Ran the latency tests after disabling smi and various changes to the bios. The results were less than what i got from the livecd. like, embarrassingly so. I may not have configured the kernel quite right. I left several things on in the acpi section, plus did not remove the debug option. Are there too many differences between the live cd and the newer kernels that I couldn't compare the settings? Seems like a good start to go back to where i had good latency and compare it to what I have.
I was hoping to turn the fan on high and disable the smi on start-up, but that will have to wait until I've fixed the latency issues. if anyone is willing to test what I have so far, that would be a great help, to see how it performs on another system. The instructions so far are at the similarly title topic ending in instructions.
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