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That analysis is incredible, how was the OP able to figure all of that out!?
by aroman 8y ago
That analysis is incredible, how was the OP able to figure all of that out!?
- baybal2 8y agoIntel's HDK docs?
- DavideNL 8y agoI don't know, but apparently (1): >> Originally posted at MacRumors by winterny >> https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/optimal-cpu-tuning-settings-for-i9-mbp-to-stop-vrm-throttling-explanation-of-apples-engineering-f.2128936/ https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/optimal-cpu-tuning-sett... 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17602455 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17602455
- DuskStar 8y agoThe Reddit post was about 20 minutes earlier.
- old-gregg 8y agoI've experienced some early adopter pains with the desktop version of this CPU (x299 platform) when it came out and I used linux kernel mailing list to search for answers. I was surprised how easy it was to read the code of the related kernel modules and interact with their authors (Intel engineers). These "magic codes" are probably just #define macros somewhere in the kernel repo, in my case it was in [1] [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/platform/x86 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/platfo...
- AdamJacobMuller 8y agoLots and lots of testing and lots of reading intel docs / example code on the internet. I probably ran cinebench and prime95 about 2000 times in the past few days.
- ddalex 8y agoIf you're designing hardware, this is a thing that people know. The new Xps machines have the same VMR problem. Probably he tested for a known problem and bingo! I wonder if the discoverer works for any hardware design company.