitigations are being baked into the silicon. https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/kp6b6i/how_bad_is_it_to_disable_specter_and_meltdown/ https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/kp6b6i/how_bad_is_it...