ThrottleStop - How to optimize (undervolt and remove throttling) for i9 9980HK

[timotican]

Hi,

I have an asus laptop with this CPU, and I feel like it's considerably slower than another laptop from gigabyte with the exact same CPU. So here is the regular/idle view from throttlestop:

I did undervolt like this:

Is this good enough? When I tried I believe 130 or more, I was getting BSOD.

Also it seems like all these 1/2/3/4 profiles have the default voltage set at 120mV. Is this the default? I did use XTU before but uninstalled it. Is this an issue?

Lastly the biggest concern is the limits. So from my first screenshot, just idle use, I see red buttons like this. Is this bad? But how can it hit which I assume is power limit at idle load?

Is TS bench good enough for testing stability?

Here is my power limits:

Should I disable power limit completely? I just don't want to burn the CPU if it's not designed to have higher power.

When I run TS bench 768M, I see the package power at ~45W. That means it doesn't even come near the shown values above at 100 and 140? So no need to change these?


Thanks in advance.

 

[unclewebb]

how can it hit which I assume is power limit

Your screenshot does not show power limit throttling. Power limit throttling will show up in Limit Reasons as PL1 or PL2 in red. EDP OTHER throttling is typically current limit related. ThrottleStop does not have access to all of the current limits, yet. Try setting the IccMax slider to its maximum value. Perhaps Intel XTU can get around this limitation.

Really shady business practice by Asus to charge extra money for an unlocked K series CPU and then set a current limit so you cannot fully use what you paid for.

When you first run ThrottleStop, it reads whatever voltage your CPU is set to and it uses those voltages in all of its profiles. It is likely that you did not reset your voltages with Intel XTU before you started using ThrottleStop.

 

[timotican]

Thanks a lot for replying! I will play with Iccmax like you said as I dont know what it does yet. But how can intel xtu can get around this limitation? Do you mean regarding current limits?

Also not fully understand the difference between current and power limit. Are they similar? I just thought current is how much power can be drawn by the CPU.

I will try to reinstall xtu and do a reset and then retry with TS.