![]() ![]() For now, it’s enough to understand that you can have more than one Power Plan in Windows. I won’t go in-depth about Windows Power Plans, but that’s coming in another article. You can do that too, with a simple tweak of your Windows Power Plan. So, one solution I’ve found to get a few dozen minutes more battery life is to disable Turbo Boost on my CPU when running on battery power. ![]() I have this problem, as my gaming laptop is not that great when it comes to sipping power. That’s a problem when you’re trying to get as much battery life as possible from your portable. On laptops it works the same way, by design, and the CPU will boost as needed, taking a lot more voltage than when running at lower frequencies. That’s not efficient, not at all, but if performance is what you need, that’s the only way. It’s not uncommon to add 30-40% more voltage just to get a 10% increase in performance. Now, as any overclocker knows, as you increase the frequency you need to pump a lot more voltage into the chip, so it can sustain that frequency without crashes.
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