I have a question about a statement made by unclewebb on another thread: “I like seeing zero throttling during Cinebench.”
I am currently learning about undervolting and will maybe even overclock at some point on the Legion 9 (Intel i9-13980HX). I was able to make it not thermal throttle just with my thermal solutions but it always hits PL1 (125W) on the short test and both PL1 and PL2 (175W) on the long test. I know I can raise power limits but my question is wouldn’t this then cause it to draw more watts and heat up hitting thermal now?
To put it more clearly: How is it possible to not hit any throttling as it’s something I’d like to do, isn’t the nature of Cinebench to push the system to the extreme, and if so, isn’t throttling what brings it back down or finds the top performance?
I’d also like to ask about the safety of setting a high PL1 and PL2, I don’t care about power usage and I figured this can be raised to a higher number than the system can draw (230W according to some sources) meaning it just won’t hit the limit, but isn’t power limit used to also bring thermals down/protect the system? This question comes from the statement I found on other threads about some users just raising it to the max of 4500W on Desktop.
As for undervolting, I’m still testing stability and how different settings affect my system. It’s still using the same wattage as before I applied the settings so thermals are not necessarily improving. Are turbo ratios also the setting I’d use if I want to lower cpu performance = less wattage used?
So far an undervolt of 80.1 mV on cpu core and p cache have increased processing speed by .4 Ghz so if I could slow down the processor a bit now to have better thermals I would take that trade off. Alternatively I would be happy to test overclocking but I would not want to risk thermals as I do heavy work on the unit (and heavy gaming).
Any recommendations you may have for me are very appreciated, my original goal was to simply undervolt but I see there is so much more you can do with Throttlestop.
Thank you!
I am currently learning about undervolting and will maybe even overclock at some point on the Legion 9 (Intel i9-13980HX). I was able to make it not thermal throttle just with my thermal solutions but it always hits PL1 (125W) on the short test and both PL1 and PL2 (175W) on the long test. I know I can raise power limits but my question is wouldn’t this then cause it to draw more watts and heat up hitting thermal now?
To put it more clearly: How is it possible to not hit any throttling as it’s something I’d like to do, isn’t the nature of Cinebench to push the system to the extreme, and if so, isn’t throttling what brings it back down or finds the top performance?
I’d also like to ask about the safety of setting a high PL1 and PL2, I don’t care about power usage and I figured this can be raised to a higher number than the system can draw (230W according to some sources) meaning it just won’t hit the limit, but isn’t power limit used to also bring thermals down/protect the system? This question comes from the statement I found on other threads about some users just raising it to the max of 4500W on Desktop.
As for undervolting, I’m still testing stability and how different settings affect my system. It’s still using the same wattage as before I applied the settings so thermals are not necessarily improving. Are turbo ratios also the setting I’d use if I want to lower cpu performance = less wattage used?
So far an undervolt of 80.1 mV on cpu core and p cache have increased processing speed by .4 Ghz so if I could slow down the processor a bit now to have better thermals I would take that trade off. Alternatively I would be happy to test overclocking but I would not want to risk thermals as I do heavy work on the unit (and heavy gaming).
Any recommendations you may have for me are very appreciated, my original goal was to simply undervolt but I see there is so much more you can do with Throttlestop.
Thank you!
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