To the average user: literally nothing.
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MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 1 year agoWhat’s the downside of having it disabled?
sugartits@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Comment on Intel’s new 14th Gen CPUs arrive on October 17th with up to 6GHz out of the box
MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 1 year agoWhat’s the downside of having it disabled?
To the average user: literally nothing.
DancingIsForbidden@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The downside of disabling it is the chance of bricking your expensive chips, 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 there to be a firmware back door for the NSA and foreign hackers.