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Intel’s new 14th Gen CPUs arrive on October 17th with up to 6GHz out of the box (www.theverge.com)
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[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What's the downside of having it disabled?

[–] DancingIsForbidden@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The downside of disabling it is the chance of bricking your expensive silicon, as the drivers to it are mysteriously inaccessible to the operating system, but I literally can’t think of anything else to add once it’s already down. It’s not-end user facing, there’s no API for it, it’s basically just there to be a firmware back door for the NSA and possibly extremely skilled foreign hackers. It doesn’t affect the actual processing layer of the chip at all IIRC.

[–] sugartits@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

To the average user: literally nothing.