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Windows 10 Is Adding an Ultimate Performance Mode For Pros (engadget.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the new-and-improved dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: When you're creating 3D models or otherwise running intensive tasks, you want to wring every ounce of performance out of your PC as possible. It's a good thing, then, that Microsoft has released a Windows 10 preview build in the Fast ring that includes a new Ultimate Performance mode if you're running Pro for Workstations. As the name implies, this is a step up for people for whom even the High Performance mode isn't enough -- it throws power management out the window to eliminate "micro-latencies" and boost raw speed. You can set it yourself, but PC makers will have the option of shipping systems with the feature turned on. Ultimate Performance isn't currently available for laptops or tablets, but Microsoft suggests that could change.

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  1. You can do this on older version too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Simply disable Windows Defender.

  2. Why wasn't this an option before? by theraptor05 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I want my computer to run slow. Please leave Ultimate Performance off, maybe insert some extra latency in a few places just because... This is hardly a new requirement. For the work I do, Windows has always been looked past because it couldn't get out of it's own way when running high-performance or near real time code. It will never do actual real time (Microsoft could make that, but it wouldn't be called Windows), but why has this "Ultra Extreme Actually Fast" mode been so impossible in the past?

  3. But Telemetry will still be turned on by IWantMoreSpamPlease · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Still gathering a ton of data, which at the very least will impact network throughput.

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    1. Re:But Telemetry will still be turned on by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Is there a place that lists all the ways that it phones home? Preferably in a format that can be inserted into an open source firewall?

  4. Re:LOLZ by AmiMoJo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    2% isn't going to help much when the Meltdown patch just hit you for 50%.

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  5. Here's how you could boost performance even more! by Opportunist · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Disable data collection and spying on us. Frees up CPU resources as well as network resources.

    And I'd dare say that it would be easy to implement, no tweaking necessary. All it takes is flipping a few compiler switches...

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  6. Forced reboots make this meaningless. by mukinrestak · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It doesn't matter how much performance they can wrangle when the OS still forces reboots for updates in the middle of compiling, encoding, rendering, etc.

    You can't "just save" some things.