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

Posted by BeauHD on Thursday February 15, 2018 @01:00AM 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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You can do this on older version too by Anonymous Coward · 2018-02-15 01:05 · Score: 5, Insightful

Simply disable Windows Defender.
Forced reboots make this meaningless. by mukinrestak · 2018-02-15 02:18 · 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.