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    How to monitor power consumption in Win 8 without Lenovo's Power Manager?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by noxxle99, Jul 24, 2013.

  1. noxxle99

    noxxle99 Notebook Deity

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    Is there a way to do this? The only other utility I've found that can monitor total system power consumption is Powertop. Unfortunately that only runs in Linux.
     
    noxxle99, Jul 24, 2013
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    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    Use perfmon and add a counter for battery discharge rate. There's also a handful of 3rd party tools like BatteryBar.
     
    Commander Wolf, Jul 24, 2013
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    Will that allow me to monitor watt usage in real-time?
     
    noxxle99, Jul 24, 2013
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