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Undervolting on laptops.

Ragnaraz
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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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    I don't see why some sort of utility to give access to it would even need to be that complicated.

    We already have things like battery saver and performance modes, why not let people fine tune things a little bit more?
    Modern processors have safeties that make it difficult to brick them anyway.

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    I don't see why some sort of utility to give access to it would even need to be that complicated.

    We already have things like battery saver and performance modes, why not let people fine tune things a little bit more?
    Modern processors have safeties that make it difficult to brick them anyway.

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    It would likely just crash, then reboot at last safe voltage. Or even if you needed to remove the CMOS battery, the settings go back to stock.

    Just gives the chance of better temps, longer life and in some cases more performance/ more consistent performance.