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Short story: Windows in-place update is not necessary to fix the Floating Point Math performance issue.
Long story: I thought before I do an in-place Windows re-installation I would try de-installing all ASUS software. And I used this command as very first step to disable the HPET, High Precision Event Timer: "bcdedit /deletevalue useplatformclock". No reboot yet (required to make the change happen).
After de-installation of everything that was installed together with the new motherboard I rebooted the PC and run Passmark. I checked again that the HPET was still gone.
The overall CPU Mark raised by 25% from 39.649 to 50.016. The Floating Point Math went up from 37.761 to 107.780. So I decided to keep the motherboard and just leave all the bugware off the machine.
I only re-installed true drivers (german Treiber) from the support DVD as shown here:
Another re-boot and re-test: I got the same good performance.
Today I also found a new BIOS for the board which I installed because it is supposed to fix a stuttering TPM issue. Another test showed that all marks get a little bit down, leaving me with about 49.000 as CPU Mark (example https://www.passmark.com/baselines/V...d=158073104771).
Result: it is possible to get rid of the ASUS AI 3 software including Armory Crate and fix the performance problem without Windows re-installation. All this ASUS stuff is not needed when you are not interesting in lighting effects (which I switched off in BIOS).
Sorry for the typos in my first post which I am unable to correct because of the time limit.
Long story: I thought before I do an in-place Windows re-installation I would try de-installing all ASUS software. And I used this command as very first step to disable the HPET, High Precision Event Timer: "bcdedit /deletevalue useplatformclock". No reboot yet (required to make the change happen).
After de-installation of everything that was installed together with the new motherboard I rebooted the PC and run Passmark. I checked again that the HPET was still gone.
The overall CPU Mark raised by 25% from 39.649 to 50.016. The Floating Point Math went up from 37.761 to 107.780. So I decided to keep the motherboard and just leave all the bugware off the machine.
I only re-installed true drivers (german Treiber) from the support DVD as shown here:
Another re-boot and re-test: I got the same good performance.
Today I also found a new BIOS for the board which I installed because it is supposed to fix a stuttering TPM issue. Another test showed that all marks get a little bit down, leaving me with about 49.000 as CPU Mark (example https://www.passmark.com/baselines/V...d=158073104771).
Result: it is possible to get rid of the ASUS AI 3 software including Armory Crate and fix the performance problem without Windows re-installation. All this ASUS stuff is not needed when you are not interesting in lighting effects (which I switched off in BIOS).
Sorry for the typos in my first post which I am unable to correct because of the time limit.
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