Recent content by Welsper

Yes. I've Win/Lin too: Win is "linked" to UEFI, Ubuntu isn't. Efi-driver is loaded from win-efi partition. Just use EFI-driver with microcode update or disable microcode setting as in lin as in win if you prefer _no_microcode version. Same problem. On the load: CPU has about 136W during 56 sec...

Did you disable C3/C6 states in BIOS ? My PC (EP2C612WS 2x2686v3) works fine in Win/Lin with v3x2_cp39.efi only when C6 disabled. But when uncore is forced ("cup" version of efi driver) C3 must be disabled too.

Yes you can. No problem with that.

Wow, amazing! I've got ~4700 in R15 with that (mc39 version). (Before: ~4500 w/o microcode and 4200 with mc39) Can you provide source code? I'm interested how did you make it. Alas unfortunately I had BSOD during LinX-0.7.1 testing. (v3x2_50_39_vcc.efi) :(

V3x2 isn't blocked to double socket only. It just does modification on each found CPU in system. It must work well with single Xeon too. But I've got only double socket system so I haven't checked on another one.

Use original V3.efi (V3_1.efi) for PC with single CPU and V3x2_cup.efi (from attached link) for multi CPU PC. And remove microcode update from OS. V3x2 with variuos configurations: https://ufile.io/b7d061 cup - with uncore max (max perfomance, but high power drain on idle) cp - without uncore...

Hmm... other hacks work per package. I've checked MSR registers on several cores with RU.efi (Cores which didn't execute boost hack themselves but they have neighbors in package which did it). With microcode... I thought per package was right, but actually I have got a similar mess too. 4 core...

Yep, С6 doesn't work properly yet. I've cought couple of freezes too. But C3 state works well. About MSR register list - I'm newbie here. That question to @Dufus and @The Stilt. I just have disassembled their V3.efi to find how to change boost multipliers and have searched some info in google...

Source code: https://ufile.io/e548b In Windows, you will need: 1) UDK2015: http://www.tianocore.org/udk/udk2015/ 2) Any C-compiler that is supported by UDK2015. I've used VisualStudio2013. 3) In file [UDK2015]\BaseTools\Conf\target.txt change next parameters to: ACTIVE_PLATFORM =...

Yap, that method of measuring is better. I think I need such device too. ;) Anyway I just checked C3/C6. C3 can be enabled now and C6 can be partial enabled (I've 2x option C6 in BIOS setup, second one for memory/PCI-e etc. still doesn't work). Windows didn't freeze at loading - good sign. I'm...

Hmm. I didn't check C3/C6 yet. W/o Cx it looks stable, I've been using it for a couple of hours. And I've got less than 50W per CPU... closer to 30W in balanced mode. And about 30-40W in Idle with "High performance". How much power do you have in "DRAM Power" ? Changing from windows - It's...

Try this one: https://ufile.io/e664a1 It changes cores boost + has some power limit experiments + updates microcode to 0x39, but doesn't touch uncore. Looks like it works. But it may have several penalty to performance somewhere in comparision with V3.efi where uncore on FULLMAX everytime.

Hmm. It may be uncore CPU block. V3.efi changes multipliers for boost on cores (0x1AD..1AF registers) and also as I guess multiplier for uncore (register 0x620 - I've no description). As I remember uncore multiplier changes to lower value on idle but now it is fixed at max value (3GHz in my case).

I've insert microcode update into efi driver. (V3x2_mc39.efi). So I've the boost unlock and 0x39 microcode in BIOS setup stage. But this is useless for C3/C6 on my PC (EP2C612 WS, 2686v3) it still freezes during OS loading. With 0x27 microcode - same result. However one man has write to me that...

I have no any way to check.