Comment by menaerus

I see. I am out of other ideas besides trying to play with BIOS tweaks wrt memory and CPU. I can see that there are plenty of them, for worse or for the better.

At a quick glance, some of them look interesting such as "Workload tuning" where you can pick different profiles. There is "memory throughput intensive" profile. You can also try to explicitly disable DIMMs that are not in use given you use only half of them. I wouldn't hold my breath that any of these will make a big difference but you can give it try.