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Dell's "We Disabled Undervolting for Your Safety" Joke
My Dell laptop consistently throttles performance under moderate workloads, and I've discovered that undervolting has been disabled in a recent BIOS update under the guise of "security" and "safety."...
Intel advised manufacturers to disable undervolting as a mitigation for a side-channel attack that could potentially leak sensitive data. Dell implemented this through microcode updates in newer BIOS versions.