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Re:AMD Threadripper 3970X under heavy AVX2 load: Defective b... by fivesixzero on Friday February 21, 2020 @11:01AM (#22384086)
I’m curious if this behavior defined by something in hardware, microcode, boot-time BIOS flags, or higher level kernel/hypervisor/application code.
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Re:AMD Threadripper 3970X under heavy AVX2 load: Defective b... by gameswithgo on Friday February 21, 2020 @11:17AM (#22384232)
on unlocked intel cpus you can change the avx multiplier in the bios.
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Re:AMD Threadripper 3970X under heavy AVX2 load: Defective b... by olliej on Friday February 21, 2020 @12:08PM (#22384700)
Oh neat (I haven’t messed with over clocking in years) - is it just avx that you can tailor? (Beyond the old school bus multipliers)
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