Need help with ThrottleStop

Dear fellow forum members,
I am currently using an Acer Predator Helios 300 with an i7-7700HQ,GTX 1060 6GB and 8GB of RAM.
For some time now, I have been using ThrottleStop and to be honest, I am confused.
I am not talking about the undervolting, but the rest of the programs seem...unclear.
So I am trying to look for is a balance of performance and heat for the first profile-Performance and the second-Battery is about the balance of battery life and performance.
I have tried like 3 times now and I am so desperate in the doing so.
Can anyone please give me a guide, a detailed one with proper guidelines or tips and tricks for doing these things?

Anything is appreciated. Thanks beforehand.

Ps:the Speed Shift value is so hard to tune.​

 

Have you down some undervolting?

Kaby Lake HQ series seem to undervolt pretty well, around -120 mV for the 7700HQ but yours could be different. See if your chip handles that, if not bump it down 10 mV and keep doing that until your chip is stable and has no errors during stress testing. You should also do a CPU+GPU test for 15 minutes to ensure rock solid stability.

To stress test your CPU get Prime95 and run a 15 minute Small FFTs torture test with the flag "CpuSupportsAVX=0" in local.txt file in your Prime95 folder. This disables AVX as AVX with small FFTs is too much. If you want more peace of mind, run a custom stress test and set minimum FFT size to 1344K and maximum FFT size 1344K and run it for another 15 minutes.

For GPU combined testing, get Unigine Heaven and run it alongside Prime95 small FFTs.

After all this comes an idle test. Go to start and type "msconfig" and hit enter, click services, check "Hide all non Microsoft services and disable all of them except drivers. Also disable any startup programs except drivers in Task Manager. After that is all done, restart, login and don't touch the system for an hour. If your machine is still active and responsive, it is stable.

Set this undervolt for all profiles.

P.S: Core/cache undervolt the same and they also undervolt the same so if you do -120 mV on core, do it in cache too.


Back to throttlestop

Assign profile 1 to AC Profile under options and don't touch it.

Rename Profile 2 to "Melting" under options and check "NVIDIA GPU" and "Alarm" and restart TS. After that open Options and under alarm set the CPU DTS to 15 and GPU Temp to 85 degrees. CPU profile box right under DTS should be 2 and the same for the box under the GPU Temp box.

This should allow Throttlestop to disable intel turbo boost when the CPU or GPU get too hot, allowing the CPU to cool down and go back to full speed.

Goto options in TS and set battery profile to 2 and low battery profile to 2 aswell. You can decide what the low battery percentage is. E.g: 35% means TS switches to profile 2, disabling turbo boost and saves battery.





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Hey thanks for the reply.
I will try again tonight.
May I ask,how can I set up Speed Shift EET?
Yea,I have done some undervolting before but they were imperfect.

 

@Mr.K-1994

Speedstep determines dynamic turbo boost and voltage depending on the task. SpeedShift was the software version of this and this is the hardware version which means the these dynamic changes are made faster. Leave both enabled and untouched.

 

Thanks,again,but for my specific laptop model,a guy said that if you entered the value of 0,the CPU will run at 3.8GHz at ALL CORES.I mean,how is this possible?
And the same guy,who apprently is one of top-tier members if not the best one of the Acer English Predator community,also said you could improve battery life of you tuned at the right value.
Can you confirm that this is the truth?Or maybe UncleWebb can give me an answer?

 

Nope!!

 

Can you provide more than a word?
Screenshots or a detailed explanation would be appreciated.
This is the post where I discovered the method: https://community.acer.com/en/discu...g9-793-79v5-and-how-high-can-i-take-it#latest

 

Image from your link. Average 3.8GHz on all cores... The man who posted this is blind. Previous gen Intel Mobile i7-7700Hq processor as showed in the link is fully locked down. And its a 45w chips... (Power_Limit_1) set at 45W. + the Clock speed multiplicators is locked. Explanation below. In some notebook models you may get rise the BCLK clock up to 103 if you are lucky. But thats it.


The only locked down Mobile processors from the last 5 years who can be tricked to run higher clock speed than default clock frequency is the Intel Core Haswell Mobile processors from 2013/14. This due a BUG i firmware. Here is the link if interested.

As you have seen in your link stated... "Now for the trick, you can use throttlestop (theres a lot of videos on Youtube) and set its speed shift eep to "0" and it makes all CPU cores able to reach 3.6-3.8ghz simultaneously.
Also speed shift removes the OS control of speed step which helps govern tasks much more efficiently and it increases performance as well."

This is pure ****y. The man have to learn what polling Period frequency means. Aka how fast the monitoring software refresh the info showed.

If you want more info than being said in this post... You could of couse ask the ThrottleStop author @unclewebb in The ThrottleStop Guide But the answer will be the same.

 

But do you have any explanation about that screenshot?If it wasn't true then how was it displayed in MSI afterburner monitoring?

 

The refresh rate aka the software monitoring speed (polling period frequency) is a lot slower than the clock speed who jumping around several times a second.


See. I have all 6 cores at 4.3GHz (default). But Hwinfo64 monitoring software cant keep up with how the clock speed changes around and show all 6 cores at 4.5GHz (polling period too slow). But this doesn't mean my chips run 4.5GHz on all 6 cores.

 

Thanks for quick rep!
So back to the topic,will changing the value of Speed Shift EEP higher will increase battery life?
I am using 196 and under stress by TS bench,it seems like it limited the clock speed at around 2.5GHz.
Should I do this?I never use something demanding on battery

 

The higher Speed Shift EEP numbers the more power saving. But remember the Cpu have to use longer time to perform same tasks due the lower clock speed. If Cpu run faster it will perform the tasks faster and go back to idle state where it doesn't use much power. All depends on your use.

Edit...
How to Lower Temperatures, Stop Throttling, and Increase Battery Life: The ThrottleStop Guide (2017)

 

Do you agree with me that the current guide on our forum is unorganized and messy?

 

Nope. Remember it's people from everywhere in world posting in there. And if people have problems understand, there is always people in there with the knowledge who can help.

 

I mean the first post,where Uncle posted all the information of the program in one POST.
It's so hard to read!

 

Haven't problem with it. Remember ThrottleStop cover several gen processors. And not all understand it equal. If Images is gone, it's due problematic Image hosting on the forum.

 

Hope that Uncle has some spare time to rearrange it...
See you soon.

 

OK.So it's an update.The guy check edback,said that try running something intense like FireStrike or heavy games and monitor them with MSI Afterburner.
Will update about it tomorrow.

 

Just use Aida64 Stability Stress Test or Cinebench R15 with HWiNFO64 in the background. I'm sure will get the results you search.

 

@Mr.K-1994 - Now I see the 3.8 GHz on all cores or most of the cores screenshot. Very few monitoring apps follow the Intel recommended monitoring method and screenshots like that are a good example of this. If I want to see some accurate multiplier and MHz data, I turn on the Log File option in ThrottleStop. No other monitoring app comes close to that level of accuracy.

I agree. It is a big mess and hard to read. I work full time, 40+ hours a week and I have a family, so there is not much time left over to write documentation. That is kind of boring. I would rather spend my time on the forums, helping users and working on new features for ThrottleStop. If people in the user community want to get together and rewrite all of the ThrottleStop documentation and that first post, they are more than welcome to do that.

 

I updated it at the main ThrottleStop thread.Check it out.
And yeah,I think I can help with the documentation thing.I do have some spare time.
But I have to warn you.I can't promise to release it.