Anyone has experience with this? I recently reinstalled it and realized how invasive it is (three drivers, two services plus an "assistant" process, some injected DLLs) while bringing dubious benefits (some additional power settings unlocked, temperature and performance remain the same). This is on an ultra-low power laptop with only a heat sink and integrated graphics that rarely runs on battery power.
Feedback around the Internet ranges from "you need it to prevent your computer from melting down under high load" to "I had to uninstall it because it was permanently underclocking my processor to 400 MHz". If it does nothing truly relevant and turning it off doesn't result in any undesirable consequences, then I'd rather do exactly that. Especially after the fiasco that is the Intel Management Engine and its little brother the Trusted Execution Engine, which I had to remove by reflashing a hacked BIOS with a flash memory programmer; the less "mysterious" stuff I have running, the better.
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