Have you ever experienced throttling that happens in your laptop? For those of you who never experienced it, let me explain it a bit. Throttling is how your computer reacts to a high degree temperature inside your laptop. Laptops, unlike PCs, comes with a not very wide space to put component together, so when a temperature reach too high, it could spread easily to another component. This, coupled with the fact that most Laptops comes with underperformed fan compared to their big brother the PCs make Laptops very fragile to high degree temperature. Other than increasing the fan, the only thing that the Laptops could do to decrease the temperature is making their component, mainly the CPU and GPU to work less hard, this would make them generate less heat and decrease the temperature quite a bit. This is what they call as throttling.
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| My current Laptop, which is really prone to throttling |
Throttling is quite a common thing to be found on most laptops, because like what I state earlier laptops just doesn't have enough cooling performance to decrease the temperature of the system, when you are doing a sort of heavy task, like gaming and multitasking. In gaming, however throttling could mean a lot of drops on the fps of your game, causing lags and make the game becomes not enjoyable.
So enough with the quick explanation, what can you do to decrease the throttling on your laptop? Well the answer is quite hard, because laptops component can't be replaced with a better one, you are either stuck to buying your laptops a cooling pad which in my opinion doesn't really help that lot or you will need to do something about the software. In this post however I won't tell you how to fix it by spending your money on a cooling pad but making some tweaks to your laptop to make it 'evade' throttling.
So why 80%? well I tried set it to lower and higher value and 80% is the sweet spot for me, it makes the CPU work less enough to make it generate less heat, and it is not that low so a bottleneck would not happen while running 80% maximum processor rate. If you guys need proof I have one right here.
As you can see from both of the picture above, the above picture which shows the benchmark when the Maximum processor rate set to 80% shows an average FPS of 29.0 which is lower than the average FPS when the Maximum processor rate set to 100%. But the result just start here, if you keep a watch on the benchmark (100%), as of around 1:20 seconds the FPS start to plumed down from 34 FPS to around 8 FPS. This is when the Laptops start throttling and decrease the GPU performance. Compare it to the first picture which as you can see the FPS start to drop around that time too, but it doesn't show a massive difference like the one in the second picture. FYI, the scene at 1:20 is the fight between Rome and germanic which of course put more stress on the GPU. So really, who here is comfortable playing games with frame rates of 8? no one right? it is better to have less average but stable FPS than having higher average but really unstable one.
That is all about this guide, it is my first post, by the way if you would leave some sort of suggestion or start a discussion just put a comment bellow.
Step by Step:
- Open the control panel on your Laptop, and then navigate to Hardware and Sound then to Power Option
- Now you have to choose between creating a new power plan or edit the existing one, creating a new one seems to be a better thing to do
- After you create a new power plan go to plan settings located exactly right after the name of the plan
- Now press the advanced power settings button which will open a new window for you
- Navigate to Processor Power Management
- Set the value for the Minimum processor rate to 1%
- And set the value for the Maximum processor rate to 80%
You must be kidding me, tricking me into setting my Max processor rate to 80%? Like I would fall for thatNo, although this might seem like some sort of trick to you, this actually work, well for me at least. I don't really know why, but from my point of view, I'm not some tech savvy for your information. By setting the maximum processor rate to 80%, would give less stress to the CPU which would make the CPU work less and generate less heat than before. So one heat problem is fixed, not really that much but it still helps. Although by decreasing the performance of the CPU could lead to some lag too, it will be relatively unnoticeable because CPU lags is really different from GPU lags, for people who are a gamer like me will understand this.
So why 80%? well I tried set it to lower and higher value and 80% is the sweet spot for me, it makes the CPU work less enough to make it generate less heat, and it is not that low so a bottleneck would not happen while running 80% maximum processor rate. If you guys need proof I have one right here.
Result
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| Maximum processor rate set to 80% |
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| Maximum processor rate set to 100% |
As you can see from both of the picture above, the above picture which shows the benchmark when the Maximum processor rate set to 80% shows an average FPS of 29.0 which is lower than the average FPS when the Maximum processor rate set to 100%. But the result just start here, if you keep a watch on the benchmark (100%), as of around 1:20 seconds the FPS start to plumed down from 34 FPS to around 8 FPS. This is when the Laptops start throttling and decrease the GPU performance. Compare it to the first picture which as you can see the FPS start to drop around that time too, but it doesn't show a massive difference like the one in the second picture. FYI, the scene at 1:20 is the fight between Rome and germanic which of course put more stress on the GPU. So really, who here is comfortable playing games with frame rates of 8? no one right? it is better to have less average but stable FPS than having higher average but really unstable one.
That is all about this guide, it is my first post, by the way if you would leave some sort of suggestion or start a discussion just put a comment bellow.
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