Tweaked Power Profile to reduce heat while gaming

Hey All,

Found this and thought i might share.

We all know turbo boost = heat any many people turn it off which does make sense.

However i do some fairly cpu intensive work somtimes and like having that extra power around, but its not required while gaming, since most games wont utalise all 4 cores let alone the hyper threaded 8 cores of the m14x.

So i did some digging and found that if you change your CPU power managment in the advanced power options to somthing other than 100% (ie 99%) it will stop turbo boost from kicking in, as turbo boost will only kick in at 100% (also change the minimum to about 5%)

this has droped my avg temps in skyrim from about 89-90 to high 70's low 80's

quite a big difference, and i dont loose my turbo boost functionality while not gaming, and i dont hafta to turn it off and on in the bios all the time, just right click on the power meter and change power profiles

Hope that helps some of you.

Cheers,

Scythe

 

Just as a bit of extra info.

Without using my cooling pad, I ran OCCT to stress the CPU to 100% with each power profile.

- With turbo boost i was getting 89-90 avg across the 4 cores and 68 on the GPU

- Without Turbo boost i was getting 81 avg across all 4 cores and 56 GPU

so there is a little bit off a difference there, I will test tonight in skyrim and see if there is also any performance decrease, but im not expecting any as the CPU has plenty of grunt.

NOTE: figures are in Degrees Celsius

I will also re-run the above test with the cooling pad (coolermaster U2)

 

now getting a consistent sub 80 degree while playing skyrim.

seems to work really well and means you dont need to have turbo boost toggled in the BIOS

hope that helps some people