Windows Defender is reportedly hindering performance on Intel CPUs

Counter Control is a small program that will monitor the fixed performance counters on Intel processors.
Microsoft's Windows Defender anti-virus software will sporadically take over all hardware performance counters and use them in a way that reduces system performance significantly. Using Counter Control you can identify this and mitigate it. Source
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First thing i do on w10 is kill defender.
 
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crypticus said:
not a surprise really, it is a realtime scanner afterall
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article says its a bug, gotta be otherwise amd amd would be affected too.
resources use going up when you are doing stuff fine, i can accept that, 'specially when you are online, i got 6c/6t and 16gb so i dont worry.
 
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