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I've tried undervolting, which did very little for my desktop, but prolonged the battery life and reduce heat noticeably for my Surface Pro. Especially since th
by powersnail 6y ago
I've tried undervolting, which did very little for my desktop, but prolonged the battery life and reduce heat noticeably for my Surface Pro. Especially since the Surface was fan-less, the reduction in heat actually helps with performance as well. The only quirk is the BIOS of Surface provides no such options and I have to use intel extreme tuning utility, which crashes sometimes.
If Linux gets undervolting support, that will help a bunch of laptops without highly configurable BIOSes.
- bserge 6y agoForget XTU, use Throttlestop. It's amazing what functionality the developer baked into it by mostly trial and error with Intel's hidden MSRs. Linux also has utilities for this, using the same MSRs, although support for a lot of processors is lacking.