Unleash the power of your Intel i7!

Most OS's have fairly conservative cpu throttling algorithms. Unleash the full power of your Intel i7 by doing this:

-Customize your POWER SAVER profile
-Customize your HIGH PERFORMANCE profile

Then, install this:

Power Plan Assistant 3.1a Download - TechSpot

Set it to automatically select your POWER SAVE profile when you are UNPLUGGED and set it to selection your HIGH PERFORMANCE profile when you are plugged in.

If you do CTRL-SHIFT-ESC in Windows 8, then click MORE DETAILS > PERFORMANCE tab; it now shows the exact Ghz your machine is running at.

Load up Farmville 2 and see how fast your machine is actually running. My GF's i7-3740 was throttled at only 1.3-1.4ghz. But, after forcing it to run at HIGH PERFORMANCE, it now runs at 3.5ghz!

Everything is super smooth! Scrolling on Pinterest is buttery smooth even at 1080p!

 

Thanks.

Is it safe to use with my M14x R2? I'm concerned about temps.

 

I thought this thread would be about throttlestop/summon uncle webb ~~

 

Well the CPU should clock itself up as it is loaded, forcing it to it's maximum turbo all the time is quite inefficient.

 

Let's not feed the troll...

 

Well it's an important thing to look at, but typically the newest CPUs are pretty good at only clocking up when they need to.

 

If you look in the power profiles you can see why it only was stuck at around 1.5ghz. Under processor power management of a power profile you can set the minimum and maximum processor state, setting it to 0 as the min and maximum actually locks the clock of my CPU to 1.2 ghz (i use it locked to 1.2 when on battery power to get decent life out of it) if you set the min to 100% then it should be at the maximum CPU speed. I think the pre defined profiles have it set to something weird, so you may want to double check the values.

I created my own tbh, extreme power save on battery but performance when plugged in.

 

Hhhhmmm

But isnt keeping it locked at 3.5ghz means your pushing cpu in turbo mode and actually making it single core rather than quad core or am i missing something here?

Also power profile may have some effect but i7's are very good at throttling speed as needed. I was under the impression that this is what makes them power efficient.

My e6420 with i7 does the same, it throttles up and down as needed. Full processing power unplugged goes for maybe 90mins but just browsing it goes for almost 3hrs.

 

3740 has a max 4 core turbo speed of 3.5ghz.

 

I feel like this is completely useless, all it would do is increase power draw and reduce battery life...

I mean I would love to have my CPU running at high clock speeds all the time ... But would hate the hassle between plugged in and on battery, cant be bothered for literally no gain

 

Well if you look at the clock speed just with the default profiles, going from balanced to high performance will make the CPU more aggressive anyway.

 

This does indeed work well, processors do their work but it's always good to be on top of them. Thx for sharing!

 

I'm in the same boat, that's why I looked for an app like this.

I want my machine to run at 100% when plugged in.

However, when running on battery, I want it to throttle itself as needed.

Android phones have a dozen "specialized" algorithms for throttling frequency "as needed."

[GUIDE] CPU Governors Explained in Detail for Android.... - xda-developers

But, Windows only has one, and I think it's very conservative. It's not like we have a dozen different CPU governors we can choose from.

It's cool that in Windows 8 Task Manager, you can see the exact freq you're running in real time. Do some tests and see if you think throttling might be too conservative. If the throttling is fine for you, then you don't have to install this app.

 

Exactly, that's the same speedstep freq my laptop was running in most often: 1.2ghz on my i7-3740qm

Even when I thought I was "pushing it" it felt like it didn't need to go higher.

I just feel like, I paid for an i7...now, make it work!

 

If you open up throttlestop you can actually get it down to 800mhz..... But regardless, having your CPU at 100% all the time makes little sense even on a desktop.