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Workaround helps improve gaming performance on outdated Intel CPUs — Resizable Bar UEFI mod works with CPUs as old as Sandy Bridge (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] hushable 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

In order to use the resizable BAR/SAM feature, you need a compatible CPU and GPU. This would make it possible to use older CPUs but you'll still need a compatible GPU which I think it's series 2000 and newer for nVidia, so no.

edit: technically you also need a compatible motherboard, but seems like most of them are, never hurts to double check

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hmm, I've got a 3080 in my i7 5930K system. I wonder if it works on that?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Solid chance. Take a peek at the github repo, someone might have even done it already