blazethelight
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Anybody have experience going back to older bios revisions?
I haven't paid any attention to my computer for some time and just realized I'm on the 3.80 revision which I believe was created just to add microcode for specter fixes.
I'm one of those nutters who would rather have his system performance back. I want to go back to 3.6 to get rid of that microcode and then after that I will patch to stop Windows 10 from putting the new microcode on itself.
So is it possible/safe for me to go back to 3.6?
I've got an 18-core E5-2695 V4 cpu (ES) coming in the mail (they are super cheap on aliexpress) and a couple of Crucial 32GB ram sticks (CT32G4RFD424A) are on the way as well.
This will be a nice upgrade from the 2x16GB RAM plus 5820K i7 I have now.
But I'd like to get the full performance out of my system for the second half of its life.
Advice?
Bios downgrades must be possible.
But the Windows 10 Updates loads also microcode updates...
Look here for more information: https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/what-controls-turbo-core-in-xeons.2496647/page-123