12th Gen Intel Core BIOS 3.06 Beta

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I’ll post detailed findings here

I have yet to make a summary of the idle power usage, but the standby results are up here:

[TRACKING] Test results for standby battery use of Expansion Cards

I finalized my standby battery tests - anarcat after the 3.06 BIOS upgrade. The TL;DR: nothing is really improved except the DisplayPort which is a little less bad. USB-A still a significant problem. Result summaries: Device Wattage Amperage Days Note baseline 0.25W 16mA 9 no cards, same as before upgrade 1 USB-C 0.25W 16mA 9 same as before 2 USB-C 0.25W 16mA 9 same 1 USB-A 0.80W 62mA 3 +550mW!! worse than before 2 USB-A 1.12W 73mA <2 +320mW, on top of the above, bad! Etherne…