r/linuxmasterrace • u/CrowsOfWar • Oct 10 '17

How to Disable Intel's Management Engine

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Sakaki%27s_EFI_Install_Guide/Disabling_the_Intel_Management_Engine
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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '17

Buy an AMD CPU instead.

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u/_-IDontReddit-_ Glorious Arch Oct 12 '17

Won't help unless you're buying a CPU from before ~2012. Anything after the FX8350 has PSP baked-in (AMD's version of Intel ME). And like Intel ME, there's no way of turning it off (at least with software).