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JakeRoggenbuck / auto-clock-speed

A utility to check stats about your CPU, and auto regulate clock speeds to help with either performance or battery life.
https://autoclockspeed.org
MIT License
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Undervolting #150

Open Shuzhengz opened 2 years ago

Shuzhengz commented 2 years ago

Maybe we can add undervolting feature? (it saves a lot of battery and reduces heat, but the user has to tune it themselves because it affects stability)

JakeRoggenbuck commented 2 years ago

Oh, yess!

Camerooooon commented 2 years ago

Undervolting is very dangerous and can permanently affect a computer.

Shuzhengz commented 2 years ago

actually nope, undervolting is decreasing the voltage of a CPU to decrease the TDP, so it's the opposite of overclocking and doesn't damage the CPU. The only negative effect is bad stability, but that can only happen if you undervolt the CPU too much

Camerooooon commented 2 years ago

What about if you undervolt to a point that your cpu cannot function anymore and your pc won't boot.?

actually nope, undervolting is decreasing the voltage of a CPU to decrease the TDP, so it's the opposite of overclocking and doesn't damage the CPU. The only negative effect is bad stability, but that can only happen if you undervolt the CPU too much

JakeRoggenbuck commented 2 years ago

That would be bad, let's never change the voltage, wait, but maybe acs would be a cool Linux overclocking util

JakeRoggenbuck commented 2 years ago

Do any other overclocking programs that exist?

JakeRoggenbuck commented 2 years ago

For Linux specially?

Shuzhengz commented 2 years ago

What about if you undervolt to a point that your cpu cannot function anymore and your pc won't boot.?

actually nope, undervolting is decreasing the voltage of a CPU to decrease the TDP, so it's the opposite of overclocking and doesn't damage the CPU. The only negative effect is bad stability, but that can only happen if you undervolt the CPU too much

The BIOS resets the voltage every time it encounters instability, so that wouldn't happeb

Shuzhengz commented 2 years ago

Do any other overclocking programs that exist?

Yea but Intel processors cannot be overclocked, unless its an i9, X series, or K series AMD Desktop processors can be overclocked, but not mobile

JakeRoggenbuck commented 2 years ago

Oh, so very few, and especially not mobile as in laptop?

Shuzhengz commented 2 years ago

yee although some laptops use desktop processors (old thinkpads, alienware, some other gaming laptops)

Shuzhengz commented 2 years ago

also most overclocking are done through the BIOS so yee

JakeRoggenbuck commented 2 years ago

ah, yea

JakeRoggenbuck commented 2 years ago

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