This is really just undermining Intel's justification for those cores in the first place...

schmidtbag:

This is really just undermining Intel's justification for those cores in the first place...

If anything I have been _amazed just how smoothly the introduction of hybrid-cores setup went. There will be power/scheduling tweaking in the future, likely yielding +% here and there, but in 99.99% cases P+E setup JUST WORKS - as intended and right out of the gate! Which is goddamn spectacular TBH.

schmidtbag:

This is really just undermining Intel's justification for those cores in the first place...

Some crappy DRM being broken by the concept of hybrid cores undermines Intel... how exactly? All they do is offer a work-around, they don't claim the performance will be the same as if the DRM wasn't being crappy.

nevcairiel:

Some crappy DRM being broken by the concept of hybrid cores undermines Intel... how exactly? All they do is offer a work-around, they don't claim the performance will be the same as if the DRM wasn't being crappy.

I'm not understanding your train of thought here but clearly, you don't understand mine either. Intel invested a lot for the R&D for these cores to a point where they are competitive enough to have a price point only slightly less than performance cores. People have had doubts about these cores (which I have been continuously disagreeing with for months, as I see the value in them). Intel should do everything in their power to convince people these cores are not a mistake. So, it very much is undermining their efforts when they tell you how to disable them. Why buy into this new platform and go through the inconvenience of going into BIOS to turn off $75-$200 worth of hardware? I understand this isn't Intel's fault, but this is the sort of thing they should have figured out before launch.

Noisiv:

If anything I have been _amazed just how smoothly the introduction of hybrid-cores setup went. There will be power/scheduling tweaking in the future, likely yielding +% here and there, but in 99.99% cases P+E setup JUST WORKS - as intended and right out of the gate! Which is goddamn spectacular TBH.

Windows has already been coaxed to work with hybrid cores for years, thanks to ARM. Minus these DRM/AC issues, I would be shocked and disappointed if it were worse. Obviously, Intel's architecture is far more complicated, so I expect there to be more fine-tuning to work with.

This just proves anymore that Denuvo need a to die off just light starforce did. Trash DRM. Glad Intel has a work around.