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Broadwell-E windows 10 overclocking fix

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Well something went a little wrong with my windows install so i did a fresh install of 1909 and low and behold it broke the overclock on my 6950x

So i did the usual fix of deleting mcupdate_genuineintel.dll from the system32 folder but my cpu was still showing a max of 3.6 ghz on all cores.

Tried everything , messing with the power plans , disabling specter and meltdown mitigations , rebooted , re installed AGAIN, nope overclocking broken.

So just to make sure i wasn't being stupid or windows was trolling me by putting the file back i checked the system32 folder again. Well everything was exactly as it should be, however as a last ditched effort to get overclocking working i deleted the mcupdate_authenticamd.dll and hey presto ! overclocking now works again

Why this works i don't know , but i thought i'd share the tip.
 
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