heyyyyyy. check this out
i bought one of those chinese motherboards which get the UEFI package from American Megatrends and then enable options with the guiding principle of "YES."
check out how many juicy bits it has
you can turn the memory scrambler on and off! it even tells you the seed it has on, i think, this specific boot?
it has soooo many PCIe configuration options. port bifurcation is just the start of it. there's probably an option for every power related register
you can enable "PCIe Stop & Scream", whatever the hell that is
I think my favorite one is just
PCIe Stop & Scream Support [Disable]
when you open the IntelRCSetup (what's RC?) the setup utility tells you "if you change some of these settings the system may malfunction"
that's an understatement of the year
if you want this motherboard, it is unbelievably easy. it's on sale for 30€, including the Xeon CPU it needs: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005008826220177.html
note that it is made to a price point and it is barebones: it has no USB3, for example. but on the flipside, you can split its PCIe x16 graphics port four ways and connect six PCIe Gen3 NVMe drives to it (plus some SATA)
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