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* all PCIe 3.0 motherboards should [https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-pci/msg65658.html support] [https://github.com/JuliaComputing/nvidia-driver-pcie-rebar/issues/2 somehow] Resizable-BAR (needed for Smart Access Memory), but [https://old.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/k6cbk7/zen_zen_and_zen_2_cannot_support_sam_due_to_the/gek8sop/ before] Zen 3 CPUs a [https://twitter.com/SebAaltonen/status/1327191532177420288 critical instruction] for such graphical applications was emulated slow enough to make it useless
 
* all PCIe 3.0 motherboards should [https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-pci/msg65658.html support] [https://github.com/JuliaComputing/nvidia-driver-pcie-rebar/issues/2 somehow] Resizable-BAR (needed for Smart Access Memory), but [https://old.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/k6cbk7/zen_zen_and_zen_2_cannot_support_sam_due_to_the/gek8sop/ before] Zen 3 CPUs a [https://twitter.com/SebAaltonen/status/1327191532177420288 critical instruction] for such graphical applications was emulated slow enough to make it useless
  
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* I couldn't find [https://www.overclock.net/forum/78-pc-gaming/1487105-want-higher-fps-what-timer-do-you-use-2.html#post26423128 anybody] on the net [https://www.anandtech.com/show/12678/a-timely-discovery-examining-amd-2nd-gen-ryzen-results/4 seriously] reporting that forcing HPET helped them save for touching BCLK [https://web.archive.org/web/20150919163144/http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/must-read-setfsb-o-c-game-problems-fixed.569893/ live] or under [https://web.archive.org/web/20160314074421/https://www.ocaholic.ch/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=1071&lang=english W8](+?). Still for some reason [https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/another-look-at-hpet-high-precision-event-timer.368604/page-42 something] in the AMD drivers always does/did that.  
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* I couldn't find [https://www.overclock.net/forum/78-pc-gaming/1487105-want-higher-fps-what-timer-do-you-use-2.html#post26423128 anybody] on the net [https://www.anandtech.com/show/12678/a-timely-discovery-examining-amd-2nd-gen-ryzen-results/4 seriously] reporting that forcing HPET helped them save for touching BCLK [https://web.archive.org/web/20150919163144/http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/must-read-setfsb-o-c-game-problems-fixed.569893/ live] or under [https://web.archive.org/web/20160314074421/https://www.ocaholic.ch/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=1071&lang=english W8](+?). Still for some reason [https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/another-look-at-hpet-high-precision-event-timer.368604/page-42 something] in the AMD drivers always does/did that. <small><small>EDIT: [https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/8910#note_1895831 wtf]?</small></small>
  
 
* fTPM <small>([https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216989#c94 necessary] but not sufficient condition?)</small> ''was'' [https://hothardware.com/news/amd-bios-updates-resolve-ryzen-stuttering-issue confirmed] to be able to cause hard stutters
 
* fTPM <small>([https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216989#c94 necessary] but not sufficient condition?)</small> ''was'' [https://hothardware.com/news/amd-bios-updates-resolve-ryzen-stuttering-issue confirmed] to be able to cause hard stutters