Undervolting on laptops.

Honestly, I think this should be more of a thing. On both CPU and GPU. I know MSI afterburner can offer this, but there's no news on if that will continue to be developed since MSI and the Russian programmer were having issues with payment. Aside MSI's top tier laptops, very few OEM actually offer undervolting in the BIOS of tuning softwares. A lot comes down to silicon lottery but still, if you could shave 30mv off your cpu and drop 5c for no loss of performance? Who wouldn't? It would save battery too when not plugged in. Same goes for GPUs, saving mvs and optimising the curves could free up a bit of extra power for the VRAM, squeezing more mhz from that and keeping the GPU cooler...

I know most of the utilities would go over most peoples head, but for those who could or would use it, kinda sucks not having that option. Thoughts?

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  • MSI are continuing with afterburner development and maintenance themselves now, they seem to have parted ways with the Developer concerned.

  • Thats good to know.

    Tbh, I wish the undervolting aspect of it was less of a faf.

    I stopped using it because it glitched out and even when not running it it kept pinging my CPU and GPU. Spent and entire day wondering what the hell was going on. Was a ballache to remove it and reset all drivers to stop it from doing it. :(

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  • Thats good to know.

    Tbh, I wish the undervolting aspect of it was less of a faf.

    I stopped using it because it glitched out and even when not running it it kept pinging my CPU and GPU. Spent and entire day wondering what the hell was going on. Was a ballache to remove it and reset all drivers to stop it from doing it. :(

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