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Originally Posted by yerp
the spl is similar to your PC's BIOS(Basic Integrated OS)...it basically initiates the hardware so the software can take over and use the hardware and load the real OS....
my guess is, this new spl has unlocked/made available portions of hardware that were previously unavailable....what those hardware/addresses may be is anyones guess except those involved in making it.....which is why i'm here reading this thread....
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Basic Input/Output System, but otherwise correct. My thinking, though, is that instead of unlocking new hardware functionality (unlikely that there's hardware that's not unlocked but could be and somehow integrate well enough to improve performance, but to improve it such a tiny amount), this SPL is simply smaller and lighter, eating up less resources, and improving performance in the process. That or overclocking the system ever so slightly (overclocking such a basic system by even 1Mhz, when taking multipliers into account, could make a difference along the lines of what we saw). But this is why I wanted to know from someone with more technical knowledge of this exact system why this would be.