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so as many of you probably know, i7 CPUs ain't better than i5 CPUs their just different with different strong points & weak points for i7 the weak point is that they totally suck in single-thread apps where they get owned by an i5 (even a "high end" skylake gets beat by an Ivy bridge with a lower clock how about that lol) and the only "fix" so far is reboot, go into bios & disable hyperthreading (cause for some reason it's impossible to disable HT "on the fly"). and then reboot & reenable HT for gaming (basically it's technologically impossible so far to make a cpu that is good in both single- & multi- threading) so my question is anyone found a fix to improve i7 performance in single thread without having to reboot & change Bios settings?

is there a way of knowing which updates have telemetry & which ones don't? (and a way to block it)

I've a router between my pc & the wall will that do? (will the router still see traffic that the ME hides from windows?) if I was a hacker/dealer/terrorist/whatever then I'd have nothing to be concerned about (it's not the guilty who've anything to fear nowadays) come to think of it I should've been a hacker :/ on the other hand I don't like the idea of my pc being turned into a zombie or spam relay or something because of crap ME & its vulnerabilities or Intel themselves using ME to steal my personal info then selling it to their commercial partners

anyway offtopic politics always fun but - any answer to my questions perchance? 1) 2)

facebook u kidding right? I'll be damned if I ever use this sh I'd also elaborate on the sort of fate I wish befalls the corrupt POS who founded this (hey one can only hope) but it'd be probably violate forum rules :/ and I only use M$ cause it's the only OS for gaming so no choice there either (else I'd only have Linux on my HD) but hey I totally understand your viewpoint I mean, morality's proportionate to wealth so obviously megacorps can do no wrong & only an anarcho-communist™ would think otherwise, and who are we the commonfolk to judge the elites & doubt their purely altruistic intents, etc. etc. so how about this I get the tin/aluminium hat, and you drop w/e you're doing & go work in coal (that's what the elites want us to do now apparently) deal?

lol Apple got like 3x the a$$ets of Intel so their even more dishonest

k so that's yet another question: if ME has lowest level access to network cards does this mean they can hide their traffic so that even Netstat doesn't show it?

k thx now this a tricky question: I read that the ME has "super low level access to network card" so my question is, without vpro can ME still use my network card to connect to the web & dial home or does it need vpro/AMT to do so? (basically my question is can Intel still use their backdoor even without vpro)

suppose I install a very recent non-Intel Ethernet card (more recent then the ME drivers) will ME still be able to access the network? any way of preventing it from doing so? (I read that blocking traffic in router is useless but they dont explain why)

if a CPU don't have vPro (like the K versions of 2600 or 7700) does this mean it won't have MEI? or at least it won't have AMT? (the dangerous part of MEI with the exploits & backdoors & vulnerabilities & sh) ps. I googled this extensively & only get contradictory answers so no one seem to know :/

I read that not reassuring in a nutshell they say it's for remote administration in other words something the average customer not only doesn't need but also doesn't want it also doesn't say what happens if I don't install drivers - - - Updated - - - btw what if I install a non-Intel separate pci-e NIC card this one should be off limits for the ME right?

that's the thing I've had windows operate for far longer than 30mn without the MEI drivers installed & it didn't shutdown so what's the difference with MEI drivers installed or not? without going into politics (much as it's tempting)...I know it's easy to side with Intel cause it is Intel so with such a yuge revenue this megacorporation obviou$ly can only have good intent & it'd be very commie to think otherwise & blabla - but still: if you're not guilty you've nothing to hide no? so why hide what it does? why the f does it need direct access to the NIC? in fact why include this crap at all? for the customer? lol performance? it's been shown to hinder performance so try again security? more bollox it's been shown to lower security not improve it (more points of failure & more exploits cf. 11/2017) so...now that's it's established it's just useless bloatware (like that wasn't bloody obvious)...what's the only explanation left? what's the simplest explanation? Occam's razor, heard of? and why omit a simple option in Bios to disable it like AMD recently did with theirs? care to explain that one?

so what happens if I don't install the drivers of Intel's MEI? these turds never gave an option to disable MEI in Bios (unlike AMD which gave the option to disable PSP) so since it can't be disabled in Bios, what if I just don't install the drivers in windows? 1) if I don't install MEI drivers will this disable the MEI itself? will it disable all the built-in backdoors & spyware & what not? can any techie here confirm? 2) what are the other consequences of not installing drivers? (aside from the unknown "pci simple controller" device appearing in device list) will this prevent some apps from running? mess up speedfan probe readings? increase/decrease gaming performance? etc.

but windowsPE + imageX is only file-based right? I read to many incidents about those apps skipping key items that Ghost didn't miss during backup is there any sector-based (ie. reliable) backup solution? (more advanced than Ghost I mean since Ghost is also sector based) maybe cause file systems havent evolved since then (still NTFS) Ghost has never failed me so far ("if it ain't broke" etc.) but if there's something identical in function to Ghost & more recent then I'm good

(though maybe I should've bolded it) besides even the security reason doesn't make that much sense: pagefile exists during the entire time my PC is on, what if someone hacks it then? if security were a real concern then there should be no pagefile at all even while the PC's running and while we're at it no private data should be stored on the PC either (no mails or cookies or anything). hackers don't need to look into the pagefile to extract private data I know: my query is whether this can be done quickly (by deleting instead of wiping) anyway mine is a primitive backing solution (Ghost) : it requires that you first boot into some sort of simple command-line OS (which they called DOS) and from there, startup Ghost & backup the OS (you can't backup a running OS from within a running OS apparently since data on the active partition changes constantly so you have to first boot in DOS) and guess what: since windows is on an NTFS drive, it's impossible to access & delete files from within DOS on an NTFS partition (DOS doesn't even see NTFS partitions. if I'm in DOS & I even try to change drive letter to an NTFS partition, DOS will say "abort, retry, fail" or something) so unless anyone knows of a "super DOS" which can actually see NTFS partitions...???